Learn to create an effective business strategy using Microsoft's BI stack
Microsoft Business Intelligence tools are among the most widely used applications for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data to enable the enterprise to make sound business decisions. The tools include SharePoint Server, the Office Suite, PerformancePoint Server, and SQL Server, among others.

With so much jargon and so many technologies involved, Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies provides a muchneeded stepbystep explanation of what's involved and how to use this powerful package to improve your business.

Microsoft Business Intelligence encompasses a broad collection of tools designed to help business owners and managers direct the enterprise effectively
This guide provides an overview of SharePoint, PerformancePoint, the SQL Server suite, Microsoft Office, and the BI development technologies
Explains how the various technologies work together to solve functional problems
Translates the buzzwords and shows you how to create your business strategy
Examines related technologies including data warehousing, data marts, Online Analytical Processing OLAP, data mining, reporting, dashboards, and Key Performance Indicators KPIs
Simplifies this complex package to get you up and running quickly
Microsoft Business Intelligence For Dummies demystifies these essential tools for enterprise managers, business analysts, and others who need to get up to speed.

The book that beats the buzzwords At last, understand BI and what it can do for your business
Buzzwords, begone This book looks beyond the jargon at real business problems and commonsense solutions. Data is the lifeblood of your business. Microsoft BI tools help you collect that data; sort, store, and analyze it; find it when you need it; and use it to make decisions. You'll understand terms like OLAP cube and data mart at last

It's all about the right tools learn which BI technologies can solve specific issues for your business

Realistic expectations get a clear understanding of what you expect to achieve with BI

Meet the parts see how the SQL Server technologies, presentation technologies, and development/customization technologies work together

The right edge support decisionmaking by using BI to get the right data to the right person at the right time

Storing this stuff understand how data warehouses and data marts make it easier to manage and retrieve data

The tool on your desktop discover how to use Excel for data analysis and data mining

Making it work create a logical plan for BI implementation, know what you need and what you don't, and get stakeholders on board

Open the book and find

BI tools that are already hiding in your software

How to manage the data life cycle

Tips for evaluating and choosing technologies

What you can do with Dashboards and Scorecards

Nearly a dozen data mining algorithms

Ways to display and analyze data

Advice on testing and rolling out your BI strategy

Keys to making BI successful

Learn to

Apply the latest Microsoft technologies and use them together

Create an effective strategy to solve business problems

Work with the SQL Server product suite

Use the new SharePoint Business Intelligence tools

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Pick your Excel task, find it fast, and get it done with Just the Steps
If you want to see how to do a particular Excel task, this is the perfect book.  Each page includes stepbystep instruction in one column and illustrations and screenshots in the other column, so you have all the information you need in one placeno flipping pages

Improve your Excel skills with just the steps for entering spreadsheet data, building formulas, protecting excel data, formatting cells, designing spreadsheets with graphics, managing workbooks, changing worksheet values, sorting and filtering data, creating charts, creating PivotTables, building macros, integrating Excel into other Office programs, andwhewstill more.

Explains essentials tasks for Excel 2010, the spreadsheet application that is part of the Microsoft Office 2010 suite
Shows you just the steps for numerous Excel tasks using an easytofollow, twocolumn page layout, with stepbystep instruction on one side and illustrations and screenshots on the other
Covers entering spreadsheet data, building formulas, protecting excel data, formatting cells, designing spreadsheets with graphics, managing workbooks, changing worksheet values, sorting and filtering data, creating charts, creating PivotTables, and building macros
Walks you step by step through collaborating in Excel and integrating or using Excel with Word, PowerPoint, and Access
Make your tasks easier, improve your Excel skills, and get better results with this stepbystep guide.

Easy steps for creating spreadsheets, analyzing data, and building charts

Use Cell Styles

Select the cells you want to format.

Choose HomeCell Styles. In Figure 79, you see a gallery of predefined styles.

Format Cells as a Table

Select the data you want to format as a table.

Choose HomeFormat as Table. A gallery of Excel themed formats appears. See Figure 710.

Themes are predefined style sets that appear across the entire Office suite, providing consistency in your work appearance.

Open the book and find

How to enter data into a spreadsheet

Tips for creating formulas and functions

Instructions for formatting and sprucing up your spreadsheets

Steps for sorting and analyzing data

Options for creating charts and PivotTables

How to save time with macros

Directions for integrating Excel into PowerPoint

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Manage your business from a services perspective

What if technology was designed to serve the business every time That's service management Done properly, it can make everybody happy the customer, the service provider, and the business owner. Understand the value of managing your physical environments and IT systems with an integrated approach. Learn how real companies improve business performance by streamlining business processes and applying service management standards and best practices.

Define service identify what the customer wants, how the business can provide it, and which technological tools will make it happen
Who's king whether you're the IT manager or the business owner, see how to think like the customer

Standards are key understand the standards and best practices that can improve quality and reduce costs

Strategically speaking develop and implement a service management strategy

What's it worth assess the costs and return associated with service management

Get down to business discover how to manage data centers, support services, desktops and devices, IT security, and other business services

See it at work explore case studies of service management in the manufacturing, retail, health care, hospitality, and other business sectors

Open the book and find

How the digital world has altered service
Service management assets and tools

Resources for best practices and standards information

Advice for defining, creating, and maintaining a service management plan

The six layers of service management

How to optimize a data center

Ideas for managing your business assets as services

The role of virtualization and cloud computing

About the Author
Judith Hurwitz president and CEO, Robin Bloor partner and senior consultant, Marcia Kaufman partner and COO, and Fern Halper partner and senior data management strategist are executives at Hurwitz & Associates, strategy consultants specializing in information and service management, cloud computing, and service oriented architecture. The team works with industry leaders on strategy and planning.

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A complete guide to the world's most popular word processing software

Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software on the planet, and the mostused application in the Microsoft Office productivity suite. Along with the rest of Office, Word has been enhanced with new features and capabilities in the 2010 version.

Word's many users will find new things to learn and use in Word 2010, and this allinone guide gets them up to speed while providing a reference for taking Word to the next level.

Word is the topselling application in the Microsoft Office suite and is the leading word processing software
Both newcomers to Word and experienced users will need instruction in Word 2010's new features, including online editing capabilities, online document collaboration, and an improved search function
Nine minibooks cover Word basics, editing, formatting, inserting bits and pieces, publishing documents, using reference features, mailings, customizing Word, and special features for developers
Word 2010 AllinOne For Dummies makes it easier for Word users everywhere to get up and running with Word 2010 and its new features.

