Book description
The perfect companion for taking the Microsoft Office suite to the Mac!
So you finally got a Mac, but you’re not looking forward to figuring out how Office works in a different environment? No worries! All you need is Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies to learn the fundamentals of Office 2008. With six books in one, it shows you how to use every Office 2008 for Mac application, so you can start getting things done right away.
Written by Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Office 2008 For Mac All-in-One For Dummies provides a user-friendly guide on how to master all the programs: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Entourage. This book explores ways to:
Use the new galleries to find features, formats, wizards, templates, and recently used files
Create your own templates on Excel and open Web pages in HTML format
Take advantage of PowerPoint by adding animation to your slides, inserting music from your iTunes library, and fine-tuning the timing
Organize your schedule on My Day, handle contacts and e-mail, and manage a database—all through Entourage
Manage projects of all sizes on the Project Center
Use all the applications together, and to their full potential
With this all-in-one reference, you’ll become an expert on sharing files with Windows users, integrating Office 2008 with iLife and other Mac applications, and working with Office and Web 2.0, as well as other common business tasks. This book makes it that easy!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Authors' Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. Introducing Office 2008
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I.1. Oscillating in the Office 2008 World
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I.1.1. Getting Familiar with Office 2008
- I.1.1.1. Getting started in Project Gallery
- I.1.1.2. Helping Word veterans make the transition
- I.1.1.3. Looking for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
- I.1.1.4. De-mystifying Excel
- I.1.1.5. Slide shows with PowerPoint
- I.1.1.6. Making your day with Entourage
- I.1.1.7. Mingling instantly with Messenger
- I.1.1.8. Lighting the future with Silverlight
- I.1.2. What's New Office-Wide for 2008?
- I.1.3. Comparing Office 2008 for Mac with Office for Windows
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I.1.1. Getting Familiar with Office 2008
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I.2. Project Gallery — The Natural Starting Point
- I.2.1. Launching Project Gallery
- I.2.2. Opening Blank Documents from Project Gallery
- I.2.3. Exploring More Project Gallery Categories
- I.2.4. Finding the Fab Four (Wizards, That Is)
- I.2.5. Viewing What's in the Galleries
- I.2.6. Finding Your Things in Project Gallery
- I.2.7. Prospecting the Project Center Tab
- I.2.8. Customizing Project Gallery
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I.3. Menus and Toolbars
- I.3.1. Cruising Elements Gallery
- I.3.2. Summoning Pop-Up Menus
- I.3.3. Traversing the Menus and Toolbars
- I.3.4. Customizing Entourage and Project Center Toolbars
- I.4. Busting Out Your Toolbox
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I.5. Graphing, Drawing, and Making Art
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I.5.1. Getting the Nitty-Gritty on Graphs and Charts
- I.5.1.1. Graphing an equation with Grapher
- I.5.1.2. Graphing data using Elements Gallery
- I.5.1.3. Formatting charts in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- I.5.1.4. Applying multiple formatting options
- I.5.1.5. Discovering even more chart-formatting options
- I.5.1.6. Graphing the old-fashioned way in Microsoft Graph
- I.5.2. Making an Organization Chart with SmartArt Graphics
- I.5.3. Creating Your Own Shapes
- I.5.4. Making an Impression with WordArt
- I.5.5. Working in Layers
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I.5.1. Getting the Nitty-Gritty on Graphs and Charts
- I.6. Common Tools That Make Your Life Easier
- I.7. Getting Help!
