Hey, you know your way around Mac OS X—so now dig into Microsoft® Office v. X and really put your Mac to work! Covering Microsoft Word, Entourage™, Excel, and PowerPoint®, this supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and handy workarounds in concise, fast-answer format. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover the best and fastest ways to perform everyday tasks and challenge yourself to new levels of Office mastery!

• Build on what you already know about Office and quickly dive into what’s new
• Use Word to produce professional documents and Web pages—and add impact with sound, images, and movies
• Put your e-mail to work, share your calendar over the Web, and use scripts to extend Entourage even further
• Create 3-D charts, hyperlink data, and apply simple to sophisticated number-crunching techniques in Excel
• Deliver compelling PowerPoint presentations and movies in person or over the Web
• Share information seamlessly among Office v. X applications and with colleagues
• Write your own macros and scripts with Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) and AppleScript

Tom Negrino is a book author and Contributing Editor to Macworld magazine. He has written three other books on Microsoft Office. He also co-authored the best-selling "JavaScript Visual Quickstart Guide, 4th Edition," as well as several other books on Quicken and Internet topics. Tom began his writing career in 1985 with MacGuide magazine, joining the Macworld ranks in 1987. He is a frequent speaker at Macworld Expo and other industry conferences, and is a member of the Web Standards Project’s Steering Committee. He now lives with his wife and son in Northern California’s wine country.

Kirk McElhearn is a freelance technical writer, journalist and translator. He has written user manuals for many popular Macintosh programs, as well as technical documentation for Windows and Linux programs. As a journalist, he has written articles for a variety of publications, including the premier Macintosh e-zine TidBITS. And as a translator, he works for some of the world's leading computer and telecommunications companies. A native New Yorker, he has lived in France for almost two decades, and currently lives in Guillestre, a village in the French Alps.

Kate Binder is a desktop publishing expert whose books include The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mac OS X, Easy Adobe Photoshop 6, and Teach Yourself QuarkXPress 4 in 14 Days. When she's not writing or editing books, she provides print and electronic production services to magazine, newspaper, Web, and book publishers. Her favorite Mac is her PowerBook 2400c, but she lives and dies by her very shiny G4 Power Mac. Kate lives and works in Nashua, New Hampshire, with her husband and partner, Don Fluckinger, and five retired racing greyhounds.