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Published:
October 9, 2015

Office 2016 For Seniors For Dummies

Overview

Office 2016 For Seniors For Dummies is the ideal resource for learning the fundamentals of the Microsoft Office suite. You'll explore the functionality of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, establishing basic knowledge that you can build upon as you continue to experiment with Office's applications. Larger font and image sizes mean you can easily read the contentand text that gets back to basics walks you through everything you need to know to use these programs in a variety of environments.

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Faithe Wempen is a computer and information technology instructor at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. She designs online technology courses for corporate clients and is the author of over 150 books on computer hardware and software.

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Once you discover keyboard shortcuts in Office, you’ll wonder how you ever functioned without them. Keyboard shortcuts make common tasks faster and easier. By pressing a key combination you can duplicate many of the most commonly used commands and tasks. Some of the keyboard shortcuts are the same across multiple applications, whereas others are specific to a particular application.

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There’s a lot to love about PowerPoint 2016, especially if you know how to use all of the bells and whistles. Here are some tips and tricks to keep in mind: Scale the slide size to the monitor dimensions There are two basic aspect ratios for computer screens: standard (4:3) and wide (16:9). These numbers are ratios.
One way to share your work with others is to send them a copy via email in Office 2016. There are a couple of different ways you can send electronic files: Open your email application (such as Outlook), start composing a message, and then use the email application's Attach command to add one or more files to the message before you send it.
You can insert pictures into a Word 2016 document from your own picture stash on your local PC, or from online sources such as a Bing image search or your OneDrive. To insert a locally stored picture, follow these steps: Position the insertion point where you want the picture to appear. Choose Insert→Picture.
When you're sharing an electronic copy of your work from within Office 2016, such as via email attachment, there's a problem if your recipient doesn't have the same application in which to view it. For example, if you send a PowerPoint presentation to a friend who doesn't have PowerPoint, he might not be able to open it.
Once you discover keyboard shortcuts in Office, you’ll wonder how you ever functioned without them. Keyboard shortcuts make common tasks faster and easier. By pressing a key combination you can duplicate many of the most commonly used commands and tasks. Some of the keyboard shortcuts are the same across multiple applications, whereas others are specific to a particular application.
Mail box bloat. Everyone gets it over time. Your Outlook 2016 Inbox fills up with messages that you neglected to delete or file away, and before you know it you’ve got thousands of messages, taking up space in your data file and preventing you from browsing the new stuff easily. Here are some ideas for breaking up that clog.
Word 2016 isn’t a great desktop publishing program if you want unusual layouts like banners, greeting cards, and the like, but it will serve in a pinch. First of all, these instructions assume that you actually want to know how to set this up from scratch, and you don’t just want a quick card. If you just want a quick and easy card, choose File→New and search for a Greeting Card template.
Excel’s IF function intimidates a lot of people, but it’s really not that conceptually difficult. The IF function determines whether a statement is true or false, and then takes one of two actions depending on the answer. Let’s look at a plain-English example. Suppose that when the sum of C2 and D2 is greater than 100, you want to display in E2 the result of multiplying the sum of C2 and D2 by 0.
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