Learn to use all parts of Office for Mac with this easy, visual method

Since its release in January 2008, Microsoft Office 2008 for the Mac has sold faster than any previous edition. Including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage, this office productivity suite has the tools you need for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and managing e-mail and contacts. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Office 2008 for Mac shows you how to use each one.

If you learn best when you see how things are done, this book is made for you. More than 175 useful and essential tasks are presented with clear, step-by-step instructions, illustrated with full-color screen shots that show you exactly how to use each application.

• Covers all the applications in Office 2008 for Mac: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage
• Shows how to create and edit documents in Word, manage spreadsheets and crunch numbers with Excel, and develop knockout presentations with PowerPoint
• Helps you improve your productivity by taking full advantage of the calendar, to-do list, contacts, and e-mail functions of Entourage
• Practical examples and advice along with full-color illustrations on every page help you learn quickly
• Step-by-step instructions and clear, high-resolution screen shots demonstrate more than 175 important tasks, so you can read less and learn more

Teach Yourself VISUALLY Office 2008 for Mac gets visual learners up to speed on Office 2008 for Mac quickly and easily.

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you''ll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 180 Office 2008 for Mac tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help Mac users get up and running on Office 2008 in no time.

You''ll learn to:

• Add Office programs to the Dock

• Set paragraph spacing in Word

• Enter and edit cell data in Excel

• Animate objects in PowerPoint

• Block junk mail in Entourage

• Save documents as Web pages

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task

• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

Paul McFedries is a technical writer who has been authoring computer books since 1991. He has more than 60 books to his credit, which together have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include the Wiley titles Teach Yourself VISUALLY Mac and The Unoffical Guide to Microsoft Office 2007. Paul also runs Word Spy, a Web site dedicated to tracking new words and phrases (see www.wordspy.com). Please visit Paul's personal Web site at www.mcfedries.com.