9 Books in 1

What's in a Word

All About Editing

All About Formatting

Inserting Bits and Pieces

Publish or Perish

Using Reference Features

Mailings

Customizing Word

Features for Developers

Dive into the new features of Word 2010 to create sharper documents

Where do you want to go with Word today Got mail to send to a group Whether you want to compose simple letters or write 200page novellas, this guide will help you get the most from Word 2010. Find out how to take advantage of all of the new features, including online editing and collaboration, improved templates, and more.

The ins and out of editing discover basic Word tools as well as a variety of useful editing techniques

Get the lowdown on formatting use themes and advanced features such as columns and lists to design greatlooking pages

Say it with visuals spice up your document by inserting pictures, clip art, drawing objects, charts, tables, and more

Share your work ensure that your work is noticed by following steps to use Word's new blogging, collaboration, and reviewing features

Customizations made easy make changes to the user interface, set options, insert fields, and create custom forms so that Word works the way you want

Dig deep into Word learn how to write macros using Visual Basic for Applications VBA, Word's powerful programming language

Open the book and find

Steps for working with templates

How to use all the editing features

Strategies for formatting text

Techniques for inserting tables, pictures, and diagrams

How to collaborate with others online

Tips for building a table of contents

Ways to create letters and envelopes

How to customize the user interface

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Find the answers to your most important Excel questions with this reference
John Walkenbachs name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that decipher complex technical topics. Known as Mr. Spreadsheet, Walkenbachalong with Excel expert Colin Banfieldanswers your most common and important Excel questions in this easytounderstand reference.

You'll learn how to open, save, protect, and recover workbook files; add, copy, and delete worksheets; enter and edit data and text; create formulas and functions; audit, format, and print; and more. Highly organized and free of unnecessary jargon, this essential reference allows you to find the answers youre looking for quickly and easily.

Excel gurus Walkenbach and Banfield offer quick and easy answers to common Excel questions
Offers information in a highly organized, easytounderstand format so you can find exactly what you need
Includes information on opening, saving, protecting and recovering workbook files; adding, copying, and deleting worksheets; entering and editing data and text; creating formulas and functions; auditing; formatting; printing; and more
Covers navigating the user interface; using the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar; saving, protecting, and recovering workbook files; entering and editing data; creating formulas and functions, and much more
Excel 2010 For Dummies Quick Reference enables you to spend more time working on your projects rather than trying to figure how to make Excel work for you

Straightforward and uptodate the nittygritty on working with Excel
Want to spend more time on your projects and less time trying to figure out Excel This handy, portable guide gives you the facts in an easytouse format. Two Excel gurus bring you quickly up to speed on the 2010 version and then lay out the stuff you need to know how to compare workbooks, manage worksheets, enter dates, work with formulas and functions, and much more.

New for 2010 learn to use the slicer report filter for PivotTables, incell charts called Sparklines, table and PivotTable search filters, interactive PivotChart filters, and PivotTable custom calculations

More than one share workbooks, protect them from unauthorized use, or compare two sidebyside

It's relative use relative, absolute, and mixed references, and convert formulas to values

Cell development edit cell contents, copy cells and ranges, and enter dates, formulas, text, and values

Chart your progress choose a chart, modify its axis, create and add elements, and add context to numbers

Tables and more use tables, PivotTables, and PivotCharts effectively

Open the book and find

A tour of the Excel 2010 window

Keyboard shortcuts that save you time

How to undo changes and correct mistakes

All you need to know about naming constants and formulas

Advice on formatting numbers and ranges

How to adjust settings and print your worksheet

The different types of charts and how to change them

What to do with the slicer report filter

Learn to

Navigate the new interface

Use the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar

Create formulas and functions

Save, protect, and recover workbook files

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Extensive coverage on using Microsoft Outlook to manage and organize your day
As the number one email client and personal information manager, Microsoft Outlook offers a set of uncomplicated features that maximize the management of your email, schedule, and general daily activities, with the least amount of hassle possible. Comprised of ten minibooks in one and packed with more than 800 pages, this AllinOne For Dummies reference walks you through the convenience of Microsoft Outlook and introduces you to the newest features of the 2010 version.

After a description of how to get started with Outlook 2010, youll get complete coverage on email basics, advanced email features, working with the calendar, managing contacts, and working with Business Contact Manager. Youll learn how to track tasks, take notes, and record items in the journal, as well as customize and manage Outlook and get mobile with Outlook.

Offers souptonuts coverage of Microsoft Outlook 2010, the newest version of the number one most popular email manager
Walks you through getting started with Outlook and email basics, and gradually progresses to more advanced features and capabilities of email
Explains how to work with the Outlook 2010 calendar and manage your contacts
Addresses tracking tasks, taking notes, recording items in the journal, and working with Business Contact Manager
Shows you how to customize your Outlook, manage all the information within Outlook, and take Outlook on the road
Get a whole new outlook on Outlook 2010 with this complete guide

Feel more confident and be twice as productive organize your life with Outlook
Most people think Outlook is just an email program, but not you You're about to learn all the wonderful ways it can help you manage your time and your life. This beefy book shows you how to set up and use Outlook to keep your calendar, track tasks and contacts, organize random bits of essential information, and yes, do email.

Somewhere to start navigate Outlook, set up your email accounts, and create quick messages and appointments

Email, plus manage multiple accounts, send and receive text messages, and create mass mailings

What's up today create and change appointments, meetings, and daylong events, share your calendar, and add Internet calendars to Outlook

Things to do with contacts create contacts from emails and look up their Web sites or map their addresses

OneNote, many skills track tasks, take notes, and organize them all according to subject with OneNote

Give Outlook the business use Business Contact Manager to manage not only contacts, but accounts, revenue, and more

Manage the manager organize your stuff and automate Outlook to keep it that way

Outlook on the move check email while on the road and automatically handle email and meeting requests

Open the book and find

How to manage tasks with the ToDo bar

Methods for importing data from old email accounts

Quick ways to stay connected through social networks

How to grab news from Internet sources

Great ways to manage projects and your life with OneNote

How customizations make Outlook even easier to use

Tips on cleaning up email clutter

10 Books in 1

Getting Started

Email Basics

ber Email

Working with the Calendar

Managing Contacts

Organizing Life with OneNote

Working with Business Contact Manager

Customizing Outlook

Managing Your Outlook Stuff

Taking Outlook on the Road

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A friendly, stepbystep guide to the Microsoft Office database application
Access may be the least understood and most challenging application in the Microsoft Office suite. This guide is designed to help anyone who lacks experience in creating and managing a database learn to use Access 2010 quickly and easily.

