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Microsoft Office Live For Dummies

Microsoft Office Live For Dummies

  • Microsoft Office Live is a service that allows individuals, small businesses, and organizations to create Web sites, share documents, and have a shared storage area on the Web
  • Explains how to create a Web site; share documents, contact lists, project plans, and calendars; send or receive e-mails using Live Mail; and allow customers, employees, and vendors access to data based on specific security restrictions
  • Discusses establishing security levels, sharing documents, defining and managing projects, tracking company assets, using the Contact Manager, using marketing campaigns, and working with client workspaces
  • Office Live services can be used independently but they also integrate well with Microsoft Office programs used regularly by more than 400 million people around the world, including Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, Microsoft Office Live Meeting and Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: Discovering this Thing Called Office Live.
Chapter 1: Who Moved My Shrinkwrap?
Chapter 2: Picking a Flavor of Office Live.
Chapter 3: Getting Office Live Up and Running.
Part II: Getting Down to Basics with Office Live Basics.
Chapter 4: Working with Basic E-Mail.
Chapter 5: Everyone Needs a Web Site.
Chapter 6: Optimizing Your Web Site.
Chapter 7: Playing the Dating Game.
Part III: Adding a Few Essentials.
Chapter 8: Working with Business Contact Manager.
Chapter 9: Working with Workspaces.
Chapter 10: Taking the Show on the Road.
Chapter 11: A Few Other Tricks of the Trade.
Part IV: Getting Premium Service.
Chapter 12: Minding Your Business with Business Applications.
Chapter 13: Time (Manager) Is on Your Side.
Chapter 14: Managing Your Projects with Project Manager.
Chapter 15: Selling Your Heart Out.
Chapter 16: We’re Going to the Library.
Chapter 17: Who’s Minding the Store?
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 18: Ten Cool Benefits of Office Live.
Chapter 19: Ten Types of People Who Could Benefit from Office Live.
Chapter 20: Ten Questions You Might Have about Software as a Service (SaaS).
Index.
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Access 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies

Access 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies

If you’ve been using Access for a while, you’re probably aware of its power and potential and itching to take advantage of both.Access 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies takes you beyond forms and reports and shows you how to use VBA to create killer Access databases and applications. This gentle introduction to VBA programming covers everything you need to get started, including:
  • Basic programming skills and concepts
  • Explanations of modules, procedures, objects, and arguments
  • Access-unique programming activities, including SQL and recordsets
  • How to use the Visual Basic editor
  • Creating dialog boxes, lists, drop-down menus, and functions
  • Integrating with other Office applications
  • Ready-to-use VBA code examples to type in or copy and paste from the Web
Completely revised to reflect all changes found in Microsoft Access 2007, Access 2007 VBA Programming For Dummies gives you access to Access like you’ve never had it before.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: Introducing VBA Programming.
Chapter 1: Where VBA Fits In.
Chapter 2: Your VBA Toolkit.
Chapter 3: Jumpstart: Creating a Simple VBA Program.
Part II: VBA Tools and Techniques.
Chapter 4: Understanding Your VBA Building Blocks.
Chapter 5: Controlling Access through VBA.
Chapter 6: Programming Access Forms.
Part III: VBA, Recordsets, and SQL.
Chapter 7: The Scoop on SQL and Recordsets.
Chapter 8: Putting Recordsets to Work.
Part IV: Applying VBA in the Real World.
Chapter 9: Creating Your Own Dialog Boxes.
Chapter 10: Customizing Combo Boxes and List Boxes.
Chapter 11: Creating Your Own Functions.
Chapter 12: Testing and Debugging Your Code.
Part V: Reaching Out with VBA.
Chapter 13: Using VBA with Multiple Databases.
Chapter 14: Integrating with Other Office Applications.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 15: Ten Commandments of Writing VBA.
Chapter 16: Top Ten Nerdy VBA Tricks.
Index.








