Degunking Microsoft Office [Paperback]

Wayne Palaia (Author), Christina Palaia (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 23, 2005

Degunking Microsoft Office covers the basics to help you quickly get your PCs back to top performance. The unique thing about Degunking Microsoft Office is that it's organized according to the special "cleaning" process that will improve the performance of your computer. Shortcut and time calculation charts are provided at the beginning of the book to help you determine how much time is required to perform different degunking tasks. The book provides proven degunking maintenance tasks that you should perform on a regular basis to keep your machine running at optimum levels. Topics covered include the basics of degunking ("Why is my computer all gunked up in the first place?"), cleaning files, hard drives, and making space, uninstalling programs you don't need, fixing your desktop and start menus, degunking email and dealing with spam, improving and cleaning the registry, hardware stuff to help with degunking, improving security, backing up precious files, doing a clean install when you really have to, and much more.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Degunking Microsoft Office takes Paraglyph’s unique "degunking" approach and applies it to running and maintaining Microsoft Office. The key applications covered are Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint—the main culprits in creating gunk on your computer. Topics include: installing or upgrading MS Office, finding and eliminating unwanted or unneeded programs, app features that break and how to fix them, ways to enhance the Office suite, how to best use free third-party tools and utilities to save time, how to fix security issues and protect your files from viruses, how to create simple macros to improve efficiency, and much, much more. Readers will learn tips and tricks to easily maintain MS Office and prevent clutter from accumulating. Some of the important issues covered include what MS options can be changed and why; what buttons users can get rid of from the toolbars, and what commands can be removed from the menus; how to best degunk documents like Word files, presentations, and spreadsheets; and how to add useful commands and shortcuts to save valuable time. No matter how experienced you are with MS Office, this book is sure to teach you some new tips to make using Office easier.

From the Author

Millions of people use the Microsoft Office suite on a daily basis at work and at home. From PowerPoint presentations to Excel spreadsheets to Outlook or Outlook Express for e-mail, Microsoft Office applications can be wonderful tools to keep you organized, create great presentations, manage finances, produce documents such as letters and brochures, and maintain e-mail. Over the last decade, Office has become ubiquitous in almost all corporate and home computing environments. But even experienced users can become frustrated with the numbers of documents that need to be maintained, archived, and managed. And because of the wide variety of uses and the heavy reliance users have on these programs, Microsoft Office is vulnerable to corrupted and misplaced documents, viruses, and overburdened programs if not maintained regularly. If you’re new to using MS Office – or even if you’ve been using it for a decade – Degunking Microsoft Office will teach you things you! never knew were possible to best utilize this essential software.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Paraglyph Press (April 23, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932111956
• ISBN-13: 978-1932111958
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,747,184 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #26 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Office

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple Things to Make it Run Better, May 27, 2005

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Degunking Microsoft Office (Paperback)

After you use Microsoft Office for a while you start to find a number of little problems or annoyances. The first one is usually that you can't find the file you are seeking. You product something, you save it, and pretty soon your directory is full of files with strange names and you can't quite remember just what they are. That's the sort of thing that the authors of this book tell you how to fix.

Eventually most of us have to learn these little tasks, but here in one book, you get a concise and complete list and description of all these little things that you should do every so often. They really will make your system run better.

This book says that it's intended for Novice to Intermediate user. I don't think this is for complete novices, perhaps just one step up. The complete novice probably doesn't know what Office is all about.

With this book you should also get the Degunking buide to other software, especially the operating system as it also tends to attract clutter.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Degunking Microsoft Office, August 14, 2005

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Edward Laskowski - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Degunking Microsoft Office (Paperback)

This is one of six books in the Degunking series from Paraglyph Press. It is written from a different perspective than the usual tutorials. It brings together a wide range of processes such as file organization, registry editing, customizations, disk cleanup, disk defragmentation, and various tricks that power users have developed over the years. It also covers all the maintenance procedures needed to get your PC back to top performance. The book is organized according to the various cleaning processes needed to improve the performance of your computer. Worth keeping on your desktop!