Office XP Professional

Office XP Professional in easy steps covers all the essential features of Microsoft's leading office suite.

If you want detailed, practical, plain-English information with plenty of helpful, full-colour illustrations - all organised in a concise, clear, easy to understand format - this is the book for you! Office XP Professional in easy steps takes you through the suite's five modules: Word 2002 (word processor); Excel 2002 (spreadsheet); Outlook 2002 (personal/business information manager); PowerPoint 2002 (slide show creator); and Access 2002 (database).

Its step by step approach ensures that you learn what you need to know at your own pace.

The first chapter ("A common approach") emphasises how the modules work together and shows you how to get started in any of them, quickly and easily.

Later chapters take each individual module and explain advanced techniques in a friendly, informative way, using plenty of walkthroughs. Finally, the book shows you how to use Office XP Professional's mail merge capability to create a letter, format it, insert the appropriate fields and then merge it with a distribution list (for example, an Access database or your Outlook contacts) to produce a highly tailored result which you can then print and/or edit.