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Published:
February 25, 2025

Microsoft 365 Office All-in-One For Dummies

Overview

Supercharge your productivity at the office and at home

Looking to familiarize yourself with the world's most popular and effective productivity apps? Then look no further than the latest edition of Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies, packed with 9 mini-books covering each of the super-apps included in the famous productivity suite from Microsoft. In the books, you'll get a handle on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, Access, and more.

This convenient and authoritative collection will walk you through how to create and edit text documents in Word, make new spreadsheets in Excel, and set up virtual meetings in Teams. You'll also learn how to:

  • Use pro-level keyboard shortcuts and speed techniques to accelerate your productivity
  • Use Microsoft's new AI-powered Copilot to get help and even write and edit your documents
  • Leverage SharePoint and OneDrive to share documents and collaborate remotely with colleagues

Office 365 All-in-One For Dummies is the first and last resource you'll need to reach for when you've got a question about Microsoft's ubiquitous productivity tools. It's perfect for newbies looking to get started and power users looking for fresh tips on the latest features. Grab your copy today!

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About The Author

Paul McFedries is a long-time technical author with more than 100 books, including HTML, CSS, & JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies; Web Coding & Development All-in-One For Dummies; and Excel Data Analysis For Dummies.

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CHEAT SHEET

Here are some useful Office 365 features worth knowing about. Two of these cheat sheets explain how Office 365 lets you turn one thing into another — how to turn a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation and how to turn an Office 365 file into a PDF so that people who don’t have Office can read it. For people who get mountains of email, here are instructions for moving your Office 365 email messages as they arrive into a specific Outlook folder.

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Office presents many different ways to refine a chart. As shown, you can click one of the three buttons — Chart Elements, Chart Styles, or Chart Filters — that appear beside a chart when you select it. You can also go to (Chart Tools) Design tab and the (Chart Tools) Format tab. Your opportunities for tinkering with a chart are many.
SharePoint is Microsoft's web-based team collaboration platform. Businesses employ SharePoint Online to store documents, manage projects, and permit coworkers to collaborate with one another.SharePoint Online isn’t necessarily ubiquitous (present or found everywhere), but it tries to be. SharePoint Online sites are designed to be accessible from everywhere — from a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet device, or a smartphone.
Fans of charts and graphs will be glad to know that putting a chart in a Word document, Excel worksheet, or PowerPoint slide—all available as part of Microsoft Office 365—is fairly easy. Before going into details, here are the basic steps that everyone needs to know to create a chart in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Go to the Insert tab.
No matter where you go in Office 365, you see the Quick Access toolbar in the upper-left corner of the screen. This toolbar offers the AutoSave, Save, Undo, and Redo buttons, as well as the Touch/Mouse Mode button if your computer has a touchscreen.However, which buttons appear on the Quick Access toolbar is entirely up to you.
As you surely know by now, the Ribbon is the stretch of ground across the top of all Office programs. The Ribbon is composed of tabs. On each tab, commands are arranged by group. To undertake a task, you visit a tab on the Ribbon, find the group with the command you want, and choose the command. If you are so inclined, you can customize the Ribbon.
The purpose of Microsoft Teams is to help colleagues work collaboratively by sharing files, having chats, and even participating in voice and video calls. Learn how to engage in a conversation through Microsoft Teams, how to chat privately, and share and co-edit files. You also discover have in-person meetings, audio meetings, and video meetings through Teams.
Whereas SharePoint document libraries and task lists represent more or less permanent data repositories, Microsoft Teams is meant to serve the ever-changing modern workplace. In the course of a year, you may find yourself on several different teams. Within the same team, you may find yourself participating in several channels.
Here are some useful Office 365 features worth knowing about. Two of these cheat sheets explain how Office 365 lets you turn one thing into another — how to turn a Word document into a PowerPoint presentation and how to turn an Office 365 file into a PDF so that people who don’t have Office can read it. For people who get mountains of email, here are instructions for moving your Office 365 email messages as they arrive into a specific Outlook folder.
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