Upgrading to Microsoft Office 2013
Name:
Upgrading to Microsoft Office 2013
Date:
October 8, 2013
Time:
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT
Website:
http://www.ptraining.com
Event Description:
This three-hour overview is designed to help current users of Office upgrade to Office 2013, focusing on Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The class will review the major changes in the Office interface: the Ribbon, groupings, the Quick Access toolbar, the mini-toolbar, and a series of galleries of table layouts, SmartArt, and high impact graphics. File formats and file compatibility with earlier version will also be covered. The class will then focus on changes specific to Office 2013: a new Start screen, a new File Open screen, enhancements to the Backstage View (File Tab) introduced in Office 2010, and saving files to SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage location.
Word 2013 has several new features, including the ability to edit PDF’s directly within Word. Word 2013 also lets you expand and collapse sections of a document, and includes new layout and alignment guides for positioning objects on a page. Word 2013 now lets you insert online videos in a document, and it also includes a new Read Mode view. Track Changes has been enhanced in Word 2013 to include a new Simple Markup view that makes it easier to collaborate on documents with colleagues.
Excel 2013 has new features that make it easier to work with lists and analyze data. The new Flash Fill feature lets you copy a list of items down a column, based on a pattern that Excel determines. The new Quick Analysis button puts the tools for Conditional Formatting, Charts, and Pivot Tables at your fingertips while you are working with data.
PowerPoint 2013 is now widescreen friendly and boasts a new Presenter View that does not require two computers. PowerPoint also includes enhanced alignment guides for positioning objects on a slide, and has improved support audio and video formats. Improvements to Outlook 2013 let you reply or forward a message while in Reading View, view only the unread messages in your Inbox, display a Weather Bar in Calendar View, and access a new People pane.
