Synopses & Reviews
10 books in 1
- Common Office Tasks
- Word 2013
- Excel® 2013
- PowerPoint® 2013
- OneNote® 2013
- Outlook® 2013
- Access® 2013
- Working with Charts and Graphics
- Office 2013 One Step Beyond
- File Sharing and Collaboration
Want to get things done with Office 2013? This book is for you!
Technology is supposed to help us get things done faster and more efficiently. With the tips, shortcuts, and how-tos in this book, you'll be able to do just that with Office 2013. Master all the features the different applications have in common, and then learn how to get the most from each individual part of Office, use Office Web Apps, and more!
- They're a set discover the commands and features that are common to all the Office programs
- Words and numbers learn how to create every type of document in Word and how to crunch numbers, design worksheets, and analyze data with Excel
- "Wow" presentations put together and deliver PowerPoint presentations that get attention and really communicate
- Your note-taking assistant find out how OneNote helps you keep written, audio, and video notes and even link them to web pages
- An organized Outlook track and manage e-mail, contacts, tasks, and calendars with Outlook
- Access data create an Access database and discover how useful it can be
- Unlock more surprises explore customizing Office, creating brochures and newsletters with Publisher, managing folders on SkyDrive, and more
Open the book and find:
- Tips for customizing Office
- How to create professional- looking Word documents
- A quick course in Excel formulas and functions
- Hints for creating picture-perfect PowerPoint slides
- The art of OneNote note-taking
- How Outlook can keep you organized
- Cool ways to build eye-popping charts
- Secrets of successful collaboration
Synopsis
Clocking in at over 800 pages,
Office All-in-One For Dummies provides in-depth coverage focusing on the core applications in the Office suite and exploring the smaller applications that enrich the Office user's experience. Minibooks cover:
- Common Office Tools - an exploration of the Office interface and how it works across the applications
- Word - coverage of Office's word processing application
- Excel - coverage of Office's spreadsheet application
- PowerPoint - coverage of Office's presentation application
- Outlook - coverage of Office's contact and schedule management application
- Access - coverage of Office's database application
- Publisher - coverage of Office's desktop publishing application
- Additional tools - - coverage of Office's business focused applications, including OneNote, InfoPath, SharePoint Desktop, and Lync
Synopsis
Home and business users around the globe turn to Microsoft Office and its core applications every day. Whether you're a newcomer or a veteran Office user, this friendly-but-informative guide provides in-depth coverage on all the newest updates and enhancements to the Office 2013 suite. With an overview of tools common to all Office applications and self-contained minibooks devoted to each Office application,
Office 2013 All-in-One For Dummies gets you up to speed and answers the questions you'll have down the road.
- Explores the new Office interface and explains how it works across the applications
- Features eight minibooks that cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, OneNote, common Office tools, and ways to expand Office productivity
- Highlights the new online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as changes to the interface and new tools and techniques
Office 2013 All-in-One For Dummies makes it easy to learn to use Office and gets you up and running on all the changes and enhancements in Office 2013.
About the Author
Peter Weverka is a veteran technology author with several For Dummies titles to his credit, including multiple editions of Office All-in-One For Dummies. He's also written books on Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Quicken, and Internet tools.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Book I: Common Office Tasks 7
Chapter 1: Office Nuts and Bolts 9
Chapter 2: Wrestling with the Text29
Chapter 3: Speed Techniques Worth Knowing About 47
Book II: Word 2013 55
Chapter 1: Speed Techniques for Using Word 57
Chapter 2: Laying Out Text and Pages 75
Chapter 3: Word Styles 99
Chapter 4: Constructing the Perfect Table 115
Chapter 5: Taking Advantage of the Proofing Tools139
Chapter 6: Desktop Publishing with Word 159
Chapter 7: Getting Word’s Help with Office Chores 177
Chapter 8: Tools for Reports and Scholarly Papers 197
Book III: Excel 2013 219
Chapter 1: Up and Running with Excel 221
Chapter 2: Refining Your Worksheet 239
Chapter 3: Formulas and Functions for Crunching Numbers 253
Chapter 4: Making a Worksheet Easier to Read and Understand 275
Chapter 5: Advanced Techniques for Analyzing Data 293
Book IV: PowerPoint 2013 307
Chapter 1: Getting Started in PowerPoint 309
Chapter 2: Fashioning a Look for Your Presentation 331
Chapter 3: Entering the Text 347
Chapter 4: Making Your Presentations Livelier 363
Chapter 5: Delivering a Presentation 379
Book V: OneNote 2013 401
Chapter 1: Up and Running with OneNote 403
Chapter 2: Taking Notes 415
Chapter 3: Finding and Organizing Your Notes 431
Book VI: Outlook 2013 439
Chapter 1: Outlook Basics 441
Chapter 2: Maintaining the Contacts Folder 455
Chapter 3: Handling Your E-Mail 465
Chapter 4: Managing Your Time and Schedule 489
Chapter 5: Tasks, Reminders, and Notes 497
Book VII: Access 2013 505
Chapter 1: Introducing Access 507
Chapter 2: Building Your Database Tables 521
Chapter 3: Entering the Data 549
Chapter 4: Sorting, Querying, and Filtering for Data 559
Chapter 5: Presenting Data in a Report579
Book VIII: Working with Charts and Graphics 583
Chapter 1: Creating a Chart 585
Chapter 2: Making a SmartArt Diagram 603
Chapter 3: Handling Graphics, Photos, and Clip Art 623
Chapter 4: Drawing and Manipulating Lines, Shapes, and Other Objects 641
Book IX: Office 2013: One Step Beyond 671
Chapter 1: Customizing an Offi ce Program 673
Chapter 2: Ways of Distributing Your Work 687
Chapter 3: Working with Publisher 697
Book X: File Sharing and Collaborating 713
Chapter 1: Preparing to Use the Offi ce Web Apps 715
Chapter 2: Using the Offi ce Web Apps 725
Chapter 3: Sharing and Collaborating 733
Index 743