In the classic For Dummies tradition, the book provides an education in Access, the interface, and the architecture of a database. It explains the process of building a database, linking information, sharing data, generating reports, and much more.

As the Microsoft Office database application, Access may be the least understood and most challenging part of the Office suite
Access 2010 For Dummies walks newcomers through building and using their first database
Covers linking information in a database, setting relationships, modeling data, and building tables
Explores how to extract data from Access and get specific answers, create forms, and export data in reports
A section for more experienced users looks at analyzing errors and creating an interface
Fully updated for the newest version, Access 2010 For Dummies gets new Access users up to speed and helps veterans get the most from the Office database application.

Organize and use your data to create snappylooking reports that put your genius on display
Access 2010 provides plenty of tools for building a database. You'll also need a bit of help to create a database that delivers the reports that drive business decisions. That's why you need this book. It covers the latest Access features and tools and explains how they assist in organizing and mining data to get the information and reports you need.

Get down to basic training find out about the new features and tools in Access 2010 as you navigate and master the Access workspace

Set the table create relationships between tables, customize the way data is stored in tables, and control how data is entered

Dive into data discover smart ways to share your Access data online or with other programs and bring data from applications into Access

Find the answers learn how to sort, filter, and query your data to get at the information in your database

Spice up your reports use timesaving tools that let you create customized, professional reports with ease

Make it all better tune up your database for better performance and create a user interface to control what people see

Open the book and find

How to open a table, insert records, and name fields

Techniques for importing, exporting, and editing data

TIps for sharing your database

Ways to find, filter, and sort data

How to get the answers to your database queries

Secrets for designing cool reports

Steps for using Analyzer tools

How to create and test a Navigation form

Learn to

Navigate the Access interface andunderstand database architecture

Build tables to organize data and forms for easy data entry

Share data and create forms and reports

Use the power of queries to find and maintain your data

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A fully updated guide to creating dynamic presentations with PowerPoint 2010
PowerPoint dominates the presentation landscape. With the changes in PowerPoint 2010, including the availability of an online version, PowerPoint users need this comprehensive reference to make the most of the program.

PowerPoint 2010 AllinOne For Dummies features indepth coverage of the elements and the process involved in creating knockout presentations. Seven minibooks cover all the new 2010 features, providing a great education for beginners and showing PowerPoint veterans lots of new tricks.

PowerPoint is the leading presentation software used in business and education; new features in PowerPoint 2010 include an online version and expanded audiovisual capabilities
Seven selfcontained minibooks cover getting started; building a presentation; tables, charts, and diagrams; graphics and shapes; adding audio, video, and animation; giving the presentation; and PowerPoint for power users
Explains how to use the interface and tools and shows how to represent data visually for greater impact
Provides important tips on adding the human element when making a presentation
Gives advanced users advice on creating templates, collaboration, automation, and more
PowerPoint 2010 AllinOne For Dummies gets novices up to speed and helps experienced users take their skills to the next level.

7 Books in 1
Getting Started in PowerPoint

Building Your Presentation

Communicating with Tables, Charts, and Diagrams

Embellishing Your Slides with Graphics and Shapes

Flash and Dash

Giving a Presentation

PowerPoint for Power Users

Make your point with slides that grab attention and really communicate

PowerPoint is a necessity for communicating in the boardroom or the classroom. To take full advantage of all you can do with it, grab this book Get started with guidelines on using the interface efficiently and creating slides; then learn to design tables, charts, and shapes and use animations. You'll even find tips on creative ways to deliver the presentation.

Start out right learn to navigate the program, perform basic tasks, and design presentations, all in Book I

Watch it grow Book II helps you manipulate and format slides, work with master slides and styles, and craft the look of your presentation

Table this, chart that explore how to create, design, and format tables, charts, and diagrams in Book III

Dress it up in Book IV, you'll learn to spice up your slides with photos, shapes, graphics, and clip art

The wow stuff Book V shows you how to use transitions, animations, video, and sound

Special delivery discover techniques in Book VI for delivering your presentation and preparing it for print

Power up Book VII covers customizing PowerPoint, designing templates, collaborating with others, and more

Open the book and find

PowerPoint's nuts and bolts

How master styles and master slides work

What it takes to create a chart

Tips for constructing the perfect table

Why you might want to let the viewer run your presentation

How to turn a bulleted list into a diagram

Quick ways to animate slides

How to embed data from another program into a slide

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The easy way to understand and implement cloud computing technology written by a team of experts

Cloud computing can be difficult to understand at first, but the costsaving possibilities are great and many companies are getting on board. If you've been put in charge of implementing cloud computing, this straightforward, plainEnglish guide clears up the confusion and helps you get your plan in place.

You'll learn how cloud computing enables you to run a more green IT infrastructure, and access technologyenabled services from the Internet in the cloud without having to understand, manage, or invest in the technology infrastructure that supports them. You'll also find out what you need to consider when implementing a plan, how to handle security issues, and more.

Cloud computing is a way for businesses to take advantage of storage and virtual services through the Internet, saving money on infrastructure and support
This book provides a clear definition of cloud computing from the utility computing standpoint and also addresses security concerns
Offers practical guidance on delivering and managing cloud computing services effectively and efficiently
Presents a proactive and pragmatic approach to implementing cloud computing in any organization
Helps IT managers and staff understand the benefits and challenges of cloud computing, how to select a service, and what's involved in getting it up and running
Highly experienced author team consults and gives presentations on emerging technologies
Cloud Computing For Dummies gets straight to the point, providing the practical information you need to know.

Get your head into the clouds learn what cloud computing is and how to use it

There's a lot more to cloud computing than you may realize. This book takes you through the options, what they can do for your company, how to choose the best approach for your business, and how to build a strategy. You'll learn about managing and securing cloud services and get downtoearth advice about planning your move to the cloud.

