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Adobe® Acrobat® 7 in a Snap

Adobe® Acrobat® 7 in a Snap

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Publisher: Sams

Publication Date: 19-JAN-2005

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Adobe PDF is the emerging workflow standard in the publishing, financial services, regulated and government industries, but learning all that Adobe Acrobat is capable of can take more time than most employees in these industries can spare. That's where Adobe Acrobat in a Snap comes in. The author will walk you through more than 80 short tasks that are designed to teach you what you need to know and let you get back to work and apply your new skills. You'll cover everything from the basic concepts of creating and editing PDFs to the more advanced concepts such as Acrobat Distiller and third...

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Show Me!: QuickBooks® 2005

Show Me!: QuickBooks® 2005

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 08-FEB-2005

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Owning a small business can become quite an involved undertaking before long. There are so many complex procedures to follow that it is great when you can make things as easy as possible, when possible. QuickBooks 2005 is one of those things that can make your life easier and Show Me QuickBooks 2005 is a task-based reference guide to help walk you through it. Each task involved with QuickBooks 2005 is covered with a screen-by-screen visual reference accompanied by a concise text description so that you can quickly learn and apply your new skills. Time is precious when you're running your own...

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Adobe Reader 7 Revealed: Working Effectively with Acrobat PDF Files

Adobe Reader 7 Revealed: Working Effectively with Acrobat PDF Files

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 14-FEB-2005

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Chances are good that if you use the Web or work with documents on your computer, you've come across a PDF file at least once or twice in your life. Over 500 million people have already downloaded Adobe's free Adobe Reader software and we‚re betting you‚re one of them, which is why we think you'll enjoy this new book on how to get the most out of the little program that‚s conquering the Web. In the first-ever book on this wildly popular PDF viewer, best-selling author Ted Padova shows you that there's a lot more to Adobe Reader than you may have known. Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional...

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Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide

Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide

By: Maria Langer

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 20-OCT-2004

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Excel can be daunting: that empty grid just stares you in the face when you start the program, challenging you to fill in the cells with thenumbers you need to crunch. How do you start? What do you do? Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide answers those questions and puts you on the straight track to getting the job done. This new addition to Peachpit's Visual QuickProject Guide series by Excel guru Maria Langer uses full color screen shots and numbered steps to walk you through the process of creating an Excel workbook file. You'll learn how to build a...

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Office 2004 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

Office 2004 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 09-FEB-2005

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Microsoft Office is the number-one selling software for the Mac; the Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Entourage applications are more dominant in the Mac world than they are among PC users. And Microsoft has greatly improved and enhanced Office 2004 to take advantage of the latest Mac OX features. In short, Microsoft Office for the Mac is wildly popular and better than ever. But as incredible and powerful it is, the Office 2004 suite comes without a single page of printed instructions. That means you're left to forge your own path through its countless innovative and useful new features and...

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Excel Annoyances

Excel Annoyances

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 28-DEC-2004

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It's the solution to almost all of your electronic organization needs. Need to present a detailed expense report? Try an Excel spreadsheet. Keeping track of a complicated budget? Excel to the rescue. Want to keep tabs on your office football pool? You guessed it. Thanks to its incredible versatility and power, Excel has emerged as more than just a mainstream program; it's now one of the most used applications on the planet. Everyone from run-of-the-mill PC users to leading financial analysts count on Excel to make sense of overflowing data. And to keep up with the overwhelming user demand,...

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Word Annoyances

Word Annoyances

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 28-JUN-2005

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When most people think of word processing, they think of Microsoft Word. After all, it has been around for more than 20 years-practically an eternity in computer time. But Word has also provided its users-nearly everyone on the face of the planet-with an endless supply of annoyances. That is, until now. Word Annoyances offers to the point (and often opinionated) solutions to your most vexing editing, formatting, printing, faxing, and scanning problems. It covers everything from installation and templates to tables, columns, and graphics. For example, learn how to stop Word from searching the...

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Pivot Table Data Crunching

Pivot Table Data Crunching

By: Bill Jelen; Michael Alexander

Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 21-JUN-2005

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Become a savvy Microsoft Excel user. Pivot tables are a great feature in Excel that help you organize and analyze data, but not many Excel users know how to use pivot tables. Pivot Table Data Crunching offers a comprehensive review of all the functionalities of Pivot Tables from author Bill Jelen, otherwise known as Mr. Excel from www.mrexcel.com, and Michael Alexander, a Microsoft Certified Application Developer. The authors' practical scenarios and real-world advice demonstrate the benefits of Pivot Tables and how to avoid the common pitfalls of every day data crunching. Each...

