Table of Contents of Woody Teaches Microsoft Office 97
- Do You Need This Book?
- Part I: In The Beginning - Before You Start
- 1. Vital Unmentionables
- 2. Precursors to Using Office
- Get the Latest Version
- SR-1
- Excel Bug Patches
- Outlook Bug Pat..., er, Outlook 98
- Install and Update an Anti-Virus Program
- Register
- The Key Number
- Phone Registration
- Changes to Windows Itself
- Explorer Show Extensions
- Turn Off Find Fast
- Part II: Office 101
- 3. Executive Summary
- Word
- Outlook
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Other Office Oddities
- Office Assistant
- Shortcut Bar
- Binders
- OfficeArt
- Camcorder
- Photo Editor
- Visual Basic for Applications
- How the Components Work Together
- 4. Make Office Work Your Way
- Organizing "My Documents"
- Backup
- Which Office 97 Files Need to be Backed Up?
- How to Back Them Up
- Starting Office
- Making Office 97 Run Better
- 5. Help From a Paper Clip
- The Office Assistant Character
- Changing Characters
- Tactics
- Less Animated Help
- Native Help
- Microsoft on the Web
- Part III: Word 97
- 6. Preliminaries
- It's Easy, Right?
- Crucial Changes
- Remove Rulers
- Show Paragraph Marks
- General Settings
- Disable Overstrike Mode
- Save Slowly
- The Case Against Hyperlinks
- The Screen
- Title Bar
- Menu Bar
- Toolbars
- The Document
- Status Bar
- Vertical Scrollbar
- Horizontal Scrollbar
- Adjusting Zoom
- 7. Working With Documents
- Birth of a New Document
- Easy Plain Documents
- Almost-as-Easy Fancy Documents
- Save
- Close
- Open
- Starting Over
- Undo/Redo
- Print
- 8. Building Documents
- Interlude: What IS a Document, Anyway?
- Characters
- Paragraphs
- Sections
- Documents
- Drawing Layer
- Deleting
- Selecting and Moving
- The Clipboard
- Building a Test Document
- 9. Getting Around
- How the Keys Work
- Common Keys
- Worthwhile Key Combinations
- The Intellimouse Wheel
- Find
- Replace
- Go To, Good Man, Go To
- 10. Making Documents Look Good
- The General Approach
- Characters
- Font Changes from the Toolbar
- Font Changes from the Dialog
- Sticky Font Formatting
- Paragraphs
- Paragraph Changes from the Toolbar
- Paragraph Changes from the Dialog
- Borders and Shading
- Sticky Paragraph Formatting
- Tabs
- Bulleted and Numbered Lists
- Auto Bullets and Numbers
- Sections
- The Whole Document
- Margins
- Paper Size
- Paper Source
- Layout
- 11. Key Capabilities
- Features You'll Use Every Day
- Headers and Footers
- Standard Headers and Footers
- Different First Page
- Right-click Spell Check
- AutoCorrect
- When a Correct is a Correct
- Bending AutoCorrect to Your Own Devices
- Thesaurus and Dictionary
- Symbols
- Envelopes and Labels
- Force a Page Break
- 12. Special Purpose Tools
- Important Features You Might Not Use Every Day
- Tables
- Fast Pre-Fab Tables
- Fast Free-Form Tables
- Fancy Tables
- Odd Ways to Use Tables
- Dates
- Inserting Pictures
- Clip Art
- Office's Clip Art Collection
- Using Your Own Clip Art
- Freehand (AutoShapes and the Drawing Toolbar)
- WordArt
- Scanned Art
- Charts
- Inserting Files
- 13. On the Shoulders of Giants
- Don't Re-Invent the Wheel
- Templates and Wizards that Work
- Doing it With Styles
- Character Styles
- Paragraph Styles
- Customizing Toolbars
- Bookmarks
- Hyperlinks
- 14. Advanced Features
- Why "Advanced"?
