Power Excel and Word (eBook)

Dan Gookin (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2006 | 1. Auflage
342 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-11381-3 (ISBN)

Infos

"Best-selling author Gookin...keeps readers laughing while he takesthem from being a ho-hum user to an advanced Office maven."--Charles Carr, ComputorEdge Magazine,www.computoredge.comJust about anyone can slap together a Word document or fill anExcel grid with numbers, but power users understand how to tap intothe full functionality of these applications. Best-selling authorDan Gookin skips what you already know and takes you directly tothe best and most useful parts of Word and Excel--the commands,shortcuts, and combinations of functions that will give yourcreations that extra-added wow factor.The only book to focus exclusively on these two criticalapplications, Power Excel and Word teaches you how to harness theirpower and avoid their pitfalls in one compact volume. By followingstep-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 Excelworksheet* Embellish your documents and reports* Generate sophisticated charts and graphs by importing Web-basedcontent* 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a list in Excel as a mail merge database for Word* And much, much more!Most Office books are boring and quickly go out of date. DanGookin takes a uniquely entertaining approach designed to increaseyour skills, whether you're using Office 2003, Office XP, or Office2000. And many of these tricks are even effective in Office 97!

Autor

Dan Gookin has been writing computer books for nearly 20 years now. His popular, informative, and entertaining tomes have sold millions of copies and have been translated into dozens of languages.

Inhalt

Introduction.Chapter 1: Life beyond the Basic Word.Chapter 2: Alas, There Is No Such Thing as a ?Simple?Document.Chapter 3: Making Your Documents and Reports More Fancy.Chapter 4: Oh the Sacrilege of Drawing in a Word Processor!.Chapter 5: Using Styles and Templates to Save Oodles ofTime.Chapter 6: Writing That Great American Novel or Screenplay.Chapter 7: The Tough Stuff: From Labels to Tables.Chapter 8: Sharing Your Work with Others.Chapter 9: Making Your Own Custom Word.Chapter 10: Why the Hell Would Anyone Other than an AccountantUse Excel?.Chapter 11: It?s Super Dooper Grid Time!.Chapter 12: Some Excellent Formatting Tricks.Chapter 13: Oh No! The Horrible Math Chapter!.Chapter 14: Fun with Charts and Graphs.Chapter 15: Excel Templates, Samples, and Web Mischief.Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Office Programme ► Word
• Schlagworte: Computer-Ratgeber • End-User Computing • Office • Office Productivity-Microsoft (General & Office suite) • Office-Software Microsoft
• ISBN-10: 0-470-11381-2 / 0470113812
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-11381-3 / 9780470113813