The Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 suite of programs provide the tools you need for easy and efficient word processing, presentation planning, spreadsheet creation, and note taking. Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 Step by Step offers a comprehensive look at the features of Office that most people will use most frequently, particularly those new to Office Home and Student 2013.
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 Step by Step and other books in the Step by Step series are designed for beginning to intermediate level computer users. Whether you are already comfortable working in Office and want to learn about new features in Office Home and Student 2013 or are new to Office, this book provides invaluable hands-on experience so that you can work with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and OneNote.
This book is divided into 29 chapters. Chapter 1–Chapter 4 provide information on Office fundamentals, including how to work in the Office environment, how to avail yourself of shared Office features across applications, and how to share and collaborate with Office 365 services. Chapter 5–Chapter 10 show you how to create, read, and navigate, format, organize, and share Word documents. Chapter 11–Chapter 16 cover how to design and create impactful presentations in PowerPoint, including working with themes, masters, and layout, along with multimedia, creating customized graphics, and finalizing and making your presentation. Chapter 17–Chapter 23 take you through the steps of creating, editing, and formatting database worksheets and workbooks, manipulating and analyzing data in spreadsheets, and creating charts and graphics. Chapter 24–Chapter 29 cover all the features of OneNote, and show how to work with notebooks, sections, and pages, and how to organize and share your notes.
The first chapter of each of the five parts of the book contains introductory information that will primarily be of interest to readers who are new to a particular Office application or are upgrading from an earlier version. If you have worked with a more recent version of Office, you might want to skip past that material.
This book has been designed to lead you step by step through all the tasks you’re most likely to want to perform with Office Home and Student 2013. If you start at the beginning and work your way through all the exercises, you will gain enough proficiency to be able to work with all the Office Home and Student applications. However, each topic is self-contained, so you can jump in anywhere to acquire exactly the skills you need.
Before you can complete the exercises in this book, you need to download the book’s practice files to your computer. These practice files can be downloaded from the following page:
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Microsoft Office Home and Student 2013 is not available from this website. You should purchase and install that program before using this book.
The following table lists the practice files for this book.
Chapter | File |
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Fabrikam Management Team.pptx Sample Picture.jpg Simple to-do list.xlsx | |
Fabrikam Rebrand Campaign.docx Newsletter_A.docx Newsletter_B.docx | |
List Example.docx Newsletter_C.docx Sample Logo and Address.docx | |
Fabrikam Rebrand Campaign_A.docx Fabrikam Rebrand Campaign_B.docx Fabrikam Rebrand Campaign_C.docx Fabrikam Rebrand Campaign_D.docx Fabrikam Rebrand Campaign_final.docx | |
Example Newsletter.docx List Example.docx List Example_B.docx List Example_C.docx | |
Fabrikam Newsletter.pdf Newsletter_B.docx | |
SampleContentA_Start.pptx SampleContentB_Start.pptx SamplePictureB.JPG | |
SampleContentA_start.pptx SampleContentA_end.pptx SampleContentB_start.pptx SampleContentB_end.pptx SampleContentC_start.pptx SampleContentC_end.pptx SampleContentD_start.pptx SampleContentD_end.pptx SampleContentE_start.pptx SampleContentE_end.pptx SampleContentF_start.pptx SampleContentF_end.pptx SampleContentG_start.pptx | |
SampleContentA_Start.pptx SampleContentB_Start.pptx SamplePictureB.JPG | |
Fabrikam Employee Excursion.wmv SampleContentA_start.pptx SampleContentA_end.pptx SampleContentB_start.pptx SampleContentC_start.pptx SampleContentD_start.pptx | |
SampleContentA_Start.pptx SampleContentB_Start.pptx SampleContentC_Start.pptx SampleContentD_Start.pptx | |
Fabrikam-Employees_start.xlsx Fabrikam-Management_start.xlsx | |
Fabrikam-Management2_start.xlsx Fabrikam-Seven-Year-Summary_start.xlsx Fabrikam-Seven-Year-Summary2_start.xlsx Loan_start.xlsx Real-Estate-Transition_start.xlsx | |
2015Projections_start.xlsx Fabrikam-Jan-2013-Sales_start.xlsx FabrikamJanSales2013.txt FabrikamQ1SalesDetail_start.xlsx JanSales2_start.xlsx RealEstateTransition_start.xlsx | |
Custom Formats 2_start.xlsx Custom Formats 3_start.xlsx Custom Formats_start.xlsx FabrikamSummary_start.xlsx FabrikamSummary2_start.xlsx FabrikamSummaryTheme_start.xlsx FabrikamSummaryTheme.xlsx Real-Estate-Transition_start.xlsx | |
FabrikamQ1_start.xlsx FabrikamQ1-B_start.xlsx Q1-Summary_start.xlsx Q1-Transactions_start.xlsx Q1-Transactions2_start.xlsx UnitSales_start.xlsx UnitSales2_start.xlsx | |
FabrikamLogo_start.xlsx FabrikamSalesTable_start.xlsx FabrikamSalesTable2_start.xlsx FabrikamSalesTable3_start.xlsx FabrikamSalesTable4_start.xlsx FabrikamSalesTable5_start.xlsx Logo_start.xlsx Report_start.xlsx | |
29 Practice Image 1.jpg 29 Practice Spreadsheet 1.xlsx |
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