Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac® Bible

Chapter 3. Office 2008 Program Basics

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Starting and exiting Office programs

• Moving, resizing, and hiding windows

• Opening Office files

• Viewing multiple program windows and files

• Using basic program window features

After you install Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac and start poking around in all the programs, you'll probably notice something right away. As a suite of integrated programs, the Office 2008 for Mac applications share a similar appearance and many of the same basic features and commands. The title bar, menu bar, and Standard toolbar look very similar from one program to the next, the scroll bars always appear in relatively the same place, and the menu bars display some of the same commands in the exact same way. The beauty of such integration and similarity is that when you learn to use a basic feature or command in one program, the same steps apply for using the feature in the next program. The same is almost true when learning completely new program-specific features—they, too, all seem to work in a similar fashion. All of this integration and similarity make learning to navigate and use the programs much easier and faster.

This chapter is for users who are new to the Microsoft Office suite and need to know how to do very basic tasks. This chapter covers how to start and exit the programs, work with program windows, open files, and use multiple windows. Basic tasks also include how to use menus, toolbars, and scrollbars. If you're a seasoned veteran of the Office ...