Upgrader's Guide to Microsoft Office System 2003

by Gunderloy, Mike; Harkins, Susan Sales

• ISBN13: 9780789731760
• ISBN10: 0789731762
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-10
• Publisher: Que Publishing

Summary

- Quickly find the information you need to maximize your productivity. - Unveils the new, revised, moved, and improved features in Office 2003 Professional. - Includes only relevant content for those upgrading to Office 2003 - no fluff, no extra stuff. - Enables upgraders to quickly learn the new version.

Author Biography

Mike Gunderloy is an independent developer and author who has been working with computers for 25 years. His experience with Microsoft Office dates back to Office 4.3 which, despite the number, was the very first version of the integrated suite. In the intervening years, he has worked closely with the Office product team, participating in focus groups and even contributing some code to the finished product. Mike has written or contributed to more than 20 books on development topics. He's currently the editor of the weekly Developer Central newsletter. You can reach Mike at [e-mail] or visit his Web site at http://www.larkware.com.

Susan Sales Harkins is an independent consultant with an expertise in Access. With Mike, Susan has written two Access books: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Access 2003 and Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Access 2002, both from Que. Currently, Susan writes for a number of technology-based publishers and magazines, including Element K Journals, builder.com, and devx.com. Her most recent books, also with Mike, include Exam Cram 2 ICDL and ICDL Practice Questions Exam Cram 2, both from Que.

Table of Contents

Introduction

What's New in Office 2003

The Office System

Collaboration

XML

XML Support in Word, Excel, and Access

InfoPath

Rights Management

Servers, Services, and Solutions

Shared Office Features

Touring the New Look and Feel of Office

Icons, Menus, and Toolbars

Customizing the User Interface

Tapping into Task Panes

Using the New Office Help System

The Help Menu

The Help Task Pane

Working with the Research Task Pane

Understanding Document and Meeting Workspaces

Using Document Workspaces

Using Meeting Workspaces

What's New in Outlook 2003

New Look and Feel

The New Menus

Three Panes-Lots of Options!Quick Access to Favorite Folders

Using Outlook As a Personal Information Manager

Quick Flags for Recognition

Search Folders Create Unique Views

Intelligent Grouping

Picturing Your Contacts

Email Management Features

Improved AutoComplete

Intuitive Arrangements

Dynamic Distribution Lists

Filtering Junk Email

Multiple Signatures

Attachment Freedom-Sort of...

Rules Rule!Productivity Enhancements

More Storage Room

Exchange Server 2003 and SharePoint Integration

Working Offline Using Cached Exchange Mode

Let Me Check Your Calendar

Corporate-Level Filtering

Managing SharePoint Alerts

Planning Meetings

Business Contact Manager

For the Developer

What's New in Word 2003

User Interface Changes

Menu Changes

The New Task Panes

Reading Layout

Compare Side by Side

Using Word As an XML Editor

Editing an XML Document

XML Schema Support

Using XSL Transformations

Understanding WordProcessingML

Other New Features

What's New in Excel 2003

Changes to the User Interface

The New Menus

New Look and Feel

The New Workbook Task Pane

Side-by-Side Workbooks

Extensible Markup Language Support

What's XML?Opening an XML File

Importing XML into an Excel List

Adding an XML Map to a Workbook

About Repeating XML Elements

More About the XML Source Task Pane

About SpreadsheetML

Productivity

Document Recovery

Excel Lists

Creating an Excel List

Working with Excel Lists

Collaboration Improvements

List Integration with SharePoint

What's New in PowerPoint 2003

Changes to the User Interface

The New Menus

New Look and Feel

Productivity Enhancements

Downloading New Templates

Using Ink to Mark a Presentation

Smart Tags

Packaging a Presentation and PowerPoint Viewer

Packaging a Presentation

Using the PowerPoint Viewer

Multimedia Support

Supported Media Formats

New Online Broadcasting Options

Full-Screen Playback

What's New in Access 2003

Changes to the User Interface

The New Menus

The New Task Panes

Productivity

Viewing Object Dependencies

Smart Tags

Automatic Backup

Local Linked Tables

Sorting Control Lists

New Service Options

Enhanced XML Support

Exporting and Importing Relationships

Applying Transforms

Changes to Security

SharePoint Integration

Exporting a Table or Query to a SharePoint List

Importing SharePoint Data into Access

What's New in FrontPage 2003

Changes to the User Interface

The New Menus

The New Task Panes

Two New Views

Two New Toolbars

Introducing Scripting Behaviors

Better Design and Graphic Tools

Layout Tables and Cells

Interactive Buttons

Dynamic Web Templates

Browser and Resolution Reconciliation

Accessibility Checking

Other Layout Tools

Working with Code

Quick Tag Selector and Editor

Optimizing HTML

Other New Coding Perks

SharePoint Services Integration

Data Source View and Web Parts

Web Package Templates

What's New in Publisher 2003

Changes to the User Interface

The New Menus

The New Task Panes

New Publication Types

New Design Sets

Layout and Graphics Improvements

The Graphics Manager

The Design Checker

The New Apply Master Page Task Pane

More Layout Guides

A Few More

The New Catalog Merge Feature

New Web Wizards and Tools

The Easy Web Site Builder

New Web Site Page Types

For Good Measure

Improved Productivity

Page Sorter

Improved Find and Replace

Enhanced Zooming

More Powerful Commercial Printing Features

New CMYK Support

Improved Print Separations

Introdu

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