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Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies.
Title:
Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies.
Author:
Bajaj, Geetesh.
ISBN:
9780470554029
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (843 pages)
Series:
For Dummies
Contents:
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac All-In-One for Dummies -- About the Authors -- Dedication -- Authors' Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- About This Book -- How to Use This Book -- How This Book Is Organized -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Icons Used in This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Contents at a Glance -- Book I: Introducing Office 2008 -- Chapter 1: Oscillating in the Office 2008 World -- Getting Familiar with Office 2008 -- What's New Office-Wide for 2008? -- Comparing Office 2008 for Mac with Office for Windows -- Chapter 2: Project Gallery - The Natural Starting Point -- Launching Project Gallery -- Opening Blank Documents from Project Gallery -- Exploring More Project Gallery Categories -- Finding the Fab Four (Wizards, That Is) -- Viewing What's in the Galleries -- Finding Your Things in Project Gallery -- Prospecting the Project Center Tab -- Customizing Project Gallery -- Chapter 3: Menus and Toolbars -- Cruising Elements Gallery -- Summoning Pop-Up Menus -- Traversing the Menus and Toolbars -- Customizing Entourage and Project Center Toolbars -- Chapter 4: Busting Out Your Toolbox -- Taking a Look Inside the Toolbox -- No Objections to the Object Palette -- Scrapbook: The Clipboard Evolves -- Getting Serious with Reference Tools -- Making Compatibility Checking a Snap -- Peeking at Your Projects in the Project Palette -- Chapter 5: Graphing, Drawing, and Making Art -- Getting the Nitty-Gritty on Graphs and Charts -- Making an Organization Chart with SmartArt Graphics -- Creating Your Own Shapes -- Making an Impression with WordArt -- Working in Layers -- Chapter 6: Common Tools That Make Your Life Easier -- Proofing Your Spelling and Grammar -- Understanding Themes and Templates -- Saving Everything as a Template -- Sharing Files in Other Formats -- Getting Mathematical with Equation Editor -- Programming and Automation Options.

Chapter 7: Getting Help! -- Helping You with New Help -- Utilizing Newsgroups and Community Resources -- Checking for Updates -- Getting Help from Office Web Sites -- Making the Most of MVP Sites -- Join the Club! -- Getting Help for Legal and Medical Professionals -- Book II: Word 2008 -- Contents at a Glance -- Chapter 1: Getting to Know Word's Interface -- Opening Blank Word Documents -- Looking at Word's Views -- Making the Most of Toolbars -- Making Word Behave the Way You Want It To -- Chapter 2: An Open and Shut Case -- Opening the World in Word -- Saving Word Documents -- Chapter 3: Working with Text, Words, and Paragraphs -- Triumphing Over Text -- Formatting an Entire Document -- Writing with Style -- Using Organizer -- AutoFormat as You Type -- Automatically Numbering Lines -- Chapter 4: Reviewing and Proofing with Word -- Keeping Track of Changes -- Casting a Spell Check -- Chapter 5: Making Great Tables and Charts -- Deciding Which Table Tools to Use -- Inserting Quick Tables in a Flash -- Creating Your Own Tables -- Formatting Tables -- Working with Tables -- Working with Charts -- Chapter 6: Saving Time in Word -- Automating with AutoText -- Making Magic with Mail Merge -- Automating Long Document Chores -- Formatting the Background -- Inserting a Citation -- Chapter 7: Advanced Word Stuff -- Wrapping Text around Objects -- Flowing Text from One Text Box into Another -- Publishing Newspapers, Newsletters, and Periodicals -- Having a Field Day -- Creating an Electronic Form -- Working Word with the Web -- Managing Multiple Open Documents -- Embedding All Kinds of Things -- Chapter 8: Printing for Posterity -- Sizing Up Things with Page Setup -- Previewing Your Document -- Printing like a Pro! -- Book III: Excel 2008 -- Contents at a Glance -- Chapter 1: Working Every Day in Excel -- Introducing Ledger Sheets.

Working with Other File Formats -- Saving Your Workbook -- Viewing Workbooks -- Using the Formatting Palette -- Working with Sheet Types -- Chapter 2: Operating Inside the Workbook -- Interacting with Excel -- Dragging a Series of Text, Numbers, or Dates -- Entering in General Format -- Making Cell Formulas -- Knowing When to Be Absolute, Relatively Speaking -- Chapter 3: Formatting and Collaborating in Excel -- Preparing to Format -- Formatting Cells -- Coloring and Shading -- Working with Dates and Times -- Formatting Based on Conditions -- Sharing Workbooks -- Chapter 4: Controlling Excel -- Copying and Pasting -- Moving and Copying Entire Sheets -- Creating Camera Magic -- Nesting and Nest Building -- Correcting Errors -- Chapter 5: Heavenly Charting -- Making a Chart -- Choosing the Chart's Location -- Applying Error Bars -- Making a Gantt Chart -- Making a Histogram -- Chapter 6: Becoming Versatile with Excel -- Helping You Remember -- Preparing Your Forms -- Making Your Own Form Templates -- Using Your Form Templates -- Getting the Web into Excel -- Getting Excel onto the Web -- Chapter 7: Being Intelligent with Data -- Simplifying Database Jargon -- Listing the List Rules -- Making a List the Fast Way -- Working with Data by Using List Manager -- Taking the PivotTable Course -- Using Excel with Relational Databases -- Chapter 8: Printing from Excel -- Using the Page Setup Dialog -- Working with Headers and Footers -- Making a Watermark -- Adjusting Print Quality -- Setting the Paper Size -- Book IV: PowerPoint 2008 -- Contents at a Glance -- Chapter 1: Revealing PowerPoint -- Getting Up and Running -- Facing Your Audience -- Building and Editing in Normal View -- Organizing Slides in Slide Sorter View -- Chapter 2: Open Sesame and Shut Sesame -- Opening Special File Formats -- Saving in Special Formats.

