The Upgrader’s Guide to Microsoft Office System 2003

The Upgrader’s Guide to Microsoft Office System 2003

by Mike Gunderloy, Susan Sales Harkins
Released August 2004
Publisher(s): Que
ISBN: 9780768683790

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Book description

Microsoft Office 2003 is the sixth version of Microsoft's best-selling Office suite. As such, most of the audience is comprised of people who have used previous versions of Office and are quite familiar with most of the features. Upgraders do not need a 800-page book that covers every aspect of every Office application. They need a book that's focused only on what's new, so that they can move forward with a minimum of fuss. That's what this book is all about.

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
    1. Dedication
  2. About the Authors
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. We Want to Hear from You!
  5. Introduction
    1. Who This Book Is for
    2. What’s in This Book
    3. Special Features
    4. Contacting the Authors
  6. 1. What’s New in Office 2003
    1. The Office System
    2. Collaboration
    3. XML
      1. XML Support in Word, Excel, and Access
      2. InfoPath
    4. Rights Management
    5. Servers, Services, and Solutions
  7. 2. Shared Office Features
    1. Touring the New Look and Feel of Office
      1. Icons, Menus, and Toolbars
      2. Customizing the User Interface
    2. Tapping into Task Panes
    3. Using the New Office Help System
      1. The Help Menu
      2. The Help Task Pane
    4. Working with the Research Task Pane
    5. Understanding Document and Meeting Workspaces
      1. Using Document Workspaces
      2. Using Meeting Workspaces
  8. 3. What’s New in Outlook 2003
    1. New Look and Feel
      1. The New Menus
      2. Three Panes—Lots of Options!
      3. Quick Access to Favorite Folders
    2. Using Outlook As a Personal Information Manager
      1. Quick Flags for Recognition
      2. Search Folders Create Unique Views
      3. Intelligent Grouping
      4. Picturing Your Contacts
    3. Email Management Features
      1. Improved AutoComplete
      2. Intuitive Arrangements
      3. Dynamic Distribution Lists
      4. Filtering Junk Email
      5. Multiple Signatures
      6. Attachment Freedom—Sort of...
      7. Rules Rule!
    4. Productivity Enhancements
      1. More Storage Room
    5. Exchange Server 2003 and SharePoint Integration
      1. Working Offline Using Cached Exchange Mode
      2. Let Me Check Your Calendar
      3. Corporate-Level Filtering
      4. Managing SharePoint Alerts
      5. Planning Meetings
    6. Business Contact Manager
    7. For the Developer
  9. 4. What’s New in Word 2003
    1. User Interface Changes
      1. Menu Changes
      2. The New Task Panes
      3. Reading Layout
      4. Compare Side by Side
    2. Using Word As an XML Editor
      1. Editing an XML Document
        1. Loading an XML Document
        2. Setting XML Options
        3. Editing the XML Document
      2. XML Schema Support
      3. Using XSL Transformations
      4. Understanding WordProcessingML
    3. Other New Features
  10. 5. What’s New in Excel 2003
    1. Changes to the User Interface
      1. The New Menus
      2. New Look and Feel
      3. The New Workbook Task Pane
      4. Side-by-Side Workbooks
    2. Extensible Markup Language Support
      1. What’s XML?
      2. Opening an XML File
      3. Importing XML into an Excel List
      4. Adding an XML Map to a Workbook
      5. About Repeating XML Elements
      6. More About the XML Source Task Pane
      7. About SpreadsheetML
    3. Productivity
      1. Document Recovery
      2. Excel Lists
      3. Creating an Excel List
      4. Working with Excel Lists
    4. Collaboration Improvements
      1. List Integration with SharePoint
  11. 6. What’s New in PowerPoint 2003
    1. Changes to the User Interface
      1. The New Menus
      2. New Look and Feel
        1. The Getting Started Task Pane
    2. Productivity Enhancements
      1. Downloading New Templates
      2. Using Ink to Mark a Presentation
      3. Smart Tags
    3. Packaging a Presentation and PowerPoint Viewer
      1. Packaging a Presentation
        1. Packaging a Presentation to CD-ROM
        2. Packaging Multiple Presentations to the Same Location
      2. Using the PowerPoint Viewer
    4. Multimedia Support
      1. Supported Media Formats
      2. New Online Broadcasting Options
        1. Full-Screen Playback
  12. 7. What’s New in Access 2003
    1. Changes to the User Interface
      1. The New Menus
      2. The New Task Panes
    2. Productivity
      1. Viewing Object Dependencies
      2. Smart Tags
        1. The Error Checking Smart Tag
        2. The Property Update Options Smart Tag
      3. Automatic Backup
      4. Local Linked Tables
      5. Sorting Control Lists
      6. New Service Options
    3. Enhanced XML Support
      1. Exporting and Importing Relationships
      2. Applying Transforms
    4. Changes to Security
    5. SharePoint Integration
      1. Exporting a Table or Query to a SharePoint List
      2. Importing SharePoint Data into Access
  13. 8. What’s New in FrontPage 2003
    1. Changes to the User Interface
      1. The New Menus
      2. The New Task Panes
      3. Two New Views
        1. Split View
        2. Remote Web Site View
      4. Two New Toolbars