Get hold of the cloud discover how the cloud differs from traditional hardware/softwarebased resources

Techie nitty gritty explore the technical foundation and evolution of the cloud

Show me the money analyze how much a cloud data center can save your company in power, labor, property, and other expenses

The cloud tour examine the elements of the cloud and service options for infrastructure, platform, and software

Who's in charge here learn about cloud management and how governance is defined inside the cloud

Risk and reward recognize the assorted risks and how to determine acceptable risk levels

Cloud security understand how to plan for a secure and compliant cloud environment

Plan for the plunge create a detailed plan for implementation

Open the book and find

The characteristics of the cloud

Important security issues and how to handle them

Cloud standards and best practices

Efficiencies of the cloud

Questions to ask a potential cloud vendor

Groups that clarify, promote, and maintain standards

How the cloud relates to SOA

How cloud users benefit from elasticity and scalability

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A comprehensive, uptodate, userfriendly guide to Excel 2010
Excel is the standard for spreadsheet applications and is used worldwide, but it's not always userfriendly. That makes it a perfect For Dummies topic, and this handy allinone guide covers all the essentials, the new features, how to analyze data with Excel, and much more.

Eight minibooks address Excel basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration and review, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and Excel and VBA.

Excel is the leading spreadsheet/data analysis software and is used throughout the world; the newest revision includes upgraded tools and a redesigned interface
For Dummies books are the bestselling guides to Excel, with more than three million copies sold
Excel 2010 AllinOne For Dummies covers the changes in the newest version as well as familiar tasks, such as creating and editing worksheets, setting up formulas, and performing statistical functions
Eight selfcontained minibooks cover the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, presenting data in charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and creating macros with VBA.
Newcomers to Excel as well as veterans who just want to learn the latest version will find Excel 2010 AllinOne For Dummies has everything they need to know.

Here's everything you need to know about using Excel in one handy package
Excel is such a powerhouse, it takes eight selfcontained minibooks to cover all its features Open this AllinOne and find just what you need to know, from how to use the Ribbon interface and Backstage View and how to set up your first spreadsheet to collaborating on a worksheet, presenting results with cool charts and graphs, and understanding formulas and functions.

Welcome to 2010 explore the new user experience, learn where to get help, and customize your Excel

Workin' with worksheets learn to build, format, edit, proof, manage, and print them

Formula for success find out what formulas and functions do and how to use them

Share and collaborate discover how to send workbooks out for review and incorporate input from multiple users

Results that are pretty find out which type of chart shows off your data to best advantage

Keeping data in line learn to maintain, sort, and filter data lists using Excel

Analyze this use Excel's computational ability to predict possible outcomes

Making macros use Visual Basic for Applications, record macros, edit VBA code, and make Excel do your bidding

Open the book and find

How to navigate the Ribbon and Backstage View

Shortcuts for switching from older versions

Tricks for eliminating Text to Speech errors

All about functions and how they work in formulas

How to secure data and still enable user edits

How to use line charts, pie charts, and scatter charts

Tips for creating macros and custom functions

How to perform whatif analysis

 
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System Requirements Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 with Microsoft Media Player or other AVIcapable media player, Adobe Acrobat Reader

Everything that smallbusiness owners need to manage their financial affairs with QuickBooks

Intuit's QuickBooks, updated each year, is the leading financial management software for small businesses. With eight contentrich minibooks, QuickBooks X AllinOne For Dummies covers everything you need to know to get your business finances in order with QuickBooks.

QuickBooks X AllinOne For Dummies is the complete reference for every aspect of this useful software

QuickBooks, the leading smallbusiness accounting software package, is updated annually; this guide covers the latest version
Minibooks include An Accounting Primer, Getting Ready to Use QuickBooks, Bookkeeping Chores, Accounting Chores, Financial Management, Business Plans, Care and Maintenance, and Additional Business Resources
Covers understanding double entry bookkeeping, planning and preparing a QuickBooks accounting system, and setting up a QuickBooks network
Shows how to invoice customers, pay vendors, track inventory, and set up project and job costing systems
Explains how to write a business plan, create a business plan forecast, and conduct a ratio analysis
QuickBooks X AllinOne For Dummies is an indispensible tool for smallbusiness owners who want to manage their business finances more effectively.

Your onestop guide to managing your business finances

QuickBooks is the leading smallbusiness accounting software, but there's a lot to it. This guide makes it simple, with individual minibooks covering different aspects of QuickBooks, along with some basic business financial management tips and pointers. Put them together, and you will find that the business of running your business just got easier

Accounting 101 get a handle on accounting principles and doubleentry bookkeeping
Starting out right set up and finetune QuickBooks for your business

Keeping the books become familiar with the procedures for invoicing customers, paying vendors, tracking inventory, and paying employees

Daytoday accounting learn to prepare budgets, financial statements, reports, and jobcosting systems

Managing finances discover ratio analysis, economic valueadded analysis, and capital budgeting techniques

Plan for success get direction for writing a business plan and using profitvolumecost analysis

Be prepared protect your vital business data and troubleshoot potential QuickBooks problems

Find support explore online business resources and learn financial terminology

Open the book and find

How to read a financial statement
Steps for tracking accounts receivable and payable

Tips for managing cash and bank accounts

How to set up lists of customers, vendors, and payroll items

How to produce common financial statements and reports

What you can learn from ratio analysis

How to create and use a business plan workbook

Ways to simplify tax preparation

 
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The annual update of a perennial bestseller, fully revised for the newest QuickBooks release
QuickBooks is the leading software package for small business accounting, updated each year so it remains cuttingedge. QuickBooks 2010 For Dummies provides all the information you need to start using the newest version in your business.

You'll learn to set up your business accounting functions on QuickBooks and use all the newest features. You'll be able to create budgets, process payroll, manage inventory and invoices, track job costs, balance accounts, and make things easier at tax preparation time.

Shows you, in plain English, how to set up QuickBooks and manage your small business accounting on your own
Explains how to set up your business on QuickBooks, create invoices and credit memos, record sales receipts, set up inventory items, and track business credit cards
Covers recording and paying bills, printing checks, processing payroll, and preparing payroll taxes
Discusses building a budget, going online with QuickBooks, balancing accounts, generating financial reports, simplifying tax return preparation, and backing up data
Also explores job estimating, billing, and tracking jobs and invoices
Written by Stephen L. Nelson, author of all previous editions and an experienced CPA, QuickBooks 2010 For Dummies will help you become your own accountant and keep your business in the black.

If you're like most smallbusiness people, accounting is the last thing you want to spend lots of time on. This handy guide helps you use QuickBooks to track sales and inventory, build budgets, figure job costs, and much more. Written by a CPA who knows QuickBooks and business, this book will help keep your business in the black.

