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The smart way to learn Office Professional 2013—one step at a time!
Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to do more with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, Outlook®, Excel®, Access, Publisher, and OneNote®. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you them! Includes downloadable practice files and companion eBook.
Discover how to:
- Get better results by using the right Office 2013 tool for the task
- Work via the web, PC, or tablet with the mouse, keyboard, or touch
- Customize your working environment and set up key shortcuts
- Create better documents, presentations, and spreadsheets with less work
- Save time and work more easily by creating reusable templates
- Collaborate and share content via social media and the cloud
Synopsis
The smart way to learn Microsoft Office Professional 2013—one step at a time! Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to get more done with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher. With Step by Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
- Determine the best Office tool for specific tasks
- Use Office efficiently on touch-enabled devices
- Create attractive documents, publications, and presentations
- Manage your e-mail, calendar, meetings, and communications
- Put your business data to work with Excel and Access
- Organize and share your notes and ideas with OneNote
About the Author
Mark Dodge has coauthored several popular books on Excel®, including Microsoft® Office Excel® 2003 Inside Out. He is a former senior technical writer for the Microsoft® Office User Assistance group.
Echo Swinford is a Microsoft MVP for PowerPoint and the author of two books on PowerPoint.
Andrew Couch is a Microsoft MVP for Access and an experienced instructor who has taught introductory and advanced Access courses as well as VBA programming courses. He is the author of Microsoft Access 2010 VBA Programming Inside Out.
Eric Legault is a Microsoft MVP for Outlook focused on delivering document, content, and knowledge management solutions.
Ben M. Schorr is a Microsoft MVP for OneNote MVP and the author of four books on Microsoft Office.
Ciprian Rusen is a technology aficionado, working as an IT Project Manager for a major consumer goods corporation. During work hours, he manages complex rollouts of enterprise IT solutions, and, in his spare time, loves to experiment with the latest technologies, learn how to best use them, and share his knowledge with others. He coordinates the 7 Tutorials team: Florina Muntenescu, Chuck Houghton, Maximilian Robu, Jack Busch and George Grigorita. Together, they write tutorials for Windows 7 users, helping them to get the best possible computing experience.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Office Professional 2013 Fundamentals
- Chapter 1: Getting comfortable in Office Professional 2013
- Chapter 2: Using shared Office features
- Chapter 3: Sharing and collaborating
- Chapter 4: Using touch in Office
- Word 2013
- Chapter 5: Getting comfortable in Word 2013
- Chapter 6: Navigating and reading documents
- Chapter 7: Editing and composing documents
- Chapter 8: Formatting documents
- Chapter 9: Presenting information
- Chapter 10: Finalizing documents
- PowerPoint 2013
- Chapter 11: Getting comfortable in PowerPoint 2013
- Chapter 12: Designing and creating presentations
- Chapter 13: Creating on-slide content
- Chapter 14: Creating Office graphics
- Chapter 15: Adding animation and multimedia
- Chapter 16: Finalizing and presenting
- Excel 2013
- Chapter 17: Getting comfortable in Excel 2013
- Chapter 18: Creating and editing worksheets
- Chapter 19: Manipulating numbers and text
- Chapter 20: Analyzing data
- Chapter 21: Formatting worksheets
- Chapter 22: Manipulating workbooks and worksheets
- Chapter 23: Creating charts and graphics
- Outlook 2013
- Chapter 24: Getting comfortable in Outlook 2013
- Chapter 25: Using mail
- Chapter 26: Staying on schedule
- Chapter 27: Working with tasks
- Chapter 28: Managing contacts and people
- Chapter 29: Saving time with Outlook
- OneNote 2013
- Chapter 30: Getting comfortable in OneNote 2013
- Chapter 31: Working with notebooks, sections, and pages
- Chapter 32: Using organizational tools
- Chapter 33: Sharing notes with others
- Chapter 34: Using OneNote everywhere
- Chapter 35: Saving time with OneNote
- Access 2013
- Chapter 36: Getting comfortable in Access 2013
- Chapter 37: Understanding Access 2013 databases
- Chapter 38: Creating basic tables and queries
- Chapter 39: Designing forms and reports
- Chapter 40: Creating and sharing a Web App
- Publisher 2013
- Chapter 41: Getting comfortable in Publisher 2013
- Chapter 42: Creating publications
- Chapter 43: Saving, sharing, and exporting publications
- About the authors