Office 2013 For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781118497159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 432 str.

Wallace Wang

Opis

Office 2013 For Dummies is the key to your brand new Office Packed with straightforward, friendly instruction, this update to one of the bestselling Office books of all time gets you thoroughly up to speed and helps you learn how to take full advantage of the new features in Office 2013. After coverage of the fundamentals, you'll discover how to spice up your Word documents, edit Excel spreadsheets and create formulas, add pizazz to your PowerPoint presentation, and much more.

• Helps you harness the power of all five Office 2013 applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access
• Discusses typing and formatting text in Word and easy ways to dress up your documents with color, graphics, and more
• Demonstrates navigating and editing an Excel spreadsheet, creating formulas, and charting and analyzing Excel data
• Walks you through creating a PowerPoint presentation and adding some punch with color, sound, pictures, and videos
• Explores Outlook, including configuring e-mail, storing contacts, organizing tasks, scheduling your time, and setting appointments
• Delves into designing Access databases, including editing, modifying, searching, sorting, and querying; also covers viewing and printing reports, and more

The fun and friendly approach of Office 2013 For Dummies makes doing Office work easy and efficient

Spis treści

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with Office 2013 7

Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Office 2013 9

Chapter 2: Selecting and Editing Data 33

Chapter 3: Modifying Pictures 47

Chapter 4: Getting Help from Office 2013 57

Part II: Working with Word 63

Chapter 5: Typing Text in Word 65

Chapter 6: Formatting Text 85

Chapter 7: Designing Your Pages 105

Part III: Playing the Numbers with Excel 133

Chapter 8: The Basics of Spreadsheets: Numbers, Labels, and Formulas 135

Chapter 9: Playing with Formulas 167

Chapter 10: Charting and Analyzing Data 193

Part IV: Making Presentations with PowerPoint 221

Chapter 11: Creating a PowerPoint Presentation 223

Chapter 12: Adding Color and Pictures to a Presentation 241

Chapter 13: Showing Off a Presentation 263

Part V: Getting Organized with Outlook 283

Chapter 14: Managing E–Mail with Outlook 285

Chapter 15: Calendars, Contacts, and Tasks 299

Part VI: Storing Stuff in Access 313

Chapter 16: Using a Database 315

Chapter 17: Searching, Sorting, and Querying a Database 331

Chapter 18: Creating a Database Report 351

Part VII: The Part of Tens 365

Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Using Office 2013 367

Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ways to Make Office 2013 Easier to Use 383

Index 389

O autorze

Wallace Wang is the bestselling author of several dozen computer books including Office For Dummies and Beginning Programming For Dummies. Besides writing computer books, Wallace also enjoys performing stand–up comedy just to do something creative that involves human beings as opposed to machines.

Blurb

Learn to:

• Use Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, Outlook®, and Access®
• Build spreadsheets, crunch numbers, and format charts
• Configure e–mail settings, manage your calendar, and create Access databases
• Add flair to your documents and create powerful presentations

Get to know your Office, express your creativity, and get things done!

Take control of your Office and boost your productivity. This helpful guide walks you step–by–step through the various parts of the Office suite. Get your point across with Word, build spreadsheets with Excel, prepare persuasive presentations with PowerPoint, manage e–mail with Outlook, and organize your data with Access quickly and easily.

• Step into your new Office explore the main features of Office 2013, create and edit files, and learn how to navigate around the Ribbon
• Express yourself start writing in Word and add pizzazz to your documents with formatting, templates, tables, and cool graphics
• Dive into the world of numbers get up to speed on Excel and start crunching those figures in order to effectively analyze and present your data
• Presentation power create slide shows that captivate your audience by punching up your presentations with charts, graphics, and narration
• Get organized and stay connected find out how to better manage your e–mail, keep track of your appointments, save your contacts, and much more
• Database delight design a database with Access in order to store, sort, retrieve, and analyze important data

Open the book and find:

• Steps for entering, modifying, and saving data
• Tips for working with the Ribbon interface
• Ways to enhance Word documents with templates and graphics
• How to design presentations that impress
• Methods for crunching data in Excel to uncover key information
• Details about storing contacts and scheduling appointments
• Shortcuts and other secrets to boost your productivity
• Advice on customizing Office 2013 for your needs