- Page Borders
- Watermarks
- Drop Caps
- Fields
- Mail Merge
- Macros
- What to Avoid If You Can
- The Rogues' Gallery
- The Other Half
- Snake Oil
- Where to Go Next
- Part IV: Outlook 98
- 15. Preliminaries
- What to Expect From Outlook 98
- Components
- Outlook Express vs Outlook
- Outlook 98 or Bust
- Outlook 98 Installation
- Internet Only vs Corporate/Workgroup
- Installing Outlook 98 Fresh
- Switching from Corporate/Workgroup to Internet Only
- Crucial Changes
- Email Options
- Journaling
- Mail Delivery
- Spelling
- Backup
- Daily Backups
- AutoArchive
- Manual Archive
- Ancillary Programs
- Inbox Repair Tool
- Compacting
- The Screens and Views
- The Outlook Shell
- Inbox
- Outlook Today
- Calendar
- Contacts
- Tasks, Journal, Notes
- The Ooops Switch
- 16. E-Mail
- Setting Up Email Accounts
- New, Reply, Reply to All, Forward
- To, CC, BCC
- Adding Contacts
- Attaching Files
- AutoSignature
- vCard
- Find
- Organize
- Folders
- Colors
- Views
- Junk Mail
- What To Avoid If You Can
- 17. Other Outlooks
- Contacts
- Creating a Contact
- Categories
- Copying
- Calendar
- Meetings
- Events
- Appointments
- Recurring Activities
- Printing Calendars
- Tasks: It's What To Do
- Notes
- Journaling Phone Calls
- Add-Ins
- Part V: Excel 97
- 18. Excel Preliminaries
- Terminology
- Crucial Changes
- AutoSave
- Stay Put After Enter
- Max Out MRU List
- Add Auditing Toolbar
- The Screen
- Title Bar
- Menu Bar
- Toolbars
- Formula Bar
- The Spreadsheet
- Sheet Tabs and Scrollbar
- Status Bar
- Zoom
- Intellimouse
- 19. Working With Workbooks
- New, Close, Open
- Sheets
- Undo/Redo
- Print
- Print Area
- Page Sequence
- Portrait and Landscape
- Fit to Page
- Gridlines
- 20. Building Spreadsheets
- Data
- Formulas
- Pointing and Clicking
- The Sum() Function
- AutoSum
- Sum() on the Range
- Titles
- Using (Parens)
- Verifying
- AutoCalculate
- Entry Tricks
- Enter and Cancel
- Correcting Misteaks
- Entering Functions
- AutoComplete
- AutoCorrect
- AutoFill
- Copy/Move Data
- Simple Copy, Move
- How Excel Pastes
- Absolute and Relative Addresses
- Add/Delete Rows and Columns
- #Bad Data
- Show Formulas
- Comments
- 21. Getting Around
- Worthwhile Shortcut Keys
- Named Ranges
- Name Box
- Find
- Go To
- References on other sheets
- 22. Making Spreadsheets Look Good
- Re-sizing Columns and Rows
- Formatting Cells
- Styles
- Spell Check
- Headers, Footers
- Column headings
- Hide Columns
- Page Break Preview
- 23. Excel-lent Charts
- Making a New Chart
- Editing an Existing Chart
- Adding Bells and Whistles
- 24. Advanced Features
- Wizards
- Scenarios
- Audit Techniques
- Data Validation
- Pivot Tables
- What to Avoid If You Can
- Part VI: PowerPoint
- 25. Preliminaries
- Crucial Changes
- The Screen
- 26. Working With Presentation Files
- New, Open
- Save, Close, Exit
- Notes
- Print
- Undo/Redo
- 27. Auto Help
- AutoContent
- Wizard Options
- A Simple Presentation
- AutoLayout
- Templates/Masters
- Title Slide
- Other Slides
- How Changes Propagate
- 28. Making Presentations Look Better
- Text Objects
- Creating
- Selecting
- Moving
- Formatting
- Clipart
- Transitions
- Animation
- Part VII: Advanced Topics
- 29. Tying the Parts Together
- Word and Outlook
- Word and Excel
- Word and PowerPoint
- PowerPoint and Excel
- 30. Office On the Web
- Links
- Word Document to Web Page
- Excel Spreadsheet to Web Page
- PowerPoint Presentations on the Web
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