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"The author's humor and his ability to keep the reader's attention are masterful." -Andy Barkl, Technical Reviewer Salve For Your Office Headaches! Covers Office 2003, XP and 2000-And Perfectly Useful for Office 97, Too! Is it the best thing since sliced bread? A bug-riddled piece of junk? Here, best-selling author Dan Gookin skillfully navigates between these two extremes, laying bare the best and worst of Office in order to help you achieve a single, all-important goal: working faster, easier, and smarter. You'll harness the real power of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook while avoiding their pitfalls-and you'll discover the ways they actually can be made to work together as a truly integrated suite. Dan Gookin's Naked Office means the end of Office-inspired headaches. (Well, the vast majority of them, anyway. He's not a miracle-worker, after all.) Expert Instruction to Change Office Life as You Know It (for the Better) Making a paragraph look the way you want it to lookUnderstanding how styles work and making them work for youLocking a document to prevent changes, and tracking changes made by othersUsing Excel as a database--and not just for numbersUnraveling formulas and remembering what goes whereOrganizing e-mail with OutlookGetting the most out of Outlook's scheduling abilitiesUnlocking the mechanics and philosophy of PowerPoint presentationsOh, and of course--much, much more |