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Office 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
  • Revised and updated to cover changes to all of Office's applications and productivity tools
  • Offers beyond-the-basics coverage of Office word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, databases, and desktop publishing
  • Covers Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, productivity tools such as Microsoft OneNote, and SharePoint
  • Thoroughly updated to cover the new Office interface as well as new features in each application
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Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book
This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe InDesign CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this program, while readers who already have some experience with InDesign can use this book to familiarize themselves with InDesign CS3's newest features. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills learned in each lesson. The companion CD contains all the assets readers will need to work through each project in the book. Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe's page layout and design software, has been updated to accelerate user productivity with loads of new features: new Photoshop effects--including gradient feathering, inner shadows, and glows--that you can apply to objects on a page; finer transparency controls, which let you apply transparency settings independently to an object's fill, stroke, and content for more complex visual looks; numerous productivity enhancements; advanced find/change features; new table and cell styles; export to XHTML, and more.

Educational instructor notes—created to help teachers plan, organize, and time their lessons—are available for this book (and for other Classroom in a Book titles) at www.peachpit.com/instructorresources.

SPECIAL NOTE: Before starting the lessons in the book, visit www.peachpit.com/indesigncs3cib for important lesson and project file updates.

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Price: $30.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Visual QuickStart Guide—the quick and easy way to learn!

Users of Adobe InDesign will be impressed with the power, ease of use, and integration found in the new InDesign CS3, Adobe's page-design component of Creative Suite 3. Users will also find more robust file-placing capabilities, new Find features, and great new text and transparency effects, among other exciting features. Adobe InDesign CS3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide will highlight the important new features, as well as covering the ones readers have relied on in previous versions of InDesign. Using the task-based, visual approach that readers count on in the Visual QuickStart Guides, this volume introduces readers to all aspects of InDesign CS3. Users will learn how to create and automate documents, import and style text and objects, manage long documents, export files for a wide variety of purposes, and

  • Easy visual approach uses pictures to guide you through InDesign and show you what to do.
  • Concise steps and explanations let you get up and running in no time.
  • Page for page, the best content and value around.much more.

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InDesign CS3 One on One
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Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. With Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One, you get the equivalent of private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. Deke offers you DVD video with more than two hours of professional instruction and advice to accompany the book's easy-to-follow text. The book itself includes 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step.

This highly popularly learning approach is quite simple: "read the book, watch the video, do the exercise". Each chapter has corresponding video lesson that demonstrates the techniques covered. The combination of text and video instruction is uniquely effective. You proceed at your own pace and work on relevant, real-world projects as you master fundamental and advanced concepts, theories, techniques, and best practices for making the most of InDesign.

This comprehensive multimedia training solution teaches you how to:
  • Create professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text and graphic tools
  • Import text from a word processor, move and scale existing text frames, and check spelling
  • Use the line, pen, and geometric shape tools to draw complex graphic objects
  • Apply fill and stroke, specify process and spot colors, and design custom rules
  • Use Adobe Bridge to organize and manage your digital assets
  • Import and modify layered artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Create inline graphics and anchored objects that move automatically with your text from one page to the next
  • Create, edit, and link paragraph styles, complete with nested character styles
  • Apply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operation
  • Build object styles with embedded paragraph styles in order to format entire frames at a time
  • Use master pages to automate repeating page features
  • Automatically generate a table of contents
  • Compose a fully interactive document -- with bookmarks, hyperlinks, buttons, sounds, and movies -- and export your creation to a PDF file that can be played on most computers
Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One puts you on the fast track to becoming a real InDesign expert. Once you're finished, you'll use InDesign smarter, faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible..
Price: $31.41 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Word 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
  • Dan Gookin's For Dummies guides to Word have consistently led the pack, selling more than 1.7 million copies in previous editions
  • The author's irreverent sense of humor and crystal-clear prose make getting up to speed on Word a snap
  • Thoroughly updated to cover Word's new interface, new file format options, and new collaboration and connectivity features
  • An essential resource for everyone who wants to hit the ground running with Word 2007 and make the most of all the new features
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Price: $10.36 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
Product Description
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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Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Windows XP Edition (Shelly Cashman)
Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques Windows XP Edition provides a project-based, step-by-step approach to teaching the Office 2007 applications .
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Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Word 2007 (Special Edition Using)

THE ONLY WORD 2007 BOOK YOU NEED

This book will help you build solid skills to create the documents you need right now, and expert-level guidance for leveraging Word’s most advanced features whenever you need them. If you buy only one book on Word 2007, Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Word 2007 is the book you need.

