show you how to work with notebooks, sections, and pages, and how to organize and share

your notes. Chapters 36–40 walk you through creating and working with databases, includ-
ing adding, manipulating, importing, and exporting data; creating basic tables and queries;
and designing and generating forms reports. Finally, Chapters 41–43 show how to work
with Publisher to create professional desktop designs and produce brochures, newsletters,
and other publications.

The first chapter of each of the eight parts of the book contains introductory information
that will primarily be of interest to readers who are new to a particular Office application
or are upgrading from an earlier version. If you have worked with a more recent version
of Office, you might want to skip past that material.

This book has been designed to lead you step by step through all the tasks you’re most
likely to want to perform with Office Professional 2013. If you start at the beginning and
work your way through all the exercises, you will gain enough proficiency to be able to
work with all the Office Professional applications. However, each topic is self-contained,
so you can jump in anywhere to acquire exactly the skills you need.

Download the practice files

Before you can complete the exercises in this book, you need to download the book’s prac-
tice files to your computer. These practice files can be downloaded from the following page:

http://aka.ms/OfficePro2013SbS/files

IMPORTANT Office Professional 2013 is not available from this website. You should purchase
and install that program before using this book.

The following table lists the practice files for this book.

Chapter File
Chapter 2: Using shared Office features Fabrikam Management Team.pptx
Sample Picture.jpg
Simple to-do list.xlsx
Chapter 6: Navigating and reading documents Fabrikam Rebrand Campaign.docx
Newsletter_A.docx
Newsletter_B.docx

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