Office 2013 For Dummies is the key to your brand new Office! Packed with straightforward, friendly instruction, this update to one of the bestselling Office books of all time gets you thoroughly up to speed and helps you learn how to take full advantage of the new features in Office 2013. After coverage of the fundamentals, you'll discover how to spice up your Word documents, edit Excel spreadsheets and create formulas, add pizazz to your PowerPoint presentation, and much more. Helps you harness the power of all five Office 2013 applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access Discusses typing and formatting text in Word and easy ways to dress up your documents with color, graphics, and more Demonstrates navigating and editing an Excel spreadsheet, creating formulas, and charting and analyzing Excel data Walks you through creating a PowerPoint presentation and adding some punch with color, sound, pictures, and videos Explores Outlook, including configuring e-mail, storing contacts, organizing tasks, scheduling your time, and setting appointments Delves into designing Access databases, including editing, modifying, searching, sorting, and querying; also covers viewing and printing reports, and more The fun and friendly approach of Office 2013 For Dummies makes doing Office work easy and efficient!

Wouldn’t it be a waste to go on a spectacular, exotic vacation abroad and just hang out at the hotel pool? Wouldn’t it be a waste to buy a new iPod, download four favorite songs, and play them over and over? Most people with Office 2003 are wasting a lot of software power and a lot of time. They do the same routine things in the same routine ways and haven’t begun to explore the capabilities of Office 2003. If you’re one of them, Office 2003 Timesaving Techniques For Dummies gets you out of your rut and into action. It provides over 70 timesaving techniques for Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint. (Most of the tips work with Office 2000 and Office XP, too.) You’ll customize Office to meet your needs and start working like a pro in no time with easy-to-use tricks, tips, and techniques for: Streamlining your toolbars (Word alone has dozens to choose from) Setting up Outlook, searching with folders, organizing with flags, and dealing with spam Taking proper security measures, including using and updating an antivirus package and avoiding potentially dangerous file extensions Editing and laying out impressive Word documents Using keyboard shortcuts Diving into more advanced Office skills such as writing macros, setting up templates, and using multimedia with PowerPoint Using Excel to build self-verifying spreadsheets Running totals and subtotals in Access Combining applications to print holiday greetings and run an electronic newsletter Written by Woody Leonhard, author of Windows XP Timesaving Techniques For Dummies and the bestseller Windows XP All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, this guides helps you eliminate extra steps and little annoyances and do things you probably didn’t know you could do, such as: Building e-mail stationery Calculating sales tax with the Lookup Wizard Making professional labels Encrypting messages Recording narration for PowerPoint presentations Complete with an index that lets you find what you want, fast. Office 2003 Timesaving Techniques For Dummies helps you get up to speed and down to work. After all, times a-wastin!

Understand how to take database needs and turn them into effective Access databases while gaining a thorough understanding of Access tables, forms, reports, and queries with this definitive handbook.

Validate your expertise and get the attention of employers with Microsoft Office Specialist certification. This comprehensive guide is what you need to prepare for certification in Excel 2003, both the Specialist and Expert levels. Carefully planned by a seasoned Microsoft Office Specialist instructor, this invaluable study guide uses real-world scenarios to teach the full range of Excel 2003 skills you need-not only to prepare for the certification exams, but also to increase your ability and productivity in the workplace. Covering twenty-four Specialist exam objectives and thirty-three Expert exam objectives, the book progresses through the functions and features of Excel software. Even entry-level Excel users can rapidly build their skills. Excel 2003 Specialist Certification Skill Sets * Creating Data and Content * Analyzing Data * Formatting Data and Content * Collaborating * Managing Workbooks Excel 2003 Expert Certification Skill Sets * Organizing and Analyzing Data * Formatting Data and Content * Collaborating * Managing Data and Workbooks * Customizing Excel Plus, you'll find additional career preparation tools, including: * Solutions for real-world scenarios * Structured learning for quick productivity * Full glossary of terms Go to www.sybex.com/go/mosexcel2003 for downloadable sample files from the exercises in the book. Practice what you've learned on your own. Visit www.sybex.com for all of your professional certification needs.

