Power Excel and Word.
Title:
Power Excel and Word.
Author:
Gookin, Dan.
ISBN:
9780470113813
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (366 pages)
Contents:
Power Excel and Word -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction -- About This Book -- About You! -- What Now? -- Chapter 1: Life beyond the Basic Word -- Saving and Opening Documents Can Be Torture if You Don't Know a Few Things -- Can I Password-Protect My Document? -- A Gaggle of Nifty Word Formatting and Editing Tricks -- Printing Fun -- Chapter 2: Alas, There Is No Such Thing as a "Simple" Document -- Measuring Your Way around a Document -- Stuff You Can Do Better When You're Writing a Simple Letter -- Various Spacing Tricks for Making Your Document Longer or Shorter -- Chapter 3: Making Your Documents and Reports More Fancy -- How Do You Know a Special Page When You See One? -- The Woes of Numbering Pages -- Chapter 4: Oh the Sacrilege of Drawing in a Word Processor! -- Adding Pizzazz with a Text Box -- Toss In an Image or Two -- Simple Drawing Stuff -- Chapter 5: Using Styles and Templates to Save Oodles of Time -- Why Bother with Styles? -- Some Style Tricks, Tidbits, and Advice -- Holy Templates, WordMan! -- Chapter 6: Writing That Great American Novel or Screenplay -- What the Heck Is Outline Mode? -- Organizing Your Work ( after Outlining) -- How Does Indexing Work? -- Ideas for Various Creative Projects -- Chapter 7: The Tough Stuff: From Labels to Tables -- Getting the Most from Tabs -- Stumbling over Tables -- Lovely Labels -- Dreaming of Fields -- Chapter 8: Sharing Your Work with Others -- Collaboration Tools -- Revealing the Offenses of Others -- Chapter 9: Making Your Own Custom Word -- To Hell with the Interface! -- Belly Up to the Toolbar -- An Introduction to Macros -- Peeling Personal Information from a Document -- Chapter 10: Why the Hell Would Anyone Other than an Accountant Use Excel? -- Some Information for Excel Newbies -- Worksheet Tricks, Stunts, and Tomfoolery.
I Don't Want My Data to Just Sit There! Any Way to Make Cells Do Things to Each Other? -- The Common "I Am Stupid" List of Excel Error Messages -- Plopping an Excel Thing into a Word Thing -- Chapter 11: It's Super Dooper Grid Time! -- Why Bother with the Extra Worksheets? -- Letting Excel Do the Work for You -- Letting Excel Be a Database of Sorts -- PivotTable Is Designed to Make Me Go Insane, Right? -- Chapter 12: Some Excellent Formatting Tricks -- The Narrow and Wide of Things -- Beyond Simple Formatting -- Printing Woes and Worries -- Chapter 13: Oh No! The Horrible Math Chapter! -- Basic, Annoying Math -- The SUM of All Things -- If Math Gives You a Headache, Wait Until You Start Adding and Subtracting Text -- Chapter 14: Fun with Charts and Graphs -- Basic Chart Tricks -- Yes, Indeed, I'm Grossly Unhappy and Must Redo the Chart -- Chapter 15: Excel Templates, Samples, and Web Mischief -- The Document You Use Over and Over: The Template -- Some Simple Sample Documents -- Can I Grab Data from the Web and Use It in a Worksheet? -- Index.
Abstract:
"Best-selling author Gookin...keeps readers laughing while he takes them from being a ho-hum user to an advanced Office maven." -Charles Carr, ComputorEdge Magazine, www.computoredge.com Just about anyone can slap together a Word document or fill an Excel grid with numbers, but power users understand how to tap into the full functionality of these applications. Best-selling author Dan Gookin skips what you already know and takes you directly to the best and most useful parts of Word and Excel--the commands, shortcuts, and combinations of functions that will give your creations that extra-added wow factor. The only book to focus exclusively on these two critical applications, Power Excel and Word teaches you how to harness their power and avoid their pitfalls in one compact volume. By following step-by-step tutorials, you'll discover how to work faster, easier, and smarter. Learn essential techniques you'll use every day, including how to: Precisely format a paragraph in Word Manipulate drawings and pictures in a document Create your own custom tool bars Know when to use a table in Word and when to insert an Excel worksheet Embellish your documents and reports Generate sophisticated charts and graphs by importing Web-based content Use styles and templates to save oodles of time Protect your documents against unwanted changes Employ Excel as a database manager Share your work with others Produce a list in Excel as a mail merge database for Word And much, much more! Most Office books are boring and quickly go out of date. Dan Gookin takes a uniquely entertaining approach designed to increase your skills, whether you're using Office 2003, Office XP, or Office 2000. And many of these tricks are even effective in Office 97!.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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