Office 2013 For Dummies Video Training, Deluxe Edition

Word may be the most-used Office application of all. Here's how to get started creating a Word document and giving it a professional look.

Word documents are flexible. In this lesson, you learn how to add a page to your document, break text into two pages, insert paragraphs into existing text, and create a cover page.

Fonts affect how your document looks. Find out how to choose and change a font, adjust the size, and use the Format Painter in this lesson. And if you change your mind, you'll also learn how to change everything back.

You can choose how text is aligned in your document, and adjust the amount of space between lines of text. This lesson shows you how.

Want to speed up the formatting process? You can use preset styles, or choose a preformatted template that applies styles as you create your document. Learn to use both in this lesson.

Adjusting margins or tabs from Word's default settings can help make your documents easier to read. This lesson helps you find the Ruler and set margins and indentations exactly as you want them to be.

Building big documents? You can help readers navigate by including headers and footers that provide information such as chapter names or page numbers. Here's how to do it.

Oops! You thought you were writing about the 3^rd edition, and now you discover it's actually the 4^th. In this lesson, you'll find out how to quickly locate every "3^rd" and replace it with "4^th", as well as how to find any word or phrase throughout the document.

What a bright idea! Make it easy to spot the headings by putting them in colored text, or call attention to a section of your document with a highlight color. This lesson explains it all.

Ready to embark on your journey through Excel? Get started by learning how to launch Excel 2013 on Windows 7 and Windows 8, pin it to your Start screen, and create a shortcut. Then find out how to call it a day by quitting Excel.

Get your backstage pass to gain insight into the workbook file you have open and active. Learn how to modify the workbook’s protection status, manage its versions, change the author, and more using the Backstage view. 

Why not have it your way? Set up the Quick Access toolbar by adding the commands that you want to use. You’ll also be able to move buttons around to customize everything to meet your needs.

Do as I say! Set up commands in Excel so you can quickly select the ones you need. You’ll also find out some tricks for making it easier to hit the right button.

Venture deeper into the world of Excel and understand these two important features. This lesson explains both, along with advice for touchscreen users and tips for entering values.

Before you can crunch any numbers, you must learn your way around Excel's worksheet area. In this lesson, you learn about current cells, how to move to the cell where you want to enter data, how to make your way through the columns, and special techniques for use on touchscreen devices.

Where’s the keyboard? If you’re on a touchscreen device and need to use the touch keyboard, this lesson is for you. It walks you through the ins and outs of using the touch keyboard to navigate around and enter your data.

You need help! Get online help with Excel 2013 any time you need it, whether you want info about how to use a command or a function. All it takes is a click of the button to find out more.

To successfully use Excel 2013, there are some basic skills you have to master. Here are the Top 10!

Like anything having to do with numbers, Excel likes organization. This lesson shows you how to arrange your information in the columns and rows, various ways to get the information into the right cell, and how to fix data entry errors.

Excel recognizes three data types: text, values, and formulas. This lesson explains the different types and how they work, how to designate negative numbers and fractions, and what to do with times and dates.

Whoops… how do I fix that? Don’t worry, Excel will correct your typing gaffes using the autocorrect feature. But if Excel misses it, find out how you can go back and quickly edit your mistakes.

Excel may read your mind. The AutoComplete feature tries to complete your text entries to speed your work. You can also take advantage of Excel’s AutoFill feature to enter a series of sequential dates or numbers. 

In this lesson, you venture into the functions that make Excel function. Learn to search for, choose, and enter a function; specify and edit function arguments; and update formulas.

The AutoSum tool is worth its weight in gold. Whether it’s SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MAX, or MIN, you’ll learn how to use this tool. Then you’ll explore the Quick Analysis tool to make your spreadsheets sparkle with conditional formatting, charts, pivot tables, and more.

Did I just lose all that work?!? Don’t let this happen to you! Follow a good rule to live by and save your work any time you enter more information than you’d want to lose. This lesson gives you the quick tips to ensure everything is saved so there are no regrets.

CRASH! What do you do now that you’ve done a lot of work but your computer crashes? The AutoRecover feature will help you get your file back. So sit back and get the scoop on setting up this feature to meet your needs.

More often than not, you'll need to work with more than one cell of your worksheet. Learn how to select exactly the cells you need by using your mouse, keyboard, or touchscreen.

The Format as Table feature is so automatic that the cell cursor just has to be within the table of data.  Click around to see how you can use this feature, from changing the table styles to making it look the way you want.

Excel's mini-bar offers a shortcut that lets you apply common formatting changes to a group of cells within the Worksheet area. It's quick and easy, and here's how it's done.

Find the easy way out. This lesson shows you how to quickly adjust a column to best fit the information. If that doesn’t work, you’ll learn how to drag the borders of columns to get exactly what you want.

Do you want bold and underlined words? How about Times New Roman or Calibri? 10 point or 12 point? Black or red? So many choices, and now you’ll know you to make them all!

You’ve got the fonts down but now you have to align the text. From centering text vertically or horizontally to changing the type of line in the border, you’ll walk through the Alignment group features you can use.

You can give your worksheet its own look with Cell Styles. This lesson shows you how to choose one of the readymade styles or create your own, then save your style for future use.

For those occasions when you feel the urge to format on the fly, so to speak, use the Format Painter button. It’s the paintbrush icon in the Clipboard group on the Home tab. 

Open Sesame! Opening a new workbook is easy, and this lesson shows you all the shortcuts so you can quickly get to work.

