Office 2003 Timesaving Techniques For Dummies

Part I: Knocking Office Into Shape.

Technique 1: Making Windows Safe for Office.

Technique 2: Launching Office Quickly.

Technique 3: Organizing My Documents for Speed.

Technique 4: Drilling Down with the My Places Bar.

Technique 5: Backing Up Quickly and Effectively.

Technique 6: Keeping Office Up-to-Date.

Technique 7: Disabling Automatic Hyperlinks.

Technique 8: Digging with Research —Quickly.

Technique 9: Copying and Pasting in a Nonce.

Technique 10: Keying Combinations Quickly.

Technique 11: Drawing Quickly.

Technique 12: Shrinking Graphics.

Technique 13: Modifying Toolbars.

Technique 14: Getting Help.

Part II: Saving Time with Word.

Technique 15: Getting Word Settings Right.

Technique 16: Changing Your Normal Template.

Technique 17: Laying Out a Page — Quickly.

Technique 18: Making Professional Labels.

Technique 19: Editing Like a Pro.

Technique 20: Finding and Replacing in the Wild.

Technique 21: Rapid-Fire Styles.

Technique 22: Fast Links inside Documents.

Technique 23: Setting Up Your Own Letterhead.

Technique 24: Positioning Pictures Just Right.

Technique 25: Typing Fractions Fast.

Part III: Streamlining Outlook.

Technique 26: Getting Outlook Settings Right.

Technique 27: Searching with Folders.

Technique 28: Organizing with Flags.

Technique 29: Taming AutoComplete in Outlook.

Technique 30: Dealing with Spam.

Technique 31: Preventing Infection.

Technique 32: Working with E-mail Attachments.

Technique 33: Securing Your Mail.

Part IV: Exploiting Excel.

Technique 34: Getting Excel Settings Right.

Technique 35: Building Self-Verifying Spreadsheets.

Technique 36: Freezing Columns and Rows.

Technique 37: Ripping through Lists.

Technique 38: Running Subtotals.

Technique 39: Creating Custom AutoFill Series.

Technique 40: Grabbing the Best with Pivot Tables.

Technique 41: Creating Pivot Charts That Work Right.

Technique 42: Setting Scenarios and Seeking Goals.

Technique 43: Using the Lookup Wizard.

Part V: Pushing PowerPoint.

Technique 44: Getting PowerPoint Settings Right.

Technique 45: Choosing the Right PowerPoint File Type.

Technique 46: Changing Your Blank Presentation.

Technique 47: Recording a Sound Track.

Technique 48: Making a Presentation Run Itself.

Technique 49: Answering Predictable Questions.

Technique 50: Building toward a Goal.

Technique 51: Tripping the Light Fantastic with Multimedia.

Technique 52: Taking a Presentation on the Road.

Part VI: Assimilating Access.

Technique 53: Getting Access Settings Right.

Technique 54: Adding a Cover Sheet to an Access Report.

Technique 55: Including Totals in an Access Report.

Technique 56: Printing Labels in Access.

Technique 57: Reducing Repetitive Formatting Tasks.

Technique 58: Recycling Forms for Browsing and Data Entry.

Technique 59: Creating Your Own AutoFormat.

Part VII: Combining the Applications.

Technique 60: Inserting a Spreadsheet in a Document.

Technique 61: Managing an Electronic Newsletter.

Technique 62: Turning a Word Document Into a Presentation.

Technique 63: Animating a Chart in PowerPoint.

Technique 64: Rotating Text in a Word Document.

Part VIII: The Scary (Or Fun!) Stuff.

Technique 65: Taking Over Word’s Show/Hide.

Technique 66: Inserting Unformatted Text in Word.

Technique 67: Inserting Unformatted Text in Excel.

Technique 68: Printing a Bunch of Spreadsheets — Fast.

Technique 69: Protecting Your Privacy.

Technique 70: Printing Personalized Greetings in Batches.

Technique 71: Creating Versatile Watermarks.

Technique 72: Building (And Stealing) E-mail Stationery.

Index.