Office 2000 for Busy People: The Book to Use When There's No Time to Lose

by Weverka, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780072118575
• ISBN10: 0072118571
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media

Summary

Get up and running with Office 2000 right away using this visually powerful learning tool. Packed with four-color art, annotated figures, and step-by-step directions, Office 2000 for Busy People shows you the best, most efficient way to accomplish your tasks - while offering you insights into how the suite's powerful features can make you more productive.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction	p. xxvii
Stuff to Do Once to Make Your Life Easier	p. 1
Stay Organized: Create Folders for Your Files	p. 4
Learn How to Get Around in the Open and Save As Dialog Boxes	p. 5
Learn Techniques for Opening Files quickly	p. 7
Create the Office Shortcut Icons You Need	p. 8
Creating Shortcut Icons for the Windows Desktop	p. 9
Creating Shortcut Icons for Files and Folders	p. 11
Learn How to Handle the Toolbars	p. 13
Learn to Zoom In and Zoom Out	p. 14
Learn How to Handle Windows	p. 15
Minimizing, Maximizing, and Closing Windows	p. 16
Changing the Size and Location of a Window	p. 16
Splitting a Document Window to Work in Two Sections at Once	p. 17
Opening a Second Window on the File You're Working With	p. 18
Choose Your Default Font and Margin Settings	p. 18
Tools You Can Use Throughout Office	p. 19
Opening a New File	p. 22
Creating a Generic File	p. 22
Creating a File from a Template	p. 23
Saving and Naming Files	p. 24
Entering and Formatting Text	p. 24
Boldfacing, Italicizing, and Underlining Text	p. 24
Changing Fonts, Font Sizes, and Text Color	p. 25
Aligning and Justifying Text	p. 26
Tools for Editing Faster	p. 27
The Undo Command for Fixing Errors	p. 27
The Repeat Command for Doing It Faster	p. 27
Correcting Typos with AutoCorrect	p. 28
Copying and Moving Data	p. 29
Copying and Moving Data with the Clipboard	p. 30
Copying and Moving Data Short Distances with Drag-and-Drop	p. 31
Laying Out the Page	p. 32
Setting the Margins	p. 32
Choosing a Paper Size and Orientation	p. 33
Spell-Checking Your Work	p. 34
Finding (and Replacing) Data	p. 36
Decorating Files with Clip Art and WordArt	p. 38
Inserting a Clip Art Image into a File	p. 38
Decorating a File with WordArt	p. 38
Handling "Objects" in Files	p. 41
Selecting Objects	p. 42
Changing the Location, Size, or Shape of an Object	p. 42
Adding a Background Color or Border to an Object	p. 43
Making Objects Overlap	p. 44
Printing Your Work	p. 45
Up and Running with Word 2000	p. 47
Microsoft Word Family Secrets Revealed!	p. 51
Viewing Documents in Different Ways	p. 53
Selecting Text in a Word Document	p. 54
Laying Out the Text	p. 56
Indenting Text	p. 57
Deciding How Much Space to Put between Lines of Text	p. 59
Aligning Text with Respect to the Top and Bottom Margins	p. 59
Hyphenating Text	p. 60
Breaking Lines and Pages	p. 63
Dividing a Document into Sections	p. 64
Numbering the Pages in a Document	p. 66
Putting Headers and Footers on Pages	p. 67
Creating Numbered and Bulleted Lists	p. 70
Speed Techniques for Getting Around in Long Documents	p. 72
Bookmarking the Important Places in a Document	p. 72
Going Here and There with the Document Map	p. 73
Six Ways to Make Pages Look Better	p. 74
Advanced Word 2000	p. 79
Styles for Consistent and Easy Formatting	p. 82
How Styles Work	p. 83
Applying a Style	p. 85
Creating a New Style	p. 85
Modifying a Style	p. 87
Constructing the Perfect Table	p. 89
Laying Out the Columns and Rows	p. 90
Entering the Data	p. 92
Changing the Table Layout	p. 92
Formatting a Table	p. 93
Ten Tricks for Handling Tables	p. 94
Putting Newspaper-Style Columns in a Document	p. 99
Finding the Right Word with the Thesaurus	p. 101
Tools for Reports and Scholarly Papers	p. 102
Outlines for Organizing Your Work	p. 103
Generating a Table of Contents	p. 104
Putting Footnotes and Endnotes in Documents	p. 106
Up and Running with Excel 2000	p. 109
Introducing Worksheets and Workbooks	p. 112
Entering and Editing the Data	p. 114
Entering Data in a Worksheet	p. 114
Speed Techniques for Entering Data	p. 115
Moving Around in a Worksheet	p. 118
Selecting Cells in a Worksheet	p. 118
Deleting, Copying, and Moving Data	p. 119
Laying Out a Worksheet	p. 120
Formatting the Numbers	p. 120
Aligning Numbers and Text in Columns and Rows	p. 121
Inserting and Removing Rows and Columns	p. 123
Changing the Width of Columns and the Height of Rows	p. 124
Borders and Colors for Worksheets	p. 126
Handling the Worksheets in a Workbook	p. 127
Advanced Excel 2000	p. 129
All About Formulas	p. 132
Entering a Formula	p. 135
Speed Techniques for Entering Formulas	p. 136
Clicking and Selecting to Enter Cell References	p. 136
Copying Formulas	p. 137
Working with Functions	p. 139
Building Charts from Your Data	p. 141
Creating a Chart with the Chart Wizard	p. 141
Editing a Chart	p. 143
Outlook 2000: Managing Your E-Mail and Your Time	p. 145
