Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press Released: March 2008 Pages: 914
Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features. You'll find lots of new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not a page of printed instructions to guide you through the changes. Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual gives you the friendly, thorough introduction you need, whether you're a beginner who can't do more than point and click, or a power user who's ready to tackle a few advanced techniques. To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four superb books in one -- a separate section each for program! You can manage your day and create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in no time. Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons blend in better with your other Mac applications. But there are still plenty of oddities. That's why this Missing Manual isn't shy about pointing out which features are gems in the rough -- and which are duds. With it, you'll learn how to: - Navigate the new user interface with its bigger and more graphic toolbars
- Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage separately or together
- Keep track of appointments and manage daily priorities with the My Day feature
- Create newsletters, flyers, brochures, and more with Word's Publishing Layout View
- Build financial documents like budgets and invoices with Excel's Ledger Sheets
- Get quick access to all document templates and graphics with the Elements Gallery
- Organize all of your Office projects using Entourage's Project Center
- Scan or import digital camera images directly into any of the programs
- Customize each program with power-user techniques
With Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, you get objective and entertaining instruction to help you tap into all of the features of this powerful suite, so you can get more done in less time. |
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Word -
Chapter 1 Basic Word Processing - Creating and Opening Documents
- Word Processing Basics
- A Window into Word
- The Views
- Every Conceivable Variation on Saving
- Printing
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Chapter 2 Editing in Word - The Many Ways to Select Text
- Moving Text Around
- Navigating Your Documents
- Finding and Replacing
- Spelling and Grammar
- Five Ways to Type Less
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Chapter 3 Formatting in Word - The Formatting Palette
- Character Formatting
- Formatting
- Paragraph Formatting
- Document Formatting
- Section Formatting
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Chapter 4 Styles, Page Layout, and Tables - Styles
- Print Layout
- Automatic Hyphenation
- Text Boxes
- Pictures and Drawings
- Charts and Spreadsheets
- Tables
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Chapter 5 Working Collaboratively - Comments
- Change Tracking
- Comparing Documents
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Chapter 6 Working with Notebooks, Outlining, and Master Documents - Notebook Layout View
- Outline View
- The Document Map
- Master Documents
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Chapter 7 Editing Long Documents - Headers and Footers
- Citations
- Bibliographies
- Footnotes and Endnotes
- Line Numbers
- Templates
- AutoSummarize
- Fields
- Bookmarks
- Captions
- Cross-References
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Indexing
- Mail Merges
- Macros
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Chapter 8 Moving Beyond Text: Publishing Layout View - Templates: Ready-to-Use Page Designs
- Building Pages with Objects
- Creating Templates
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Chapter 9 Word Meets Web - Word as HTML Reader
- Creating a Web Page in Word
- Graphics, Sounds, and Movies
- Hyperlinks
- Web Forms
- Saving Web Pages
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Entourage -
Chapter 10 Email, Address Book, and Newsgroups - The Big Picture
- Setting Up Entourage
- Sending and Receiving Mail
- Address Book
- Newsgroups
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Chapter 11 Calendar, Tasks, and the Project Center - The Calendar
- Recording Events
- What to Do with an Appointment
- Saving Calendars as Web Pages
- Tasks and the To Do List
- My Day
- Office Reminders
- Categories
- Project Center
- Accessing Projects from Other Office Programs
- Notes
- Synchronization
- Multiple Identities
- Finding Messages
- Links
- Checking Your Spelling
- The Script Menu
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Excel -
Chapter 12 Basic Excel - Spreadsheet Basics
- Formula Fundamentals
- Excel, the List Maker
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Chapter 13 Formatting and Charts - Formatting Worksheets
- Charts
- Printing Worksheets
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Chapter 14 Formula and Database Magic - Workbooks and Worksheets
- Advanced Formula Magic
- Working with Databases
- Analyzing and Viewing Your Data
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PowerPoint -
Chapter 15 Planning and Creating Great Presentations - Planning the Presentation
- Delivering the Presentation
- Presentation Hardware
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Chapter 16 Building a PowerPoint Presentation - Finding Your Way Around PowerPoint
- Step 1: Specify a Theme
- Step 2: Writing the Outline
- Step 3: Building the Show
- How to Build a Slide
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Chapter 17 Polishing and Presenting in PowerPoint - Adding Movement
- Putting On the Show
- Recycling Your Presentations
- Printing Your Presentation
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Office As a Whole -
Chapter 18 Saving Time with the Project Gallery and Toolbox - The Project Gallery
- Toolbox
- Reference Tools
- Projects Palette
- Compatibility Report
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Chapter 19 Making the Most of Graphics - Inserting a Graphic
- The Clip Gallery
- AutoShapes and WordArt
- Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
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Chapter 20 Customizing Office - Customizing Your Toolbars
- Redesigning Your Menus
- Reassigning Key Combinations
- AppleScripting Office
- What is AppleScript?
