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
    • Starting Excel
    • Understanding Worksheets and Workbooks
    • Entering Worksheet Data
    • Navigating in Excel
    • To Do: Create Your First Worksheet
    • To Do: Format the Worksheet
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • 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

Q&A

1. I'm not good at math. Can I use Excel?

   Don't worry: Excel does all the calculating. Your job is to place the numeric data on the worksheets so that Excel can do its thing. You also must specify formulas so that Excel can compute results for you, which does require at least some knowledge of math. Many people use Excel for common household actions, such as tracking exercise routines and grocery lists. Excel is not just for accounting and mathematical applications. You will learn in the next hour how to specify formulas. There, you will see that Excel provides a lot of help along the way and can even guess at many calculations, such as totals, that you routinely need in your worksheets.

2. Do I always enter the time along with the date?

   You can enter a time value, a date value, or both. Excel turns the information into an internal shortened format. (You can change the display format if you want to make the data look better.) If you don't enter a date with a time value, Excel accepts the time value only and tracks just the time. If you enter a date, Excel tracks only the date.

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