Microsoft Office 2019 Step by Step, First Edition

Book description

This is learning made easy. Get more done quickly with Office 2019. Jump in wherever you need answers - brisk lessons and colorful screenshots show you exactly what to do, step by step.

  • Covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
  • Format Word documents for maximum visual impact
  • Build powerful, reliable Excel workbooks for analysis and reporting
  • Prepare highly effective PowerPoint presentations
  • Use Outlook to organize your email, calendar, and contacts
  • Includes downloadable practice files

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents at a Glance
  5. About the authors
  6. Introduction
    1. Who this book is for
    2. The Step by Step approach
    3. Download the practice files
    4. E-book edition
    5. Get support and give feedback
  7. Part 1: Microsoft Office 2019
    1. 1 Explore Office 2019
      1. Work in the Office user interface
      2. Change Office and app options
      3. Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
      4. Customize the ribbon
      5. Get help and provide feedback
      6. Key points
      7. Practice tasks
    2. 2 Create and manage files
      1. Create files
      2. Open and move around in files
      3. Display different views of files
      4. Display and edit file properties
      5. Save and close files
      6. Key points
      7. Practice tasks
  8. Part 2: Microsoft Word 2019
    1. 3 Modify the structure and appearance of text
      1. Apply paragraph formatting
      2. Structure content manually
      3. Apply character formatting
      4. Create and modify lists
      5. Apply built-in styles to text
      6. Change the document theme
      7. Key points
      8. Practice tasks
    2. 4 Collaborate on documents
      1. Mark up documents
      2. Display and review document markup
      3. Compare and merge documents
      4. Control content changes
      5. Coauthor documents
      6. Key points
      7. Practice tasks
    3. 5 Merge data with documents and labels
      1. Understand the mail merge process
      2. Start the mail merge process
      3. Choose and refine the data source
      4. Insert merge fields
      5. Preview and complete the merge
      6. Create individual envelopes and labels
      7. Key points
      8. Practice tasks
  9. Part 3: Microsoft Excel 2019
    1. 6 Perform calculations on data
      1. Name groups of data
      2. Create formulas to calculate values
      3. Summarize data that meets specific conditions
      4. Set iterative calculation options and enable or disable automatic calculation
      5. Use array formulas
      6. Find and correct errors in calculations
      7. Key points
      8. Practice tasks
    2. 7 Manage worksheet data
      1. Limit data that appears on your screen
      2. Manipulate worksheet data
      3. Define valid sets of values for ranges of cells
      4. Key points
      5. Practice tasks
    3. 8 Reorder and summarize data
      1. Sort worksheet data
      2. Sort data by using custom lists
      3. Organize data into levels
      4. Look up information in a worksheet
      5. Key points
      6. Practice tasks
    4. 9 Analyze alternative data sets
      1. Examine data by using the Quick Analysis Lens
      2. Define an alternative data set
      3. Define multiple alternative data sets
      4. Analyze data by using data tables
      5. Vary your data to get a specific result by using Goal Seek
      6. Find optimal solutions by using Solver
      7. Analyze data by using descriptive statistics
      8. Key points
      9. Practice tasks
  10. Part 4: Microsoft PowerPoint 2019
    1. 10 Create and manage slides
      1. Add and remove slides
      2. Insert new slides
      3. Copy and import slides and content
      4. Hide and delete slides
      5. Apply themes
      6. Change slide backgrounds
      7. Sidebar: Non-theme colors
      8. Divide presentations into sections
      9. Rearrange slides and sections
      10. Key points
      11. Practice tasks
    2. 11 Insert and manage simple graphics
      1. Insert, move, and resize pictures
      2. Sidebar: Graphic formats
      3. Edit and format pictures
      4. Provide additional information about pictures
      5. Create a photo album
      6. Capture and insert screen clippings
      7. Insert and format icons
      8. Sidebar: Work with scalable vector graphics
      9. Draw and modify shapes
      10. Draw and add text to shapes
      11. Sidebar: Locate additional formatting commands
      12. Move and modify shapes
      13. Format shapes
      14. Sidebar: Connect shapes
      15. Key points
      16. Practice tasks
    3. 12 Add sound and movement to slides
      1. Animate text and pictures on slides
      2. Sidebar: Animate this
      3. Sidebar: Morphing slide content into new forms
      4. Customize animation effects
      5. Sidebar: Bookmark points of interest in media clips
      6. Add audio content to slides
      7. Add video content to slides
      8. Compress media to decrease file size
      9. Sidebar: Hyperlink to additional resources
      10. Key points
      11. Practice tasks
  11. Part 5: Microsoft Outlook 2019
    1. 13 Send and receive email messages
      1. Create and send messages
      2. Create messages
      3. Troubleshoot message addressing
      4. Save and send messages
      5. Sidebar: Send from a specific account
      6. Attach files and Outlook items to messages
      7. Sidebar: New mail notifications
      8. Display messages and message attachments
      9. Display message content
      10. Display attachment content
      11. Display message participant information
      12. Respond to messages
      13. Sidebar: Resending and recalling messages
      14. Key points
      15. Practice tasks
    2. 14 Organize your Inbox
      1. Display and manage messages
      2. Select the primary Inbox content
      3. Display and manage conversations
      4. Arrange messages by specific attributes
      5. Categorize items
      6. Sidebar: Store information in Outlook notes
      7. Organize messages in folders
      8. Sidebar: Print messages
      9. Key points
      10. Practice tasks
    3. 15 Manage scheduling
      1. Display different views of a calendar
      2. Sidebar: Use the Date Navigator
      3. Schedule appointments and events
      4. Convert calendar items
      5. Sidebar: Add holidays to your calendar
      6. Configure calendar item options
      7. Schedule and change meetings
      8. Respond to meeting requests
      9. Key points
      10. Practice tasks
  12. Appendix: Define Excel tables
  13. Index

Product information

  • Title: Microsoft Office 2019 Step by Step, First Edition
  • Author(s): Joan Lambert, Curtis Frye
  • Release date: December 2018
  • Publisher(s): Microsoft Press
  • ISBN: 9781509305971