Why QuickBooks meet Federal business accounting standards, track income and expenses, and know where your business stands

Start here set up the software and quickly start creating invoices, reel in the dough, and pay the bills

The goal is profitability produce common financial reports and track your progress on a regular basis

Save time with forms enter data into QuickBooks once and produce checks, invoices, receipts, and more

Keep cash coming in find out what your customers owe, how to reach them, and when to send collection letters

Financial housekeeping estimate jobs, check inventory, evaluate fixed assets, and keep all your files straight

Track everything keep track of your checkbook, credit card accounts, inventory, payroll, budgets, and all the stuff you'll need for tax preparation

Open the book and find

How to set up QuickBooks for your business

Quick ways to create invoices and pay bills

Ways to simplify tax preparation

Steps for keeping inventory as you purchase and sell items

How to produce common financial reports

Tips for building the perfect budget

What you need to estimate jobs and track costs

How to handle payroll and withholding

Learn to

Store and organize all your financial information in one place
Build a budget, create invoices, pay bills, and process payroll
Manage inventory and track job costs
Make tax preparation easier

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You too can understand the statistics of life, even if you're mathchallenged

What do you need to calculate Manufacturing output A curve for test scores Sports stats You and Excel can do it, and this nonintimidating guide shows you how. It demystifies the different types of statistics, how Excel functions and formulas work, the meaning of means and medians, how to interpret your figures, and more in plain English.

Getting there learn how variables, samples, and probability are used to get the information you want
Excel tricks find out what's built into the program to help you work with Excel formulas

Playing with worksheets get acquainted with the worksheet functions for each step

Graphic displays present your data as pie graphs, bar graphs, line graphs, or scatter plots

What's normal understand normal distribution and probability

Hyping hypotheses learn to use hypothesis testing with means and variables

When regression is progress discover when and how to use regression for forecasting

What are the odds work with probability, random variables, and binomial distribution

Open the book and find

Ten statistical and graphical tips and traps
The difference between descriptive and inferential statistics

Why graphs are good

How to measure variations

What standard scores are and why they're used

When to use twosample hypothesis testing

How to use correlations

Different ways of working with probability

Create graphs, develop estimates, and apply probability
Get the scoop on all of Excel's statistical tools and what they can do for you

If permutation sounds like something you shouldn't say around your grandmother and you read margin of error as margin of terror, take heart This easytofollow guide explains statistics in plain English and shows you how to use Excel charts, functions, samples, and correlations to make sense of it all even if you're numerically challenged

Discover how to

Understand means, medians, and standard deviations
Use Excel to give meaning to sets of numbers
Draw conclusions from data
Test your hypotheses
Apply statistical concepts to realworld situations

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Quickly and easily perform tasks in any Microsoft Office 2010 application
As the world's leading suite of productivity software, Microsoft Office enables you to complete common business tasks, including word processing, email, presentations, data management and analysis, and much more. With this fun and friendly guide, veteran author Elaine Marmel presents you with concise, stepbystep instructions for quickly and easily accomplishing the most popular tasks in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.

Decide on a task you are eager to undertake, find it quickly in the featured easytoread format, and get it done smoothly with this Just the Steps guide Youll discover how to insert pictures into a Word document, create PivotTables in Excel, add sound to a PowerPoint presentation, import contacts into Outlook, create a mail merge document with Outlook contacts, and much more.

Presents indispensible advice for accomplishing specific tasks in any of the applications included in Microsoft Office 2010, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
Demonstrates how to insert pictures in a Word document, create PivotTables in Excel, add sound to a PowerPoint presentation, and import contacts into Outlook
Includes unique coverage of performing tasks that work across programs, such as creating a mail merge using Word and Outlook, and embedding an Excel chart in PowerPoint
With this efficient guide helping you quickly accomplish specific tasks in Office 2010, you won't know what to do with all your free time

Easy steps to getting things done in Office 2010
Open the book and find

How to convert older documents to Word 2010

Steps for printing documents

Tips for working with Excel cells

How to create formulas

Elements you can add to a PowerPoint slide

How to create an email distribution list

How to work in Backstage View

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Dan Gookin gets you up to speed so you can get down to work with all the new features of Word 2010
Bestselling and quintessential For Dummies author Dan Gookin employs his usual fun and friendly candor while walking you through the spectrum of new features of Word 2010. Completely in tune with the needs of the beginning Word user, Gookin shows you how to use Word quickly and efficiently so that you can spend more time working on your projects and less time trying to figure out how to make Word perform the tasks you need it to do. This newest edition of Word For Dummies explains how to navigate the user interface and take advantages of file formats, and skips the unnecessary jargon.

Unparalleled author Dan Gookin applies his beloved For Dummies writing style to introduce you to all the features and functions of Word 2010
Escorts you through the capabilities of Word 2010 without weighing you down with unnecessary technical jargon
Deciphers the user interface and shows you how to take advantage of the file formats
The word on the street is that Word 2010 For Dummies is a mustread

Here's the last word on Word, from the master of plainEnglish explanations
It's a whole new Word, so jump right into this book and learn how to make the most of it Here's what you need to know, from firing up Word, understanding how to use the spell checker, and turning off features that drive you crazy to formatting documents, using templates, adding images, and saving your stuff. You can even find special tips for the writer in you.

New to Word here's the stuff most books assume you already know, such as how to use the keyboard, mouse, and gizmos in the Word window

Watch your words clean up errors, replace sections of text, use copyandpaste, and work with text blocks

The grammar cop make the most of the grammar and spell checkers

Make friends with formats format characters, paragraphs, and pages to make your documents readerfriendly

Stylin' create styles to give your documents character

The fancy stuff work with borders, lines, and boxes; add tables; and build an index

Multitasking manage multiple documents, convert documents from different versions of Word, or save documents in different file formats

Publish or perish print your documents or prepare them for sharing electronically

Open the book and find

What all the keys on the keyboard are for

How to use the Ribbon

Things to know about saving and naming files

How to recover a document you thought was lost

Tools for collaborating with others

Tips for taming mail merge

A whole chapter on Word's tools for writers

The ten commandments of Word

Learn to

Work with all the newest Microsoft Word features

Create and edit documents quickly and easily

Share your work and collaborate with others

Use mail merge, create labels, and send emails in Word

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The bestselling Excel book on the market, updated for Excel 2010
As the world's leading spreadsheet application, Excel has a huge user base. The release of Office 2010 brings major changes to Excel, so Excel For Dummies comes to the rescue once more

In the friendly and nonthreatening For Dummies style, this popular guide shows beginners how to get up and running with Excel and helps more experienced users get comfortable with new features.

