Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn!

• Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through Microsoft Office and show you what to do.

• Consise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time.

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• Steve Schwartz has been a computer industry writer for more than 25 years and has written hundreds of articles for major computer magazines, including Macworld, PC World, and Computerworld. He is also the author of more than 50 books on computer and game topics, including Visual QuickStart Guides on Microsoft Office 2004 for Macintosh and Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows. Some of Steve's other Visual QuickStart and QuickProject guides cover these Microsoft programs: Access, Internet Explorer, Picture It!, Digital Image Suite, and Entourage. Steve has a Ph. D. in psychology and lives in the fictional town of Lizard Spit, Arizona. He can be reached via his Web site: www.siliconwasteland.com.

Microsoft's Office 2008 is packed with new tools that will help users work smarter and more efficiently, such as the new Elements Gallery, Word's publication-layout tools, Excel's ledger sheets (templates for common financial tasks), Entourage's improved Exchange Server support, and My Day for tracking appointments and to-do items. In this latest, updated edition of the bestselling Visual QuickStart Guide for Microsoft Office, veteran author Steve Schwartz guides the user along with clear, concise instructions and loads of visual aids that make learning easy and painless.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Essential Office Techniques

Part 2: Microsoft Word
Chapter 2: Introducing Word 2008
Chapter 3: Document Formatting Chapter 4: Text Formatting Chapter 5: Adding Graphics Chapter 6: Creating Tables Chapter 7: Working in Other Views Chapter 8: Other Word Features

Part 3: Microsoft Excel
Chapter 9: Spreadsheet Essentials Chapter 10: Modifying Worksheets Chapter 11: Formulas and Functions Chapter 12: Working with Lists Chapter 13: Charts and Graphs Chapter 14: Database Techniques Chapter 15: Data Analysis Chapter 16: Sharing Workbooks

Part 4: Microsoft PowerPoint
Chapter 17: Creating a Presentation Chapter 18: Charts and Tables Chapter 19: The Presentation

Part 5: Microsoft Entourage
Chapter 20: Introducing Entourage Chapter 21: Email Chapter 22: Address Book Chapter 23: Calendar Chapter 24: Tasks Chapter 25: Notes Chapter 26: Newsgroups Chapter 27: My Day Chapter 28: Entourage and Exchange Server

Part 6: Integrating Applications
Chapter 29: Combining Office Data Chapter 30: The Project Center Chapter 31: Office 2008 and the Internet

Index

Steve Schwartz has been a computer industry writer for more than 25 years and has written hundreds of articles for major computer magazines, including Macworld, PC World, and Computerworld. He is also the author of more than 50 books on computer and game topics, including Visual QuickStart Guides on Microsoft Office 2004 for Macintosh and Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows. Some of Steve's other Visual QuickStart and QuickProject guides cover these Microsoft programs: Access, Internet Explorer, Picture It!, Digital Image Suite, and Entourage. Steve has a Ph.D. In psychology and lives in the fictional town of Lizard Spit, Arizona. He can be reached via his Web site: www.siliconwasteland.com.