Office Home and Student 2010 All-in-One For Dummies

Peter Weverka

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780470879511
• eBook ISBN: 9780470948828
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Desktop Applications
• Index: Computer Science

One-stop shopping for all the essentials of Office Home & Student 2010

The Home & Student version of Microsoft Office is ideal for anyone who needs the essential Office applications and can do without tools like Access and Outlook. The version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote. Each minibook offers straightforward advice, helpful projects, and real-world examples that target the home and student audiences. You'll benefit from instructions for creating a resume in Word, establishing a home budget in Excel, jazzing up a school presentation with PowerPoint, and taking notes in OneNote.

• Targets home and school users of Office 2010, who primarily need and use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote
• Demonstrates common, everyday projects, such as creating a cover letter in Word and creating reusable templates in Excel
• Walks you through spiffing up a school presentation with PowerPoint
• Offers straightforward instructions for taking notes in OneNote
• Reviews common Office 2010 tools and details the basics of the Office ribbon

Office Home & Student 2010 All-in-One For Dummies is your fun and friendly guide to the essentials of Office 2010!

Book I

Common Office Tools

Contents at a Glance

Chapter 1: Office Nuts and Bolts

A Survey of Office 2010 Home and Student Programs

Starting an Office Program

Finding Your Way around the Office Interface

Saving Your Files

Navigating the Save As and Open Dialog Boxes

Opening and Closing Files

Reading and Recording File Properties

Locking a File with a Password

Chapter 2: Wrestling with the Text

Manipulating the Text

Changing the Look of Text

Quick Ways to Handle Case, or Capitalization

Entering Symbols and Foreign Characters

Finding and Replacing Text

Creating Hyperlinks

Chapter 3: Speed Techniques Worth Knowing About

Undoing and Repeating Commands

Zooming In, Zooming Out

Viewing a File through More Than One Window

Correcting Typos on the Fly

Chapter 4: Taking Advantage of the Proofing Tools

Correcting Your Spelling Errors

Checking for Grammatical Errors in Word

Researching a Topic inside an Office Program

Finding the Right Word with the Thesaurus

Proofing Text Written in a Foreign Language

Chapter 5: Creating a Table

Talking Table Jargon

Creating a Table

Entering the Text and Numbers

Selecting Different Parts of a Table

Aligning Text in Columns and Rows

Merging and Splitting Cells

Laying Out Your Table

Formatting Your Table

Using Math Formulas in Word Tables

Neat Table Tricks

Chapter 6: Creating a Chart

A Mercifully Brief Anatomy Lesson

The Basics: Creating a Chart

Choosing the Right Chart

Providing the Raw Data for Your Chart

Positioning Your Chart in a Workbook, Page, or Slide

Changing a Chart’s Appearance

Saving a Chart as a Template So That You Can Use It Again

Chart Tricks for the Daring and Heroic

Troubleshooting a Chart

Chapter 7: Making a SmartArt Diagram

The Basics: Creating SmartArt Diagrams

Creating the Initial Diagram

Changing the Size and Position of a Diagram

Laying Out the Diagram Shapes

Handling the Text on Diagram Shapes

Changing a Diagram’s Direction

Choosing a Look for Your Diagram

Changing the Appearance of Diagram Shapes

Chapter 8: Drawing and Manipulating Lines, Shapes, and Other Objects

The Basics: Drawing Lines, Arrows, and Shapes

Handling Lines, Arrows, and Connectors

Handling Rectangles, Ovals, Stars, and Other Shapes

WordArt for Bending, Spindling, and Mutilating Text

Manipulating Lines, Shapes, Art, Text Boxes, and Other Objects

Changing an Object’s Color, Outline Color, and Transparency

Chapter 1: Office Nuts and Bolts

In This Chapter

Introducing the Office programs

Running an Office program

Exploring the Office interface

Saving and auto-recovering your files

Opening and closing an Office file

Recording a file’s document properties

Clamping a password on a file

Chapter 1 is where you get your feet wet with Office 2010 Home and Student edition. Walk right to the shore and sink your toes in the water. Don’t worry; I won’t push you from behind.

In this chapter, you meet the Office Home and Student edition programs and discover speed techniques for opening programs and files. I show you around the Ribbon, Quick Access toolbar, and other Office program landmarks. I also show you how to open files, save files, and clamp a password on a file.

A Survey of Office 2010 Home and Student Programs

Office 2010 Home and Student edition is a collection of four computer programs:

♦ Word: A word processor for writing letters, reports, and so on. A Word file is called a document (see Book II).

♦ PowerPoint: A means of creating slide presentations to give in front of audiences. A PowerPoint file is called a presentation, or sometimes a slide show (see Book III).

♦ Excel: A number cruncher for performing numerical analyses. An Excel file is called a workbook (see Book IV).

♦ OneNote: A program for taking notes and brainstorming (see Book V).

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Introduction
• Book I: Common Office Tools
• Book II: Word
• Book III: PowerPoint
• Book IV: Excel
• Book V: OneNote
• Book VI: Office 2010: One Step Beyond