- Installing and Running Office Scripts
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Appendixes -
Appendix Installation and Troubleshooting - Installing Office
- Troubleshooting
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Appendix The Office Help System - Office Help
- Leopard Menu Help
- Web-Based Help
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Appendix Office 2008, Menu by Menu - Application Menu
- Entourage Menus
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Message Menu
- Format Menu
- Tools Menu
- Window Menu
- Help Menu
- Scripts Menu
- Excel Menus
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Insert Menu
- Format Menu
- Tools Menu
- Data Menu
- Chart Menu
- Window Menu
- Help Menu
- PowerPoint Menus
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Insert Menu
- Format Menu
- Tools Menu
- Slide Show Menu
- Window Menu
- Help Menu
- Word Menus
- File Menu
- Edit Menu
- View Menu
- Insert Menu
- Format Menu
- Font Menu
- Tools Menu
- Table Menu
- Window Menu
- Work Menu
- Help Menu
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- Title:
- Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
- By:
- Jim Elferdink
- Publisher:
- O'Reilly Media / Pogue Press
- Formats:
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- Print
- Ebook
- Safari Books Online
- Print:
- March 2008
- Ebook:
- December 2008
- Pages:
- 914
- Print ISBN:
- 978-0-596-51431-0
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- 0-596-51431-X
- Ebook ISBN:
- 978-0-596-15822-4
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- 0-596-15822-X
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Jim Elferdink Jim Elferdink is co-author of "AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual," wrote "iWork '05: The Missing Manual," and owns Macs for the Masses, a Macintosh consulting company. In former lifetimes a commercial photographer, farm owner, carpenter, and cabinetmaker; currently he enjoys gourmet cooking, digital photography, and racing sports cars. College introduced him to the Mac Plus and to comely professor Joy Hardin. He bought one and married the other. They share a home in the redwoods of far Northern California. View Jim Elferdink's full profile page. |
Colophon The author wrote most of this book using Dragon Naturally Speaking voice-dictation software (www.nuance.com) on a Windows laptop, then rushed theMicrosoft Word files over the network to a trusty old Power Mac G4 (hot-roddedwith twin pipes and a Columbia butt). The author captured the book's illustra-tions using Ambrosia Software's Snapz ProX (www.ambrosiasw.com) and AdobePhotoshop CS 3 (www.adobe.com) to touch them up. Sumita Mukherji and Loranah Dimant provided quality control for Office 2008for Macintosh: The Missing Manual. Ron Strauss wrote the index.The cover of this book is based on a series design originally created by DavidFreedman and modifed by Mike Kohnke, Karen Montgomery, and Fitch(www.fitch.com). Back cover design, dog illustration, and color selection by Fitch.David Futato designed the interior layout, based on a series design by Phil Simp-son. This book was converted by Keith Fahlgren to FrameMaker 5.5.6. The textfont is Adobe Minion; the heading font is Adobe Formata Condensed; and thecode font is LucasFont's The Sans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appearin the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macro-media FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. |
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