Presents a guide to Office Professional 2013, describing such tasks as creating documents, spreadsheets, and slide presentations; managing email; and organizing notes, covering the Microsoft programs Word, Excel, Access, OneNote, Publisher, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Projects include preparing business letters brochures newsletters blogs PDF documents invoices pivot tables inventory databases and business presentations; Review questions and exercises reinforce new concepts offer practice in critical-thinking and present opportunities to conduct integrated and collaborative research; Bonus coverage of Internet Explorer SkyDrive Outlook PowerPoint Publisher and OneNote develops skills in web research emailing creating multimedia presentations sharing documents preparing marketing documents and using a digital notebook.

Microsoft Office is the most widely used productivity software in the world, but most people just know the basics. This helpful guide gets you started with the programs in Office 2013, and provides lots of power-user tips and tricks when you’re ready for more. You’ll learn about Office’s new templates and themes, touchscreen features, and other advances, including Excel’s Quick Analysis tool. The important stuff you need to know: Create professional-looking documents. Use Word to craft reports, newsletters, and brochures for the Web and desktop. Stay organized. Set up Outlook to track your email, contacts, appointments, and tasks. Work faster with Excel. Determine the best way to present your data with the new Quick Analysis tool. Make inspiring presentations. Build PowerPoint slideshows with video and audio clips, charts and graphs, and animations. Share your Access database. Design a custom database and let other people view it in their web browsers. Get to know the whole suite. Use other handy Office tools: Publisher, OneNote, and a full range of Office Web Apps. Create and share documents in the cloud. Upload and work with your Office files in Microsoft’s SkyDrive.

Office 2013 For Dummies is the key to your brand new Office! Packed with straightforward, friendly instruction, this update to one of the bestselling Office books of all time gets you thoroughly up to speed and helps you learn how to take full advantage of the new features in Office 2013. After coverage of the fundamentals, you'll discover how to spice up your Word documents, edit Excel spreadsheets and create formulas, add pizazz to your PowerPoint presentation, and much more. Helps you harness the power of all five Office 2013 applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access Discusses typing and formatting text in Word and easy ways to dress up your documents with color, graphics, and more Demonstrates navigating and editing an Excel spreadsheet, creating formulas, and charting and analyzing Excel data Walks you through creating a PowerPoint presentation and adding some punch with color, sound, pictures, and videos Explores Outlook, including configuring e-mail, storing contacts, organizing tasks, scheduling your time, and setting appointments Delves into designing Access databases, including editing, modifying, searching, sorting, and querying; also covers viewing and printing reports, and more The fun and friendly approach of Office 2013 For Dummies makes doing Office work easy and efficient!

When you are looking at the Microsoft Office 2013 Essentials office suite, you will find that there are a number of great programs included. Some of the offerings from this productivity suite include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and with a few upgrades, you might be able to get more programs. A good chart is something that will help you keep the right kind of shortcuts and features available to you. With a suite this robust, it is often easy to forget some of the more obscure but no less useful functions.

"Covers Excel, Word, Outlook, OneNote, and PowerPoint"--Cover.

Demonstrate your expertise with Microsoft Office! Designed to help you practice and prepare for the 2013 Outlook Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) exam, this all-in-one study guide features: Full, objective-by-objective exam coverage Easy-to-follow procedures and illustrations to review essential skills Hands-on practice tasks to apply what you've learned Includes downloadable practice files