| Introduction: Your Office of the Future |
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| Part 1: Microsoft Office XP Over Easy |
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Up and Running with Office XP |
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Office XP basics, shortcuts, and tips |
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Help!!! Getting Some Office Assistance |
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When you can't find the answer in this book, use the Office help system |
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Voice-Activating Your Office |
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Controlling Office and typing text with a microphone |
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| Part 2: Whipping Up Word Documents |
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Making and Editing Word Documents |
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Everything you need to know to create your first Word document |
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Giving Your Text a Makeover |
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Make your text look pretty |
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Aligning Your Text with Columns and Tables |
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Arrange your text in neat little rows and columns |
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Spicing It Up with Graphics, Sound, and Video |
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Jazz up your documents with scanned images, digital photos, and Microsoft clip art |
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Proofreading Your Document: Word Can |
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Help Spelling and grammar checkers for the proofreading-impaired |
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Everything You've Always Wanted to Know About Printing Documents |
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Stuff other people's mailboxes with junk mail |
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Printing Envelopes, Mailing Labels, and Form Letters |
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Margins, page numbers, borders, and other page-control issues...not to mention actually printing |
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| Part 3: Crunching Numbers with Excel Worksheets |
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Worksheet Orientation Day |
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The basics of typing entries in a worksheet |
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Make Excel do your math homework |
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Giving Your Worksheet a Professional Look |
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Text formatting, shading, borders, and other ornamental decorations |
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Graphing Data for Fun and Profit |
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Turn a block of numbers into a graph |
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Printing Wide Worksheets on Narrow Pages |
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Everything you've always wanted to know about printing worksheets |
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| Part 4: Snapping Slide Shows in PowerPoint |
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Slapping Together a Basic Slide Show |
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Get started with PowerPoint's prefab slide shows |
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Adding Text, Graphics, and Sounds to a Slide |
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When only the snazziest presentations will do |
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Shuffling and Presenting Your Slide Show |
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Narration, animation, and other cool features |
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| Part 5: Mastering the Information Age with Access |
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Making Your First Database |
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Use a prefab database, so you won't have to start from scratch |
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Entering Data: For the Record |
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Cope with the drudgery of data entry |
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Finding, Sorting, and Selecting Records |
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Sift through your database to find what you need |
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Giving Data Meaning with Reports |
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When your boss asks why the company is suddenly in the red, whip out one of these |
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| Part 6: Managing Your Life (and Your E-mail) with Outlook |
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Keeping Track of Dates, Mates, and Things to Do |
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Pitch your day planner and log on to Outlook |
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Yep, Outlook does e-mail, too |
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| Part 7: Taking Your Office to the Next Level |
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Sharing Data Between Applications |
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Understand and use OLE, so you can type it once and use it everywhere! |
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Creating and Publishing Your Own Web Pages |
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Electronic publishing on the Web-Office XP's new Web tools |
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Automate tasks by recording and playing back keystrokes, commands, and mouse moves |
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No-Brainer Publications with Microsoft Publisher |
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Save some money, get the job done on time, and let your own creative vision be your guide |
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Speak Like a Geek: The Complete Archive |
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Office XP buzzwords dissected and defined |
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| Index |
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