The go-to reference for the new Office Home & Student
2013

The Home & Student version of Microsoft Office targets the
home and education markets, covering the four applications most
used outside the workplace: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.
The minibooks in this essential All-in-One guide include
real-world examples and projects that cover the new features and
capabilities of Office 2013. Straightforward advice and beneficial
projects help you to learn the basics of creating a resume in Word,
establishing a home budget in Excel, developing a dynamic school
presentation with PowerPoint, and taking notes in OneNote.

* Targets home and school users of Office 2013, who primarily use
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote

* Walks you through how to use Office 2013 for everyday projects,
such as creating a cover letter in Word or reusable templates in
Excel

* Demonstrates how to jazz up a school presentation with
PowerPoint

* Provides you with straightforward instructions for taking notes
in OneNote

* Shares common Office 2010 tools and details the basics of the
Office ribbon

Office Home & Student 2013 All-in-One For Dummies is
an easy-to-understand guide to the essentials of Office 2013!

Peter Weverka is a veteran For Dummies author who has written about a wide variety of applications. Along with two bestselling editions of Office All-in-One For Dummies, Peter has written PowerPoint All-in-One For Dummies and Microsoft Money For Dummies.

The go-to reference for the new Office Home & Student 2013

The Home & Student version of Microsoft Office targets the home and education markets, covering the four applications most used outside the workplace: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. The minibooks in this essential All-in-One guide include real-world examples and projects that cover the new features and capabilities of Office 2013. Straightforward advice and beneficial projects help you to learn the basics of creating a resume in Word, establishing a home budget in Excel, developing a dynamic school presentation with PowerPoint, and taking notes in OneNote.

• Targets home and school users of Office 2013, who primarily use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote
• Walks you through how to use Office 2013 for everyday projects, such as creating a cover letter in Word or reusable templates in Excel
• Demonstrates how to jazz up a school presentation with PowerPoint
• Provides you with straightforward instructions for taking notes in OneNote
• Shares common Office 2010 tools and details the basics of the Office ribbon

Office Home & Student 2013 All-in-One For Dummies is an easy-to-understand guide to the essentials of Office 2013!

Introduction 1

What's in This Book, Anyway? 1

What Makes This Book Different 2

Easy-to-look-up information 2

A task-oriented approach 3

Meaningful screen shots 3

Foolish Assumptions 3

Conventions Used in This Book 3

Icons Used in This Book 4

Book I: Common Office Tasks 5

Chapter 1: Office Nuts and Bolts 7

A Survey of Office Applications 7

Starting an Office Program 9

Starting an Office program in Windows 7 and Vista 9

Starting an Office program in Windows 8 10

Finding Your Way Around the Office Interface 12

The File tab and Backstage 13

The Quick Access toolbar 13

The Ribbon and its tabs 14

Context-sensitive tabs 14

The anatomy of a tab 15

Live previewing 16

Mini-toolbars and shortcut menus 17

Office 2013 for keyboard lovers 17

Saving Your Files 18

Saving a file 18

Saving a file for the first time 18

Declaring where you like to save files 19

Saving AutoRecovery information 20

Navigating the Save As and Open Windows 21

Opening and Closing Files 23

Opening a file 23

Closing a file 24

Reading and Recording File Properties 24

Locking a File with a Password 25

Password-protecting a file 25

Removing a password from a file 26

Chapter 2: Wrestling with the Text 27

Manipulating the Text 27

Selecting text 27

Moving and copying text 28

Taking advantage of the Clipboard task pane 29

Deleting text 30

Changing the Look of Text 30

Choosing fonts for text 31

Changing the font size of text 32

Applying font styles to text 33

Applying text effects to text 34

Underlining text 35

Changing the color of text 35

Quick Ways to Handle Case, or Capitalization 36

Entering Symbols and Foreign Characters 38

Creating Hyperlinks 39

Linking a hyperlink to a web page 39

Creating a hyperlink to another place in your file 41

Creating an e-mail hyperlink 42

Repairing and removing hyperlinks 43

Chapter 3: Speed Techniques Worth Knowing About 45

Undoing and Repeating Commands 45

Undoing a mistake 45

Repeating an action and quicker this time 46

Zooming In, Zooming Out 47

Viewing a File Through More Than One Window 48

Correcting Typos on the Fly 48

Entering Text Quickly with the AutoCorrect Command 50

Book II: Word 2013 53

Chapter 1: Speed Techniques for Using Word 55

Introducing the Word Screen 55

Creating a New Document 57

Getting a Better Look at Your Documents 60

Viewing documents in different ways 60

Splitting the screen 63

Selecting Text in Speedy Ways 64

Moving Around Quickly in Documents 65

Keys for getting around quickly 65

Navigating from page to page or heading to heading 66

Going there fast with the Go To command 66

Bookmarks for hopping around 68

Inserting a Whole File into a Document 69

Entering Information Quickly in a Computerized Form 69

Creating a computerized form 70

Entering data in the form 72

Chapter 2: Laying Out Text and Pages 73

Paragraphs and Formatting 73

Inserting a Section Break for Formatting Purposes 74

Breaking a Line 76

Starting a New Page 76

Setting Up and Changing the Margins 77

Indenting Paragraphs and First Lines 79

Clicking an Indent button (for left-indents) 79

Eyeballing it with the ruler 80

Indenting in the Paragraph dialog box 81

Numbering the Pages 81

Numbering wi...