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Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features You'll find lots of new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not a page of printed instructions to guide you through the changes. Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual gives you the friendly, thorough introduction you need, whether you're a beginner who can't do more than point and click, or a power user who's ready to tackle a few advanced techniques.

To cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, this guide gives you four superb books in one -- a separate section each for program! You can manage your day and create professional-looking documents, spreadsheets, and presentations in no time. Office 2008 has been redesigned so that the windows, toolbars, and icons blend in better with your other Mac applications. But there are still plenty of oddities. That's why this Missing Manual isn't shy about pointing out which features are gems in the rough -- and which are duds. With it, you'll learn how to:

• Navigate the new user interface with its bigger and more graphic toolbars
• Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage separately or together
• Keep track of appointments and manage daily priorities with the My Day feature
• Create newsletters, flyers, brochures, and more with Word's Publishing Layout View
• Build financial documents like budgets and invoices with Excel's Ledger Sheets
• Get quick access to all document templates and graphics with the Elements Gallery
• Organize all of your Office projects using Entourage's Project Center
• Scan or import digital camera images directly into any of the programs
• Customize each program with power-user techniques

With Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual, you get objective and entertaining instruction to help you tap into all of the features of this powerful suite, so you can get more done in less time.

'Why Should I Upgrade to Office 2008 for Macintosh?'
Author Jim Elferdink talks about what’s new in Office 2008 for Macintosh. If you’re still using Office 2004, you’ll find some great reasons to upgrade. Jim also fills you in on some cool features that Office for Windows can’t match, and why you may not need to invest in iWork!

What are the best new features that will make folks want to upgrade to Office 2008?
Publishing Layout view. If you use Word to create formatted documents like letters and brochures, you’ll find it so much easier to do now in the new Publishing Layout view than in the old Page Layout view. Publishing Layout view is actually quite similar to Pages; both are very usable. It’s a huge boon for Word people—if you haven’t bought Pages, now you won’t have to!
MyDay. I really enjoy Entourage’s MyDay feature. Assuming you’re not working on a laptop that doesn’t have screen space to spare, I recommend keeping MyDay open in the corner of your screen. That’s what I do! It helps me keep track of my appointments and schedule. If you’ve got appointments every 20 minutes or just a lot going on in your day, it’s great to have it all at a glance. It also helps you remember to go pick up the kids. (And you can feel superior to your Windows friends. There’s nothing resembling MyDay in Office for Windows.) Project Center. Entourage’s Project Center has been streamlined and beautified for 2008, but it’s still very underutilized. It takes a little extra effort to learn, but once you’ve got it up and running, if you’re doing any kind of a project that involves Office documents or even files from other programs, it’s a great timesaver. It lets you keep shortcuts to all these documents, plus email related to the project, in one window. The Project Center makes it easy to categorize email, contacts, notes, and documents. Things don’t get lost, and you don’t have to worry about Mac OS X labels and other ways to categorize things. (Office for Windows also has nothing like the Project Center.)
Formula Builder. In Excel, one of the greatest new features is the formula builder. If you use Excel much for formulas at all, especially more complicated ones, it’s really a timesaver. It helps you get those things created and working much faster than you could do before.
Elements Gallery. The Elements Gallery concept is really great because it carries over from one program to the other, gives the programs a consistent feel. If you’re using a lot of templates or AutoShapes, you’ll find it a quick way to get at all that stuff. You could do all these things before, but it was a lot harder to find what you were looking for.

So, are there any disadvantages to upgrading to Office 2008?
Publishing Layout view can be frustratingly slow on G4 Macs, especially when you’re trying to move layout elements around onscreen. I would only use it on an Intel Mac. The same caveat holds true for PowerPoint; it’s hard to move things around. But the rest of the suite works great on faster G4 machines.
Office 2008 uses the same new, XML-based file format as Office 2007 for Windows. It’s great not to have to worry when someone with Office 2007 on a PC sends you something. Office 2008 can open those documents right up. But now when you send documents to Mac folks who haven’t upgraded, they won’t be able to open them! Once you upgrade to Office 2008, you’ve got to be aware that not everyone else has, and (unless you have a real need to use the XML format) set your Save options (in Preferences) to the older format so there won’t be problems with your attachments.
Then there’s the macro problem. Any macros you wrote in earlier versions of Office use the Visual Basic programming language (VBA), and they won’t work in Office 2008! If you’ve written a lot of macros for yourself, you’ll have to stick with Office 2004 until you have time to rewrite them in AppleScript.

