| | Copyright |
| | Lead Author |
| | | Contributing Authors |
| | Acknowledgments |
| | We Want to Hear from You! |
| | | Reader Services |
| | Introduction |
| | | Who Should Read This Book? |
| | | What This Book Does for You |
| | | Conventions Used in This Book |
| | Part I. Looking at Office from a Bird's-eye View |
| | | Chapter 1. Office: Seeing the Big Picture |
| | | Welcome to the Microsoft Office Suite of Products |
| | | What's in Microsoft Office and Quicken? |
| | | The Office Assistant |
| | | Making Office Easier to Use |
| | | Clip Art |
| | | Templates |
| | | Using Existing Templates |
| | | Wizards |
| | | Summary |
| | Part II. Getting Started with Word |
| | | Chapter 2. Welcoming You to Word |
| | | What Is Word Designed to Do? |
| | | Elements of the Word Window |
| | | Issuing Commands |
| | | Controlling the Word Window |
| | | Getting Help |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 3. Entering Text and Moving Around |
| | | Typing Text |
| | | Navigating Through Text |
| | | Jumping to a Specific Page |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 4. Managing Documents and Revising Text |
| | | Saving Documents |
| | | Opening Documents |
| | | Switching Among Open Documents |
| | | Starting New Documents |
| | | The Advantages of Using a Template or Wizard |
| | | Selecting a Template or Wizard |
| | | Creating a Document with a Template |
| | | Creating a Document with a Wizard |
| | | Inserting Text |
| | | Combining and Splitting Paragraphs |
| | | Selecting Text |
| | | Deleting Text |
| | | Undoing Mistakes |
| | | Cutting and Pasting |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 5. Viewing and Printing Your Documents |
| | | Viewing Your Document |
| | | Zooming Your Document |
| | | Viewing Separate Parts of Your Document at the Same Time |
| | | Arranging Word Documents on Your Screen |
| | | Previewing a Document Before Printing |
| | | Printing Your Document |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 6. Formatting Characters, Paragraphs, and Pages |
| | | Applying Font Formatting |
| | | Changing the Default Font Settings |
| | | Copying Font Formatting |
| | | Removing Font Formatting |
| | | Applying Paragraph Formatting |
| | | Applying Page Formatting |
| | | Controlling Page Breaks |
| | | Varying the Page Formatting in Your Document |
| | | Summary |
| | Part III. Making Documents Look Better |
| | | Chapter 7. Adding Styles and Templates |
| | | Understanding Styles |
| | | Applying Styles |
| | | Word Creates Styles On-the-Fly |
| | | Creating Your Own Styles |
| | | Modifying Existing Styles |
| | | Chaining Styles Together |
| | | Basing One Style on Another |
| | | Understanding Templates |
| | | Personalizing Word's Templates |
| | | Creating Your Own Templates |
| | | Modifying Your Templates |
| | | Attaching a Template to the Active Document |
| | | Loading a Template Globally |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 8. Correcting Documents and Using Columns and Tables |
| | | Correcting Text Automatically |
| | | Inserting Standard Blocks of Text Automatically |
| | | Finding and Replacing Text Automatically |
| | | Inserting Symbols and Special Characters |
| | | Organizing Your Outline |
| | | Working with Columns |
| | | Working with Tables |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 9. Inserting Graphics, Drawing Shapes, and Creating Text Effects |
| | | Inserting Images |
| | | Deleting Images |
| | | Drawing Shapes |
| | | Creating Special Effects with WordArt |
| | | Summary |
| | Part IV. Using Word to Manage Documents |
| | | Chapter 10. Generating a Mass Mailing |
| | | Understanding Mail Merges |
| | | Starting the Main Document |
| | | Creating and Saving the Data Source |
| | | Entering Records into the Data Source |
| | | Completing the Main Document |
| | | Running the Merge |
| | | Running Subsequent Merges |
| | | Editing Your Data Source |
| | | Merging Envelopes and Labels |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 11. Collaborating on Documents |
| | | Using the Highlighter |
| | | Working with Comments |
