Book description
Office 2011 for Mac is easy to use, but to unleash its full power, you need to go beyond the basics. This entertaining guide not only gets you started with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the new Outlook for Mac, it also reveals useful lots of things you didn't know the software could do. Get crystal-clear explanations on the features you use most -- and plenty of power-user tips when you're ready for more.
- Take advantage of new tools. Navigate with the Ribbon, use SmartArt graphics, and work online with Office Web Apps.
- Create professional-looking documents. Use Word to craft beautiful reports, newsletters, brochures, and posters.
- Crunch numbers with ease. Assemble data, make calculations, and summarize the results with Excel.
- Stay organized. Set up Outlook to track your email, contacts, appointments, and tasks.
- Make eye-catching presentations. Build PowerPoint slideshows with video and audio clips, animations, and other features.
- Use the programs together. Discover how to be more productive and creative by drawing directly in Word documents, adding spreadsheets to your slides, and more.
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Table of contents
- Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- 1. Introduction
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1. Word
- 2. Word Basics: Opening, Editing, Saving, Printing
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3. Advanced Editing in Word
- Toolbars and the Ribbon
- Lists: Bulleted and Numbered
- Line, Page, and Column Breaks
- Find and Replace
- AutoText: Abbreviation Expanders
- Spelling and Grammar
- AutoCorrect
- Adding and Formatting Tables
- Inserting Photos and Media
- Recording and Running Macros
- Organizing Your Templates
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4. Setting Up Documents and Pages
- Let Word Format Your Document Automatically
- Choose a Template
- Choose a Theme
- Choose a Quick Style
- Manually Formatting Your Document
- Choosing Paper Size and Layout
- Setting Margins
- Adding Color, Borders, and Watermarks
- Adding Page Numbers, Headers, and Footers
- Dividing Your Document into Sections
- Formatting Paragraphs with Styles
- Manual Paragraph Formatting
- Formatting Individual Characters
- 5. Printing Documents, Envelopes, and Labels
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6. Working with Long Documents
- Switching to Outline View
- Promoting and Demoting Headings
- Controlling Subheads During Promotion or Demotion
- Moving Outline Items
- Showing Parts of Your Outline
- Notebook: Collecting Random Thoughts
- Navigating a Large Document
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Creating an Index
- Navigating with Hyperlinks
- Cross-Referencing Your Document
- Creating Footnotes and Endnotes
- Inserting Citations and Creating a Bibliography
- 7. Moving Beyond Text: Publishing Layout View
- 8. Working Collaboratively
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2. Outlook
- 9. Outlook: Email and Life Management 101
- 10. Managing Your Contacts
- 11. Calendar: Meetings, Tasks, and Notes
- 12. Customizing Outlook and Managing Data
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3. Excel
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13. Basic Excel
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Spreadsheet Basics
- Opening a Spreadsheet
- Data Entry
- Basic Formatting
- Kinds of Data
- Tedium Savings 1: AutoComplete
- Tedium Savings 2: Formula AutoComplete
- Tedium Savings 3: AutoFill
- Selecting Cells (and Cell Ranges)
- Moving Things Around
- Inserting and Removing Cells
- Find and Replace
- Erasing Cells
- Tutorial 1: Entering Data
- Formula Fundamentals
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Spreadsheet Basics
- 14. Building Advanced Workbooks
- 15. Excel Data Magic
- 16. Excel Macros and Visual Basic
- 17. Formatting and Charts: Well-Dressed Spreadsheets
- 18. Printing and Sharing Spreadsheets
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13. Basic Excel
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4. PowerPoint
- 19. Planning and Creating Great Presentations
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20. Building a PowerPoint Presentation
- Step 1. Choose a Template
- Step 2: Specify a Theme
- Step 3: Add Slides and Choose Layouts
- Step 4: Writing the Outline
- Step 5: Building the Show
- How to Build a Slide
- 21. Putting On the Show
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5. Office As a Whole
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22. Making the Most of Graphics and Media
- Inserting a Graphic or Media Clip
- The Clip Art Gallery
- AutoShapes, Lines, SmartArt, and WordArt
- Modifying Graphics with the Format Dialog Box
- Storing Favorites in the Scrapbook
- Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
- 23. Customizing Office
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22. Making the Most of Graphics and Media
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6. Appendixes
- A. Installation and Troubleshooting
- B. The Office Help System
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C. Office 2011, Menu by Menu
- Application Menu
- Excel Menus
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Insert Menu
- Format Menu
- Tools Menu
- Data Menu
- Chart Menu
- Window Menu
- Help Menu
- Scripts Menu
- Outlook Menus
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Message Menu
- Draft
- Meeting
- Contact
- Task
- Note
- Format Menu
- Tools Menu
- Window Menu
- Help Menu
- Scripts Menu
- PowerPoint Menus
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Insert Menu
- Format Menu
- Arrange
- Tools Menu
- Slide Show Menu
- Window Menu
- Help Menu
- AppleScript Menu
- Word Menus
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Insert Menu
- Format Menu
- Font Menu
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Tools Menu
- Spelling and Grammar
- Thesaurus
- Hyphenation
- Dictionary
- Language
- Word Count
- AutoCorrect
- Track Changes
- Merge Documents
- Protect Document
- Block Authors
- Unblock All My Blocked Areas
- Protect Documents
- Flag for Follow Up
- Mail Merge Manager
- Envelopes
- Labels
- Letter Wizard
- Contacts
- Macros
- Templates and Add-Ins
- Customize Keyboard
- Table Menu
- Window Menu
- AppleScript Menu
- Help Menu
- D. SkyDrive and Office Web Apps
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2010
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449393359
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