This book looks at the new version of Microsoft Windows Office.

DDC's original Learning Series now comes with a hard cover. This unique hardcover with a spiral binding blends high quality with efficiency, allowing pages to lay flat. Step-by-step concepts, exercises, keystrokes, mouse commands, and applications enable you to learn Microsoft Office for Windows 95 quickly and easily. Beginner through expert level. Free color template on back cover.

With this work, users can learn how to use each of the Office 2000 applications with complete coverage of all "user-oriented" features. The book targets beginner to intermediate home and business users.

This highly visual, project-based book features hands-on exercises that are built around a running case study. The features common to all Office 97 applications are overviewed at the beginning of the text to familiarize readers with the entire integrated software suite.

A teach-yourself guide to using the Access macro language to take control of Access. The easy-to-follow lessons include clear objectives and real-world business examples so you can learn exactly what you need to know, at your own speed. Users learn to create macros and applications for themselves and their business units. The CD offers real-world samples to support each lesson.

Special Edition Using Microsoft Outlook 2000 provides all the information a user, administrator, or programmer needs to maximize their use of Microsoft Outlook 2000. While the book quickly covers the basics of Outlook, it focuses with much greater intensity on advanced information, contact, calendar, and e-mail management techniques -- for both the Internet E-mail Only version of Outlook as well as the Corporate/Workgroup variation. The book covers in great detail the use of Outlook on a LAN as a client for Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Mail, and cc:Mail, and it offers expert advice on a multitude of ways to customize Outlook for maximum personal productivity. Special Edition Using Microsoft Outlook 2000 also includes an entire section on developing Outlook-based applications with custom fields, custom forms, VBScript, and other Office applications.

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