Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Table of Contents

The Missing Credits; About the Author; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgments; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; Keeping Up with the Macs; More Integrated Than Ever; What's New in Office 2008; The Very Basics; About This Book; Part I: Word; Chapter 1: Basic Word Processing; 1.1 Creating and Opening Documents; 1.2 Word Processing Basics; 1.3 A Window into Word; 1.4 The Views; 1.5 Every Conceivable Variation on Saving; 1.6 Printing; Chapter 2: Editing in Word; 2.1 The Many Ways to Select Text; 2.2 Moving Text Around; 2.3 Navigating Your Documents; 2.4 Finding and Replacing; 2.5 Spelling and Grammar; 2.6 Five Ways to Type Less; Chapter 3: Formatting in Word; 3.1 The Formatting Palette; 3.2 Character Formatting; 3.3 Formatting; 3.4 Paragraph Formatting; 3.5 Document Formatting; 3.6 Section Formatting; Chapter 4: Styles, Page Layout, and Tables; 4.1 Styles; 4.2 Print Layout; 4.3 Automatic Hyphenation; 4.4 Text Boxes; 4.5 Pictures and Drawings; 4.6 Charts and Spreadsheets; 4.7 Tables; Chapter 5: Working Collaboratively; 5.1 Comments; 5.2 Change Tracking; 5.3 Comparing Documents; Chapter 6: Working with Notebooks, Outlining, and Master Documents; 6.1 Notebook Layout View; 6.2 Outline View; 6.3 The Document Map; 6.4 Master Documents; Chapter 7: Editing Long Documents; 7.1 Headers and Footers; 7.2 Citations; 7.3 Bibliographies; 7.4 Footnotes and Endnotes; 7.5 Line Numbers; 7.6 Templates; 7.7 AutoSummarize; 7.8 Fields; 7.9 Bookmarks; 7.10 Captions; 7.11 Cross-References; 7.12 Creating a Table of Contents; 7.13 Indexing; 7.14 Mail Merges; 7.15 Macros; Chapter 8: Moving Beyond Text: Publishing Layout View; 8.1 Templates: Ready-to-Use Page Designs; 8.2 Building Pages with Objects; 8.3 Creating Templates; Chapter 9: Word Meets Web; 9.1 Word as HTML Reader; 9.2 Creating a Web Page in Word; 9.3 Graphics, Sounds, and Movies; 9.4 Hyperlinks; 9.5 Web Forms; 9.6 Saving Web Pages; Part II: Entourage; Chapter 10: Email, Address Book, and Newsgroups; 10.1 The Big Picture; 10.2 Setting Up Entourage; 10.3 Sending and Receiving Mail; 10.4 Address Book; 10.5 Newsgroups; Chapter 11: Calendar, Tasks, and the Project Center; 11.1 The Calendar; 11.2 Recording Events; 11.3 What to Do with an Appointment; 11.4 Saving Calendars as Web Pages; 11.5 Tasks and the To Do List; 11.6 My Day; 11.7 Office Reminders; 11.8 Categories; 11.9 Project Center; 11.10 Accessing Projects from Other Office Programs; 11.11 Notes; 11.12 Synchronization; 11.13 Multiple Identities; 11.14 Finding Messages; 11.15 Links; 11.16 Checking Your Spelling; 11.17 The Script Menu; Part III: Excel; Chapter 12: Basic Excel; 12.1 Spreadsheet Basics; 12.2 Formula Fundamentals; 12.3 Excel, the List Maker; Chapter 13: Formatting and Charts; 13.1 Formatting Worksheets; 13.2 Charts; 13.3 Printing Worksheets; Chapter 14: Formula and Database Magic; 14.1 Workbooks and Worksheets; 14.2 Advanced Formula Magic; 14.3 Working with Databases; 14.4 Analyzing and Viewing Your Data; Part IV: PowerPoint; Chapter 15: Planning and Creating Great Presentations; 15.1 Planning the Presentation; 15.2 Delivering the Presentation; 15.3 Presentation Hardware; Chapter 16: Building a PowerPoint Presentation; 16.1 Finding Your Way Around PowerPoint; 16.2 Step 1: Specify a Theme; 16.3 Step 2: Writing the Outline; 16.4 Step 3: Building the Show; 16.5 How to Build a Slide; Chapter 17: Polishing and Presenting in PowerPoint; 17.1 Adding Movement; 17.2 Putting On the Show; 17.3 Recycling Your Presentations; 17.4 Printing Your Presentation; Part V: Office As a Whole; Chapter 18: Saving Time with the Project Gallery and Toolbox; 18.1 The Project Gallery; 18.2 Toolbox; 18.3 Reference Tools; 18.4 Projects Palette; 18.5 Compatibility Report; Chapter 19: Making the Most of Graphics; 19.1 Inserting a Graphic; 19.2 The Clip Gallery; 19.3 AutoShapes and WordArt; 19.4 Object Linking and Embedding (OLE); Chapter 20: Customizing Office; 20.1 Customizing Your Toolbars; 20.2 Redesigning Your Menus; 20.3 Reassigning Key Combinations; 20.4 AppleScripting Office; 20.5 What is AppleScript?; 20.6 Installing and Running Office Scripts; Part VI: Appendixes; Installation and Troubleshooting; Installing Office; Troubleshooting; The Office Help System; Office Help; Leopard Menu Help; Web-Based Help; Office 2008, Menu by Menu; Application Menu; Entourage Menus; File Menu; Edit Menu; View Menu; Message Menu; Format Menu; Tools Menu; Window Menu; Help Menuuuuuu; Scripts Menu; Excel Menus; File Menu; Edit Menu; View Menu; Insert Menu; Format Menu; Tools Menu; Data Menu; Chart Menu; Window Menu; Help Menu; PowerPoint Menus; File Menu; Edit Menu; View Menu; Insert Menu; Format Menu; Tools Menu; Slide Show Menu; Window Menu; Help Menu; Word Menus; File Menu; Edit Menu; View Menu; Insert Menu; Format Menu; Font Menu; Tools Menu; Table Menu; Window Menu; Work Menu; Help Menu; Colophon;

Jim Elferdink is co-author of "AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual," wrote "iWork '05: The Missing Manual," and owns Macs for the Masses, a Macintosh consulting company. In former lifetimes a commercial photographer, farm owner, carpenter, and cabinetmaker; currently he enjoys gourmet cooking, digital photography, and racing sports cars. College introduced him to the Mac Plus and to comely professor Joy Hardin. He bought one and married the other. They share a home in the redwoods of far Northern California.