Microsoft Office Xp Complete

Master the basics of Microsoft Office quickly and easily with this Visual QuickStart Guide. Previous editions of this book have sold over 50,000 copies worldwide Organized and presented specifically for busy professionals who need to get right to work A reasonably priced, easy-to-reference guide to the essentials of Microsoft Office The standard suite of business applications, now up20010803d for the new Windows XP platform, Microsoft Office XP for Windows is a full-featured word-processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and information management package. Office XP for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide guides users right to the most frequently-used tasks in Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook, using clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrated with hundreds of helpful screen shots. For users who don't have the time or resources to wade through long passages of text and just want a quick reference to the essentials of each Office application, this is the ideal guide. Steve Sagman has written or co-written over 17 books on computing, including Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. His books have sold well over a million copies, and have been translated into 12 languages. He has written for PC Computing, Computer Shopper, PC Week, PC World, and PC Magazine.

Experience learning made easy--and quickly teach yourself how to use the complete suite of Microsoft Office XP applications. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction--building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! WORD: Create and publish great-looking documents quickly and easily EXCEL: Develop easy-to-use spreadsheets and perform calculations ACCESS: Build your own databases for better decision making POWERPOINT: Produce and deliver compelling presentations FRONTPAGE: Get yourself--or your company--on the Web fast by constructing your own site PUBLISHER: Create professional-quality marketing materials--without being a designer OUTLOOK: Manage your e-mail communications and calendar

Microsoft Office XP Complete is a one-of-a-kind book--valuable both for its broad content and its low price. The book will teach you everything you need to know about the latest upgrade to the world's best-selling office suite. With Microsoft Office XP Complete you'll quickly take advantage of all that Office XP has to offer. Create Word documents, crunch numbers in Excel, use Outlook to keep up with your contacts, make effective PowerPoint presentations, and get acquainted with Access databases. Learn how to use Office XP's Web publishing tools and take advantage of new features like handwriting and speech recognition. Go beyond Office XP with an extensive reference to Windows XP and a guide to troubleshooting your PC. Microsoft Office XP Complete introduces you to the work of some of Sybex's finest authors, so you'll know where to go to learn even more about this popular suite of programs. Creating Documents with Word 2002 * Formatting Documents * Using Templates and Styles * Designing Longer Documents * Making the Most of Graphics Working with Numbers in Excel 2002 * Basic Workbook Skills * Calculating with Functions * Working with Text and Dates * Creating Charts Communicating with Outlook 2002 * Sending and Receiving E-mail * Managing Contacts * Managing Tasks Presenting Information with PowerPoint 2002 * Creating a Presentation * Creating a Slide Show Creating Databases with Access 2002 * Understanding Databases * Creating a Database Web Publishing with Office XP * Creating Web Pages with Word and Excel * Creating a Website with FrontPage 2002 * Adding Images to Your Web Pages * Introducing XHTML Handy Reference Guides * Windows XP Command and Feature Reference * Installing Office XP * Speech and Handwriting Recognition * Troubleshooting PCs and Printers

With over three million users, Microsoft Office is by far the most popular suite product available. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Office gives true beginning computer users all the basic information they need, in addition to taking them into more intermediate-level uses. The book's friendly format and lighthearted style take the fear out of learning Microsoft Office.

Exploit powerfully enhanced programmability in Office XP with authoritative information -- straight from the Microsoft Office development team. This hardcore programming reference comes packed with practical, roll-up-your-sleeves resources to help you maximize your productivity with development tools for Microsoft Office, including the Microsoft Visual Basic "RM" 6.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ "RM" development systems. This guide includes coverage of Workflow Solutions for Microsoft SQL Server "TM" and Microsoft Exchange, offering both design and coding examples, plus API-level coding examples. It also covers enhanced support in Microsoft Office XP for Web-enabled information sharing and XML. Use this incisive coverage to build on what you know and to accomplish everything from automating individual tasks to creating complex vertical-market applications. Each chapter presents dozens of code examples that illustrate the discussion. And the companion CD-ROM contains hundreds of procedures you can use right now -- helping you to focus your creativity on designing solutions, rather than on building rudimentary code. It's everything you need to create better business solutions, faster!

"How to Use Microsoft Office XP" is written by an expert in the field who is familiar with how and what actual users need to know about Office. This book details the best tools, shortcuts and ways to accomplish the most common tasks in Office, and avoids the little-used features. The reader may work through the entire book, or dip into specific lessons or tasks that solve an immediate question or problem.

With clear, step-by-step directions and practice files, Microsoft Office XP Step by Step offers complete coverage of this best selling productivity suite. The easy to follow lessons enable students to quickly and efficiently learn how to use each of the major Office XP applications. A CD included in the book contains practice files tightly integrated with the book's lessons, plus movie-style demonstrations of key procedures