Office 2013 For Dummies

Learn to: Use Word, Excel®, PowerPoint®, Outlook®, and Access® Build spreadsheets, crunch numbers, and format charts Configure e-mail settings, manage your calendar, and create Access databases Add flair to your documents and create powerful presentations Get to know your Office, express your creativity, and get things done! Take control of your Office and boost your productivity. This helpful guide walks you step-by-step through the various parts of the Office suite. Get your point across with Word, build spreadsheets with Excel, prepare persuasive presentations with PowerPoint, manage e-mail with Outlook, and organize your data with Access — quickly and easily. Step into your new Office — explore the main features of Office 2013, create and edit files, and learn how to navigate around the Ribbon Express yourself — start writing in Word and add pizzazz to your documents with formatting, templates, tables, and cool graphics Dive into the world of numbers — get up to speed on Excel and start crunching those figures in order to effectively analyze and present your data Presentation power — create slide shows that captivate your audience by punching up your presentations with charts, graphics, and narration Get organized and stay connected — find out how to better manage your e-mail, keep track of your appointments, save your contacts, and much more Database delight — design a database with Access in order to store, sort, retrieve, and analyze important data Open the book and find: Steps for entering, modifying, and saving data Tips for working with the Ribbon interface Ways to enhance Word documents with templates and graphics How to design presentations that impress Methods for crunching data in Excel to uncover key information Details about storing contacts and scheduling appointments Shortcuts and other secrets to boost your productivity Advice on customizing Office 2013 for your needs

Introduction 1 Part I: Getting Started with Office 2013 7 Chapter 1: Introducing Microsoft Office 2013 9 Chapter 2: Selecting and Editing Data 33 Chapter 3: Modifying Pictures 47 Chapter 4: Getting Help from Office 2013 57 Part II: Working with Word 63 Chapter 5: Typing Text in Word 65 Chapter 6: Formatting Text 85 Chapter 7: Designing Your Pages 105 Part III: Playing the Numbers with Excel 133 Chapter 8: The Basics of Spreadsheets: Numbers, Labels, and Formulas 135 Chapter 9: Playing with Formulas 167 Chapter 10: Charting and Analyzing Data 193 Part IV: Making Presentations with PowerPoint 221 Chapter 11: Creating a PowerPoint Presentation 223 Chapter 12: Adding Color and Pictures to a Presentation 241 Chapter 13: Showing Off a Presentation 263 Part V: Getting Organized with Outlook 283 Chapter 14: Managing E–Mail with Outlook 285 Chapter 15: Calendars, Contacts, and Tasks 299 Part VI: Storing Stuff in Access 313 Chapter 16: Using a Database 315 Chapter 17: Searching, Sorting, and Querying a Database 331 Chapter 18: Creating a Database Report 351 Part VII: The Part of Tens 365 Chapter 19: Ten Tips for Using Office 2013 367 Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ways to Make Office 2013 Easier to Use 383 Index 389

Wallace Wang is the bestselling author of several dozen computer books including Office For Dummies and Beginning Programming For Dummies. Besides writing computer books, Wallace also enjoys performing stand–up comedy just to do something creative that involves human beings as opposed to machines.