Office 2021 for Macs For Dummies. Bob LeVitus
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Название: Office 2021 for Macs For Dummies
Автор: Bob LeVitus
Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited
Жанр: Программы
isbn: 9781119840473
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Installing Office
Regardless of which edition you decide to buy, you’ll need a Microsoft account and an internet connection to download the installation package for your apps.
Getting a Microsoft account
A Microsoft account is similar to your Apple ID; it’s an account for you to manage your Microsoft apps and purchases. To download and install your Office apps, your purchase of Office for Mac must be associated with a Microsoft account (personal, business, or school account).
If you don’t have a Microsoft account, go to https://office.com/setup to create one.
Downloading and installing Office
To install Microsoft Office, you need the username and password for an administrator account on this Mac. If you don't have an administrator account and password handy, it would behoove you to get one now.
After you have that detail settled, here’s how to download and install your Office apps:
1 Go tohttps://office.com and sign in to the Microsoft account associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office purchase.
2 Click the Install Office button and download the installer package.
3 Locate and double-click the installer package to launch the installer app.
4 Click Continue on the first screen.The screen displays the license terms.
5 Read every word of the license terms, and then click Continue. We’re only half kidding — we know that no one reads the licensing information. But because you’re about to enter into a legally binding agreement, we would be remiss not to at least pretend to urge you to read every word.
6 On the next screen, click Agree.The Select a Destination screen appears.
7 Choose the destination disk for the software installation and then click Continue.The Standard Install on your hard drive’s name screen appears.
8 If you want to install the Office apps somewhere other than the Applications folder, click the Change Install Location button and select another destination. In the next step, you click Install. But if you’re short on disk space, consider not installing some of the apps. To do so, click the Customize button before you click the Install button and then deselect any items you don’t want to install.
9 Click the Install button to open an authentication window, enter an administrator name and password, and then click OK.Go get yourself some coffee or a soft drink — the installation takes a bit of time.
10 When the screen informs you that the installation is complete, click the Close button and you’re ready to go.
Head on over to your Applications folder and double-click one of the newly installed Office apps to get started.
DEALING WITH MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF OFFICE
If you have an earlier version of Office on your hard drive when you install Office, the older version isn’t touched. You now have two (or possibly even three or more) Office versions in your Applications folder.
In a perfect world, all your Office documents, both new and old, would launch the current versions of Word (or other Office apps) when you open them. But in the real world, this may or may not be your experience.
So, we offer you this little lesson in macOS file-opening mastery. You can cause a single file or all files to open in a specific app in two ways. The first method is to right-click the document, choose Open With from the contextual menu, and select an app. The second method is to set a single file or all files of its type to open in a specific app, as follows:
1 To specify which version of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint opens when you double-click one of its document files, single-click that document file and then choose File ⇒ Get Info (or press ⌘ +I).A drop-down Open With menu appears. If you don’t see the Open With menu, click the small, gray disclosure triangle next to the words Open With.
2 Click the Open With menu and select the version of the app you want to open when you double-click this document.
3 If you want all documents of this type to launch this version of Word, click the Change All button.
There you have it — if the wrong version of an Office app launches when you open a document, you now know how to fix it.
Keeping Your Apps Up-to-Date
Microsoft AutoUpdate is a nifty app that’s installed along with your other Office apps (although you won’t find it in your Applications folder). AutoUpdate does what its name implies: It automatically searches for updates to your Office apps and installs them.
To open AutoUpdate:
1 Open an Office app (such as Word or Excel).
2 Choose Help ⇒ Check for Updates from the menu at the top of the screen.The AutoUpdate app launches and scans Microsoft’s servers to check for updates to any Microsoft apps you have installed (even apps that don’t come with Office, such as Microsoft’s web browser, Edge).
3 When updates are found, click the Update All button to download and install all available updates, or click the Update button to the right of the app’s name to only update that app.
4 (Optional) If you want AutoUpdate to periodically check for and install updates automatically, select the box labeled Automatically Keep Microsoft Apps up to Date.
5 Quit AutoUpdate when you’re finished.
Chapter 2
A Sweet Suite: Introducing the Office Apps
IN THIS CHAPTER
Microsoft Office for Mac isn’t a single, monolithic app that processes words and numbers, creates slide shows, manages your email, calendar, and contact database, and more. No, Office is a suite of programs that share numerous interface characteristics so that many СКАЧАТЬ