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:

http://aka.ms/OfficeHomeStudent2013SbS/files

The following table lists the practice files for this book.

With the ebook edition of this book, you can do the following:

To download your ebook, please see the instruction page at the back of the book.

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