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Informationen zum Autor Sean McManus (Uxbridge, UK) is a technology and business author. His previous books include, Social Networking for the Older and Wiser , Small Business Websites That Work (Prentice Hall) and the co-authored Customer Service Pocketbook (with Tony Newby, Management Pocketbooks). As a journalist, Sean has written tutorials and feature articles for magazines including Internet Magazine (where he was staff writer), Internet Works , Business 2.0 , Start and Run Your Business , Making Music , Melody Maker and Personal Computer World . Klappentext Are you new to Microsoft Office software? Looking for instructions that aren't full of complicated computing terms? Microsoft Office for the Older and Wiser can answer all of your queries with its straightforward advice and easy-to-follow layout on using both Office 2010and Office 2007.Completely jargon-free and aimed at those wishing to extend their computing knowledge, Microsoft Office for the Older and Wiser will have you producing documents in Word, spreadsheets in Excel, slideshows in PowerPoint, and emails in Windows Live Mail in no time.Learn how to:* Type and format a letter* Create an address book* Produce personalised invitations* Publish a newsletter* Form a basic holiday budget* Create a photo slideshow* Keep a digital recipe book* Share and develop ideas over the InternetU3A is a self-help, learning cooperative for those no longer in full-time, gainful employment. Members come together to share their love of learning through educational, creative and leisure activities. U3A offer their members a wide choice of 300+ subjects in areas such as art, foreign languages, music, history, life sciences, literature, poetry, gardening, philosophy, crafts, field studies, archaeology, astronomy and computing. Currently there are over 230,000 members and more than 740 local U3A groups in the UK. Visit U3A online at www.u3a.org.uk Zusammenfassung Are you new to Microsoft Office software? Looking for instructions that aren't full of complicated computing terms? Microsoft Office for the Older and Wiser can answer all of your queries with its straightforward advice and easy-to-follow layout on using both Office 2010and Office 2007. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. What is Microsoft Office? How this book is structured. What you will need. Familiarising yourself with the keyboard and the mouse. Choosing the right application for the job. Part I - Using Microsoft Word. Chapter 1 - Writing a letter with Microsoft Word. Starting Word. Saving your work. Writing your letter. Making changes to what you've written. Deleting text. Moving text around. Changing the appearance of your letter. Clearing formatting and undoing mistakes. Adding your address to your letter. Checking your spelling. Printing your letter. Finishing your Word session. What else can you do? Chapter 2 - Creating a poster with Microsoft Word. Starting a new document with a template. Changing the view. Changing the text in your template. Inserting pictures in your poster. Inserting clip art in your poster. Printing your poster. What else can you do? Chapter 3 - Publishing a newsletter with Word. Planning your newsletter. Creating dummy text. Choosing your paper size. Creating a title for your newsletter. Adding your fi rst story. Getting a sense of style. Laying out your text in columns. Arranging your images. Advanced layout options. Adding the rest of your stories. Adding a table of contents. More to explore. Download my example newsletter. What else can you do?
