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Are you overwhelmed by the complexities of Microsoft Office? Are you feeling as if you’re not getting the most out of your applications? Have you not the slightest idea what FrontPage is for? With Office2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, you’ll find all the answers you need to take advantage of this popular software suite and utilize its maximum potential. This one-stop reference provides easy-to-understand solutions arranged in an easy-to-understand format, all in the classic down-to-earth Dummies lingo. This incredibly popular software includes everything you need for work, school, or just organization, including: Word processing (Word) Spreadsheets (Excel) Slideshow presentations (Power Point) Messaging and contact management (Outlook) Database management (Access) Web building tools (FrontPage) Tools for creating publications (Publisher) Application development (Visual Basic for Applications) This complete and reliable guide to Office will aid you through all the programs and provide expert advice on: Formatting, editing, and general tools of Word, including table construction and word styles Using Outlook to handle e-mail, maintain contact folders, and manage time and schedule Beginning and advanced techniques with Power Point, including how to make your show livelier Creating, refining, and organizing spreadsheets with Excel Designing, editing, and maintaining a Web page with FrontPage Building data-base tables, entering, filtering, and sorting data on Access Customizing, automating tasks, and including art and graphics on your Office programs Written by one of the leading experts on Microsoft programs, this book helps you create documents, slideshows, Web pages, and spreadsheets, as well as organize your databases, e-mails, and contact information. Stop sitting in front of your computer wondering what all of those multi-colored icons do! Office2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies will show you how to use Office like a pro.
The fun, fast, and easy way to learn programming fundamentals and essentials – from C to Visual Basic and all the languages in between So you want to be a programmer? Or maybe you just want to make your computer do what YOU want for a change? Maybe you enjoy the challenge of identifying a problem and solving it. If programming intrigues you (for whatever reason), Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies is like having a starter programming library all in one handy, if hefty, book. In this practical guide, you'll find out about algorithms, best practices, compiling, debugging your programs, and much more. The concepts are illustrated in several different programming languages, so you'll get a feel for the variety of languages and the needs they fill. Inside you'll discover seven minibooks: Getting Started: From learning methods for writing programs to becoming familiar with types of programming languages, you'll lay the foundation for your programming adventure with this minibook. Programming Basics: Here you’ll dive into how programs work, variables, data types, branching, looping, subprograms, objects, and more. Data Structures: From structures, arrays, sets, linked lists, and collections, to stacks, queues, graphs, and trees, you'll dig deeply into the data. Algorithms: This minibook shows you how to sort and search algorithms, how to use string searching, and gets into data compression and encryption. Web Programming: Learn everything you need to know about coding for the web: HyperText. Markup Language (better known simply as HTML), CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. Programming Language Syntax: Introduces you to the syntax of various languages – C, C++, Java, C#, Perl, Python, Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic, REALbasic – so you know when to use which one. Applications: This is the fun part where you put your newly developed programming skills to work in practical ways. Additionally, Beginning Programming All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies shows you how to decide what you want your program to do, turn your instructions into "machine language" that the computer understands, use programming best practices, explore the "how" and "why" of data structuring, and more. And you'll get a look into various applications like database management, bioinformatics, computer security, and artificial intelligence. After you get this book and start coding, you'll soon realize that — wow! You're a programmer!
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When you think of number-crunching and spreadsheets, you think of Excel, right? After Word, it’s the most popular program in the Microsoft Office suite. But if technical jargon isn’t your first language, you may have found Excel just a teeny bit frustrating. It can be really hard to pick your way through the many features and make Excel do what you need for it to do. Once you know how, you can use Excel to Create fill-in-the-blank forms Prepare expense reports and invoices Manage all sorts of data Keep sales and inventory records Analyze financial data and create forecasts Present information in charts and graphs Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies tames the Excel monster. Nine minibooks break things down into manageable, logical sections covering the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, working on the Web, and tweaking Excel with a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA. In the friendly, plain-English For Dummies style, this book makes it easy to find what you’re looking for and get instructions for doing what you need to do. You’ll be able to Find your way around Excel’s menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes, and access online help Format a professional-looking spreadsheet that presents data the way you choose Edit an existing spreadsheet without disturbing its design or contents Build Excel formulas and use built-in functions to produce the calculations you want Share spreadsheet data with other people and programs, and collect comments Create great-looking charts and find out how to choose the right format to display your data effectively Use Excel to maintain large amounts of data, then filter the data to extract the information you need Publish spreadsheets and charts on the Web in HTML format Explore ways to customize Excel with VBA Best of all, it’s easy to find what you need in Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. Before you know it, you’ll discover you’ve developed a friendship with Excel that will make your life easier, boost your business, and impress your friends!
Provides everything users need to get up to speed on Microsoft Word, the world's most popular word-processing software Offers extra help for power users, delving into topics such as advanced formatting and editing, working with graphics, and programming with VBAIncludes nine self-contained minibooks: Word basics; formatting text; editing techniques; letters, envelopes, and labels; getting graphic; Web publishing; advanced document features; customizing Word; and programming Word with VBA.
Under the auspices of one of the world's premier libraries, The New York Public Library Science Desk Reference offers the most comprehensive single volume available of frequently needed information on science. More than a simple dictionary or encyclopedia yet easier to use and understand than a textbook, it offers an enormous wealth of information on each of the major scientific disciplines, including: topic overviews, definitions of terms and theories, lists and descriptions of key scientists and discoveries, tables and charts of commonly needed scientific data, lists of additional sources of information...and lots more. Best of all, this reference is written and designed to be both accurate and accessible. More than 100 original state-of-the-art computer illustrations illuminate the text, while countless sidebars present information on connected topics, and extensive cross-references make it easy to explore related issues. Finally, an entire chapter is devoted to resources, including such useful information as a complete list of Nobel Prize winners and names and addresses of scientific organizations, publications, museums, nature centers, and other places to visit.
Updated to cover the latest iLife features and enhancements, including the new GarageBand application Seven minibooks on iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, iPod, and iLife Extras get readers quickly up to speed with all of Apple's digital media applications Covers the key features of each application, including ripping songs and working with a playlist (iTunes), editing and saving digital photo files (iPhoto), assembling picture and video clips into a home movie (iMovie), creating DVD slide shows and movies (iDVD), and setting up and recording in a digital music studio (GarageBand), plus bonus coverage of Apple's market-leading iPod
An in-depth For Dummies guide to the latest Mac OS X version, code-named "Panther"-seven minibooks with more than 700 pages of fun and easy tips, tricks, and techniques Approximately five million users have already upgraded to Mac OS X, and that number is expected to double within a year Covers "Panther" basics, personalizing the desktop, getting on the Internet, using Apple Mail, setting up multiuser accounts, and going digital with iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD Also explores building a network, upgrading a system, discovering Unix, and more, including thorough coverage of all the "Panther" enhancements and new features Bestselling author Mark Chambers has written more than fifteen computer books