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I.1. Oscillating in the Office 2008 World
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II. Word 2008
- II.1. Getting to Know Word's Interface
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II.2. An Open and Shut Case
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II.2.1. Opening the World in Word
- II.2.1.1. Trying out templates
- II.2.1.2. Being normal with Normal.dotx
- II.2.1.3. Becoming a whiz with wizards
- II.2.1.4. Opening Web pages
- II.2.1.5. Saving a document as a Web page
- II.2.1.6. Extracting text from any file
- II.2.1.7. Finding files in Finder
- II.2.1.8. Comparing two Word documents
- II.2.1.9. Recovering AutoRecover files
- II.2.2. Saving Word Documents
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II.2.1. Opening the World in Word
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II.3. Working with Text, Words, and Paragraphs
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II.3.1. Triumphing Over Text
- II.3.1.1. Formatting deftly with the Formatting Palette
- II.3.1.2. Dropping a cap
- II.3.1.3. Spacing sweetly
- II.3.1.4. Making friends with subscript and superscript
- II.3.1.5. Using special characters for special occasions
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II.3.1.6. Shooting bullets and numbing numbers
- II.3.1.6.1. Creating a list with the Formatting Palette
- II.3.1.6.2. Starting a numbered list automatically
- II.3.1.6.3. Telling Word to stop adding bullets or numbers
- II.3.1.6.4. Starting over in the middle of a list
- II.3.1.6.5. Making special bullets and numbers
- II.3.1.6.6. Loving legal beagles and authors of long documents
- II.3.1.7. Painless paragraph formatting
- II.3.1.8. Tinkering with tabs
- II.3.2. Formatting an Entire Document
- II.3.3. Writing with Style
- II.3.4. Using Organizer
- II.3.5. AutoFormat as You Type
- II.3.6. Automatically Numbering Lines
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II.3.1. Triumphing Over Text
- II.4. Reviewing and Proofing with Word
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II.5. Making Great Tables and Charts
- II.5.1. Deciding Which Table Tools to Use
- II.5.2. Inserting Quick Tables in a Flash
- II.5.3. Creating Your Own Tables
- II.5.4. Formatting Tables
- II.5.5. Working with Tables
- II.5.6. Working with Charts
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II.6. Saving Time in Word
- II.6.1. Automating with AutoText
- II.6.2. Making Magic with Mail Merge
- II.6.3. Automating Long Document Chores
- II.6.4. Formatting the Background
- II.6.5. Inserting a Citation
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II.7. Advanced Word Stuff
- II.7.1. Wrapping Text around Objects
- II.7.2. Flowing Text from One Text Box into Another
- II.7.3. Publishing Newspapers, Newsletters, and Periodicals
- II.7.4. Having a Field Day
- II.7.5. Creating an Electronic Form
- II.7.6. Working Word with the Web
- II.7.7. Managing Multiple Open Documents
- II.7.8. Embedding All Kinds of Things
- II.8. Printing for Posterity
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III. Excel 2008
- III.1. Working Every Day in Excel
- III.2. Operating Inside the Workbook
- III.3. Formatting and Collaborating in Excel
- III.4. Controlling Excel
- III.5. Heavenly Charting
- III.6. Becoming Versatile with Excel
- III.7. Being Intelligent with Data
- III.8. Printing from Excel
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IV. PowerPoint 2008
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IV.1. Revealing PowerPoint
- IV.1.1. Getting Up and Running
- IV.1.2. Facing Your Audience
- IV.1.3. Building and Editing in Normal View
- IV.1.4. Organizing Slides in Slide Sorter View
- IV.2. Open Sesame and Shut Sesame
- IV.3. Working with the Whole Show
- IV.4. Mastering the Masters
- IV.5. Proofing the Presentation
- IV.6. Adding Text, Pictures, Tables, and Charts
- IV.7. Applying Animation
- IV.8. Presenting Sounds and Movies
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IV.9. Printing and Sharing Presentations
- IV.9.1. Printing Your Presentations
- IV.9.2. Exploring Sharing Options
- IV.9.3. Presenting Live
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IV.1. Revealing PowerPoint