When you hear the word “database,” do your eyes glaze over? Does the mention of fields and tables make your blood pressure skyrocket? Does the idea of entering and using hyperlinks make you hyperventilate? Whether you’re running a business or a household . . . whether you need to be able to quickly access customer information, your recipe for chicken cacciatore, or the Little League team’s records, Access 2003 holds the key. This friendly guide unlocks the secrets of using Access 2003 to store, manage, organize, reorganize, and use data! It gives you: The basics of the whole database concept Suggestions for solving problems with Access What you need to know to design, build, use, and change Access tables Info on the ten most common types of fields The scoop on using queries to unearth the answers hiding somewhere in your data Guidelines for using the Access report system to make short work of long, previously time-consuming, reports In the relaxed, comfortable For Dummies style, this book has easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions and lots of screen shots. If you want to create and manage a database for a huge auction house, this guide will get you going . . . going . . . gone. If you want to create a database for your music collection, it gives you the score then shows you how to use formatting and add graphics to jazz it up. You’ll get the low-down on extracting all kinds of information from databases and putting that information to practical use. You’ll discover how to: Use Label Wizard to create mailing labels, file labels, shipping labels, or name tags Use Chart Wizard to create line charts, bar, cone, and column charts, pie and donut charts, area charts, and XY and bubble charts Use Auto Reports to create columnar or tabular reports and then fine-tune them Export reports to Microsoft Word and Excel Get your data Web-ready and put it on the Internet in either static or dynamic form Build forms with Form Wizard And speaking of high-tech fun, Access 2003 For Dummies even tells you how to install and use speech recognition software with Access 2003. So if the idea of working with databases has you talking to yourself, this is just the book you need.

If you have Microsoft Office 2003 For Dummies and just use it to create documents and for e-mail, that’s like having the ultimate gourmet kitchen and only cooking frozen dinners or having a 42” plasma high-definition, sound surround TV and only watching old reruns. This book will help you take control of Office 2003 and use it to take control of your life—at work or at home. It covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. (Note that not all versions of Office 2003 have Access.) You’ll learn how to create all kinds of documents, set up and use databases, create spreadsheets and do all kinds of numerical calculations and computations, and present your creations in style. With detailed explanations and screen shots, this guide covers: Creating, saving, opening, and printing any Office 2003 file Getting comfortable with common Office 2003 commands, including using the menus and toolbars, working with the task pane, using multiple windows, and copying and pasting with Office Clipboard The basics for working in Word, plus info on formatting your text or document, aligning text, adding headers, footers, or page numbers, adding and editing pictures, and more Playing the numbers with Excel, with info on the basics of spreadsheets (numbers, labels, and formatting) and creating and editing formulas Creating and manipulating charts—line, area, column, bar, and pie varieties Creating PowerPoint presentations using AutoContent Wizard, a template, or from an existing presentation Adding color, pictures, and transitions to jazz up your PowerPoint presentation Getting organized with Outlook, including handling e-mail, organizing contact information, managing tasks with a to-do list, and scheduling appointments Storing stuff in Access, with the basics on using a database, searching, sorting, and making queries, and creating reports Microsoft Office 2003 For Dummies was written by Wallace Wang, the popular, bestselling author of more than 20 For Dummies computer books. It gives you a great overview and step-by-step how-to for the most common and most helpful functions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. It’s a great guide to exploring the incredible powers at your fingertips with Microsoft Office 2003 and enhancing your productivity. It’s also a great reference to keep handy so you can get a quick review of tasks you don’t often do or figure out more ways to use Office 2003 to make quick work of your work.

Explore the world of weather with over 100 photos, maps, and illustrations! What’s going on up there when the rain falls, when the wind blows, when the clouds roll in and the lightning flashes? How do hurricanes arise and where to tornadoes come from? Why do seasonal conditions sometimes vary so much from one year to the next? Our ways of life, our very existences depend on knowing the answers to questions like these. Economies have been wiped out, civilizations have risen and fallen, entire species have come into being or gone extinct because of a temperature shift of just a few degrees, or a brief shortage or glut of rainfall. With so much riding on the weather, it makes you wonder how you’ve lived this long without knowing more about it. Don’t worry it’s never too late to find out about what makes the weather tick. And there’s never been an easier or more enjoyable way to learn than Weather For Dummies. In know time, you’ll know enough of weather basics to be able to: Identify cloud types Make sense of seasonal differences in the weather Understand what causes hurricanes, tornadoes, and other extreme events Make your own weather forecasts Avoid danger during severe weather Understand the global warming debate Get a handle on smog, the greenhouse effect, El Niño, and more Award-winning science writer John D. Cox brings the science of meteorology down to earth and, with the help of dozens of cool maps and charts and stunning photographs of weather conditions, he covers a wide range of fascinating subjects, including: What is weather and how it fits into the entire global ecosystem What goes into making a professional daily weather forecast The basic elements of weather, including air pressure, clouds, and humidity Storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, monsoons, and other extreme forms of weather Seasonal weather effects and why they vary Lightening, rainbows, sundogs, haloes, and other special effects Featuring clear explanations, stunning illustrations, and fun, easy experiments and activities you can do at home, Weather For Dummies is your guide to making sense of the baffling turmoil of the ever-changing skies above.