Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You!
  • Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • What This Book Does for You
  • Can This Book Really Teach Office 2003 in 24 Hours?
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Part I. Working with Office 2003
  • Hour 1. Getting Acquainted with Office 2003
    • What's in Office 2003?
    • Starting Microsoft Office
    • The Office Assistant
    • Typing Your Question
    • Making Office Easier to Use
    • Get Ready for the Internet and Office
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • Part II. Processing with Word 2003
  • Hour 2. Welcome to Word 2003
  • Hour 3. Formatting with Word 2003
  • Hour 4. Managing Documents and Customizing Word 2003
  • Hour 5. Advanced Word 2003
  • Part III. Computing with Excel 2003
  • Hour 6. Understanding Excel 2003 Workbooks
  • Hour 7. Restructuring and Editing Excel 2003 Worksheets
  • Hour 8. Using Excel 2003
  • Hour 9. Formatting Worksheets to Look Great
  • Hour 10. Charting with Excel 2003
  • Part IV. Presenting with Flair
  • Hour 11. PowerPoint 2003 Presentations
  • Hour 12. Editing and Arranging Your Presentations
  • Hour 13. PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features
  • Hour 14. Animating Your Presentations
  • Part V. Organizing with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 15. Communicating with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 16. Planning and Scheduling with Outlook 2003
  • Part VI. Tracking with Access 2003
  • Hour 17. Access 2003 Basics
  • Hour 18. Entering and Displaying Access 2003 Data
  • Hour 19. Retrieving Your Data
  • Hour 20. Reporting with Access 2003
  • Part VII. Combining Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 21. Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 22. Creating Web Content with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
  • Part VIII. Publishing Eye-Catching Documents
  • Hour 23. Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003
  • Hour 24. Adding Art to Your Publications
  • Part IX. Appendixes
  • Appendix B. Business Contact Manager and Office Extras
  • Part X. Bonus Hours
  • Hour 25. Using FrontPage 2003 for Web Page Design and Creation
  • Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage

Get Ready for the Internet and Office

When you're working in Word and you need to check a Web page, you don't have to start Internet Explorer to do so. Microsoft integrated Office and the Internet. The seamless Web integration lets you get to Internet data much easier than before. The Internet interface between the various Office products differs a little, but the Internet interface is always underneath Office, ready to handle the connection.

The Web Toolbar

All core Office programs contain a Web toolbar that appears when you click a hyperlink (underlined text that links to a document or Web page on your computer, on a networked computer, or to an Internet Web page). You can also display the Web toolbar by right-clicking on any toolbar and selecting Web from the list that appears.

If you're logged on to the Internet when you click a Web toolbar button such as the Start Page button, or when you type a Web address in your Office application's Web address bar, Office takes you directly to that Web page, substituting your Web browser for the current Office program on your screen. If you're not logged on to the Internet before using the Web toolbar buttons, Office initiates your logon sequence for you. When you click the browser's Back button, you return to Word or Excel or to whatever Office program you were running.

This back-and-forth nature of Office is a little-used but tremendous tool. Why should your workplace be littered with multiple windows, one for your Excel worksheet and a separate one for your Internet browser? Just display your Web toolbar, and you can go back and forth between your own computer's documents and data and the Web's information without ever having to start a Web browser or click buttons on your Windows taskbar.

As you use Office more and more, you'll find many ways to integrate Office and the Web. For example, suppose you're giving a PowerPoint presentation and you need to reference something on the Web. Simply insert a hyperlink to that Web site and click it during the presentation. PowerPoint jumps to the Web and displays the page (assuming you're online).

A Web site does not even have to exist yet for you to insert a hyperlink to it. For example, you might be creating an in-house reference manual for your company's new Web site. You can insert a hyperlink to an address on your company site before the site actually appears on the Internet.

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