Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2007 All in One

Sams Teach Yourself Series: All in One

by Greg Perry

One Book…All the Answers In just a short time you will be up and running with Microsoft Office 2007, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation, allowing you to learn the essentials of Office 2007 from the ground up. Thorough instructions walk you through the most common tasks and show you extra features that make your Office 2007 documents stand apart from the crowd. Notes present interesting pieces of information, extra features you can use, and warnings to protect your data. Tips offer extra advice or teach an easier way to do something. Learn how to… Part Introducing Microsoft Office 2007 1 Chapter 1: Start Here 3 PART Writing with Word 29 Chapter 2: Learning Word’s Basics 31 Chapter 3: Making Your Words Look Good 69 Chapter 4: Adding Lists, Tables, and Graphics 107 Chapter 5: Using Word’s Advanced Features 147 PART Working with Excel Worksheets 201 Chapter 6: Getting to Know Excel 203 Chapter 7: Working with Excel Data 243 Chapter 8: Formatting Worksheets with Excel 273 Chapter 9: Creating Advanced Worksheets 303 Chapter 10: Using Excel as a Simple Database 329 PART Impressing Audiences with PowerPoint 347 Chapter 11: Learning About PowerPoint 349 Chapter 12: Adding Flair to Your Presentations 371 Chapter 13: Making More Impressive Presentations 393 PART Organizing with Outlook 429 Chapter 14: Introducing Outlook 431 Chapter 15: Making Contact 475 Chapter 16: Living with Outlook 497 PART Enhancing Your Work with Other Office Features 517 Chapter 17: Making Notes with OneNote 519 Chapter 18: Automatic Office 541 Chapter 19: Sharing Data Among Office Applications 563 Chapter 20: Combining Office and the Internet 581

672 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 9, 2002

Reviews

[Gwen · Rating 1 out of 5]

I grabbed this book from the library in preparation for a computer skills test for a staffing agency. I thought this book would teach me how to use the MS Office suite better, but there's very little in this book that a regular, everyday user of MS Office products wouldn't already know. (The same is true of the computer exam, actually. If you've worked with MS Office products at all, you'll be fine. I overprepared...) This book devotes more space to Word than to any of the other programs--perhaps because the target audience isn't one that demands high-level Excel skills or the complex use of Outlook.

For a regular MS Office user who would like to learn more about the programs, I'd recommend "The Missing Manual" series. Those books don't assume that you're a novice at MS Office and actually teach you things you don't know.

[Tracie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read most of the Microsoft Word and Excel sections to prepare for testing to help jog my memory. Easy to understand and has very easy instructions to follow. Good for a novice. Very Windows friendly, assumes the world runs on Windows. It doesn't.