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Microsoft Office 2016 At Work For Dummies

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1. Table of Contents

Microsoft Office 2016 is by far the most popular suite of productivity applications in the world, and with good reason. Its applications are powerful enough for business and professional use, and yet easy enough that a beginner can catch on to the basics with just a few simple lessons.

If youre new to Office 2016, this book can help you separate the essential features you need from the obscure and more sophisticated ones that you dont. For the four major Office applications I cover in this book Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint I walk you through the most important and common features, showing you how to put them to work to make it easier to do your job.

I designed this book for time-pressed Office users who simply want to figure out the task at hand without spending a lot of time looking for answers. This full-color book presents the most common Office tasks in illustrated, step-by-step instructions and organizes them so that theyre easy to find, read, and apply. It covers classic Office tasks such as typing and formatting text, calculating with spreadsheets, organizing email and to-do lists, and creating PowerPoint presentations.

This book is organized into chapters, each split into a series of common tasks. It begins by familiarizing you with Office 2016 and showing you how to perform basic tasks such as starting and exiting each application, entering text, moving around, and saving your work. Then it covers each of the four main applications:

Word (): A word processing application, suitable for creating reports, newsletters, manuscripts, memos, and mail merges.

Excel (): A spreadsheet application, great for storing data lists, calculating columns of numbers, and creating graphical charts that summarize numeric data.

Outlook (): An email and personal information management application you can use to send and receive mail, manage an address book, and track your daily to-do list.

PowerPoint (): A presentation graphics application for building and delivering attractive presentations that include graphics, animations, and even sound and video.

You can read the chapters in any order, at any time. Although each task is explained step by step, if you have trouble with a particular task, I recommend reading the entire chapter for that task its just possible that youll find a different, better approach to accomplishing the task.

This book assumes that you can start your computer and use the keyboard and mouse (or whatever device moves the pointer onscreen).

Office 2016 runs on Windows 10 (the newest version of Windows), Windows 8, and Windows 7 computer operating systems, so I assume youre using one of these. The examples in this book show Office 2016 running in Windows 10, but Office works mostly the same on all operating systems. If you are using Office applications on some other platform, like Linux, Mac, or a tablet or smart phone, things may not look or work exactly the same as described in this book.

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