Dan Gookin's Naked Office

by Dan Gookin (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho)

• ISBN13: 9780470113165
• ISBN10: 0470113162
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2006-12-01
• Publisher: Sybex

Summary

"The author's humor and his ability to keep the reader's attention are masterful." -Andy Barkl, Technical Reviewer Salve For Your Office Headaches! Covers Office 2003, XP and 2000-And Perfectly Useful for Office 97, Too! Is it the best thing since sliced bread? A bug-riddled piece of junk? Here, best-selling author Dan Gookin skillfully navigates between these two extremes, laying bare the best and worst of Office in order to help you achieve a single, all-important goal: working faster, easier, and smarter. You'll harness the real power of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook while avoiding their pitfalls-and you'll discover the ways they actually can be made to work together as a truly integrated suite. Dan Gookin's Naked Office means the end of Office-inspired headaches. (Well, the vast majority of them, anyway. He's not a miracle-worker, after all.) Expert Instruction to Change Office Life as You Know It (for the Better) Making a paragraph look the way you want it to look Understanding how styles work and making them work for you Locking a document to prevent changes, and tracking changes made by others Using Excel as a database--and not just for numbers Unraveling formulas and remembering what goes where Organizing e-mail with Outlook Getting the most out of Outlook's scheduling abilities Unlocking the mechanics and philosophy of PowerPoint presentations Oh, and of course--much, much more

Table of Contents

Introduction

From Word to Paragraph to Document

Life beyond the Basic Word

Alas, There Is No Such Thing as a ?Simple? Document

Making Your Documents and Reports More Fancy

Oh the Sacrilege of Drawing in a Word Processor!

Using Styles and Templates to Save Oodles of Time

Writing That Great American Novel or Screenplay

The Tough Stuff: From Labels to Tables

Sharing Your Work with Others

Making Your Own Custom Word

Excel

Why the Hell Would Anyone Other than an Accountant Use Excel?

It?s Super Dooper Grid Time!

Some Excel-lent Formatting Tricks

Oh No! The Horrible Math Chapter!

Fun with Charts and Graphs

Excel Templates, Samples, and Web Mischief

Outlook

Just Your Intermediate E-mail

Managing Your E-mail

E-mail Rules!

Making the Best of Your Contacts

Organizing the Rest of Your Life

PowerPoint

Beyond Your Basic Slide Show

Giving a Show without Breaking a Leg

Index

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