Microsoft® Office 2008 for Mac® Bible

Chapter 33. Coordinating Projects

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Starting files with the Project Gallery

• Opening recent files with the gallery

• Accessing ongoing projects from the Project Center

• Setting gallery preferences

• Using the Office Scrapbook tool

The very nature of a suite of programs like Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac is that they're designed to work together. Although each program has a unique purpose, you can use them together for even greater productivity. This concept really comes into play when you're working on projects. For example, maybe you've been asked to craft a detailed business proposal. The project may require documents from Word, spreadsheets from Excel, lots of communication through Entourage e-mails, and a slide show presentation in PowerPoint. As you work on the project each day, you need to create all these different kinds of files. That's where the Project Gallery can help. It's a jumping-off point for any kind of Office document you want to create.

With some projects, you end up accumulating lots of different notes and pieces of information before assembling a final product. You can use the Office Scrapbook feature to collect and store all the various pieces of information you want to use later to create a larger project.

In this chapter, you learn how to use both the Projects Gallery and the Scrapbook tool to help you coordinate projects big and small.

Using the Projects Gallery

The Project Gallery acts like a lobby into the world of Office files. All you have to do is enter ...