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Office 2013 For Dummies eLearning Kit

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Chapter 1

• The Office interface is consistent across all Office programs and includes the Ribbon, the File menu, Zoom controls, and standard dialog boxes for saving and opening files.
• Moving around in a document enables you to view different parts of the document that may not be onscreen at the moment. You can use scroll bars, arrow keys, and keyboard shortcuts in any combination.
• Changing the onscreen view helps you focus on the important parts of the document for the task you want to perform. Each application has its own unique set of views, as well as a Zoom control.
• Saving and opening documents lets you store your work for later use and then recall it to the screen when you're ready to continue. The Save As and Open dialog boxes share a common look and feel in all applications.

1. How do you start an Office application?

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2. How can you find out what a certain button on the Ribbon is for?

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3. What is Backstage view?

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4. How can you make the text you're typing appear larger so that it'seasier to see onscreen?

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5. After you've saved a file once, how can you reopen the Save As dialog box so you can save it with a different name?

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6. How can you quickly reopen a recently opened document?

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Microsoft Office is a suite of applications. A suite is a group of applications that are designed to work together and to have similar user interfaces that cut down on the learning curve for each one. Office 2013 includes a word processor (Word), a spreadsheet program (Excel), a presentation graphics program (PowerPoint), and an e-mail program (Outlook). Depending on the version of Office, it may also include other programs. Sweet, eh? Er... suite.

Because all the Office apps have similar interfaces, many of the skills you pick up while working with one program also translate to the others. In this chapter, I introduce you to the Office interface and show you some things the programs have in common. For the examples in this chapter, I mostly use Word, the word processor, because it's the most popular of the applications. Keep in mind, though, that the skills you're learning here apply to the other applications too.

The most straightforward way to start an Office application is to select it from the Windows 8 Start screen (or Windows 7 Start menu). You can browse through the list of programs, or you can start typing the application's name and then click its name when it appears.

Depending on how your PC is set up, you may also have shortcuts to one or more of the Office apps on your desktop and/or on the taskbar.

You can double-click a data file that's associated with one of the apps, but because you haven't created any documents yet, you can't do that now.