MICROSOFT 365 INTRODUCTION

Microsoft 365 - Training Book with Exercises - Edition for 2026

Getting Started with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

Office software suites are not only essential tools in today's professional world, but also offer a wide range of personal uses. Here, we explain the fundamentals of Microsoft's Office suite, the quintessential classic.

Microsoft 365 is the online version, which Microsoft now offers not under the name Office + year, but as Microsoft 365.

This book was last updated in early 2026 for the year 2026.

The following programs are described in this book:

MS Word
- Writing and saving simple texts,
- Formatting documents attractively,
- Font and paragraph settings,
- Review of Windows basics such as window management, folders, views, etc.,
- Further practice texts.
MS Excel
- First spreadsheet, basics of rows and columns,
- correcting, copying, and moving,
- Entering and adjusting basic calculations,
- Excel special features: relative copying, displaying values, proxies,
- Further exercises.
MS PowerPoint
- Entering text into text boxes,
- creating and setting up slides, slide layout,
- Text boxes with borders and fills, slide background,
- AutoShapes, tables, tabs.
MS Outlook
- Installation and first launch,
- Overview of MS Outlook,
- Writing, sending, and receiving your first email,
- Follow-up options,
- Warning about phishing emails,
- Calendar, contacts, tasks.
Those with no prior experience with these programs will find a comprehensive introduction here. Afterward, a thorough understanding of the full functionality of these programs is easier with our detailed books on the respective programs.
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