Book description
Dress up office documents the Apple way with iWork '09 and this friendly guide
If you're a Mac lover and want to explore life outside of that "other productivity suite," here's your chance to dress up your docs with Apple's iWork '09 and this easy-to-follow guide from Mac technology expert, Jesse Feiler. He draws on 20 years of experience with Apple software to share his secrets of producing fun and creative files using Apple iWork '09.
Explore iWork's word processing software, called Pages, and start cranking out text that not only reads well, it looks great. Add style to your spreadsheets with Numbers. And produce dazzling presentations with Keynote--all of it with iWork's special bells and whistles that will give your everyday documents extra Apple style. Discover how to:
Use this creative office productivity suite for your Mac
Harness the creative possibilities of iWork for home or office
Write text documents that look great, too
Crunch numbers and build spreadsheets that look great with Numbers
Easily build presentations that include multimedia and more
Why work when you can iWork with this great guide-and have some fun, too!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
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I. Introducing iWork '09
- 1. Starting Out with iWork '09
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2. Working Effectively
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2.1. The Menu System
- 2.1.1. The Application menu in Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
- 2.1.2. The File menu
- 2.1.3. The Edit menu
- 2.1.4. The Insert menu
- 2.1.5. The Slide menu (Keynote)
- 2.1.6. The Table menu (Numbers)
- 2.1.7. The Format menu
- 2.1.8. The Arrange menu
- 2.1.9. The View menu
- 2.1.10. The Play menu (Keynote)
- 2.1.11. The Windows menu
- 2.1.12. The Share menu
- 2.2. Shortcuts
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2.3. Standard Elements
- 2.3.1. The iWork window
- 2.3.2. The iWork Toolbar
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2.3.3. Colors window
- 2.3.3.1. Coloring a selected object using the Colors window
- 2.3.3.2. Coloring a nonselected object using the Colors window
- 2.3.3.3. Saving a color in your color palette
- 2.3.3.4. Coloring a selected object using the palette
- 2.3.3.5. Coloring a nonselected object using the palette
- 2.3.3.6. Copying a color from the screen
- 2.3.3.7. Setting opacity
- 2.3.3.8. Advanced color management
- 2.3.4. The Fonts window
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2.1. The Menu System
- 3. Tooling around the Toolbar
- 4. Inspecting the Inspectors
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II. Turning the Page with Pages
- 5. Getting to Know Pages
- 6. Editing Word Processing Documents
- 7. Editing Page Layout Documents
- 8. Using Text Boxes
- 9. Fine-Tuning Your Pages Documents
- 10. Improving Your Documents
- 11. Advanced Word Processing Techniques
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III. Counting on Numbers
- 12. Getting to Know Numbers
- 13. Creating and Editing Numbers Documents
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14. Using Formulas and Functions
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14.1. Starting to Use Formulas
- 14.1.1. Using a formula to summarize data
- 14.1.2. Creating formulas using the SUM function and a range of cells
- 14.1.3. Creating formulas by selecting individual cells
- 14.1.4. Editing formulas
- 14.1.5. Refining cell references
- 14.1.6. Creating a multisheet and multitable summary
- 14.1.7. Using the format bar with formulas
- 14.1.8. Using Formula List
- 14.2. Working with Functions
- 14.3. Using Lookup Functions
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14.1. Starting to Use Formulas
- 15. Working with Charts
- 16. Formatting and Printing Numbers Documents
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IV. Presenting Keynote
- 17. Getting to Know Keynote
- 18. Creating a Keynote Presentation
- 19. Presenting a Keynote Presentation
- 20. Improving Your Keynote Presentation
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V. The Part of Tens
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21. Ten Ways to Share Content
- 21.1. Sharing Content with MobileMe
- 21.2. Sharing Content with People on Your Network
- 21.3. Sharing Content on iWeb
- 21.4. Sharing Content Using Send To
- 21.5. Using Media from iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie
- 21.6. Using PDF Files as Images
- 21.7. Adding Hyperlinks to iWork Documents
- 21.8. Moving Data from Other Applications into iWork
- 22. Ten Ways to Let iWork Do the Work for You
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21. Ten Ways to Share Content
- A. Using iWork.com
- B. Chapter Guide to iWork Techniques
Product information
- Title: iWork® '09 For Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2009
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9780470433720
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