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
  • 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
    • Introduction to FrontPage 2003
    • Working with FrontPage 2003
    • To Do: Create Your First Web Page
    • Adding a Title to Your Web Page
    • Web Pages Can Hold Many Kinds of Elements
    • To Do: Finish Your First Simple Web Page
    • Different Views
    • Adding a Background
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage

Working with FrontPage 2003

Two Web chapters are not nearly enough time to master FrontPage 2003, but you can gain a quick understanding of the product in this and the next Web hour and learn what's in store if you want to further your skills.

When you want to create a Web page, you can select File, New. You then have the option of creating a single Web page or a complete Web site (a collection of Web pages, the first of which is called the home page).

Figure Web 1.3 shows the many wizards and design templates that appear when you want to create a new Web page. These design options appear when you select File, New and then select One page Web site from the task pane. The resulting Web site you create does not have to remain a single page, but it begins as one. Some of the Web pages you can create are

• One Page Web— Creates a blank Web page
• Corporate Presence Wizard— Begins a step-by-step wizard that generates a Web-site structure for a large organization
• Discussion Page Wizard— Helps you create a Web page that enables users to chat back and forth in a bulletin-board text format
• Customer Support Web— A Web page designed for a Help support staff to help users of products and services
• Database Interface Wizard— A Web page that connects to Access and other types of databases so that you can manage and display database information over the Internet, such as an inventory or product-order system

Figure web 1.3 FrontPage 2003 offers several Web-page templates and wizards.

All Web pages you create with FrontPage contain basic HTML editing tags that enable the Web page to operate in an Internet browser. You can see the bare-bones minimum, HTML-based, blank Web page contents in Listing Web 1.2. These HTML commands form the basis of all Web pages. FrontPage adds even more HTML tags when you create a Web page. As you can see, many HTML commands, called tags, are enclosed in angled brackets. Often, a command begins with an opening tag (such as <title>) followed by a closing tag (such as </title>), indicated with a forward slash. Fortunately, you do not have to be a master of HTML specifics when you first begin learning FrontPage; you only need to be aware of them and be able to recognize what HTML is at this point.

Example 1.2. All Web Pages Contain These Fundamental HTML Commands

<html>
  <head>
  </head>
  <body>
  </body>
</html>

Although HTML is rather simple compared to major programming languages such as C++, HTML is cryptic and you can already see that working in the graphical environment that FrontPage 2003 provides is much simpler than mastering HTML commands.

The initial tags shown in Listing Web 1.2 are only sufficient to define a blank Web page, and it's your job to fill in the page with text, graphics, and other elements. As you add these elements, FrontPage adds all the necessary HTML command tags that will produce the page you desire inside your users' Web browsers.

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