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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X: Visual Quickstart Guide

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X: Visual Quickstart Guide

By: Steve Schwartz

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Publication Date: 29-JUL-2004

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If you're like many people, you wouldn't dream of turning on your computer without also instantly (or almost instantly) launching at least one of the applications included in Microsoft Office. This task-based guide recognizes that and gets down to business fast, taking you step-by-step through all of the key features of the Microsoft Office 2004 suite for Mac OS X: Word 2004, Excel 2004, PowerPoint 2004, Entourage 2004and MSN Messenger Version 4.0. If you're a beginning user, you¿ll appreciate the friendly, visual approach to all of Office¿s word processing, spreadsheet, presentation,...

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Adobe® Acrobat® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®

Adobe® Acrobat® 7.0 Classroom in a Book®

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Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 21-FEB-2005

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If you're like most Acrobat users--creative, business, and engineering pros who work with complex electronic documents--you can ill afford to miss a beat in your production workflow. Then again, you can ill afford being left behind when it comes to mastering the newest version of the important tool on your desktop, Adobe Acrobat 7. Not to worry: Adobe has brought the classroom to you in this handy volume, completely revised to cover all that's new and different in Acrobat 7. Through a series of self-paced lessons (each of which builds on the last and includes hands-on projects that the you...

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QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual

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Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Publication Date: 24-FEB-2005

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Every company large and small wants to boost its sales, control its spending, and keep the auditors at the Internal Revenue Service happy. But, no company wants to waste time on more paperwork. These days, a growing number of companies are turning to QuickBooks accounting software not only to speed up their bookkeeping efforts, but manage their businesses more effectively. Organizations come in all shapes, sizes, and business models, so it's no surprise that accounting practices can be a convoluted road to travel. QuickBooks can handle many of the financial tasks companies face, but...

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Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Inside Out

Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 Inside Out

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 03-SEP-2003

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Take your Microsoft Excel experience to the next level! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and handy workarounds for Excel 2003 in concise, fast-answer format....

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Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Step by Step

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 01-SEP-2004

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Teach yourself how to diagram business and technical information using Visio 2003—one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on CD....

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Adobe Acrobat 7 in the Office

Adobe Acrobat 7 in the Office

By: Donna L. Baker

Publisher: Adobe Press

Publication Date: 23-MAR-2005

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Offering a raft of Microsoft Office collaboration features (plus the ability to review and comment on Acrobat Pro--created documents using just Reader), Acrobat is no longer just for pre-press and creative professionals. Acrobat can simplify workflows in all kinds of business settings. All you need is this handy guide to delineate those uses and show you how you can put Acrobat to work to make your own life easier! In these pages, veteran author Donna L. Baker uses cases studies and real-world examples to show you how to use Acrobat for everything from sending documents securely to creating...

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Microsoft® Office Excel® 2003 Step by Step

Microsoft® Office Excel® 2003 Step by Step

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 27-AUG-2003

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Teach yourself how to use the data-presentation and number-crunching power in the latest version of Microsoft Excel—one step at a time! Learn exactly the skills you need for Excel 2003 using easy, self-paced lessons and hands-on practice exercises....

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Microsoft® Office Word 2003 Step by Step

Microsoft® Office Word 2003 Step by Step

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 17-SEP-2003

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Teach yourself how to create great documents using Microsoft Word 2003—one step at a time! Learn exactly the skills you need at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on CD....

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Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2003 Step by Step

Microsoft® Office OneNote® 2003 Step by Step

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 11-AUG-2004

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The smart way to learn how to take and organize great notes with OneNote 2003—one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on CD....

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Tricks of the Microsoft® Office Gurus

Tricks of the Microsoft® Office Gurus

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Publisher: Que

Publication Date: 12-APR-2005

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We all have those "go-to" people in our lives. The one you go-to for advice, the one you go-to for comfort, the one you go-to with technical questions...now you can be the one that others go-to for help with Microsoft Office 2003. Tricks of the Microsoft Office Gurus is full of exclusive tricks from Paul McFedries, an Office "insider," that will help you learn the Office applications inside and out. Designed to bridge the gap between your expectation and reality, you will go beyond the basics and learn newly discovered techniques, shortcuts and best practices, including: Using Excel's...

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Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

Microsoft® Office Visio® 2003 Inside Out

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 19-NOV-2003

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Take your Microsoft Visio experience to the next level! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and handy workarounds for Visio 2003 in concise, fast-answer format....

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Microsoft® Office Word 2003 Inside Out

Microsoft® Office Word 2003 Inside Out

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Publisher: Microsoft Press

Publication Date: 12-NOV-2003

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Take your Microsoft Word experience to the next level! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and handy workarounds for Word 2003 in concise, fast-answers format....