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2010 | Book

Getting Started with Office 2010 Read chapter Read first chapter

Beginning Microsoft Office 2010

Author: Guy Hart-Davis

Editors: Steve Anglin, Douglas Pundick, Clay Andres, Mark Beckner, Ewan Buckingham, Gary Cornell, Jonathan Gennick, Jonathan Hassell, Michelle Lowman, Matthew Moodie, Duncan Parkes, Jeffrey Pepper, Frank Pohlmann, Ben Renow-Clarke, Dominic Shakeshaft, Matt Wade, Tom Welsh, Laurin Becker, Andy Rosenthal, Katie Stence

Publisher: Apress

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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About this book

This book is a practical, step-by-step guide to getting started with Microsoft Office 2010. You’ll learn how to create and edit essential office files—documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more—quickly and efficiently.

You’ll also learn about all of the new updates included with Office 2010. Collaborate on projects in the cloud and access your files from virtually anywhere—with Beginning Microsoft Office 2010, you’ll take a hands-on approach to learning everything, new and old, that the world’s most popular productivity software suite has to offer.

Get started with Office 2010 Basics. Create, store, and share office documents. Use shared Office tools both online and offline. How to keep e-mail, contacts, appointments, notes, and tasks organized.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Getting Started with Office 2010
Abstract
You’re probably in a hurry to start being productive using Office 2010, so this chapter gets you moving quickly. First, you’ll meet each of the programs, find out what you can do with them, and come to grips with key features like the Ribbon and Backstage. I’ll then show you how to launch the programs or make them launch themselves. Finally, you’ll look at how to create, save, and close documents, and then reopen them when you need to work on them again.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 2. Head in the Cloud: Experiencing Software as a Service
Abstract
In this chapter, I’ll introduce you to the Office Web Apps, the online versions of four of the Office programs—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote—and explain how software as a service works.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 3. Learning Common Tools Across the Office Suite
Abstract
To save you time and effort, the Office programs have many common features, starting with the Ribbon control interface that gives the programs their distinctive common look.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 4. Working with Text and Graphics
Abstract
In this chapter, I’ll show you how to work with text and graphics in the Office programs. As you’ll see, the operations are almost the same for each of the programs, so once you’ve learned to work with text and graphics in one program, you’ll be able to work with them in each of the other programs too.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 5. Customizing Office to Suit You
Abstract
How the Office programs look and behave when they are first launched is the result of many focus groups. If the programs’ default looks and behavior don’t suit you, you can easily change the programs’ looks and behavior to suit your needs.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 6. Entering Text and Using Views
Abstract
In this chapter, I’ll show you how to enter text quickly in Word documents by using extra features that Word provides. You’ll see how to select text in advanced ways with the mouse and the keyboard, how to move around your documents using keyboard shortcuts and the mysterious “browse object,” and how to tell Word where to find your custom templates.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 7. Adding Style: Formatting Your Documents
Abstract
To make your documents look good, you must apply formatting to the text and other elements in them.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 8. Creating Complex Documents and Layouts
Abstract
Once you’ve mastered the art of formatting your documents with styles (as described in Chapter 7), you’re ready to create long or complex documents in Word.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 9. Revising and Reviewing Documents
Abstract
Chances are that you’ll create some documents on your own, but for other documents you’ll need to work with other people—either sharing the documents on a network or via the Internet, or using e-mail to send the documents back and forth.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 10. Printing, Finalizing, and Sharing Documents
Abstract
In this chapter, you’ll look at how you can share your documents with other people. You’ll start by seeing how to print an entire document or the relevant pages or sections of it, how to choose whether to include markup, and how to print other parts of the document, such as markup and document properties. After that, I’ll show you how to finalize your Word documents by removing sensitive information, applying any restrictions the document needs, and then marking it as final.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 11. Creating Workbooks and Entering Data
Abstract
In this chapter, you’ll get started quickly with Excel by creating and saving a new workbook. You’ll then look at how to navigate the Excel interface and work with worksheets and workbooks. You’ll learn how to enter data in worksheets, how to select and manipulate cells, and how to use Excel’s various view features to see the worksheet data you need so that you can work easily with it.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 12. Formatting Your Worksheets
