Documents, Presentations, and Workbooks: Using Microsoft Office to Create Content That Gets Noticed: Creating Powerful Content with Microsoft Office

Get expert techniques and best practices for creating professional-looking documents, slide presentations, and workbooks. And apply these skills as you work with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint®, and Excel® in Office 2010 or Office for Mac 2011. This hands-on guide provides constructive advice and advanced, timesaving tips to help you produce compelling content that delivers—in print or on screen.

Work smarter—and create content with impact!

• Create your own custom Office themes and templates
• Use tables and styles to help organize and present content in complex Word documents
• Leave a lasting impression with professional-quality graphics and multimedia
• Work with PowerPoint masters and layouts more effectively
• Design Excel PivotTables for better data analysis and reporting
• Automate and customize documents with Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) and Open XML Formats
• Boost document collaboration and sharing with Office Web Apps

Your companion web content includes:

All the book’s sample files for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel Files containing Microsoft Visio® samples—Visio 2010 is required for viewing

Table of Contents

Part I. Document Essentials
Chapter 1. Welcome to Office 2010 and Office for Mac 2011
Chapter 2. Collaborating and Sharing When and Where You Choose
Chapter 3. Understanding Electronic Documents
Chapter 4. Planning Your Documents
Chapter 5. Doing More with Less Work: Key Cross-Program Features

Part II. Word
Chapter 6. Building Easy-to-Manage, Robust Documents
Chapter 7. Working with Text
Chapter 8. Styles
Chapter 9. Tables
Chapter 10. Managing Graphics
Chapter 11. Sections
Chapter 12. Dynamic Content

Part III. PowerPoint
Chapter 13. Creating Presentations: From Theme to Master to Slide
Chapter 14. Creating Professional Presentation Graphics
Chapter 15. Creating Multimedia Presentations
Chapter 16. Putting on a Show

Part IV. Excel
Chapter 17. Data-Based Documents: Formatting and Managing Worksheets
Chapter 18. Working with Data
Chapter 19. Data Visualization
Chapter 20. Charts
Chapter 21. Powerful Reporting, Easier Than You Think: A PivotTable Primer

Part V. Templates, Automation, and Customization
Chapter 22. The Many Faces of Microsoft Office Templates
Chapter 23. VBA Primer
Chapter 24. Office Open XML Essentials