“What Microsoft won’t tell you: saving money, installing, configuring and using Microsoft 365 for Windows (was Office 365)” Microsoft 365 for Windows including the many updates into 2021 Microsoft 365 : Straight Talk is the lead title in our popular series of comprehensive guides to buying, installing, configuring and using Office. Get ‘up to speed’ with the new and regularly changing features in Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365 and Outlook 365.
“What Microsoft won’t tell you: saving money, configuring and using Microsoft 365 for Windows.”
Microsoft 365 for Windows: Straight Talk is the latest in our popular series of comprehensive guides to buying, installing, configuring and using what was called Office 365 for Windows including the many updates since first release.
Get ‘up to speed’ with the new and changed features in Office for Office 365 subscribers. That includes additions like Excel Dynamic Arrays and the wonderful Lambda(). Morph, Designer for PowerPoint, Funnel charts and many new functions in Excel.
Properly prepare for installing Microsoft 365 for Windows the best way and for the least cost. After all it’s probably the most used piece of software on your computer, aside from Windows itself – so it’s worth getting right. We’ll give you information that Microsoft doesn’t provide ‘up front’ so that you can make a properly informed installation and configuration
Full Color
Over 800 pages
Fully Updated to October 2021
Microsoft 365 for Windows.
Fast find, table of contents with links
PDF format, compatible with Windows, Mac, Apple and Android tablets and pretty much anything else including, of course, iPads!
Microsoft 365 for Windows: Straight Talk
Microsoft 365 Family
Microsoft 365 Personal
Microsoft 365 University
Microsoft 365 Small Business
Microsoft 365 Enterprise
We also explain the difference between all those different names <g>.
Microsoft 365 for Windows – Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365 and Outlook 365.
Save Money
We have detailed advice on how to buy Microsoft Office for less that retail. Our motto is
“Never pay retail”
Microsoft is heavily pushing annual subscriptions to Office over the one-time purchase we’re used to. There are many ways to pay less for the same software.
” Your chapter on buying Microsoft 365 saved me waaay more than the cost of entire book.” James N, Des Moines.
We also have detailed advice on the computer hardware that’s best to run Office 365, far more information than Microsoft’s brief and understated system requirements.
We’ll take you step-by-step through the online purchase of a Microsoft 365 subscription.
Multiple Languages – how to get and manage multi-lingual Office. A whole chapter devoted to the Language options in Office – on the ribbons & menus, spell check, grammar and more.
Using Microsoft 365
An in-depth look at some of the new and changed Microsoft 365 features.
Word you can now do ‘real time’ sharing of documents. Several people can edit a document and their changes appearing on each computer almost immediately. The Equation Editor now lets you scrawl your formula on the screen. You can now edit PDF files, insert online video and design tables more easily. Reading mode and Reviewing have improvements
Outlook – has changed the way attachments appear and can be added to a message. Also the option to add a link to a OneDrive file, instead of the entire file. It has an easier way to reply to messages with inline. Quick Peek lets you quickly view contacts and appointments without totally switching windows. At last, you can re-order folders!
Excel – has some really useful improvements. Dynamic Arrays can transform the way your sheets work. Lambda() and helper functions are well worth understanding.
There are chart styles that add interesting and useful options for displaying data. Forecast is a simple and effective way to project future results from past data. PowerQuery lets you easily pull in data from a wide range of sources and analyze it with the familiar Excel tools.. Flash Fill and Quick Analysis plus much easier ways to choose Charts and PivotTables . Also welcome additions like proper multiple windows and animations.
Install
Microsoft likes to push the line that installing their software is simple and easy. For the most part it is easy, but there are things that you should do to make your computing is more stable and efficient.
Step-by-Step with Click-To-Run
This ebook will take you step-by-step through a Microsoft 365 installation.
64-bit Microsoft 365 has special considerations, which we look at in detail.
Configure
What Microsoft wants isn’t necessarily what you need. Microsoft chooses the original settings based on what they think people want and, occasionally, some marketing agenda. This book suggests easy changes to make.
The ribbon interface has a lot more going on than most people realize. We go into the ribbon in detail, the features and shortcuts as well as the changed things in Microsoft 365. See how it can be easily changed in Microsoft 365.
