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
  • 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
    • Your Publication's Art
    • Extra Shapes
    • Designing with the Design Gallery
    • Getting Help with the Design Checker
    • Putting Borders Around Your Publications
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • 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

Extra Shapes

The Publisher toolbox, the set of tools on the left side of your screen, includes a few drawing tools with which you can add shapes to your publication. Although these tools are not good enough to use for original artwork, you can use the drawing tools to add lines, circles, boxes, and other simple shapes to your drawing. Many of these shapes make good borders or highlighters to accent special points inside your publication. You can also add special text as you might for emblems and callouts that you want to add to your publication.

To access the shapes, click the line, oval, or box drawing tools. A collection of special shapes appear when you click the AutoShapes tool, as shown in Figure 24.3. AutoShapes are predesigned shapes that you might want to use, such as arrows and stars. To draw any shape, whether that shape is a line, oval, or AutoShape, select the shape and then click and hold your mouse at the shape's starting point in your publication. As drag your mouse while holding down your mouse button, the shape appears in your publication. To place the shape, release your mouse. Any time you click over the shape, the sizing handles appear so you can resize or move the shape to another location in your publication.

Figure 24.3 Select an AutoShape from the collection of shapes available from the toolbox.

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