Exploring Microsoft Office XP

• Over 125 screen shots provided to guide readers though Office XP and its components.
  
• Chapters on Word, Excel, Outlook(r), PowerPoint(r), and the other peripheral programs included in Office XP.
  
• Multiple chapters on how the various Office XP applications interface with each other to make for a more productive software environment.
  
• "New in Office XP" notes throughout the text to emphasize new software features.
  
• A recap chapter designed to help you "bring it all together" and maximize your use of Office XP and its components.

Contents

Countdown to Launch

• Time Travel: A Brief History of the Office Suite
• What is Office? Which Office?
• Blast Off

• System Requirements
• Upgrading from Office 97 Through 2000
• Typical Installation
• Custom and Full How-to
• Installing on a Portable Computer
• Uninstalling it All

• Basic Concepts
• The Interface

• Basic Concepts: Spreadsheets 101
• The Interface: “What are you doing, Hal?”
• Not Just Numbers
• Formatting for a New World
• It All Started with Math
• Absolutely Relative and Other Considerations
• Powerful (but Confusing) PivotTables and PivotCharts

• Basic Concepts
• A Constantly Changing Interface
• E-mail, E-mail, Everywhere!
• Contacts
• Scheduling
• Tasks
• Notes

• Putting Power into Presentations
• Basic Concepts for Building a Presentation
• The Interface
• Formatting a Presentation
• Creating a Presentation
• Static Elements
• Active Elements
• Animating the Whole Show
• Special Features
• Other Tips and Tricks
• Printing the Presentation
• Pack and Go

• Basic Concepts in Databases
• Operation: Data Retrieval
• International Success
• Advanced Shortcuts for Quick Fingers
• Final Thoughts

• Basic Concepts for Building a Web Site
• The Interface
• Planning a Web Site
• Hyperlinks
• To Frame or Not to Frame
• Creating Tables and Nesting Tables
• Dynamic HTML and Java
• Saving Your Site

• Publisher
• Visio
• MapPoint
• PhotoDraw
• Project
• Pay to Play?

• General Dynamics of Speech
• Using Your Tools

• Sites at Microsoft.com
• Doctoring Office XP

• How the Web Integrated with Office
• What is XML?
• What is SharePoint?
• Security Issues

• Harmonizing with Smart Tags and Artificial Intelligence
• And What Outlook Can Do
• Cut-and-Paste Again and Again
• What is Team Productivity?
• Wrapping Microsoft Office XP All Up