If you have Microsoft Office 2003 For Dummies and just use it to create documents and for e-mail, that’s like having the ultimate gourmet kitchen and only cooking frozen dinners or having a 42” plasma high-definition, sound surround TV and only watching old reruns. This book will help you take control of Office 2003 and use it to take control of your life—at work or at home. It covers Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. (Note that not all versions of Office 2003 have Access.) You’ll learn how to create all kinds of documents, set up and use databases, create spreadsheets and do all kinds of numerical calculations and computations, and present your creations in style. With detailed explanations and screen shots, this guide covers:Creating, saving, opening, and printing any Office 2003 fileGetting comfortable with common Office 2003 commands, including using the menus and toolbars, working with the task pane, using multiple windows, and copying and pasting with Office ClipboardThe basics for working in Word, plus info on formatting your text or document, aligning text, adding headers, footers, or page numbers, adding and editing pictures, and morePlaying the numbers with Excel, with info on the basics of spreadsheets (numbers, labels, and formatting) and creating and editing formulasCreating and manipulating charts—line, area, column, bar, and pie varietiesCreating PowerPoint presentations using AutoContent Wizard, a template, or from an existing presentationAdding color, pictures, and transitions to jazz up your PowerPoint presentationGetting organized with Outlook, including handling e-mail, organizing contact information, managing tasks with a to-do list, and scheduling appointmentsStoring stuff in Access, with the basics on using a database, searching, sorting, and making queries, and creating reportsMicrosoft Office 2003 For Dummies was written by Wallace Wang, the popular, bestselling author of more than 20 For Dummies computer books. It gives you a great overview and step-by-step how-to for the most common and most helpful functions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access. It’s a great guide to exploring the incredible powers at your fingertips with Microsoft Office 2003 and enhancing your productivity. It’s also a great reference to keep handy so you can get a quick review of tasks you don’t often do or figure out more ways to use Office 2003 to make quick work of your work.