Chapter . Introduction

Welcome to Microsoft Office 2008 for Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide. In the pages that follow, you’ll find all the information and instructions you need to quickly become productive with Office 2008.

Like other titles in the Visual QuickStart series, this book was written primarily as a reference. Unlike a book on a single program, however, this one covers four major applications. Rather than discuss every command and procedure in excruciating detail (as you’d expect in a one-program book), the focus of this book is on commands and procedures you’re most likely to actually use.

The Office 2008 Editions and This Book

Like previous versions of Office, there are multiple editions of Office 2008. Each of the three editions ...

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