| | | Tracking Changes to a Document |
| | | Protecting Documents from Being Revised |
| | | Saving Different Versions of a Document |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 12. Using Other Office Data with Word |
| | | Inserting Data from Excel Worksheets |
| | | Inserting PowerPoint Presentations and Slides |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 13. Using Word with the Web |
| | | Converting Word Documents to Web Pages |
| | | Converting Web Pages to Word Documents |
| | | Creating Web Pages in Word |
| | | Making Your Web Pages Available to Others |
| | | Summary |
| | Part V. Managing Contacts, Email, and Tasks in Outlook |
| | | Chapter 14. Touring with Outlook |
| | | What Can Outlook Do for Me? |
| | | What Can't Outlook Do for Me? |
| | | Outlook's Personalized Menus and Toolbars |
| | | Using Shortcuts on the Outlook Bar |
| | | Outlook Today |
| | | Using the Inbox for Email |
| | | Keeping a Calendar |
| | | Working with Contacts |
| | | Assigning and Managing Tasks |
| | | Keeping a Journal |
| | | Using Outlook Notes |
| | | Managing Deleted Items |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 15. Managing Outlook Folders |
| | | Working with Folders |
| | | Personalizing Outlook |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 16. Working with Outlook Contacts |
| | | Putting Contacts into Action |
| | | Managing Your Contacts Database |
| | | Gaining More Control Over Your Contacts |
| | | Details Tab: Keeping Track of the Small Stuff |
| | | Displaying Contacts in Different Views |
| | | Deleting an Outlook Folder |
| | | Creating a Contact Database |
| | | Adding the First Contacts |
| | | Add a Contact from the Same Company |
| | | Understanding Categories and Items |
| | | Providing Additional Information About a Contact |
| | | Manipulating the Contacts |
| | | Dialing a Contact |
| | | Display Different Printing Options |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 17. Emailing with Outlook |
| | | What Is the Inbox? |
| | | Inbox Symbols |
| | | Customizing Your Inbox |
| | | Composing a Mail Message |
| | | Sending the Message |
| | | Checking for New Mail |
| | | Attaching a File to Your Email Message |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 18. Scheduling with Outlook's Calendar |
| | | Overview of Features |
| | | Customizing Calendar |
| | | Editing Appointments |
| | | Deleting an Appointment |
| | | Handling Events |
| | | Sending Events and Appointments to Others |
| | | Recurring Items and Events |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 19. Managing Tasks |
| | | What Is a Task? |
| | | Starting the Task Screen |
| | | Creating a Task |
| | | Checking Task Status |
| | | Summary |
| | Part VI. Making Outlook Work the Way You Do |
| | | Chapter 20. Customizing Outlook |
| | | Personalized Toolbars and Menus |
| | | Tooling Around with Toolbars |
| | | Adding Tools and Commands to a Toolbar |
| | | Removing Tools and Commands from Toolbars |
| | | Adding Tools and Commands to Menus |
| | | Creating a New Menu |
| | | Removing Tools and Commands from Menus |
| | | Moving Tools and Commands Around |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 21. Combining Outlook and the Other Office Products |
| | | Outlook and Word |
| | | Outlook and Excel |
| | | Outlook and PowerPoint |
| | | Summary |
| | Part VII. PowerPoint Presentations for Your Audience |
| | | Chapter 22. Mastering PowerPoint Basics |
| | | What PowerPoint Is All About |
| | | Starting the AutoContent Wizard |
| | | What You See Onscreen |
| | | Presentation Perspectives |
| | | Displaying Slides |
| | | Customizing the Sample Slides |
| | | Spell Checking the Presentation |
| | | Printing the Presentation |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 23. Diving into PowerPoint Presentations |
| | | A Few Words on How a PC Stores Presentations |
| | | Saving a Presentation |
| | | Closing a Presentation |
| | | Opening an Existing Presentation |
| | | Starting a New Presentation |
| | | Navigating Open Presentations |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 24. Working with Slides and Text |
