Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows Visual QuickStart

by Schwartz, Steve

• ISBN13: 9780321670106
• ISBN10: 0321670108
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-07
• Publisher: Peachpit Press

Summary

Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn. Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, written by best-selling author Steve Schwartz, has been extensively rewritten to provide expanded coverage of the core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and also provides a thorough introduction to the Office Web Apps. Coverage of each application is jam-packed with information and tips that not only explain HOW to perform a task, but WHY you need this procedure and WHEN it's best to use it. Microsoft Office for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guideprovides in-depth instructions on many of the new features and changes introduced in Office 2010, such as the following: Office-wide features Backstage (File tab), customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, Paste Preview, image-editing tools, screen clippings, Office Web Apps Word Navigation Pane, searching for graphics and tables, text effects, contextual spell checking Excel Sparklines (cell-based charts), new conditional formatting options PowerPoint Reading View, presentation sections, Animation Painter tool, video-editing tools, comparing and combining presentations, creating videos from presentations, broadcasting presentations on the Web Outlook Using and finding commands in the new Ribbon interface, working with Conversation view, creating Quick Step macros Steve Schwartz is uniquely qualified and readers benefit from his 30+ years of experience as a software expert, technical support director, magazine editor, and writer. Steve has written almost 60 books, many on Office and other Microsoft products, and has been using Office since the first version. Although this book is geared toward the beginning through intermediate user, Steve wonsup1;t waste your time with pages of stories and analogies before actually discussing the topic at hand. Each page is clearly focused on the needs of the reader. In fact, Stevers"s guiding principal in creating this and his many other Visual QuickStart Guides is "The Three Crs"s." The material must be clear, concise, and correct. Thumb through a copy today and find out why this is the quickest and easiest way to learn Microsoft Office 2010 Table of Contents Part I: Getting Started Chapter 1: Whatrs"s New in Office 2010 Chapter 2: Office Basics Chapter 3: Tables, Charts, and Art Part II: Microsoft Word Chapter 4: Getting Started with Word 2010 Chapter 5: Formatting Documents Chapter 6: Creating Outlines Chapter 7: Sharing Word Documents Part III: Microsoft Excel Chapter 8: Getting Started with Excel 2010 Chapter 9: Formatting Worksheets and Data Chapter 10: Formulas and Functions Chapter 11: Working with Tables Chapter 12: Creating Charts Part IV: Microsoft PowerPoint Chapter 13: Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010 Chapter 14: Creating a Presentation Chapter 15: Wrapping Up a Presentation Part V: Microsoft Outlook Chapter 16: Getting Started with Outlook 2010 Chapter 17: Working with Contacts Chapter 18: Composing and Sending Mail Chapter 19: Receiving Mail Chapter 20: Managing the Mail Chapter 21: Tasks and Appointments Part VI: Office on the Web Chapter 22: Office Web Apps Index

Author Biography

During his computer-industry career, Dr. Steve Schwartz has dedicated himself to educating computer users and helping them become productive. Steve was editor-in-chief and chief methodologist for Software Digest; business editor for MACazine; and technical services director for Funk Software---where he provided support to a customer base of over 500,000. With hundreds of articles for computer magazines such as Macworld, PC World, and Computerworld and 60 books under his belt, Steve is uniquely qualified to help readers make sense of today's technology.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: What’s New in Office 2010
Chapter 2: Office Basics
Chapter 3: Tables, Charts, and Art

Part II: Microsoft Word

Chapter 4: Getting Started with Word 2010
Chapter 5: Formatting Documents
Chapter 6: Creating Outlines
Chapter 7: Sharing Word Documents

Part III: Microsoft Excel

Chapter 8: Getting Started with Excel 2010
Chapter 9: Formatting Worksheets and Data
Chapter 10: Formulas and Functions
Chapter 11: Working with Tables
Chapter 12: Creating Charts

Part IV: Microsoft PowerPoint

Chapter 13: Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010
Chapter 14: Creating a Presentation
Chapter 15: Wrapping Up a Presentation

Part V: Microsoft Outlook

Chapter 16: Getting Started with Outlook 2010
Chapter 17: Working with Contacts
Chapter 18: Composing and Sending Mail
Chapter 19: Receiving Mail
Chapter 20: Managing the Mail
Chapter 21: Tasks and Appointments

Part VI: Office on the Web

Chapter 22: Office Web Apps

Index