"The author's humor and his ability to keep the reader's attentionare masterful."--Andy Barkl, Technical ReviewerSalve For Your Office Headaches!Covers Office 2003, XP and 2000--And Perfectly Useful forOffice 97, Too!Is it the best thing since sliced bread? A bug-riddled piece ofjunk? Here, best-selling author Dan Gookin skillfully navigatesbetween these two extremes, laying bare the best and worst ofOffice in order to help you achieve a single, all-important goal:working faster, easier, and smarter. You'll harness the real powerof Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook while avoiding theirpitfalls--and you'll discover the ways they actually can bemade to work together as a truly integrated suite. Dan Gookin'sNaked Office means the end of Office-inspired headaches. (Well,the vast majority of them, anyway. He's not a miracle-worker, afterall.)Expert Instruction to Change Office Life as You Know It (forthe Better)* Making a paragraph look the way you want it to look* Understanding how styles work and making them work for you* Locking a document to prevent changes, and tracking changesmade by others* Using Excel as a database--and not just for numbers* Unraveling formulas and remembering what goes where* Organizing e-mail with Outlook* Getting the most out of Outlook's scheduling abilities* Unlocking the mechanics and philosophy of PowerPointpresentations* Oh, and of course--much, much more

INTRODUCTION.Part 1: From Word to Paragraph to Document.1: Life beyond the Basic Word.2: Alas, There Is No Such Thing as a ?Simple? Document.3: Making Your Documents and Reports More Fancy.4: Oh the Sacrilege of Drawing in a Word Processor!.5: Using Styles and Templates to Save Oodles of Time.6: Writing That Great American Novel or Screenplay.7: The Tough Stuff: From Labels to Tables.8: Sharing Your Work with Others.9: Making Your Own Custom Word.Part 2: Excel.10: Why the Hell Would Anyone Other than an Accountant UseExcel?.11: It?s Super Dooper Grid Time!.12: Some Excel-lent Formatting Tricks.13: Oh No! The Horrible Math Chapter!.14: Fun with Charts and Graphs.15: Excel Templates, Samples, and Web Mischief.Part 3: Outlook.16: Just Your Intermediate E-mail.17: Managing Your E-mail.18: E-mail Rules!.19: Making the Best of Your Contacts.20: Organizing the Rest of Your Life.Part 4: PowerPoint.21: Beyond Your Basic Slide Show.22: Giving a Show without Breaking a Leg.INDEX.