We all make mistakes, so it’s a good thing you can undo them in Excel with the click of a button. You’ll also get the details on how to drag and drop text as well as cut, copy, and paste data to breeze through your worksheets.

A little shift to the right… a little shift to the left… there’s more to deleting cells than meets the eye. This lesson helps you delete cells the right way and shift information around where you need it to be.

Good catch. That’s what you’ll be saying as Excel helps you catch and remove little spelling errors while suggesting replacements. 

Gain instant access to the paging of the current worksheet. Learn how to activate and get the most out of this feature by clicking the Page Layout View button.

To save paper and your sanity, print your worksheet directly from the Print screen, found in Excel’s Backstage view.  Excel’s Backstage view lets you do this and we’ll show you how.

Sometimes, only a hard copy will do. Learn how to print your entire worksheet, choose a select portion to print, and cancel the job if you change your mind.

You can use the Page Layout tab to set up your worksheet for just the appearance you want. In this lesson, find out how to set margins and page orientation, choose print titles to appear on each page, and print with gridlines or headings.

Need to add a header and/or footer into your Word document to display information - like titles, chapter names or date? Word 2013 even gives you predesigned templates to work from to make it even easier!

Ah, those pesky page breaks! This lesson shows you how simple it is to be sure they occur where you want them to.

A basic printing technique you’ll learn how to use is printing the formulas in a worksheet instead of printing the calculated results of the formulas. 

You’ve got something to say, so add a comment to a cell. This lesson shows you how to add the comment, type in the text, display the comment, move it, and finally print it out.

If you could only find that one key word in your spreadsheet… or maybe you need to replace a word that’s repeated countless times… using Excel’s Find and Replace feature makes it a breeze!

It can be extremely time-consuming to work in multiple worksheets, so there must be an easier way than clicking through the tabs. You’ll view the shortcuts to move through the worksheets and get to what you need.

You’ve spent countless hours on a report with multiple worksheets, and now you’re asked to add more information. How do you add a new worksheet, reorder them, or delete one? Excel makes it a snap, and so do we, with this lesson!

There are countless times that you need to view worksheets side by side to compare data. Use the View Side by Side command button on the Ribbon’s View tab to quickly and easily do a side-by-side comparison.

Data tables let you enter a series of possible values that Excel then plugs into a single formula. We’ll help you create two types of data tables: a one-variable data table that substitutes a series of possible values for a single input value in a formula and a two-variable data table that substitutes series of possible values for two input values in a single formula.

Sometimes when doing what-if analysis, you have a particular outcome in mind, like a target sales amount or growth percentage. When you need to do this type of analysis, we’ll show you how to use Excel’s Goal Seek feature to find the input values to get the desired goal.

Do you need to create and save sets of different input values that produce different calculated results? Find out how to play what-if simply by opening the Scenario Manager and having Excel show the scenario in the worksheet.

If you need to quickly and easily analyze summaries of large amounts of data by using a variety of summary functions, this is the lesson for you. We’ll walk you through pivot tables, which are pivotal to your Excel success!

When you create a new pivot table, Excel automatically adds drop-down buttons to the Report Filter field, as well as the labels for the column and row fields. Learn how to sort and filter this information with these helpful tips.

All that data is great, but summing it up in a chart is even better. Here’s where you’ll take your pivot table to create a pivot chart that displays its summary values graphically.

Impress your bosses with charts that wow! From 2D and 3D column charts to line charts, bubble charts and more, find out how to display your data by creating ones that really catch the eye.

Right after you create a new embedded chart in a worksheet, you can easily move or resize the chart. Make it look the way you want in the location you want with these helpful steps. 

What do you need to do with your chart? Add a missing element… remove an element that’s already displayed… reposition the chart title? Do it all with this lesson!

When Excel first adds titles to a new chart, it gives them generic names. You need to make that chart your own and take charge. Take the steps to change that title to what you want!

Say it with text! But how do you do it? Simply add a text box, add your text, and format it the way you want — here's how. 

You may have the data but do you have the graphics to make your spreadsheet stand out? Excel 2013 makes it easy to insert online graphic images into your worksheet, and so do we, with these helpful tips.

Now that your image is in your worksheet, you have to make changes to it. Whether you need to resize it, crop it, or drag it to a new location, here are the steps to follow.

Sometimes you may find that you need to group several graphic objects so that they act as one unit. That way, you can move these objects or size them in one operation. Grouping or hiding objects is easy with this lesson.

Creating a new data list in a worksheet is much like creating a worksheet table except that it has only column headings and no row headings. We’ll walk you through setting up your new data list.

That’s a lot of data, but sorting and filtering data lists is a breeze. We’ll demonstrate how to sort and filter through a variety of different lists to display the data the way you need it.

Sometimes you need to import data into a worksheet from other database tables or web pages. This is an external data query, and Excel simplifies this process.

Apps for Office are small programs that run inside various Microsoft Office 2013 programs to extend their functionality. We’ll highlight the apps that will help you learn about Excel’s features, look up words in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and more.

Add-ins give you access to a wide array of additional Excel features and calculating functions. In this lesson you'll learn where to get them and how to install these handy little programs.

If you save your workbook files in the cloud on your Windows Live SkyDrive, we’ll help you easily share them and have other users open them in Excel on their own devices. You’ll also see how they can use their web browser with the Excel Web App if they don’t have Excel.

Do you need to make last-minute edits but don’t have access to a device that has Excel installed? Don’t worry. If you store your file in your SkyDrive, this lesson shows you how you can edit your worksheets anyway.