| | | Using AutoLayout |
| | | Creating a Title Slide |
| | | Undoing Your Mistakes |
| | | Adding New Slides |
| | | Creating and Using Bulleted or Numbered Slides |
| | | Moving Slides |
| | | Deleting Slides |
| | | Changing a Slide's Layout |
| | | Changing the Presentation's Design |
| | | Text Objects Versus Text Boxes |
| | | Selecting Text and Text Objects |
| | | Rearranging Text and Text Objects |
| | | Changing Text Properties |
| | | Working with Bulleted Text |
| | | Line Spacing |
| | | Changing Text Object Attributes |
| | | Using Find and Replace |
| | | Summary |
| | Part VIII. Making Your Presentations Shine |
| | | Chapter 25. Customizing Your Presentation |
| | | Customizing the Color Scheme |
| | | Customizing the Background |
| | | Preparing Speaker's Notes |
| | | Preparing Audience Handouts |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 26. Understanding Slide Show Basics |
| | | Viewing the Presentation |
| | | Slide Sorter View |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 27. Drawing Objects in Presentations |
| | | Text Boxes |
| | | Formatting a Text Box |
| | | Using WordArt |
| | | Drawing AutoShape Objects |
| | | Adding Text in Drawing Objects |
| | | Formatting Drawing Objects |
| | | Summary |
| | Part IX. Jazzing Up PowerPoint Presentations |
| | | Chapter 28. Working with Tables |
| | | Creating a Table |
| | | Entering Text |
| | | Formatting Text in a Table |
| | | Selecting Cells , Rows, Columns, and the Entire Table |
| | | Inserting and Deleting Columns and Rows |
| | | Adjusting the Size and Position of the Table, Column Width, and Row Height |
| | | Moving a Table |
| | | Adding Impact with Custom Borders and Shading |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 29. Multimedia and PowerPoint |
| | | What Is Multimedia? |
| | | Inserting Sound Files |
| | | Adding Video |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 30. Combining PowerPoint and the Internet |
| | | Publishing Considerations |
| | | Publishing a Presentation As a Web Page |
| | | Adding Links in Presentation |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 31. Automating Presentations with Macros |
| | | Creating and Working with Macros |
| | | Using the VBA Editor |
| | | Finding More Macro Information |
| | | Summary |
| | Part X. Designing Web Sites with FrontPage |
| | | Chapter 32. Introducing FrontPage |
| | | Acquaint Yourself with FrontPage |
| | | Discover FrontPage's Features |
| | | Run the Software for the First Time |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 33. Using Templates to Quickly Create a Web |
| | | Discover FrontPage Templates |
| | | Select a Web Template |
| | | Try It Yourself: Create Your Own Personal Web |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 34. Applying Themes and Wizards |
| | | Sample the FrontPage Themes |
| | | Select a Web Theme |
| | | Create Your Own Theme |
| | | Employ a Web Wizard |
| | | Employ a Page Wizard |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 35. Creating Web Pages |
| | | Create and Title a Page |
| | | Select a Background for Your Page |
| | | Add Text to a Page |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 36. Managing Web Sites |
| | | Create and Explore a Web |
| | | Add a Navigation Bar to a Web |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 37. Dividing Pages into Separate Frames |
| | | Create a Frame |
| | | Create an Alternative to Frames |
| | | Open Linked Pages into Frames |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 38. Making a Point with Graphics |
| | | Add a Graphic to a Page |
| | | Choose Between GIF, JPEG, and PNG Graphics |
| | | Add Page Banners and Navigation Bars |
| | | Summary |
| | Part XI. Making FrontPage Do More Work |
| | | Chapter 39. Publishing Web Pages |
| | | Publish Your Web to a Server |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 40. Communicating with Web Forms |
| | | Create a Form with the Form Page Wizard |
| | | Call on the Wizard |
| | | A Sample Web Form |
| | | Manually Creating Forms |