Excel is the number one spreadsheet application worldwide, and Excel For Dummies is the number one guide to using it
With the major changes in Microsoft Office 2010, Excel has new features and a new interface design; users need help to get up to speed
The book includes everything you need to know to perform basic Excel 2010 tasks
Covers creating and editing worksheets and charts, formatting cells, entering formulas, inserting graphs, designing database forms, and adding database records
Also covers printing, adding hyperlinks to worksheets, saving worksheets as Web pages, adding existing worksheet data to an existing Web page, and much more
Whether you're new to Excel or just need to understand the 2010 version, Excel 2010 For Dummies provides what you need to know.

Get up to speed on Excel 2010 and discover a whole new way to crunch numbers
Have you just discovered you need to use Excel for the first time Or are you an Excel veteran who wants to understand the 2010 version in a hurry Either way, this friendly book has everything you need to know about creating and editing worksheets, formatting cells, using formulas, adding hyperlinks, saving worksheets as Web pages, and more.

Navigate effectively see how the Ribbon interface andthe Backstage View give you access to all the tools you need for every task

It's your Excel customize the Ribbon and Quick Access toolbar to include the tools you use

To err is human but you can easily fix mistakes and make updates with Excel's editing functions

Easy maintenance make maintaining your worksheets easier with zoom, comments, cell names, and more

Pivotal moments create and format pivot tables to summarize your data effectively

Making it pretty include graphics, charts, and clip art to clarify the story your worksheets tell

Macro magic automate Excel commands by creating macros you can add to the Ribbon or Quick Access toolbar

Collaborate online share your worksheets via Windows Live SkyDrive and edit them from anywhere with Office Web Apps

Open the book and find

What's new in Excel 2010, including the Backstage View

How to launch Excel fromWindows 7, Windows Vista,and Windows XP

Tips for draganddrop editing

Hints for perfect printouts

How to use the Insert Function button

Secrets for securing your data

How to use Conditional Formatting and Sparklines minigraphs to highlight your data

How to do whatif data analysis

Learn to

Create and edit worksheets, format cells, and enter formulas

Add data tables and sort and filter records

Create powerful charts with graphics

Share worksheets via emailand SharePoint

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The latest edition of one of the bestselling Microsoft Office books of all time
Spend less time figuring out Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access and more time working on actual projects with this new edition of Office 2010 For Dummies. Filled with straightforward, friendly instruction, this book gets you thoroughly up to speed, and it actually makes doing Office work fun

First learn all the basics, then how to add more bells and whistles, including how to spice up your Word documents, edit Excel spreadsheets and create formulas, add sound to your PowerPoint presentation, and much more.

Helps you harness the power of Microsoft Office 2010 and all of its new functionality; the book covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access
Explains and instructs in the straightforward, friendly, For Dummies style that makes instruction more accessible and skillbuilding easier
Covers typing and formatting text in Word and spicing up your documents
Shows you how to navigate and edit an Excel spreadsheet, create formulas, and chart and analyze Excel data
Demonstrates how to create a PowerPoint presentation and add color, sound, and pictures
Explores Outlook, including configuring email, storing contacts, organizing tasks, scheduling your time, and setting appointments
Delves into designing Access databases, including editing, modifying, searching, sorting, and querying; also covers viewing and printing reports, and more
Be ready to take full advantage of Microsoft Office 2010 with this fun and easy guide.

Take control of your Office and get more done today learn how, here and now
Your Office is calling And you're in luck, because this helpful guide walks you stepbystep through the various parts of the Office suite. In no time you'll be mastering the Ribbon interface, working with Word, crunching numbers with Excel, making your point with PowerPoint, organizing your life with Outlook, and using Access like a pro.

Where is . . . easily find the commands you need to complete the job on the Ribbon interface

Go backstage see how to save files, open and close them, find recently used files, and more with Backstage View

Let's share use the Office Clipboard to store up to 24 items for sharing among Office programs

Tinker with text create and save Word documents, change fonts, add headers, and format your stuff

Formula for success learn to set up an Excel spreadsheet, enter data, and create formulas to manipulate the data

Present with power define and create a PowerPoint presentation with charts, graphics, movies, and sound

You've got email master it and the calendars, contacts, and task lists in Outlook

Delightful databases store, sort, retrieve, analyze, and print important data using Access

Open the book and find

Steps for entering, manipulating, and saving data

How to customize Office 2010 programs

Tips on using Office 2010's builtin photo editing tools

Advice on stopping spam with Outlook

Details about storing contacts and scheduling appointments

Cool design tips for dressing up your Word documents

How to chart and analyze data in Excel

Ideas for punching up your PowerPoint presentations

Learn to

Use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access

Create great documents and slide show presentations

Edit spreadsheets, create formulas, and analyze data

Configure email settings, manage your calendar, and design Access databases

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The leading book on Microsoft Office, now fully updated for Office 2010
Microsoft Office, the world's leading productivity suite, has been updated with new tools. Veteran Office users as well as newcomers will need the comprehensive information in this bestselling AllinOne guide.

With a selfcontained minibook devoted to each Office application plus minibooks on how Office works together and how you can expand its usefulness, Office 2010 AllinOne For Dummies gets you up to speed and answers the questions you'll have down the road.

Microsoft Office is the office productivity suite used around the globe; nearly every business worker encounters it daily
The 2010 revision will affect all applications in the suite
Eight minibooks cover Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, common Office tools, and ways to expand Office productivity
Also covers the new online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint as well as changes to the interface and new tools and techniques
Office 2010 AllinOne For Dummies makes it easy to learn to use Office and gets you up and running on all the changes and enhancements in Office 2010.

Welcome to Office 2010 Here's where you get up to speed on all the applications right now
If you want to get your work done better and faster with Office 2010, this book is for you. Whether you're new to Office or need help navigating Office 2010's interface and new features, you'll find the answers, howto information, advice, shortcuts, and tips right here. And you'll learn how the tools work together to make you more productive

They're a team explore commands and features common to all the Office programs plus techniques to boost your productivity

Working with Word create letters, reports, newsletters, mass mailings, and more

Improve your Outlook manage your email, track tasks, keep an address book and calendar, and organize your life

Get your Point across build livelier, more original PowerPoint presentations and even improve your delivery

Excel at number crunching design spreadsheets that are easy to understand, use datavalidation rules, and analyze data

Access your information discover all the ways you can build and use an Access database

Your own Publisher turn out great brochures, pamphlets, and other publications

A step beyond check out the extra programs and customize your Office

Open the book and find

The common tools you'll find in all Office applications

Clear instructions for revising and collaborating on documents

Tips on building tables, charts, and diagrams in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Word's tools for creating scholarly reports and white papers

Advice on scheduling events with Outlook

Secrets of memorable PowerPoint presentations

How to build an Access database from scratch

Hints for creating newsletters in Publisher

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Get up to speed on the new features of Outlook 2010 with this fun and friendly guide
Although Microsoft Outlook is the number one most popular email and productivity tool, many utilize only a fraction of its true potential. This easytounderstand guide walks you through an abundance of oftenoverlooked tips and tricks so that you can take advantage of all that Outlook has to offer.