A Trip Around the Outlook Screen	p. 148
Inbox: Composing, Sending, and Receiving E-Mail Messages	p. 150
Writing and Addressing an E-Mail Message	p. 150
Sending a File Along with a Message	p. 152
Sending the Same Message to Several People at Once	p. 152
Replying to and Forwarding E-Mail Messages	p. 154
Sending, Receiving, and Reading Your E-Mail	p. 155
Storing Files That Have Been Sent to You	p. 156
Storing and Managing Your E-Mail	p. 157
Contacts: Keeping Information about Others	p. 159
Adding a Contact to the Contacts List	p. 159
Searching for a Contact on the List	p. 160
Calendar: Scheduling Meetings and Appointments	p. 161
Getting Around in the Calendar	p. 161
Scheduling Appointments and Meetings	p. 162
Canceling, Rescheduling, and Altering Activities	p. 163
Tasks: Seeing What Needs to Get Done	p. 164
PowerPoint 2000: Creating Professional Presentations	p. 167
Three Ways to Create a Presentation	p. 170
Creating a New Presentation	p. 172
Putting a New Slide in a Presentation	p. 173
Viewing and Working on Slides	p. 174
Changing the View	p. 174
Entering the Text	p. 176
Writing and Printing What You Will Say in the Presentation	p. 176
Moving and Deleting Slides	p. 177
Changing the Look of Slides	p. 178
Using the Master Slide for Consistent Text Formatting	p. 178
Choosing New Background Colors for Slides	p. 178
Printing Handout Copies of a Presentation	p. 181
Giving the Presentation	p. 181
Showing the Slides	p. 182
Giving a Self-Playing, Kiosk-Style Presentation	p. 183
Seven Tricks for Making a Presentation Livelier	p. 184
Access 2000: Managing and Tracking Data	p. 189
What You Should Know Before You Begin	p. 193
Creating a New Database File	p. 196
Finding Your Way Around the Database Window	p. 196
Creating a Database Table	p. 198
Creating the Table	p. 198
Entering the Fields	p. 200
Designating the Primary Key	p. 200
Making Sure Data Entries Are Accurate	p. 202
Establishing the Relationships Between Database Tables	p. 203
Entering the Data in a Database Table	p. 205
Getting the Data Out: Sorting, Filtering, and Querying	p. 207
Sorting Data to Make It Easier to Work With	p. 207
Filtering a Database Table to Find Information	p. 208
Querying a Database for Information	p. 210
Presenting the Data in a Report	p. 214
Sharing Data Among Files and Programs	p. 217
Generating Form Letters and Labels	p. 221
Preparing the Names and Addresses in a Word Table	p. 223
Generating Form Letters	p. 223
Generating Labels for Mass Mailings	p. 225
Merging the Main Document and the Data Source	p. 228
OLE for Sharing Data Between Programs	p. 229
Establishing the Link	p. 229
Managing OLE Links	p. 231
Creating an Excel Worksheet in a Word Document	p. 232
Using Word Document Headings as PowerPoint Text	p. 233
Including Hyperlinks in Files	p. 234
Surfing the Internet with Internet Explorer 5	p. 237
Deciding How Many Times to Dial and When to Disconnect Automatically	p. 240
The Basics: Connecting and Disconnecting	p. 241
The Eight Ways to Start Internet Explorer	p. 242
If You Can't Connect to the Internet	p. 243
Disconnecting from the Internet	p. 244
Surfing the Internet	p. 244
Visiting a Web Site Whose Address You Know	p. 244
Clicking Hyperlinks to Go Here and There	p. 245
Searching for Information on the Web	p. 245
Finding Addresses and Phone Numbers on the Internet	p. 248
Revisiting Web Sites You've Been to Before	p. 249
Bookmarking Sites So You Can Visit Them Quickly	p. 250
Bookmarking Your Favorite Web Sites	p. 251
Going to a Site You've Bookmarked	p. 252
Renaming, Deleting, and Managing Bookmarks	p. 253
Seven Ways to Surf the Internet Faster	p. 254
Copying Pictures, Text, and Web Sites	p. 257
Publisher 2000: Creating Professional Publications	p. 259
What You Should Know Before You Start Working	p. 262
Creating a New Publication	p. 264
Choosing a New Design or Color Scheme	p. 265
Finding Your Way Around a Publication	p. 266
Getting a Better View of Your Publication	p. 267
Going from Page to Page and Place to Place	p. 268
Frames for Laying Out the Pages	p. 269
Inserting a New Frame	p. 269
Adjusting the Size and Position of Frames	p. 271
Putting Borders and Color Backgrounds on Frames	p. 271
Layout and Ruler Guides to Help with Precision Layouts	p. 272
When Frames Overlap: Telling Publisher Which One to Put in the Foreground	p. 273
Entering and Laying Out the Text	p. 274
Entering the Text on the Page	p. 275
Making Text Jump from Frame to Frame	p. 275
Making Text Wrap Around a Picture or Other Kind of Frame	p. 276
Inserting and Removing Pages	p. 277
Decorating Your Publication	p. 278
Getting Objects from the Design Gallery	p. 278
Rotating and Flipping Objects	p. 279
Installing Office 2000	p. 281
The New Installation Technique	p. 282
Before You Install Office 2000	p. 283
Installing Office 2000	p. 284
Custom Installation: Choosing Which Features to Install	p. 285
Reinstalling (or Removing) Office 2000	p. 287
Index	p. 289
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