Gookin Dan Gookin's Naked Office

1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-470-11316-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 586 Seiten, E-Book

"The author's humor and his ability to keep the reader's attentionare masterful."
--Andy Barkl, Technical Reviewer
Salve For Your Office Headaches!
Covers Office 2003, XP and 2000--And Perfectly Useful forOffice 97, Too!
Is it the best thing since sliced bread? A bug-riddled piece ofjunk? Here, best-selling author Dan Gookin skillfully navigatesbetween these two extremes, laying bare the best and worst ofOffice in order to help you achieve a single, all-important goal:working faster, easier, and smarter. You'll harness the real powerof Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook while avoiding theirpitfalls--and you'll discover the ways they actually can bemade to work together as a truly integrated suite. Dan Gookin'sNaked Office means the end of Office-inspired headaches. (Well,the vast majority of them, anyway. He's not a miracle-worker, afterall.)
Expert Instruction to Change Office Life as You Know It (forthe 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 changesmade 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 PowerPointpresentations
* Oh, and of course--much, much more

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gookin, Dan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION.
Part 1: From Word to Paragraph to Document.
1: Life beyond the Basic Word.
2: Alas, There Is No Such Thing as a ?Simple? Document.
3: Making Your Documents and Reports More Fancy.
4: Oh the Sacrilege of Drawing in a Word Processor!.
5: Using Styles and Templates to Save Oodles of Time.
6: Writing That Great American Novel or Screenplay.
7: The Tough Stuff: From Labels to Tables.
8: Sharing Your Work with Others.
9: Making Your Own Custom Word.
Part 2: Excel.
10: Why the Hell Would Anyone Other than an Accountant UseExcel?.
11: It?s Super Dooper Grid Time!.
12: Some Excel-lent Formatting Tricks.
13: Oh No! The Horrible Math Chapter!.
14: Fun with Charts and Graphs.
15: Excel Templates, Samples, and Web Mischief.
Part 3: Outlook.
16: Just Your Intermediate E-mail.
17: Managing Your E-mail.
18: E-mail Rules!.
19: Making the Best of Your Contacts.
20: Organizing the Rest of Your Life.
Part 4: PowerPoint.
21: Beyond Your Basic Slide Show.
22: Giving a Show without Breaking a Leg.
INDEX.

Über Autor(innen)

A PC enthusiast for almost twenty years, Dan Gookin has written over thirty computer books, many of them bestsellers, including Dan Gookin's Naked Windows XP from Sybex (ISBN: 0-782140769). Accomplished at writing instructional books that are fun to read, Dan strives to help every day people get the most from their computing experience. Dan lives in snowy Idaho, where he's active in the local theater.