From the course: Microsoft Office: First Steps

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A quick tour of the Office interface

A quick tour of the Office interface

From the course: Microsoft Office: First Steps

A quick tour of the Office interface

- [Instructor] The different Office applications, as much as possible, have interfaces with the same basic design. So if you learn the interface in Word, then you pretty much already know the interface in Excel and PowerPoint. And other applications maintain some of those interface rules as much as possible, making it easier to learn a new Office application if you're already familiar with another. I'll start by launching Microsoft Word. And when you launch the application, the first thing you see is the welcome screen. Here you could create a new blank document, you could open a document that you have on your storage drive, or you could go to the recent list and open a document you've edited recently. I'll use that to open this document. Now, the main part of the window is obviously different from one application to the next, and it depends on what document you're working on. But probably the most important thing that…

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