Abstract
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to format your worksheets so that they show the information you need and present it clearly.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 13. Crunching Numbers with Formulas and Functions
Abstract
To make your worksheets deliver the information you want, you’ll probably need to perform calculations with your data. To perform calculations, you enter formulas and functions in cells, as you’ll learn to do in this chapter.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 14. Creating Powerful and Persuasive Charts
Abstract
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to create powerful charts that present your data clearly and persuasively.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 15. Creating and Using Excel Database Tables
Abstract
Packed with over sixteen thousand columns and more than a million rows, each Excel worksheet has enough space to contain serious amounts of data—so it’s great for creating a database to store information and quickly find the items you need.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 16. Starting to Build a Presentation
Abstract
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to start building a presentation in PowerPoint.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 17. Creating Clear and Compelling Slides
Abstract
In this chapter, I’ll show you how to create slides that convey your meaning clearly and powerfully to your audience.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 18. Adding Life and Interest to a Presentation
Abstract
In the previous two chapters, you’ve learned how to create a presentation and how to fill it with good-looking slides that convey the message you want.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 19. Delivering a Presentation Live or Online
Abstract
By this point, chances are that you’ve created a powerful and compelling presentation stuffed with great content. Now it’s time to deliver that presentation.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 20. Making the Most of E-mail
Abstract
In this part of the book, you’ll learn to use Outlook, Office’s heavy-duty e-mail and organizer program. Outlook covers four main areas:
  • Mail: Outlook calls it Mail, but most of us call it e-mail—and it’s the most important part of Outlook. I’ll cover e-mail in this chapter.
  • Contacts: Outlook provides a digital address book on steroids for storing the details of your contacts and keeping in touch with them. Chapter 21 explains how to work with contacts in Outlook.
  • Calendar: Outlook can help you keep tabs on your appointments, whether they occur once only or at regular intervals. Chapter 22 shows you how to manage your calendar with Outlook.
  • Tasks: Outlook provides a robust task list that you can use not only to track your own commitment but also offload them onto your colleagues. Chapter 23 teaches you how to organize your life with tasks.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 21. Keeping Your Contacts in Order
Abstract
In this chapter, I’ll show you how to use Outlook to keep your contacts in order.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 22. Managing Your Calendar
Abstract
In this chapter, you’ll look at how to use Outlook to schedule your appointments and keep your calendar in order.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 23. Working with Tasks and Notes
Abstract
In this chapter, I’ll show you how to work with tasks and notes in Outlook.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 24. Taking Notes
Abstract
When you need to take notes, turn to OneNote, Office’s powerful program for recording, storing, and manipulating information. OneNote is great for doing anything from jotting down scraps of information that may come in useful later to recording information in a lecture or seminar. With OneNote, you can collect many different types of data, organize it however you need, and then export finished notes to another program as needed.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 25. Organizing, Synchronizing, and Sharing Your Notes
Abstract
Once you’ve taken stacks of notes, you’ll probably need to reorganize them. You can do so by moving pages, sections, and section groups to different locations or different notebooks as needed, by merging sections into each other, or by splitting sections into separate parts.
Guy Hart-Davis
Chapter 26. Making OneNote Work Your Way
Abstract
In the previous two chapters, you’ve learned how to create notebooks in OneNote, add your notes to them, and organize and synchronize your notes. Along the way, you’ve seen various notes about how you can change OneNote’s behavior to suit your needs.
Guy Hart-Davis
Backmatter
Metadata
Title
Beginning Microsoft Office 2010
Author
Guy Hart-Davis
Editors
Steve Anglin
Douglas Pundick
Clay Andres
Mark Beckner
Ewan Buckingham
Gary Cornell
Jonathan Gennick
Jonathan Hassell
Michelle Lowman
Matthew Moodie
Duncan Parkes
Jeffrey Pepper
Frank Pohlmann
Ben Renow-Clarke
Dominic Shakeshaft
Matt Wade
Tom Welsh
Laurin Becker
Andy Rosenthal
Katie Stence
Copyright Year
2010
Publisher
Apress
Electronic ISBN
978-1-4302-2950-6
Print ISBN
978-1-4302-2949-0
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2950-6

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