What do you like best about Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual?
I’m happy with the way this book turned out. I think it covers everything you need to use this really powerful suite of programs for all your work. One chapter I’m particularly fond of, and which I think is missing from every other PowerPoint book I’ve looked at, is Chapter 15—Planning Great Presentations. It helps you prepare for your presentation and shows you how to use PowerPoint for its true purpose. PowerPoint isn’t doing the presentation—you are. You’re the star of the show! Unfortunately, too many people think it’s the other way around..
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1,005 architectural graphics on CD-ROM! Now you can create stunning, persuasive architectural presentations that bring your designs to life--faster and easier than ever before, in Ernest Burden's Entourage on CD: A Clip Art Resource For Architects and Designers you get 1,005 images of human figures and groups. . .trees, plants and environmental elements. . .and all kinds of vehicles to infuse a sense of life, movement, depth and distance into all your renderings. No matter what type of space you're designing--urban or rural, interior or exterior, commercial or residential--this sure-fire design tool enables you to: Add more power and impact to your presentations; Present your ideas with lifelike realism; Retrieve clip art images and visual elements in seconds; Find the right size, scale, posture, dress, and style at once; and difficult or complicated settings with ease and much more..
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Get the inside scoop on the HBO hit comedy, Entourage, and learnwhat really happens when you make it big in Hollywood If you don't know whether the following statements are true or false you need this book.

1 Vince spends $2,5000 per month for Drama's vitamin supplements. (See page 76.)

2 Ralph Macchio let Hef's chimps out of the cage at the Playboy Mansion. (See page 63.)

3 Ari Gold addressed this advice to Eric: "Be a man, or as much as a man as you can possibly be, for God f---ing sakes." (See page 103.)

4 It is very easy to find a "ridiculously hot girl" in Los Angeles (See page 129.)

Filled with exclusive interviews; fashion profiles of the main characters;listings of the real-life L.A. hotspots where the show has been filmed;and more than one hundred hilarious and previously unpublished imagesfrom Entourage's first four seasons, this book is a full-accessguide to the glamorous/treacherous world of Vince, E, Drama, Turtle, andAri.

MAYBE YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL..
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Both by itself and as part of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X, Entourage 2004 is about more than just email: It's about managing contacts and setting up appointments and creating task lists. But most of all it's about organization--providing a unified view for sharing, creating, and managing the information that threatens to engulf us. Here to help you make the most of it is the first Visual QuickStart Guide devoted entirely to the topic. In these pages you'll find all the task-based, step-by-step instruction you need to master every aspect of Entourage--from managing multiple email accounts to setting up groups, creating customized send and receive schedules, and more. Best of all, you¿ll get the skinny on all of Entourage 2004's new features--most notably, the very cool Project Center, which provides a single location from which you can view and organize all of the email, files, contacts, meetings, and tasks associated with a given project.

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Do you need an easy-to-follow software reference right at your fingertips? Our 6 page, tri-fold guides are the answer. These quick reference guides include step by step instructions to help users to learn software features more quickly, as well as full color screen graphics to highlight important features. Quick Source reference guides also include the software program s NEW features and gives you quick access to time saving shortcuts. The Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac Quick Source guide is a clear and concise tool for learning the features in Entourage 2008 for Mac. Features contained in this guide include NEW features such as Customizing a Toolbar, Working with My Day, and Adding a Massage to the To Do List. It also includes Using the Preview Pane, Creating a Folder, Sending and Receiving Messages, Replying to a Message, Creating a Signature, Creating a Rule, Scheduling a Calendar Event, Creating a Task, Creating a Contact, and much more..
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Laminated quick reference card showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for Entourage 2008. Topics include: Show/Hide Toolbar, Displaying Mail, Displaying the Inbox, Creating and Sending a Message, Attaching a File to a Message, Indicating Message Importance, Saving a Draft of a Message, Reading Messages and Attachments, Forwarding a Message, Replying to a Message, Saving an Attachment, Flagging Messages, Removing a Flag, Creating Folders, Filing Messages, Creating and Using Signatures, Setting Up a Rule, Using the Mailing List Manager, Out of Office Reply, Searching (Filtering) the Message List. Contacts & the Address Book: Viewing the Address Book, Creating a Contact, Sending a Message to a Contact, Adding the Sender of a Message to the Address Book, Creating a Group. Topics for Mail, Tasks, Notes, Calendar Entries: Printing Items, Sorting Items, Changing which Columns are Visible, Assigning Categories to an Item, Deleting Items. Calendar: Displaying the Calendar, Changing the View, Going to Today's Date, Showing a Range of Dates Creating a Calendar Event, Moving an Event, Changing Event Duration, Inviting Others to an Event. The Project Center. Tasks and Notes: Tasks, To Dos, and Notes, Creating a Task or Note, Marking a Task Complete. My Day - PDA view. Also includes a list of keyboard shortcuts..
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Do you need an easy-to-follow software reference right at your fingertips? Our 6 page, tri-fold guides are the answer. These quick reference guides include step by step instructions to help users to learn software features more quickly, as well as full color screen graphics to highlight important features. Quick Source reference guides also include the software program s NEW features and gives you quick access to time saving shortcuts. The Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Quick Source guide is a clear and concise tool for learning the features in Entourage 2004 for Mac. Features contained in this guide include NEW features such as Using the Project Center, Creating a New Project, Using the Preview Pane, and Using the Scrapbook. It also includes Creating a Folder, Creating a Message, Sorting Messages, Creating a Signature, Changing Junk E-mail Options, Creating a Task, Scheduling a Calendar Event, and much more..
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