Outlook 2010 For Dummies introduces you to the user interface, and explains how to use the ToDo bar, filter junk email, and make the most of Outlooks antiphishing capabilities. Before you know it, you'll be managing email folders; sharing your calendar; using RSS support; integrating tasks with OneNote, Project, Access, and SharePoint Services; accessing data with twoway sync and offline access; and more.

Shares invaluable advice for taking advantage of the newest version of the most popular email and productivity tool Outlook 2010
Reveals littleknown tips and tricks of underused features of Microsoft Outlook
Presents information in the beloved fun and friendly For Dummies style, showing you how to manage your email, share your calendar, use RSS support, access data, and more
Describes how to manage your day by filtering junk email, using the ToDo bar, taking advantage of antiphishing capabilities, and much more
This helpful guide shows you how to work smart with Outlook 2010

Easily manage your email, keep track of your schedule, and connect to business networks
Are you ready to improve your workflow and simplify your life You'll be surprised at all the things you can accomplish once you learn how to effectively use Outlook 2010. This book shows you how to take advantage of the latest features and better manage your email, take control of your tasks and contacts, and improve the way you do business.

Learn the basics find out how to use Outlook for routine tasks such as handling messages and notes

Make your work more efficient track your email, contacts, appointments, and everything else you need to keep organized

Tie your Microsoft tasks together learn how to take advantage of Outlook's special relationship with Office, Internet Explorer, and Windows

Go beyond the basics customize Outlook and set up Internet email accounts

Get rid of spam discover how to filter email to eliminate spam and get the most out of Outlook's security features

Coordinate with others share schedule and task information with other people, synchronize information with them, and even assign tasks

Open the book and find

Tips for setting up the Navigation pane

How to use Outlook's most powerful productivity tools

The essential secrets of email

Steps for organizing your messages

Ways to collaborate with Exchange

How to track your social media subscriptions

Techniques to enhance Outlook security

How to access your Outlook data from anywhere

Learn to

Navigate the interface and use the ToDo bar

Maximize Outlook's security features

Filter your junk email and manage email folders

Collaborate on tasks with SharePoint Services and Microsoft Exchange

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Tax season doesnt just have to be about paying Uncle Sam his due. Sure, giving up your hardearned dollars hurts, but you can turn lemons into lemonade by turning knowledge into immediate and longterm tax savings. Whats more, wising up about your tax situation can only increase your financial savvy and bolster your future fiscal health.

Combining taxpreparation and taxplanning advice, Taxes 2007 For Dummies is the latest offering in the highly praised Taxes For Dummies series. This easy and fun guide yes, a fun tax guide walks you linebyline through the most common forms, with analysis especially relevant for TurboTax and other tax software users. Fully updated for 2006, including Alternative Minimum Tax relief and Roth IRA conversions, this handy resource covers critical tax code changes and provides new tips for moneysaving endofyear tax moves. Youll find out how to

• Itemize your deductions
• Negotiate with the IRS
• Take advantage of tax credits to reduce what you owe
• Make taxwise personal finance decisions
• Avoid common mistakes before you file
• Auditproof your tax return
• Fill out the dreaded Schedule D

Packed with standout tips, tax cut opportunities, warnings, reminders, and sidebars, Taxes 2007 For Dummies is a clear road map to doing your taxes in 2007and to wisely planning your future finances for years ahead.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I Getting Ready to File.

Chapter 1 Understanding the U.S. Tax System.

Chapter 2 Tax Return Preparation Options and Tools.

Chapter 3 Getting and Staying Organized.

Chapter 4 No Form Fits All Or, What Kind of Taxpayer Are You.

Part II Tackling the Various Forms.

Chapter 5 Easy Filing 1040EZ and 1040A.

Chapter 6 Form 1040 Income Stuff.

Chapter 7 Form 1040, Part II Adjustments to Income Stuff.

Chapter 8 The Rest of the 1040.

Part III Filling Out Schedules and Other Forms.

Chapter 9 Itemized Deductions Schedule A.

Chapter 10 Interest and Dividend Income Schedule B 1040, Schedule 1 1040A.

Chapter 11 Business Tax Schedules C, CEZ, and F.

Chapter 12 Capital Gains and Losses Schedule D.

Chapter 13 Supplemental Income and Loss Schedule E.

Chapter 14 Giving Credits Where Credits Are Due.

Chapter 15 Other Schedules and Forms to File.

Part IV Audits and Errors Dealing with the IRS.

Chapter 16 The Dreaded Envelope IRS Notices, Assessments, and Audits.

Chapter 17 Fixing Mistakes the IRS Makes.

Chapter 18 Fixing Your Own Mistakes.

Part V YearRound Tax Planning.

Chapter 19 TaxWise Personal Finance Decisions.

Chapter 20 Reducing Taxes with Retirement Accounts.

Chapter 21 Small Businesses and Tax Planning.

Chapter 22 Your Investments and Taxes.

Chapter 23 Real Estate and Taxes.

Chapter 24 Children and Taxes.

Chapter 25 Estate Planning.

Part VI The Part of Tens.

Chapter 26 Ten Tips for Reducing Your Chances of Being Audited.

Chapter 27 Ten or So OftenOverlooked TaxReduction Opportunities.

Chapter 28 Ten Plus One Tax Tips for Military Members and Their Families.

Chapter 29 Ten Interview Questions for Tax Advisors.

Glossary.

Index.

From the Back Cover

Table of Contents

With this fun and friendly guide in hand, youll discover how ACT organizes customer information in one place, safely shares customer info between workgroups, and provides you with forecast tools, reports, and a contact database. Whether youre new to the features of ACT or you are familiar with the basics but have not yet put to use ACTs more advanced abilities, this nutsandbolts reference has been updated and revised to make sure that you are up to speed on the most efficient way to organize your customer relationships and activities.