Office 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Office 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

  • 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
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Book I: Common Office Tools.
Chapter 1: Office Nuts and Bolts.
Chapter 2: Wrestling with the Text.
Chapter 3: Speed Techniques Worth Knowing About.
Chapter 4: Taking Advantage of the Proofing Tools.
Chapter 5: Creating a Table.
Chapter 6: Creating a Chart.
Chapter 7: Making a SmartArt Diagram.
Chapter 8: Drawing and Manipulating Lines, Shapes, and Other Objects.
Book II: Word 2007.
Chapter 1: Speed Techniques for Using Word.
Chapter 2: Laying Out Text and Pages.
Chapter 3: Word Styles.
Chapter 4: Desktop Publishing with Word.
Chapter 5: Getting Word’s Help with Office Chores.
Chapter 6: Tools for Reports and Scholarly Papers.
Book III: Outlook 2007.
Chapter 1: Getting Acquainted with Outlook.
Chapter 2: Maintaining the Contacts Folder.
Chapter 3: Handling Your E-Mail.
Chapter 4: Managing Your Time and Schedule.
Chapter 5: Tasks, Reminders, and Notes.
Book IV: PowerPoint 2007.
Chapter 1: Getting Started in PowerPoint.
Chapter 2: Fashioning a Look for Your Presentation.
Chapter 3: Entering the Text.
Chapter 4: Making Your Presentations Livelier.
Chapter 5: Delivering a Presentation.
Book V: Excel 2007.
Chapter 1: Up and Running with Excel.
Chapter 2: Refining Your Worksheet.
Chapter 3: Formulas and Functions for Crunching Numbers.
Chapter 4: Making a Worksheet Easier to Read and Understand.
Chapter 5: Analyzing Data.
Book VI: Access 2007.
Chapter 1: Introducing Access.
Chapter 2: Building Your Database Tables.
Chapter 3: Entering the Data.
Chapter 4: Sorting, Querying, and Filtering for Data.
Chapter 5: Presenting Data in a Report.
Book VII: Publisher 2007.
Chapter 1: Introducing Publisher.
Chapter 2: Refining a Publication.
Chapter 3: Putting On the Finishing Touches.
Book VIII: Office 2007 — One Step Beyond.
Chapter 1: Customizing an Office Program.
Chapter 2: Ways of Distributing Your Work.
Chapter 3: Handling Graphics.
Chapter 4: Decorating Files with Clip Art.
Chapter 5: Note Taking with OneNote.
Chapter 6: Collaborating with SharePoint Services.
Chapter 7: Automating Tasks with Macros.
Chapter 8: Linking and Embedding in Compound Files.
Index.






Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies

Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies

Do you know where you money goes? Would balancing your budget take an act of Congress? Does your idea of preparing for the future involve lottery tickets?
This friendly guide provides everything you need to know to stay on top of your finances and make the most of your money — both your cash and your Microsoft Money 2006 software program (the Premium, Deluxe, or Standard edition). You’ll find out how to record financial transactions, analyze different investments, determine your net worth, plan for retirement, make informed financial decisions, and more.
With step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions and lots of screen shots, Microsoft Money 2006 For Dummies shows and tells you how to:
  • Set up accounts and record all transactions, including charge card purchases
  • Do your banking, categorize your spending and income, reconcile an account, print checks, and more
  • Research and track investments
  • Create a realistic budget, schedule bill payments, estimate your income tax bill, plan for retirement, and more
  • Generate reports and charts that help you understand your spending habits, see where you stand financially, and improve your financial picture
  • Track assets, liabilities, loans, and mortgages
  • Use online banking services
You can even get really serious and use the Lifetime Planner to map out your hopes and dreams and find out if you’re on the way to achieving them. This book could be the best investment you’ll ever make!







Managing Your Business with Outlook 2003 For Dummies

Managing Your Business with Outlook 2003 For Dummies

  • Shows readers how to use Outlook as an effective and powerful solution for managing and organizing e-mail messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other information as they are specifically applied in a business setting
  • Discusses managing and maintaining current customers and how to control customer interactions
  • Explains the process of using checklists and matching them with Outlook applications-from bulk mailing to planning a telemarketing campaign
  • Addresses how to build a prospect profile with an action plan for follow-up until the prospect becomes an active customer
  • Provides step-by-step examples on how to set up and use Business Contact Manager
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: Managing Any Business.
Chapter 1: Changing Your Outlook on Managing Business.
Chapter 2: Organizing Yourself with Outlook.
Chapter 3: Automating with Outlook.
Part II: Managing Contact Information.
Chapter 4: Creating an Awesome Customers and Suppliers Database.
Chapter 5: Building Customer Profiles with Forms.
Chapter 6: Kicking It Up a Notch with the Business Contact Manager.
Chapter 7: Working with BCM Reports.
Part III: Handling Communication and Collaboration.
Chapter 8: Surfing Over the E-mail High Tide.
Chapter 9: Managing E-Mail Cleanup.
Chapter 10: Facilitating Teamwork.
Chapter 11: Applying Teamwork.
Chapter 12: Shrinking the Meeting Time.
Chapter 13: Working with Outlook on the Road.
Part IV: Controlling Business Processes.
Chapter 14: Tracking Sales Activities.
Chapter 15: Planning, Prospecting, and Visiting Customers.
Chapter 16: Minding Your Marketing Methods.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Keeping Time on Your Side.
Chapter 18: Ten Sales and Marketing Tips.
Chapter 19: Ten Technical Tips for Safeguarding and Mobility.
Part VI: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Calendar Basics.
Appendix B: Tasks Basics.
Appendix C: Contact Basics.
Appendix D: Journal Basics.
Appendix E: Shifting from Outlook Express to Outlook 2003.
Index.



