Power Excel and Word

"Best-selling author Gookin…keeps readers laughing while he takes them from being a ho-hum user to an advanced Office maven."
—Charles Carr, ComputorEdge Magazine, www.computoredge.com
Just about anyone can slap together a Word document or fill an Excel grid with numbers, but power users understand how to tap into the full functionality of these applications. Best-selling author Dan Gookin skips what you already know and takes you directly to the best and most useful parts of Word and Excel–the commands, shortcuts, and combinations of functions that will give your creations that extra-added wow factor.
The only book to focus exclusively on these two critical applications, Power Excel and Word teaches you how to harness their power and avoid their pitfalls in one compact volume. By following step-by-step tutorials, you'll discover how to work faster, easier, and smarter. Learn essential techniques you'll use every day, including how to:
Precisely format a paragraph in Word
Manipulate drawings and pictures in a document
Create your own custom tool bars
Know when to use a table in Word and when to insert an Excel worksheet
Embellish your documents and reports
Generate sophisticated charts and graphs by importing Web-based content
Use styles and templates to save oodles of time
Protect your documents against unwanted changes
Employ Excel as a database manager
Share your work with others
Produce a list in Excel as a mail merge database for Word
And much, much more!