The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Office XP

Your home or office is about to experience one of the most significant renovations of the twenty-first century—Microsoft Office XP. Are you ready to whip up documents, spreadsheets, graphs, and interactive slide shows? Manage data? Plan your time? Communicate electronically via e-mail? Publish your own Web pages? Enter voice commands and text via dictation?

Sure, Office XP gives you the most powerful tools in the business, but if you don’t know how to use them, they can make even the most competent professional feel like a bumbling idiot. Welcome to The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Microsoft® Office XP. This book is your guide to creating professional-looking Word documents, automated Excel spreadsheets, manageable Access databases, and PowerPoint slide show presentations. You also learn how to keep track of meetings and appointments with Outlook, send and receive e-mail, create and publish your own Web pages, and even dabble in desktop publishing with Publisher.

---Simple explanations on how to work with Office XP

--Valuable tips on avoiding common pitfalls and becoming more productive with shortcuts

--Expert, focused advice on Word, Excel, PowerPoint®, Access, Outlook®, FrontPage®, and Publisher

--Easy-to-follow instructions that let you get up and running quickly