Macs For Dummies, 9th Edition

Macs For Dummies, 9th Edition

Updated to cover the new Intel-based Macs, Mac OS X Tiger, and the latest Mac tools and trends, this bestseller includes:
  • Mac basics,
  • customizing a workspace,
  • getting acquainted with Mac OS X, going online,
  • working with iLife applications,
  • setting up e-mail,
  • connecting an iPod to a Mac,
  • turning a Mac into a fax machine,
  • troubleshooting,
  • security,
  • and more.
USA Today Personal Technology columnist Edward Baig, a longtime technology writer who appears regularly on TV, radio, and at major industry trade shows, has rewritten this edition from scratch ensuring you get the up-to-date information you need.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: Freshman Year at Drag-and-Drop Tech.
Chapter 1: Adventuring into the Mac World.
Chapter 2: The Nuts and Bolts of Your Mac.
Chapter 3: Getting to the Core of the Apple.
Chapter 4: Here a Mac, There a Mac, Everywhere a Mac Mac.
Part II: Mac Daily Dealings.
Chapter 5: Making the Mac Your Own.
Chapter 6: Apple’s Feline Fetish.
Chapter 7: Handling All That Busy Work.
Chapter 8: Printing and Faxing.
Part III: Rocketing into Cyberspace.
Chapter 9: Stairway to the Internet.
Chapter 10: Going Postal over E-Mail.
Chapter 11: Caught Up in the Web.
Chapter 12: Joining .Mac, the Club That Will Have You for a Member.
Chapter 13: Mounting a Defense Strategy.
Part IV: Getting an iLife.
Chapter 14: Living in an iTunes Nation.
Chapter 15: Taking an iPhoto Close-Up.
Chapter 16: Shooting an iMovie Screen Test.
Chapter 17: The Show Must Go On.
Part V: The Creepy Geeky Section.
Chapter 18: Networking Madness.
Chapter 19: Surviving in a Windows World.
Chapter 20: Handling Trouble in Paradise.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 21: Ten Clever Dashboard Widgets.
Chapter 22: Ten Indispensable Mac Web Sites.
Chapter 23: Ten Things to Leave You With.
Index.








Macs For Dummies, 8th Edition

Macs For Dummies, 8th Edition

The Mac is famous for its user-friendliness. Maybe that’s why you bought one in the first place. But to make the most of all its marvelous capabilities, you’ll be glad to have an equally friendly resource to help you use it.
Written by the renowned New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, Macs For Dummies has long been the bestselling Mac book because it provides just what you need to know to get the best performance from your Mac. And like the Mac itself, this book is easy to use, with plain-English explanations and step-by-step instructions. The revised eighth edition covers
  • Basics for beginners
  • Setting up your printer
  • Working with OS X
  • Getting online and using e-mail
  • Creating and saving documents
  • Using iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie
  • What to do if things go wrong
Whether this is your first computer or you’ve just upgraded to OS X, you’ll find help when you need it in this handy guide. You’ll discover how to
  • Set up your Mac, connect printers and other devices, and navigate the desktop and Dock
  • Establish an account with an Internet service provider, set up e-mail, and start surfing the Web
  • Use all the basic software programs and work with files
  • Edit home movies with iMovie, download music and use iTunes, burn CDs and DVDs, and edit images with iPhoto
  • Share your Mac or set up a home network
  • Perform basic Mac maintenance, find and fix problems, upgrade your Mac, and more
With Macs For Dummies, 8th Edition by your side, you’ll be prepared to take advantage of every exciting feature that Mac and OS X have to offer. Before you know it, you’ll be living the digital lifestyle, cruising the Internet like a pro, printing documents and photos—and even getting some work done!
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: For the Absolute Mac Virgin.
Chapter 1: How to Turn On Your Mac (and What to Do Next).
Chapter 2: Windows, Icons, and Trashes.
Chapter 3: Actually Accomplishing Something.
Chapter 4: Typing, Saving, and Finding Again.
Chapter 5: A Quiet Talk about Printers, Printing, and Fonts.
Part II: The Internet Defanged.
Chapter 6: Faking Your Way onto AOL and the Internet.
Chapter 7: The Weird Wide Web.
Chapter 8: E-mail for He-males and Females.
Part III: Software Competence.
Chapter 9: iTunes, iPod, iConquered.
Chapter 10: An Eye for iPhoto.
Chapter 11: iSpielberg: Digital Movies and DVDs.
Part IV: Toward a New, Nerdier You.
Chapter 12: Back to Mac OS 9.
Chapter 13: Mono-Mac, Multi-People.
Chapter 14: Networks for Nitwits.
Chapter 15: The Book of iBook and PowerBook.
Chapter 16: When Bad Things Happen to Good Macs.
Chapter 17: Beyond the Mac: Where to Go from Here.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 18: Ten Cool Things You Didn’t Know Your Mac Could Do.
Chapter 19: Ten Tricks That Didn’t Quite Fit the Outline.
Chapter 20: Ten Back-of-the-Mac Jacks.
Index.








Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies provides a one-stop reference for users looking to harness the power of this Web building suite. The book covers each of the core applications in Studio MX including Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand, Fireworks, ColdFusion and, newly added to this edition, Contribute. Macromedia Studio MX 2004 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies also contains coverage on using all the applications together in a single Web building project as well as an overview of the basics of good Web design. This book, like the product itself, should appeal to both professional and hobbyist Web builders who want a single product that can do the work of six or seven separate products.


Table of Contents
Introduction.
Book I: An Introduction to Building Web Sites.
Chapter 1: Why Build a Web Site?
Chapter 2: Developing Web Content.
Chapter 3: Choosing the Right Tools for the Job.
Chapter 4: Best Practices for Web Development.
Book II: Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Chapter 2: Creating Basic Web Pages.
Chapter 3: Creating and Using Dreamweaver Sites.
Chapter 4: Punching Up Your Pages with Forms and Frames.
Chapter 5: Laying Out Pages with Layers.
Chapter 6: Using ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition in Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Chapter 7: Advanced Web Page Design Techniques.
Chapter 8: Integrating Dreamweaver MX 2004 with Other Macromedia Products.
Book III: Fireworks MX 2004.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Fireworks MX 2004.
Chapter 2: Fireworks MX 2004 Basics.
Chapter 3: Working with Text, Shapes, and Images.
Chapter 4: Transforming Text, Shapes, and Images.
Chapter 5: The Power of Layers and Frames.
Chapter 6: Slicing Up Content for the Web.
Chapter 7: Advanced Fireworks MX 2004 Tools.
Chapter 8: Integrating Fireworks MX 2004 with Other Macromedia Products.
Book IV: FreeHand MX.
Chapter 1: Introduction to FreeHand MX.
Chapter 2: Understanding FreeHand MX Basics.
Chapter 3: Using the FreeHand MX Text Tools.
Chapter 4: Creating Illustrations with FreeHand MX.
Chapter 5: Transforming Text, Shapes, and Images.
Chapter 6: Exploring the Color Management Tools.
Chapter 7: Integrating FreeHand MX with Other Macromedia Products.
Book V: Macromedia Flash MX 2004.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Macromedia Flash MX 2004.
Chapter 2: Using the Graphics Tools.
Chapter 3: Working with Symbols.
Chapter 4: Making Your Life Easier with Layers.
Chapter 5: Creating Animation.
Chapter 6: Adding Sound and Video.
Chapter 7: Publishing Movies.
Chapter 8: Getting Interactive with ActionScript.
Chapter 9: Creating Interfaces with Components and Forms.
Chapter 10: Integrating Macromedia Flash MX 2004 with Other Macromedia Products.
Book VI: ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition.
Chapter 1: Introduction to ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition.
Chapter 2: Working with the ColdFusion Administrator.
Chapter 3: ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition Basics.
Chapter 4: Understanding CFML Basics.
Chapter 5: Variables, Functions, and Structured Data.
Chapter 6: Using Databases with ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition.
Chapter 7: Advanced Features in ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition.
Chapter 8: Integrating ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition with Other Macromedia Products.
Book VII: Contribute 2.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Contribute 2.
Chapter 2: Basics for Contributors.
Chapter 3: Contribute 2 Administration.
Chapter 4: Contribute 2 and Other Macromedia Products.
Index.