Dan Gookin's Naked Office [Paperback]

Dan Gookin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782142230 | ISBN-13: 978-0782142235 | Publication Date: September 22, 2003 | Edition: 1

"The author's humor and his ability to keep the reader's attention are masterful."
—Andy Barkl, Technical Reviewer

Salve For Your Office Headaches!
Covers Office 2003, XP and 2000—And Perfectly Useful for Office 97, Too!

Is it the best thing since sliced bread? A bug-riddled piece of junk? Here, best-selling author Dan Gookin skillfully navigates between these two extremes, laying bare the best and worst of Office in order to help you achieve a single, all-important goal: working faster, easier, and smarter. You'll harness the real power of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook while avoiding their pitfalls—and you'll discover the ways they actually can be made to work together as a truly integrated suite. Dan Gookin's Naked Office means the end of Office-inspired headaches. (Well, the vast majority of them, anyway. He's not a miracle-worker, after all.)

Expert Instruction to Change Office Life as You Know It (for the Better)

• Making a paragraph look the way you want it to look
• Understanding how styles work and making them work for you
• Locking a document to prevent changes, and tracking changes made by others
• Using Excel as a database--and not just for numbers
• Unraveling formulas and remembering what goes where
• Organizing e-mail with Outlook
• Getting the most out of Outlook's scheduling abilities
• Unlocking the mechanics and philosophy of PowerPoint presentations
• Oh, and of course--much, much more

Editorial Reviews

Review

"The author’s humor and his ability to keep the reader’s attention are masterful." -- Andy Barkl, Technical Reviewer

From the Back Cover

"The author's humor and his ability to keep the reader's attention are masterful."
—Andy Barkl, Technical Reviewer

Salve For Your Office Headaches!
Covers Office 2003, XP and 2000 — And Perfectly Useful for Office 97, Too!

Is it the best thing since sliced bread? A bug-riddled piece of junk? Here, best-selling author Dan Gookin skillfully navigates between these two extremes, laying bare the best and worst of Office in order to help you achieve a single, all-important goal: working faster, easier, and smarter. You’ll harness the real power of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook while avoiding their pitfalls—and you’ll discover the ways they actually can be made to work together as a truly integrated suite. Dan Gookin’s Naked Office means the end of Office-inspired headaches. (Well, the vast majority of them, anyway. He’s not a miracle-worker, after all.)

Expert Instruction to Change Office Life as You Know It (for the Better)

• Making a paragraph look the way you want it to look
• Understanding how styles work and making them work for you
• Locking a document to prevent changes, and tracking changes made by others
• Using Excel as a database—and not just for numbers
• Unraveling formulas and remembering what goes where
• Organizing e-mail with Outlook
• Getting the most out of Outlook’s scheduling abilities
• Unlocking the mechanics and philosophy of PowerPoint presentations
• Oh, and of course—much, much more

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Product Details

• Paperback: 608 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1 edition (September 22, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782142230
• ISBN-13: 978-0782142235
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,949,654 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for over 20 years. He combines his love of writing with his gizmo fascination to create books that are informative, entertaining, and not boring. Having written more over 120 titles with 12 million copies in print translated into over 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes seems to work.

Perhaps his most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world's fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times #1 bestseller (though as a reference, it could not be listed on the NYT Bestseller list). From that book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomena to this day.

Dan's most popular titles include PCs For Dummies Word For Dummies, Laptops For Dummies, and Droid X For Dummies. He also maintains the vast and helpful Web site, www.wambooli.com.

Dan holds a degree in Communications/Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Presently, he lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he enjoys spending time with his sons playing video games inside while they watch the gentle woods of Idaho.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Beginners Only Please, November 5, 2003

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This review is from: Dan Gookin's Naked Office (Paperback)

When I received my copy of NAKED OFFICE, I was excited to think that I would learn lots of new and different things about Office. I was very disappointed. As someone who has used Word, Excel and PowerPoint for the better part of 20 years, it offered me nothing new. And considering I never use Outlook, there was nothing there for me either.

On the other hand, if you are just beginning to learn these programs, this is a MUCH easier read than the technical manuals that comes with the software package. 561 pages cover everything you could possibly want to know about these four programs. A 24 page Index and a 26 page Content Section give you plenty of options on how to look up things which makes it much easier that trying to find something in the Yellow Pages. The whole book is written in a lighthearted manner which makes it easy to read.

The book is laid out in Parts. Each part covers a particular program - Part 1 - Word, Part 2 - Excel, etc. Inside each part are chapters. The beginning of each chapter describes in an outline form what is found in that chapter so you don't have to hunt through the whole book to find what you want to do. There are graphics showing what the author is talking about and boxes which give great tips. There are even specially marked sections (with a little "Batman" figure!) with even more tips.

For those of you needing a helping hand on Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Outlook, this is the book that will help you achieve your goals. Whether it is creating a manuscript, planning a financial sheet, creating a slide show, keeping track of your daily activities or just simply sending email, Dan Gookin's NAKED OFFICE is the book to read.