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Office 2024 for Windows: Straight Talk

Office 2024 for Windows: Straight Talk

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"What Microsoft won't tell you: setting up and using Office 2024 for Windows."

Office 2024 for Windows: Straight Talk is the latest in our popular series of comprehensive guides to buying, installing, configuring and using Microsoft Office.

Get 'up to speed' with the new and changed features in Office 2024 as well as Office 2021 and Office 2019. That includes additions like Excel Dynamic Arrays with Charts, Image() with pictures in cells and the wonderful Let().  Cameo, Recording Studio and Closed Captions for PowerPoint.

Copilot - the AI helper for the Office apps. Use the free Copilot that can work alongside Office.

Properly prepare for installing Office 2024 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 750 pages
  • Fully Updated to October 2024
  • Office 2024 for Windows
  • Office 2021 for Windows
  • Office 2019 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!

Office 2024 for Windows: Straight Talk

  • Office 2024 Home
  • Office 2024 Home and Business
  • Office 2024 LTSC

We also explain the difference between all those different names <g>.

Office 2024 for Windows - Word 2024, Excel 2024, PowerPoint 2024 and Outlook 2024.

Detailed advice on the computer hardware that's best to run Office 2024, far more information than Microsoft's brief and understated system requirements.

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 Office 2024

An in-depth look at some of the new and changed Office 2024 features plus what's been added to Office 2021 and Office 2019.

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.  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. Let() helps make complex formulas clearer.  

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 an Office 2024 installation.

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 recent years.  See how it can be easily changed in Office 2024.

The Quick Access Toolbar can also be loaded up with your most commonly used commands - we have step-by-step instructions

Features

  • Buying Office 2024
    • Saving money buying Office 2024
    • Never Pay Retail!
  • System Requirements
    • The bare minimum
    • What you really need
  • After installation
    • Windows Desktop Search
    • Classic Menu
    • Backups
  • Configuring Microsoft 365
  • Multiple Languages
    • Proofing Tools
    • Interface
    • Help
  • Copilot
  • Office 2024 interface in depth
  • Read Aloud or Speak
  • Accessibility
  • Major Theme and Font changes
  • Fonts
  • Stock Images and more
  • Icons
  • Digitial Ink
  • 3D Models
  • Word 2024
  • Excel 2024
  • PowerPoint 2024
  • Outlook 2024
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