Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides) - Softcover

Schwartz, Steve

9780321534002: Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Visual Quickstart Guides)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 032153400X ISBN 13: 9780321534002

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2008

Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh In this latest, updated edition of this bestselling reference to Microsoft Office 2008, veteran author Schwartz guides Mac users along with clear, concise instructions and loads of visual aids that make learning easy and painless. Full description

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From the Back Cover:

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

About the Author:

Steve Schwartz has been a computer industry writer for more than 25 years and has written hundreds of articles for major computer magazines, includingMacworld, PC World, and Computerworld. He is also the author of more than 50 books on computer and game topics, includingVisual 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.

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