Essential Office 365 Third Edition

The Illustrated Guide to Using Microsoft Office

Kevin Wilson

• Publisher: Elluminet Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781911174752
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Technology

The twenty-first century offers more technology than we have ever seen before, but with new updates, and apps coming out all the time, it's hard to keep up.

Essential Office 365 is here to help. Along with easy to follow step-by-step instructions, illustrations, and photographs, this guide offers specifics in...

Downloading and Installing Microsoft Office Suite

Getting started with Office Online: using Sway, OneDrive, Mail & Calendar

Using Office Apps on your iPad or Android device

Constructing professional looking documents with Microsoft Word

Adding and using graphics, photographs, and clipart

Changing fonts, creating tables, graphs, clipboard, sorting and formatting text, and mail merge

Creating presentations for your lessons, lectures, speeches or business presentations using PowerPoint.

Adding animations and effects to PowerPoint slides

Using 3D and cinematic transitions to spice up your presentations

Using Excel to create spreadsheets that analyse, present and manipulate data

Creating Excel charts, graphs, pivot tables, functions and formulas

The basics of Microsoft Access databases

Keeping in touch with friends, family and colleagues using Outlook

Maintaining calendars and keeping appointments with Outlook

Taking notes with OneNote and more...

Unlike other books and manuals that assume a computing background not possessed by beginners, Essential Office 365 tackles the fundamentals of Microsoft Office, so that everyone from students, to senior citizens, to home users pressed for time, can understand.

So, if you're looking for an Office manual, a visual book, simplified tutorial, dummies guide, or reference, Essential Office 365 will help you maximize the potential of Microsoft Office to increase your productivity, and help you take advantage of the digital revolution.

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processing application that allows you to create many different types of document, from letters, Resumes/CVs to greetings cards, posters and flyers. You can select from a library of customisable templates or start from scratch and create your own.

Word gives you the ability to do more with your word processing projects, with the introduction of several enhanced features, such as the ability to create and collaborate on documents online using OneDrive.

Before we begin, throughout this book, we will be using the resource files.

You can download these files from

www.elluminetpress.com/office-365-3ed

Go down to the Microsoft Word section and click the icons to download the documents to the documents folder on your PC.

Starting Word

The quickest way to start Microsoft Word is to search for it using the Cortana search field on the bottom left of your task bar. Type “Word”. From the search results, click ‘word’. You’ll also find it on your start menu.

Once Word has started, you’ll land on the home screen. On the home screen, you’ll see recently used templates along the top, and your most recently saved documents listed underneath.

To begin, click ‘blank document’ to start. This will open up Word with a new document for you.

Getting Started

Once you have selected a template or created a new document, you will see your main work screen. All the tools used in Microsoft Word are organised into ribbons based on their function, circled below.

On the bottom left of the main window you’ll see your page and word counter, as well as your language selection tools.

On the bottom right hand side of the screen, you’ll see your document display modes: reading, print & web. For normal documents it is best to leave the display mode on print layout.

At the end you’ll see your document zoom controls. Use these to zoom into the page.

The Home Ribbon

You will...