The Quick Access Toolbar can also be loaded up with your most commonly used commands – we have step-by-step instructions
Microsoft 365 for Windows: Straight Talk
“What Microsoft won’t tell you: saving money, installing, configuring and using Microsoft 365 for Windows (was Office 365)”
Microsoft 365 for Windows including the many updates into 2021
Microsoft 365 : Straight Talk is the lead title in our popular series of comprehensive guides to buying, installing, configuring and using Office. Get ‘up to speed’ with the new and regularly changing features in Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365 and Outlook 365.
$12.95 – $19.95
Description
“What Microsoft won’t tell you: saving money, configuring and using Microsoft 365 for Windows.”
Microsoft 365 for Windows: Straight Talk is the latest in our popular series of comprehensive guides to buying, installing, configuring and using what was called Office 365 for Windows including the many updates since first release.
Get ‘up to speed’ with the new and changed features in Office for Office 365 subscribers. That includes additions like Excel Dynamic Arrays and the wonderful Lambda(). Morph, Designer for PowerPoint, Funnel charts and many new functions in Excel.
Properly prepare for installing Microsoft 365 for Windows the best way and for the least cost. After all it’s probably the most used piece of software on your computer, aside from Windows itself – so it’s worth getting right. We’ll give you information that Microsoft doesn’t provide ‘up front’ so that you can make a properly informed installation and configuration
Microsoft 365 for Windows: Straight Talk
We also explain the difference between all those different names <g>.
Microsoft 365 for Windows – Word 365, Excel 365, PowerPoint 365 and Outlook 365.
Save Money
We have detailed advice on how to buy Microsoft Office for less that retail. Our motto is
“Never pay retail”
Microsoft is heavily pushing annual subscriptions to Office over the one-time purchase we’re used to. There are many ways to pay less for the same software.
” Your chapter on buying Microsoft 365 saved me waaay more than the cost of entire book.” James N, Des Moines.
We also have detailed advice on the computer hardware that’s best to run Office 365, far more information than Microsoft’s brief and understated system requirements.
We’ll take you step-by-step through the online purchase of a Microsoft 365 subscription.
Multiple Languages – how to get and manage multi-lingual Office. A whole chapter devoted to the Language options in Office – on the ribbons & menus, spell check, grammar and more.
Using Microsoft 365
An in-depth look at some of the new and changed Microsoft 365 features.
Word you can now do ‘real time’ sharing of documents. Several people can edit a document and their changes appearing on each computer almost immediately. The Equation Editor now lets you scrawl your formula on the screen. You can now edit PDF files, insert online video and design tables more easily. Reading mode and Reviewing have improvements
Outlook – has changed the way attachments appear and can be added to a message. Also the option to add a link to a OneDrive file, instead of the entire file. It has an easier way to reply to messages with inline. Quick Peek lets you quickly view contacts and appointments without totally switching windows. At last, you can re-order folders!
Excel – has some really useful improvements. Dynamic Arrays can transform the way your sheets work. Lambda() and helper functions are well worth understanding.
There are chart styles that add interesting and useful options for displaying data. Forecast is a simple and effective way to project future results from past data. PowerQuery lets you easily pull in data from a wide range of sources and analyze it with the familiar Excel tools.. Flash Fill and Quick Analysis plus much easier ways to choose Charts and PivotTables . Also welcome additions like proper multiple windows and animations.
Install
Microsoft likes to push the line that installing their software is simple and easy. For the most part it is easy, but there are things that you should do to make your computing is more stable and efficient.
Step-by-Step with Click-To-Run
This ebook will take you step-by-step through a Microsoft 365 installation.
64-bit Microsoft 365 has special considerations, which we look at in detail.
Configure
What Microsoft wants isn’t necessarily what you need. Microsoft chooses the original settings based on what they think people want and, occasionally, some marketing agenda. This book suggests easy changes to make.
The ribbon interface has a lot more going on than most people realize. We go into the ribbon in detail, the features and shortcuts as well as the changed things in Microsoft 365. See how it can be easily changed in Microsoft 365.
The Quick Access Toolbar can also be loaded up with your most commonly used commands – we have step-by-step instructions
Features