Includes index.

Common Office tools. Office nuts and bolts ; Wrestling with the text ; Speed techniques worth knowing about ; Taking advantage of the proofing tools ; Creating a table ; Creating a chart ; Making a SmartArt diagram ; Drawing and manipulating lines, shapes, and other objects -- Word. Speed techniques for using Word ; Laying out text and pages ; Word styles ; Desktop publishing with Word ; Getting Word's help with office chores ; Tools for reports and scholarly papers -- PowerPoint. Getting started in PowerPoint ; Fashioning a look for your presentation ; Entering the text ; Making your presentations livelier ; Delivering a presentation -- Excel. Up and running with Excel ; Refining your worksheet ; Formulas and functions for crunching numbers ; Making a worksheet easier to read and understand ; Analyzing data -- OneNote. Up and running with OneNote ; Taking notes ; Finding and organizing your notes -- Office 2010 : one step beyond. Customizing an Office program ; Ways of distributing your work ; Handling graphics ; Decorating files with clip art ; Automating tasks with macros ; Linking and embedding in compound files ; Office web apps.