Chapter 3: Working with the Whole Show -- Creating a Presentation -- Choosing a View -- Starting from Scratch -- Adding a New Slide -- Formatting the Background -- Formatting Bullets and Numbers -- Applying a New Theme -- Creating Smaller Versions with Custom Shows -- Chapter 4: Mastering the Masters -- Putting a Master Slide in Charge -- Formatting Slide Layouts -- Adding Another Set of Masters -- Adding More Slide Layouts -- Taking Note of Notes Masters -- Handling Handout Masters -- Chapter 5: Proofing the Presentation -- Banishing Spelling Mistakes -- Collaborating with Comments -- Remembering to Remember -- Chapter 6: Adding Text, Pictures, Tables, and Charts -- Getting the Right Text Format -- Importing a Batch of Pictures -- Charting the (New) Way -- Tipping the Tables -- Chapter 7: Applying Animation -- Classifying Custom Animations -- Animating Text -- Animating a Chart -- Chapter 8: Presenting Sounds and Movies -- Speaking to Your Audience -- Adding Music and Sounds -- Filling the Transition Gap -- Adding Narration and Video to a Slide -- Using Custom Animation to Control Movies and Audio -- Dealing with Audio and Video Odds and Ends -- Chapter 9: Printing and Sharing Presentations -- Printing Your Presentations -- Exploring Sharing Options -- Presenting Live -- Book V: Entourage 2008 -- Contents at a Glance -- Chapter 1: Introducing Entourage: Seven Applications in One -- Introducing Entourage -- Connecting to the Internet with Entourage's Mail -- Keeping Yourself Organized -- Automating Entourage -- Taking Care of the Entourage Database -- Chapter 2: Welcome to the Setup Assistant -- Setting Up with the Setup Assistant -- Digging Deeper into Account Settings -- Touring the Entourage Preferences -- Chapter 3: Mastering Mail -- Picking a Preview Pane View -- Reading Mail -- Creating a Message -- Exploring the Entourage Menu Options.

Tooling Down the Toolbar Highway -- Picking Apart the Panes -- Understanding Digital Certificates -- Chapter 4: Your Mail Rules and Newsgroups -- Sandbagging the Flood of Junk Mail -- Building Mailing List Rules -- Ruling the Roost -- Keeping on Schedule -- Connecting to World Communities by Using Newsgroups -- Chapter 5: Personalizing Your PIM -- Perusing the Address Book Interface -- Meeting Yourself -- Adding Friends and Associates -- Managing Your Contacts -- Addressing Mail and Invitations -- Using LDAP Directory Services -- Chapter 6: Crafting Your Calendar -- Taking a Look at the Interface -- Going on Holiday -- Adding Calendar Events -- Enhancing an Event -- Receiving Invitations -- Receiving Acceptances and Rejections -- Changing Your Mind -- Finding and Searching -- Using Special Exchange Features -- Importing an Outlook PST File -- Printing Your Calendar -- Chapter 7: Keeping Track of Your Day -- Bringing Up Reminders -- Making Notes for Future Reference -- Remembering to Do Things -- Making Your Day with My Day -- Book VI: Entourage's Project Center -- Contents at a Glance -- Chapter 1: Creating New Projects -- Deciding When to Use Project Center -- Determining the Scope -- Starting a New Project -- Chapter 2: Overviewing and Sharing Projects -- Lurking in the Projects List -- Touching the Tabs -- Surveying the Overview -- Sharing a Project -- Taking a Shortcut -- Chapter 3: Keeping on Schedule -- Keeping Track of Events and Tasks -- Exploring the Lower Toolbar -- Creating a Gantt Chart -- Chapter 4: Managing More Project Details -- Viewing Project Mail -- Watching your Project's Files -- Speeding Up Things -- Finding Files in Project Gallery -- Associating with Project Contacts -- Storing and Using Clippings -- Using Notes in Project Center -- Working with the Project Palette -- Index.
Abstract:
The perfect companion for taking the Microsoft Office suite to the Mac! So you finally got a Mac, but you're not looking forward to figuring out how Office works in a different environment? No worries! All you need is Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies to learn the fundamentals of Office 2008. With six books in one, it shows you how to use every Office 2008 for Mac application, so you can start getting things done right away. Written by Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies provides a user-friendly guide on how to master all the programs: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Entourage. This book explores ways to: Use the new galleries to find features, formats, wizards, templates, and recently used files Create your own templates on Excel and open Web pages in HTML format Take advantage of PowerPoint by adding animation to your slides, inserting music from your iTunes library, and fine-tuning the timing Organize your schedule on My Day, handle contacts and e-mail, and manage a database-all through Entourage Manage projects of all sizes on the Project Center Use all the applications together, and to their full potential With this all-in-one reference, you'll become an expert on sharing files with Windows users, integrating Office 2008 with iLife and other Mac applications, and working with Office and Web 2.0, as well as other common business tasks. This book makes it that easy!.
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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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