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V. Entourage 2008
- V.1. Introducing Entourage: Seven Applications in One
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V.2. Welcome to the Setup Assistant
- V.2.1. Setting Up with the Setup Assistant
- V.2.2. Digging Deeper into Account Settings
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V.2.3. Touring the Entourage Preferences
- V.2.3.1. Going with general admission
- V.2.3.2. Customizing the Address Book
- V.2.3.3. Changing the To Do List
- V.2.3.4. Clarifying the Calendar preferences
- V.2.3.5. Fiddling with your fonts
- V.2.3.6. Controlling the spell checker
- V.2.3.7. Turning off that little mail notification
- V.2.3.8. Staying slightly more secure
- V.2.3.9. Syncing the services
- V.2.3.10. Enjoying the Spotlight
- V.2.3.11. Feeding MacBU
- V.2.3.12. Nothing to read
- V.2.3.13. Gaining your composure
- V.2.3.14. Replying and forwarding fun
- V.2.3.15. Viewing the colors
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V.3. Mastering Mail
- V.3.1. Picking a Preview Pane View
- V.3.2. Reading Mail
- V.3.3. Creating a Message
- V.3.4. Exploring the Entourage Menu Options
- V.3.5. Tooling Down the Toolbar Highway
- V.3.6. Picking Apart the Panes
- V.3.7. Understanding Digital Certificates
- V.4. Your Mail Rules and Newsgroups
- V.5. Personalizing Your PIM
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V.6. Crafting Your Calendar
- V.6.1. Taking a Look at the Interface
- V.6.2. Going on Holiday
- V.6.3. Adding Calendar Events
- V.6.4. Enhancing an Event
- V.6.5. Receiving Invitations
- V.6.6. Receiving Acceptances and Rejections
- V.6.7. Changing Your Mind
- V.6.8. Finding and Searching
- V.6.9. Using Special Exchange Features
- V.6.10. Importing an Outlook PST File
- V.6.11. Printing Your Calendar
- V.7. Keeping Track of Your Day
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VI. Entourage's Project Center
- VI.1. Creating New Projects
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VI.2. Overviewing and Sharing Projects
- VI.2.1. Lurking in the Projects List
- VI.2.2. Touching the Tabs
- VI.2.3. Surveying the Overview
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VI.2.4. Sharing a Project
- VI.2.4.1. Step 1 — Start the Assistant
- VI.2.4.2. Step 2 — Select which project to share
- VI.2.4.3. Step 3 — Choose the file location for the shared folder
- VI.2.4.4. Step 4 — Share existing items
- VI.2.4.5. Step 5 — Decide how to manage new items
- VI.2.4.6. Step 6 — Close the Project Sharing Assistant
- VI.2.4.7. Changing Project settings
- VI.2.5. Taking a Shortcut
- VI.3. Keeping on Schedule
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VI.4. Managing More Project Details
- VI.4.1. Viewing Project Mail
- VI.4.2. Watching your Project's Files
- VI.4.3. Speeding Up Things
- VI.4.4. Finding Files in Project Gallery
- VI.4.5. Associating with Project Contacts
- VI.4.6. Storing and Using Clippings
- VI.4.7. Using Notes in Project Center
- VI.4.8. Working with the Project Palette
- 44. The Next Office Version
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45. Finding What's New in Service Pack 2
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BC.2.1. Sharing with Document Connection
- BC.2.1.1. Setting things up
- BC.2.1.2. Launching Document Connection
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BC.2.1.3. Working with files
- BC.2.1.3.1. Adding Workspaces (Folders)
- BC.2.1.3.2. Adding files
- BC.2.1.3.3. Renaming a workspace
- BC.2.1.3.4. Sharing workspaces
- BC.2.1.3.5. Viewing files
- BC.2.1.3.6. Editing
- BC.2.1.3.7. Reading
- BC.2.1.3.8. Uploading
- BC.2.1.3.9. Checking out
- BC.2.1.3.10. Checking in
- BC.2.1.3.11. Drafts
- BC.2.1.3.12. Adding favorite files
- BC.2.1.3.13. Discarding
- BC.2.1.3.14. Deleting files
- BC.2.1.3.15. Empty cache
- BC.2.2. Motion Path Animations in PowerPoint
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BC.2.1. Sharing with Document Connection
Product information
- Title: Office 2008 for Mac All-in-One For Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2009
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9780470460412
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