    2. Introducing Scripting Behaviors
    3. Better Design and Graphic Tools
      1. Layout Tables and Cells
      2. Interactive Buttons
      3. Dynamic Web Templates
      4. Browser and Resolution Reconciliation
      5. Accessibility Checking
      6. Other Layout Tools
    4. Working with Code
      1. Quick Tag Selector and Editor
      2. Optimizing HTML
      3. Other New Coding Perks
    5. SharePoint Services Integration
      1. Data Source View and Web Parts
        1. Displaying XML
      2. Web Package Templates
  14. 9. What’s New in Publisher 2003
    1. Changes to the User Interface
      1. The New Menus
      2. The New Task Panes
    2. New Publication Types
      1. New Design Sets
    3. Layout and Graphics Improvements
      1. The Graphics Manager
      2. The Design Checker
      3. The New Apply Master Page Task Pane
      4. More Layout Guides
      5. A Few More
    4. The New Catalog Merge Feature
    5. New Web Wizards and Tools
      1. The Easy Web Site Builder
      2. New Web Site Page Types
      3. For Good Measure
    6. Improved Productivity
      1. Page Sorter
      2. Improved Find and Replace
      3. Enhanced Zooming
    7. More Powerful Commercial Printing Features
      1. New CMYK Support
      2. Improved Print Separations
  15. 10. Introducing Microsoft OneNote 2003
    1. Getting to Know OneNote
      1. What Is OneNote?
      2. Why OneNote?
    2. Taking a Quick Tour of OneNote
      1. Getting Oriented
        1. Toolbars
        2. Sections, Folders, Pages, and Tabs
        3. Task Panes
      2. Taking Your First Note
      3. Writing in the Notebook
      4. Drawing in the Notebook
      5. Adding Other Content
      6. Saving the Notebook
    3. Taking Quick Notes
      1. Launching a Side Note
      2. The Side Notes Section
    4. Working with Notes
      1. Checking Spelling
      2. Flagging Notes
      3. Finding Notes
      4. Printing Notes
    5. Working with Lists and Outlines
      1. Creating Lists
      2. Creating Vertical Outlines
      3. Creating Horizontal Outlines
    6. Managing Notebooks, Sections, and Pages
      1. Working with Notebooks
      2. Working with Sections
      3. Working with Pages
    7. Adding Audio
      1. Recording Audio Notes
      2. Playing Back Audio Notes
    8. Sharing Notes
      1. Emailing Notes
      2. Turning Notes into Outlook Tasks
      3. Publishing Notes
        1. Publishing a Web Page
        2. Turning a Section into a Shared Workspace
    9. Improvements in OneNote SP1
      1. Pocket PC Integration
      2. Including Video Notes
      3. Including Screen Clippings
      4. Digital Camera Import
      5. Additional Importing Capabilities
      6. Improved Office Compatibility
      7. Publishing Your Notes to Word
      8. Sharing Notebooks via SharePoint
      9. Password Protection and Encryption
      10. Resizable Page Tabs
      11. Named Subpages
  16. 11. Introducing Microsoft InfoPath 2003
    1. Getting to Know InfoPath
      1. What Is InfoPath?
      2. Designing a Form
        1. Creating the Data Source
        2. Creating the Form
        3. Publishing the Form
      3. Filling Out a Form
      4. Saving a Form
    2. Designing Forms
      1. Working with Data Sources
      2. Working with Views
      3. Validating Data
      4. Publishing Forms
        1. Publishing to a SharePoint Form Library
        2. Publishing to a Web Server
    3. Collaborating with InfoPath
      1. Merging Forms Together
      2. Emailing Forms to an InfoPath User
      3. Using InfoPath with Excel
      4. Working with Databases
      5. Using InfoPath with Web Services
      6. Sharing Data with Non-InfoPath Users
    4. New Features in InfoPath SP1
      1. End-user Changes
      2. Designer Changes
  17. 12. What’s New in Rights Management
    1. Overview of Rights Management in Office 2003
    2. Setting Up Rights Management
      1. Using Microsoft’s Trial IRM Service
      2. Installing Windows Rights Management Services
      3. Installing Windows Rights Management Client Software
    3. Rights Management for Documents
      1. Removing All Permissions
      2. Granting Read Permissions
      3. Granting Change Permissions
      4. Understanding Advanced Permissions
    4. Rights Management for Email
    5. Integrated Rights Management Summary
  18. A. Office 2003 Version Guide
    1. Give Me the Works!
      1. The Professional Enterprise Edition 2003
      2. The Professional Edition
      3. The Small Business Edition
      4. The Standard Edition
      5. Student and Teacher Edition
      6. The Basic Edition
      7. Individual Products
      8. Trial Software
      9. A Table’s Worth a Thousand Words
      10. System Requirements
  19. B. Outlook 2003’s Business Contact Manager
    1. What Is BCM?
    2. Installing BCM
    3. Using BCM
      1. Creating Contacts
        1. Creating Accounts
        2. Creating Opportunities
      2. Linking Email
    4. Using Views and Reports
      1. Modifying a BCM Report
        1. Sorting and Filtering Contact Data
        2. Customizing the Report
      2. Saving a Report
    5. Backing Up and Restoring BCM

Product information

  • Title: The Upgrader’s Guide to Microsoft Office System 2003
  • Author(s): Mike Gunderloy, Susan Sales Harkins
  • Release date: August 2004
  • Publisher(s): Que
  • ISBN: 9780768683790