Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321670108 ISBN 13: 9780321670106

Publisher: Peachpit Press, 2010

Visual QuickStart Guides, designed in an attractive tutorial and reference format, are the quickest, easiest, and most thorough way to learn applications, tasks, and technologies. The Visual QuickStart Guides are a smart choice and guide the learner in a friendly and respectful tone. Visually presented with copious screenshots, the focused discussions by topic and tasks make learning a breeze and quickly take you to exactly what you want to learn.

Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, written by best-selling author Steve Schwartz, has been extensively rewritten to provide expanded coverage of the core Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, and also provides a thorough introduction to the Office Web Apps. Coverage of each application is jam-packed with information and tips that not only explain HOW to perform a task, but WHY you need this procedure and WHEN it's best to use it.

Microsoft Office for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide provides in-depth instructions on many of the new features and changes introduced in Office 2010, such as the following:

Office-wide features
Backstage (File tab), customizing the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, Paste Preview, image-editing tools, screen clippings, Office Web Apps

Word
Navigation Pane, searching for graphics and tables, text effects, contextual spell checking

Excel
Sparklines (cell-based charts), new conditional formatting options

PowerPoint
Reading View, presentation sections, Animation Painter tool, video-editing tools, comparing and combining presentations, creating videos from presentations, broadcasting presentations on the Web

Outlook
Using and finding commands in the new Ribbon interface, working with Conversation view, creating Quick Step macros

Steve Schwartz is uniquely qualified and readers benefit from his 30+ years of experience as a software expert, technical support director, magazine editor, and writer. Steve has written almost 60 books, many on Office and other Microsoft products, and has been using Office since the first version. Although this book is geared toward the beginning through intermediate user, Steve won¹t waste your time with pages of stories and analogies before actually discussing the topic at hand. Each page is clearly focused on the needs of the reader. In fact, Steve’s guiding principal in creating this and his many other Visual QuickStart Guides is “The Three C’s.” The material must be clear, concise, and correct. Thumb through a copy today and find out why this is the quickest and easiest way to learn Microsoft Office 2010
Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: What’s New in Office 2010
Chapter 2: Office Basics
Chapter 3: Tables, Charts, and Art

Part II: Microsoft Word

Chapter 4: Getting Started with Word 2010
Chapter 5: Formatting Documents
Chapter 6: Creating Outlines
Chapter 7: Sharing Word Documents

Part III: Microsoft Excel

Chapter 8: Getting Started with Excel 2010
Chapter 9: Formatting Worksheets and Data
Chapter 10: Formulas and Functions
Chapter 11: Working with Tables
Chapter 12: Creating Charts

Part IV: Microsoft PowerPoint

Chapter 13: Getting Started with PowerPoint 2010
Chapter 14: Creating a Presentation
Chapter 15: Wrapping Up a Presentation

Part V: Microsoft Outlook

Chapter 16: Getting Started with Outlook 2010
Chapter 17: Working with Contacts
Chapter 18: Composing and Sending Mail
Chapter 19: Receiving Mail
Chapter 20: Managing the Mail
Chapter 21: Tasks and Appointments

Part VI: Office on the Web

Chapter 22: Office Web Apps

Index          

About the Author:

Steve Schwartz is uniquely qualified and readers benefit from his 30 years of experience as technical support director, magazine editor, and writer. Steve has written almost 60 books, many on Office and other Microsoft products, and has been using Office since the first version. Although this book is geared toward the beginning through intermediate user, Steve won't waste your time with pages of stories and analogies before actually discussing the topic at hand. Each page is clearly focused on the needs of the reader. In fact, Steve's guiding principal in creating this and his many other Visual QuickStart Guides is The Three C's. The material must be clear, concise, and correct.