Office 2019 For Dummies

Wallace Wang

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781119513988
• eBook ISBN: 9781119514022
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Desktop Applications
• Index: Computer Science

Now updated and revised to cover the latest features of Microsoft Office 2019

The world's leading suite of business productivity software, Microsoft Office helps users complete common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, data management and analysis, and much more. Whether you need accessible instruction on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, or Access—or all of the above—this handy reference makes it easier.

In Office X For Dummies, you'll get help with typing and formatting text in Word, creating and navigating an Excel spreadsheet, creating a powerful PowerPoint presentation, adding color, pictures, and sound to a presentation, configuring email with Outlook, designing an Access database, and more. Information is presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than twenty years.

• Get insight into common tasks and advanced tools
• Find full coverage of each application in the suite
• Benefit from updated information based on the newest software release
• Make your work life easier and more efficiently

If you need to make sense of Office X and don't have time to waste, this is the trusted reference you'll want to keep close at hand!

Part 1

Getting Started with Office 2019

IN THIS PART …

Starting an Office 2019 program

Using the pop-up toolbar

Modifying pictures and drawing lines

Drawing on Office 2019 documents

Opening and browsing the Help window

Chapter 1

Introducing Microsoft Office 2019

IN THIS CHAPTER

Starting an Office 2019 program

Learning the Ribbon

Customizing an Office 2019 program

Exiting from Office 2019

Microsoft Office 2019 consists of five core programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook, and each program specializes in manipulating different data. Word manipulates text; Excel manipulates numbers; PowerPoint manipulates text and pictures to create a slide show; Access manipulates organized, repetitive data such as inventories; and Outlook manipulates personal information such as email addresses and phone numbers.

Although each Office 2019 program stores and manipulates different types of data, they all work in similar ways. First, you have to enter data into an Office 2019 program by typing on the keyboard or loading data from an existing file. Second, you have to tell Office 2019 how to manipulate your data, such as underlining, sorting, arranging, or deleting it. Third, you have to save your data as a file.

To help you understand this three-step process of entering, manipulating, and saving data, all Office 2019 programs offer similar commands so you can quickly jump from Word to PowerPoint to Access to Excel. Even better, Office 2019 organizes commands in tabs to make finding the command you need faster and easier than ever before.

If you’re already familiar with computers and previous editions of Microsoft Office, you may want to browse through this chapter just to get acquainted with the appearance and organization of Office 2019. If you’ve never used a computer before or just don’t feel comfortable using Microsoft Office, read this chapter first.

Starting an Office 2019 Program

You can start a Microsoft Office 2019 program in several ways. The most straightforward way is to use the Windows 10 Start menu. A second option is to open the File Explorer program and then double-click any file created by Office 2019. Doing so will open both the file and the Office 2019 program that created that file, such as Word or Excel.

If you're using an older version of Windows (such as Windows 8.1 or Windows 7), you can't install, let alone run and use, Microsoft Office 2019.

To make starting Office 2019 easier, load your favorite Office 2019 program, such as Word or Excel. When you see its program icon on the Windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen, right-click that icon and choose Pin to Taskbar from the pop-up menu. The program icon will remain on the taskbar, so you can start the program with one click.

To start Office 2019 using the Windows 10 Start menu, follow these steps:

1. Click the Start button on the Windows taskbar (or press the Windows key on the keyboard).
   A pop-up menu appears displaying a list of installed programs and tiles.
2. Scroll down the list of installed programs.
   

   Look for the name of the program, such as Access or Word, and not the complete name, such as Microsoft Access or Microsoft Word. Unlike earlier versions of Microsoft Office, individual programs are no longer grouped in a Microsoft Office folder.
3. Click the Office 2019 program you want to run, such as Word or Outlook.
   Your chosen program appears on the screen. At this point, you can open an existing file or create a new file.

To start Office 2019 File Explorer, follow these steps:

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Part 1: Getting Started with Office 2019
• Part 2: Working with Word
• Part 3: Playing the Numbers with Excel
• Part 4: Making Presentations with PowerPoint
• Part 5: Getting Organized with Outlook
• Part 6: Storing Stuff in Access
• Part 7: The Part of Tens
• Index
• About the Author
• Advertisement Page
• Connect with Dummies
• End User License Agreement