Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Why Did I Buy This Book? -- What's in This Book? -- How Should I Use This Book? -- Now What? -- Chapter 2 Ending Version Confusion and Installation -- Getting It Right -- Office 2008 for Mac -- Office 2008 for Mac Special Media Edition -- Office for Mac Home and Student Edition -- Avoiding the Installation Blues -- The Setup Assistant -- Opening Rescued Items -- Total Satisfaction -- Chapter 3 Learn Once, Use Everywhere -- Mastering Suite-Wide Features -- The Foundations: Universal Binary and Open XML -- The Elements Gallery Is Elementary and Elemental -- Setting Quick Tables -- Charts in Dimensions -- SmartArt Graphics Add Shadow and Texture -- WordArt Sculpts Your Text -- Where Did My Gallery Go? -- Making Your Toolbox a Part of Every Job -- Picking a Document Theme -- Tooling Around with the Object Palette -- Shapes Shading and Gradient Curves -- Making Clip Art Magic -- Playing with Symbols -- Photos -- Secret Toolbox Settings -- Help, I'm Stuck! I Need Un-Sticking! -- Save as .PDF -- Chapter 4 Working It in Word 2008 -- Your World Is Ruled by Word 2008 -- Choosing .DOC or .DOCX as Your Default File Format -- Return of the Object Palette -- Formatting a Shape with AutoShape -- Image Formatting -- Word 2008 Goes Crash-Boom-Bang! -- Symbols Must Maintain Meaning in Editorial Essence and Design -- Quicker Photo Formatting -- Stop and Save Your Day -- A Closer Look at the Elements Bar -- Opening a New Notebook -- The Beauty in Appearance -- Customizing Your Workspace -- Create Entourage Tasks Inside Your Notebook -- Audio Recording -- Quick Searching -- The Publishing Layout Crown Jewel -- Newsletters -- Brochures -- Flyers -- Invitations -- Programs -- Postcards -- Catalogs -- Awards -- Menus -- Posters -- Signs -- CD Labels -- Designing a Sign -- Going Big and Getting Small with the Zoom Loupe.

Shape Shifting -- Drawing the Line -- Automator Workflows -- Creating Citations and Bibliographies -- Scraping Your Scrapbook -- Looking Up Reference Tools -- Are We Compatible? -- Enjoying OpenType Ligature Support -- Merge That Mail! -- Chapter 5 Figuring It with Excel 2008 -- Crunching Numbers with Excel 2008 -- No Macros for You! -- Setting the Default File Format from .XLSX to .XLS -- Picking Apart Ledger Sheets -- Unexpected Quitting in Excel 2008 -- The Gory Details of Crash Number One! -- The Gory Details of Smash Number Two! -- Navigating Your Charts -- Brewing Your Formula Builder -- Start Typing for Formula AutoComplete -- Getting Out of Excel Without Leaving Excel -- Chapter 6 Powering Up PowerPoint 2008 -- Making PowerPoint 2008 Work as You Wish -- Setting the Default File Format from .PPTX to .PPT -- Open a File: SAVE THAT FILE! -- The PowerPoint 2008 Workspace -- Push Me, Pull Me, View Me, Love Me -- The PowerPoint 2008 Elements Gallery -- Trying on Slide Themes -- Dictating Slide Layouts -- Editing Slides -- Inserting and Editing a Photo -- Crop That Photo! -- Dynamic Guides -- Shadowing Janna -- Trying Transitions -- Setting Table Styles -- Skipping Charts and WordArt -- Going into SmartArt Graphics -- Sending to Apple iPhoto and Using Remote Control -- Presenter Tools Make Perfect Practice -- Saving a Custom Layout -- Accessing Automator Workflows -- Chapter 7 Entering Entourage 2008 -- The Big View of Entourage 2008 -- Flags as To Dos -- Calendaring Reminders -- Getting Along with My Day -- Making My Day Work Your Way -- Adding a New Task via My Day -- Strolling Through the My Day Days -- Adding a Mail Account -- Auto-Sensing Your Settings -- Trust Entourage 2008, but Always Verify -- Branding Your Account -- Managing Your Mail -- Flags of Specificity -- Mnemonic Mail Category Colorization -- Dragging the Favorites Bar.

Do You to Do or Do You Task To? -- Cranking Up the Toolbar -- Setting Entourage 2008 Preferences -- To Sync or Not to Sync? -- Sync Conflict Resolution -- Making Your Searches Shine -- Finding Janna -- Saving Janna -- Junking Spam and Finishing Phishing -- Determining Level Protection -- Approving Safe Domains -- Blocking Senders -- Automator Workflows for Entourage 2008 -- Chapter 8 Communicating with Messenger for Mac -- Setting Up Messenger -- Creating Contacts -- Gotcha: Almost! -- Accepting and Declining Invitations -- Live Chat for Chits! -- Starting a Chat -- The Back and Forth of Being -- Personalizing Chat Preferences -- Catching Spalling Errirs -- Creating Custom Emoticons -- Upload Your Image -- Emoticon: Activate! -- Quitting and Saving Messenger for Mac -- Gotcha: Again! -- Chapter 9 The Project Gallery and Refreshing Live Resources -- The Project Gallery -- Viewing New -- Finding Files without Searching -- Checking Settings -- Refreshing Live Resources -- Mactopia -- Art of Office -- Is It Microsoft or Mactopia? -- Boles Books: Raw and Alive -- Appendix A: The Microsoft Mac Chapter -- Asking the Hard Questions -- General Questions -- Word 2008 -- Excel 2008 Qs -- Entourage 2008 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J-K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.