| | | Creating a Form by Hand |
| | | Receive Information from a Form |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 41. Seeing What HTML Is All About |
| | | Tag a Page with HTML Commands |
| | | Adding a Hit Counter Using HTML |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 42. Introducing Cascading Style Sheets |
| | | Define Styles on the Web |
| | | Create a Style Sheet |
| | | Adding a New Paragraph Style |
| | | Summary |
| | Part XII. Analyzing Numerical Information with Excel |
| | | Chapter 43. Learning About Excel Workbooks |
| | | Familiarizing Yourself with the Excel Screen |
| | | Understanding Workbooks and Worksheets |
| | | Entering Worksheet Data |
| | | Navigating in Excel |
| | | Automating Your Work |
| | | Creating a Simple Spreadsheet |
| | | Entering Values |
| | | Working with a Worksheet |
| | | Copying from Cell to Cell |
| | | Making Changes to the Worksheet |
| | | Inserting and Deleting Cells |
| | | Working with Rows and Columns |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 44. Letting Excel Do the Math |
| | | Why Use Formulas? |
| | | How Formulas Work |
| | | Creating a Simple Formula |
| | | Referencing Cells |
| | | Using Ranges |
| | | Workbook and Worksheet Navigation Tools |
| | | Using Range Names in Formulas |
| | | Using Relative and Absolute Addressing |
| | | Working with Formulas That Reference Other Workbooks and Worksheets |
| | | Copying Formulas |
| | | Troubleshooting Formula Errors |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 45. Using Excel Templates |
| | | What Is a Template? |
| | | Exploring Excel Templates |
| | | Creating Your Own Template |
| | | Saving a Worksheet As a Template |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 46. Printing and Formatting Your Workbook |
| | | Checking Your Spelling Before You Print |
| | | Setting Up Your Page |
| | | Choosing What to Print |
| | | Controlling Where Pages Break |
| | | Formatting Your Text |
| | | Formatting Characters |
| | | Changing Cell Alignment |
| | | Rotating Cell Entries |
| | | Centering a Heading |
| | | Controlling the Flow of Text |
| | | Copying Formatting with the Format Painter |
| | | Removing Formatting |
| | | Adjusting Column Width |
| | | Altering Row Height |
| | | What Formats Are Available? |
| | | Choosing a Number Style |
| | | Working with Decimal Places |
| | | Hiding Zeros |
| | | Working with Dates |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 47. Adding Eye-Catching Borders, Colors, Fills, and Graphics |
| | | Have It Your Way |
| | | Changing the Color of Cell Entries |
| | | Adding Borders to Cells and Ranges |
| | | Working with Fills, Shading, and Color |
| | | Formatting with AutoFormat |
| | | Understanding Graphics Objects |
| | | Why Use Graphics? |
| | | Using the Drawing Toolbar |
| | | Adding Clip Art |
| | | Why Use a Chart? |
| | | Chart Elements |
| | | Types of Charts |
| | | Creating Charts with the Chart Wizard |
| | | Working with Charts |
| | | Chart Formatting Techniques |
| | | Summary |
| | Part XIII. Integrating Excel into Your Work |
| | | Chapter 48. Integrating Excel and Other Office Products |
| | | Using Objects in Excel |
| | | Inserting Objects |
| | | Using Hyperlinks with Other Office Documents |
| | | Sending Your Document Via Email with Outlook |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 49. Introducing Macros |
| | | What Is a Macro? |
| | | Creating a Macro |
| | | Running the Macro |
| | | Fixing Macro Errors |
| | | Attaching a Macro to a Toolbar |
| | | Using a Macro in Other Workbooks |
| | | Understanding Macro Viruses |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 50. Using an Excel Database |
| | | Basic Database Concepts |
| | | Starting with a Plan |
| | | Creating a Database |
| | | Entering and Adding Data |
| | | Searching for Data |
| | | Saving the Database |
| | | Summary |
| | | Chapter 51. Combining Excel and the Web |
| | | Using the Web Toolbar |
| | | Opening a Web Page in Excel |
| | | Adding a Hyperlink to a Worksheet |
| | | Saving Excel Documents to the Web |
| | | Summary |
| | Index |