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
  • Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage
    • Hyperlinking to Other Web Pages
    • To Do: Use a FrontPage Wizard to Create a Web Page
    • Publishing Your Web Page
    • Introduction to XML
    • XML and Its Impact
    • Office and XML
    • Summary
    • Q&A

Office and XML

You can select XML format when saving any Office program's data. When you do, Office converts that document from its native format, such as a Word document, to XML-readable code. If your company wants to publish a document on last year's sales, for example, on its Web site and you are assigned to write the report, your company's technical people might request that you save the document in XML format.

One reason to do so is that your company's Web developers can insert proper XML tags that label key pieces of your document. They might want to place industry-standard XML tags around your important inventory remarks, for instance, so that when XML-aware search engines, such as Google.com, scan your document, the search engines will better be able to place your company's Web-site documents in the proper search-results pages. Without XML, the search engines will have little way to file your site's documents properly except by exact word matching. Word matching does not always produce accurate results. XML tags, as described in the previous sections, allow your documents to become richer in content when viewed by other people and programs across the Web.

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