Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual Author: Chris Grover | Language: English | ISBN:
B004GTLFGE | Format: EPUB
Office 2011 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual Description
Office 2011 for Mac is easy to use, but to unleash its full power, you need to go beyond the basics. This entertaining guide not only gets you started with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the new Outlook for Mac, it also reveals useful lots of things you didn't know the software could do. Get crystal-clear explanations on the features you use most -- and plenty of power-user tips when you're ready for more.
- Take advantage of new tools. Navigate with the Ribbon, use SmartArt graphics, and work online with Office Web Apps.
- Create professional-looking documents. Use Word to craft beautiful reports, newsletters, brochures, and posters.
- Crunch numbers with ease. Assemble data, make calculations, and summarize the results with Excel.
- Stay organized. Set up Outlook to track your email, contacts, appointments, and tasks.
- Make eye-catching presentations. Build PowerPoint slideshows with video and audio clips, animations, and other features.
- Use the programs together. Discover how to be more productive and creative by drawing directly in Word documents, adding spreadsheets to your slides, and more.
- File Size: 20092 KB
- Print Length: 816 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1449393357
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
- Publisher: Pogue Press; 1 edition (December 22, 2010)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B004GTLFGE
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Reviewed by C J Singh
As a longtime Windows user, but a newbie to Apple products, I have been comparing guides in the University of California, Berkeley, libraries. After studying David Pogue's Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual ; Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual; iPhone: The Missing Manual: the fourth edition and comparing them with several other guides, I've become a fan of the "missing manual" series. So, I pre-ordered "Office 2011 for the Mac: The Missing Manual" by Chris Grover.
The 789-page missing manual covers, in detail, all four Office applications: Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint. It will serve newbies and intermediate users well. Advanced users are likely to find it too basic, except, perhaps, for an occasional reference.
As a professional editor, I am impressed with the clarity of Chris Grover's writing. It takes high-level skill to achieve this. (No dummy author can write a book in the "for dummies" series -- another good series, despite its reader-denigrating subtitle.) Let's see how Grover introduces two of the basic new features in Office 2011 for the Mac, the Ribbon and Outlook, and two advanced features, Visual Basic Applications and AppleScripts.
The Ribbon: "One of the most visible changes in Office programs is the ribbon -- a supercharged toolbar attached to the top of document windows (Figure I-1).
Microsoft Office 2011 is a big leap in Mac world. It is faster, more stable and filled with lots of new features. It has a new look and feel as well. If you are like me, you'd rather stay with old good interface you have gotten used to. On the other hand, world will not wait and you have to follow the trend. This is the place were Office 2011 for Macintosh comes in handy. It helps you adapt to new circumstances, to completely redesigned user interface. I will not discuss the whole book here, because I don't use Outlook and Power Point at all - I simply don't belong to target group for these two products. However, when it comes to Word and Excel I can tell that Chris have done really good job. You will get basic information related to creating documents, templates, manipulating ribbon (quite useful), using style (believe me, I know people who format documents using Enter and space). Book discusses topics related to references and references management. This is really great feature that Pages '09 miss and makes Office better suited for scientific papers (unless you can not imagine anything else than LaTeX). Huge advantage of 2011 version is Visual Basic that was not available in 2008 edition for Mac. This is really, really huge step forward for Microsoft Office in Mac world. It makes this suite even more interesting. Chris touches slightly this topic, however you will be left unfulfilled. I'd recommend here Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Visual Basic for Applications Step by Step instead - if you are interested in Visual Basic programming. However, it's nice of Chris that he touches this topic as it is definitely worth mentioning. What I have found really interesting was explanation of pivot tables. Pivot tables are the endless topic of miss understanding. Lots of people can not get used to use them.
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