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Dan Gookin's Naked Office


by Dan Gookin

Salve For Your Office Headaches!

Is it the best thing since sliced bread? A bug-riddled piece of junk? Here, best-selling author Dan Gookin skillfully navigates between these two extremes, laying bare the best and worst of Office in order to help you achieve a single, all-important goal: working faster, easier, and smarter. YouÕll harness the real power of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook while avoiding their pitfallsÑand youÕll discover the ways they actually can be made to work together as a truly integrated suite. Dan GookinÕs Naked Office means the end of Office-inspired headaches. (Well, the vast majority of them, anyway. HeÕs not a miracle-worker, after all.)

Expert Instruction to Change Office Life as You Know It (for the Better) Making a paragraph look the way you want it to look Understanding how styles work and making them work for you Locking a document to prevent changes, and tracking changes made by others Using Excel as a databaseÑand not just for numbers Unraveling formulas and remembering what goes where Organizing e-mail with Outlook Getting the most out of OutlookÕs scheduling abilities Unlocking the mechanics and philosophy of PowerPoint presentations Oh, and of courseÑmuch, much more

About the Author

Dan Gookin has been writing computer books for nearly 20 years now. His popular, informative, and entertaining tomes have sold millions of copies and have been translated into dozens of languages. The reason? We're not sure but there is a naked man on the cover.

Dan Gookin's Naked Office
by Dan Gookin - List Price: $29.99, Price: $20.99 You Save: $9.00 (30%) Paperback: 608 pages; Dimensions (in inches): 1.33 x 9.24 x 7.28; Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (September 22, 2003)

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