Chapter 2: Dictation, Co-authoring, and Embedding

In this chapter, we will focus on a few more features that are new to Office 2021 and the latest versions (and revisions) of the Office 365 offering. You will learn how to access the new Transform feature to integrate amazing presentations with Microsoft Sway. You will also learn how to dictate directly within Word 2021, where we will discuss all the options around the new Dictate feature. Although the first two chapters of this book focus on skills that have been separated for ease of reading, we often use more than a couple together in applications when working on a document.

Commenting and working in real time with others is greatly enhanced in the new version. We will also be investigating co-authoring requirements and learning about modern commenting. Finally, we will introduce several new embedding features.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Investigating the new transform feature
• Dictating...