• Come up to speed quickly with the new Word 2007 Ribbon interface

• Streamline document formatting with styles, templates, and themes

• Collaborate with others using comments and tracked changes

• Master mail merges, master documents, and other advanced features

• Manage large documents with indexes, TOCs, and automatically numbered references

• Use fields and forms to collect and manage information

• Illustrate key concepts with SmartArt diagrams

• Create and apply custom themes that control fonts, color schemes, and effects

• Manage academic research citations and generate bibliographies in any popular documentation format

On the Web

Includes complete instructions and a command reference you can use to customize the Ribbon with RibbonX, even if you have little or no previous XML experience. You can also download additional RibbonX examples and an easy-to-use RibbonCustomizer utility from this book’s companion web site, www.quepublishing.com/usingword2007.

Contents

About the Authors xxx

Introduction 1

Part I Working with Text Documents

Chapter 1 Introducing Word 2007 7

Chapter 2 Creating and Saving Documents 27

Chapter 3 Typing and Editing Text 59

Chapter 4 Using Spelling, Grammar, and Research Tools 95

Chapter 5 Printing and Faxing Documents 133

Part II Formatting a Document

Chapter 6 Applying Character Formatting 155

Chapter 7 Formatting Paragraphs and Lists 191

Chapter 8 Creating and Applying Styles and Themes 227

Chapter 9 Formatting Documents and Sections 263

Chapter 10 Using and Creating Project Templates 297

Chapter 11 Working with Nonstandard Document Layouts 319

Part III Tables and Graphics

Chapter 12 Creating and Formatting Tables 353

Chapter 13 Working with Photos 395

Chapter 14 Working with Clip Art and the Clip Organizer 425

Chapter 15 Working with Drawings and WordArt 455

Chapter 16 Working with Charts 491

Chapter 17 'Working with SmartArt and Math Formulas 533

Part IV Collecting and Managing Data

Chapter 18 Performing Mail and Data Merges 563

Chapter 19 Copying, Linking, and Embedding Data 601

Chapter 20 Working with Fields 631

Chapter 21 Creating Forms 655

Part V Long Documents

Chapter 22 Outlining and Summarizing Documents 681

Chapter 23 Using Master Documents 703

Chapter 24 Citing Sources and References 719

Chapter 25 Creating Tables of Contents and Other Listings 747

Chapter 26 Building Effective Indexes 765

Part VI Collaboration and Online Sharing

Chapter 27 Collaborating with Others 783

Chapter 28 Protecting and Securing Documents 805

Chapter 29 Online Collaboration with Office Live and SharePoint Team Services 823

Chapter 30 Working with Blogs and Email 847

Chapter 31 Developing Web Content 857

Chapter 32 Using Word to Develop XML Content 875

Part VII Customizing and Extending Word

Chapter 33 Macros and Add-Ins 905

Chapter 34 Customizing the Word Interface 935

Chapter 35 Customizing Word 2007’s Ribbon with RibbonX 945

Part VIII Appendixes

Appendix A Recovering Files and Repairing Word 975

Appendix B Converting from Other Word Processing Systems 985

Appendix C Accessibility Tips and Techniques 991

Appendix D Command Reference: Word 2003 to Word 2007 999

Appendix E Setting Up and Modifying Office 2007 1017

Index 1025

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Price: $20.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]


Stylin' with CSS: A Designer's Guide (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
Cascading Style Sheets enable you to rapidly create web designs that can be shared by hundreds or even thousands of web pages. It accelerates development cycles by centralizing text and layout information for easy editing and updates. This book teaches you everything you need to know to start using CSS in your web development work, from the basics of marking up your content and styling text, through the creation of multi-column page layouts without the use of tables. Learn to create interface components, such as drop-down menus, navigation links, and animated graphical buttons, using only CSS (no JavaScript required). Discover how to design code that works on the latest standard-compliant browsers, such as IE7 and current versions of Firefox, Safari, and Opera, while working around the quirks of the older ones. With a mastery of CSS, your web design capabilities will move to a new level, and everything you need to know to get started and build your skills is right here in this book. You’ll be stylin’ in no time!

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