Author and fulltime ACT Certified Consultant and ACT Premier Trainer Karen Fredricks walks you through tasks such as

Table of Contents

• Created in partnership with SAS, this book explores SAS, a business intelligence software that can be used in any business setting or enterprise for data delivery, reporting, data mining, forecasting, statistical analysis, and more
• SAS employee and technologist Stephen McDaniel combines realworld expertise and a friendly writing style to introduce readers to SAS basics
• Covers crucial topics such as getting various types of data into the software, producing reports, working with the data, basic SAS programming, macros, and working with SAS and databases

• Making calendar settings, building a taskoutline, and entering timing and timing relationships for tasks
• Assigning resources and material costs to tasks
• Using scheduling and tracking tools The Gantt Chart which is the main view of Project; The Network Diagram version of a PERT program Evaluation and Review Technique chart; Risk management; and Resource management
• Recalculating based on whatif scenarios to solve resource conflicts, get your costs within budget, or meet your deadlines
• Understanding the task/subtask structure, creating an outline, and working with WBS Work Breakdown Structure codes
• Working with a combination of cost types fixed, work, and material and customizing costs fields with Value Lists
• Saving your plan with a baseline
• Using the tracking toolbar and to record actual activity, update fixed costs, and more
• Generating and formatting standard reports complete with graphics, creating custom reports, and using the XML Reporting Wizard

If you have Project Server that complements Project 2003 but is not included, this book shows you how to use Project in an enterprise environment to centralize information online and get real online collaboration. You can publish projects to the Web, allow team members to update their progress, analyze your project status, and generally communicate in one central, online location.

Microsoft Project 2003 For Dummies is complete with a bonus CDROM that includes

• Addon tools and templates
• Case history examples
• Test preparation questions for the Project Management Institute PMI certification exam
• Milestones Project Companion and Project KickStart trial versions
• Cobra, WBS Chart Pro, PERT Chart Expert, and TimeSheet Professional demo versions

Use this friendly guide to get comfortable with Project. Youll wonder how you managed without it.

Introduction.

Part I Setting the Stage for Project.

Chapter 1 Project Management What Is It, and Why Should I Care

Chapter 2 The BestLaid Plans.

Chapter 3 Mark It on Your Calendar.

Chapter 4 A Tisket, a Task Kit.

Chapter 5 Getting Your Outline in Line.

Chapter 6 Timing Is Everything.

Part II People Who Need People.

Chapter 7 Using Your Natural Resources.

Chapter 8 Whats All This Gonna Cost

Chapter 9 Your Assignment, Should You Choose to Accept It.

Part III Well, It Looks Good on Paper.

Chapter 10 FineTuning Your Plan.

Chapter 11 Making Yourself Look Good.

Part IV Avoiding Disaster Staying On Track.

Chapter 12 It All Begins with a Baseline.

Chapter 13 On the Right Track.

Chapter 14 A Project with a View Observing Progress.

Chapter 15 Youre Behind Now What

Chapter 16 Spreading the News Reporting.

Chapter 17 Getting Better All the Time.

Part V Working with Enterprise Projects.

Chapter 18 Getting Ready to Use Project Server.

Chapter 19 Getting Your Project Virtual with Project Server.

Part VI The Part of Tens.

Chapter 20 Ten Golden Rules of Project Management.

Chapter 21 Ten ProjectManagement Software Products to Explore.

Part VII Appendixes.

Appendix A On the CD.

Appendix B Glossary.

Index.

EndUser License Agreement.

Nancy Stevenson has written more than 40 books on topics from motivation to wireless technology. Nancy coauthored the Microsoft Project 98 Bible and a projectmanagement textbook for college students. Shes a project management expert who has presented seminars for Fortune 500 companies.

• Creating, saving, opening, and printing any Office 2003 file
• Getting comfortable with common Office 2003 commands, including using the menus and toolbars, working with the task pane, using multiple windows, and copying and pasting with Office Clipboard
• The basics for working in Word, plus info on formatting your text or document, aligning text, adding headers, footers, or page numbers, adding and editing pictures, and more
• Playing the numbers with Excel, with info on the basics of spreadsheets numbers, labels, and formatting and creating and editing formulas
• Creating and manipulating chartsline, area, column, bar, and pie varieties
• Creating PowerPoint presentations using AutoContent Wizard, a template, or from an existing presentation
• Adding color, pictures, and transitions to jazz up your PowerPoint presentation
• Getting organized with Outlook, including handling email, organizing contact information, managing tasks with a todo list, and scheduling appointments
• Storing stuff in Access, with the basics on using a database, searching, sorting, and making queries, and creating reports

Microsoft Office 2003 For Dummies was written by Wallace Wang, the popular, bestselling author of more than 20 For Dummies computer books. It gives you a great overview and stepbystep howto for the most common and most helpful functions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. Its a great guide to exploring the incredible powers at your fingertips with Microsoft Office 2003 and enhancing your productivity.  Its also a great reference to keep handy so you can get a quick review of tasks you dont often do or figure out more ways to use Office 2003 to make quick work of your work.

Introduction.

Part I Getting to Know Microsoft Office.

Chapter 1 Playing with Office 2003 Files.

Chapter 2 Common Office 2003 Commands.

Chapter 3 Getting Help from Microsoft Office.

Chapter 4 Sharing Data.

Part II Working with Word.

Chapter 5 Manipulating Your Words.

Chapter 6 Making Your Words Look Pretty.

Chapter 7 Creating Fancy Pages.

Part III Playing the Numbers Game with Excel.

Chapter 8 The Basics of Spreadsheets Numbers, Labels, and Formatting.

Chapter 9 Having Fun with Formulas and Functions.

Chapter 10 Charting Your Numbers.

Part IV Making Presentations with PowerPoint.

Chapter 11 Creating a PowerPoint Presentation.

Chapter 12 Adding Color and Pictures to PowerPoint.

Chapter 13 Showing Off Your PowerPoint Presentations.

Part V Getting Organized with Outlook.

Chapter 14 Organizing Your EMail.

Chapter 15 Setting Tasks and Making Contacts.

Chapter 16 Scheduling Your Time.

Part VI Storing Stuff in Access.

Chapter 17 Using a Database.

Chapter 18 Searching, Sorting, and Making Queries.

Chapter 19 Making Reports.

Part VII The Part of Tens.

Chapter 20 Ten Tips for Using Office 2003.

Chapter 21 Ten Common Microsoft Office 2003 Shortcuts.

Index.

Wallace Wang is the bestselling author of over 20 For Dummies computer books. He moonlights as a standup comic, and has appeared on A&Es Evening At the Improv.