Welcome to the home page of Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus! It has been estimated that although Microsoft Office 2007 contains more than 10,000 features, the average user is familiar with only about 150 of them. That means that most people have left a whopping 98.5 percent of Office territory unexplored. In practical terms, it also means that most people aren't taking advantage of the power of the Office suite. It means that most people are working inefficiently by trying to make the techniques they know serve a wide range of situations, and it means that most people are working ineffectively because they aren't aware of techniques that could solve their problems and add sophistication to their documents.
You'll be no doubt happy to hear that the goal of this book is not to give you a tour of the 98.5 percent (or whatever) of Office features that you may be unfamiliar with. I don't know anyone who wants to learn all of Office. Instead, my purpose here is to share with you the tips and shortcuts and little-known techniques—in short, the tricks—that I've amassed in my more than 15 years of wrestling with the Office programs. You'll also no doubt be happy to hear that this book shuns what I call "stunt tricks": those arcane and useless tips that have no purpose in the real world and serve only to show off the knowledge and smarts of the writers. A pox on their houses! This book is grounded firmly in the real world of business and other practical concerns, and the tricks I offer are designed to help you work better, faster, safer, and smarter.
Please click freely on the links below to learn more about the book. (For some of the links you'll need a program that can open PDF files, such as Adobe Reader.)
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Table of Contents |
| Want to know what's in the book? Check out the Table of Contents, which includes the Contents at a Glance (just the chapters) as well as the complete contents of each chapter. |
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Introduction |
| Want to know more about the book? Check out the Introduction, which tells you why I wrote the book and who I wrote it for, and also gives you an overview of the book's content and features. |
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Sample Chapter |
| Want a taste of the book's flavor? Read the full text of Chapter 3, which takes you through a bunch of tricks related to working with documents in Word 2007. |
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Index |
| Want to know whether the book covers a specific topic that's near and dear to your heart? No problem. Just take a gander at the incredibly detailed Index, which lists every last topic that I cover in the book. |
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Example Files |
| Want to download the example files that I use in the book? No problem! I've crammed everything into examples.zip, a compressed file that includes all the book's example documents and VBA code, organized by chapter. |
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Forum |
| Want to ask a question about the book or let the world know what you thought of it? Have your say in The Dialogue Box. | |