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Do you use Microsoft Office? Or does Office use you? That is the question. Most people sit down at a computer, click a couple of times, and start typing. They rarely take the initiative to make Office work better, not knowing (or perhaps not caring!) that a few minutes spent upfront wrangling with the beast can save hours, or even days, down the road. Chime in any time. Do you spend a lot of time working with Office applications? Have you ever felt the frustration of typing something and having it mangled by a program that thinks it’s smarter than you? Maybe you’ve lost an hour or a day or a week to a PC that just doesn’t behave the way any rational machine should. And then wondered why it’s all so ludicrously complicated. If you’ve ever been so mad you could put your fist through the screen . . . this book’s for you. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, — Hamlet, III, i Hey, face it — you or your company paid a bundle for Office. Office is supposed to save you time — not suck it up in voracious gulps. Isn’t it about time that you started to get your money’s worth?
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Discover the world of Office 2003 programming and development. Microsoft has put many of its best cutting-edge tools into this powerhouse package. And you can also add .NET technology to Office 2003 quite easily, taking your programming to the next level. There’s lots to explore. This book shows you — the Office user, programmer, or developer — how best to exploit, expand, administer, and write code for Office 2003, the world’s most popular application suite. And it certainly is popular: Experts estimate that Office has over 90 percent of the market share. I think I know why (and the answer isn’t what Microsoft-haters claim).
This isn’t the kind of book you pick up and read from start to finish, as if it were a cheap novel. If I ever see you reading it at the beach, I’ll kick sand in your face. This book is more like a reference, the kind of book you can pick up, turn to just about any page, and start reading. It has 30 chapters, each one covering a specific aspect of networking — such as printing on the network, hooking up network cables, or setting up security so that bad guys can’t break in. Just turn to the chapter you’re interested in and start reading. Each chapter is divided into self-contained chunks, all related to the major theme of the chapter. For example, the chapter on hooking up the network cable contains nuggets like these:
Networking All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is intended to be a reference for all the great things (and maybe a few not-so-great things) that you may need to know when you’re setting up and managing a network. You can, of course, buy a huge 1,000-page book on each of the networking topics covered in this book. But then, who would you get to carry them home from the bookstore for you? And where would you find the shelf space to store them? In this book, you get the information you need all conveniently packaged for you in between one set of covers. This book doesn’t pretend to be a comprehensive reference for every detail of these topics. Instead, this book shows you how to get up and running fast so that you have more time to do the things you really want to do. Designed using the easy-to-follow For Dummies format, this book helps you get the information you need without laboring to find it. Networking All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is a big book made up of several smaller books — minibooks, if you will. Each of these minibooks covers the basics of one key element of network management, such as setting up network hardware, installing a network operating system, or troubleshooting network problems. Whenever one big thing is made up of several smaller things, confusion is always a possibility. That’s why Networking All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, 2nd Edition, is designed to have multiple access points (I hear an acronym coming on — MAP!) to help you find what you want. At the beginning of the book is a detailed table of contents that covers the entire book. Then, each minibook begins with a minitable of contents that shows you at a glance what chapters are included in that minibook. Useful running heads appear at the top of each page to point out the topic discussed on that page. And handy thumb tabs run down the side of the pages to help you quickly find each minibook. Finally, a comprehensive index lets you find information anywhere in the entire book. This isn’t the kind of book you pick up and read from start to finish, as if it were a cheap novel. If I ever see you reading it at the beach, I’ll kick sand in your face. This book is more like a reference, the kind of book you can pick up, turn to just about any page, and start reading. You don’t have to memorize anything in this book. It’s a “need-to-know” book: You pick it up when you need to know something. Need to know how to set up a DHCP server in Windows? Pick up the book. Need to know how to create a user account in Linux? Pick up the book. Otherwise, put it down and get on with your life.
Welcome to MindManager For Dummies, your portal to levels of productivity and creativity that you have only dreamt about! You’ve heard of thinking outside of the box? MindManager doesn’t even know where the box is. Open this book to any page and you will find ideas and examples that will open your mind and stimulate you to see new solutions in your world. This is a down-to-earth, practical book based on real ways to use the program. We remain astounded at the richness of MindManager: even as we were writing the last sentences in this book we continued to discover new ideas, new connections, and new possibilities. We discovered MindManager by word of mouth. Most of the 300,000 plus users did, too. You can’t walk into the local computer store and pick up a box with MindManager marketing hype. Go to www.minjet.com where a free download of MindManager Pro awaits you. The download is a fully functioning program that gives you a full three weeks to explore every facet of the software. You are not going to be bombarded with Mindjet extras and advertising. You’ll get an e-mail thanking you for downloading the program and one inviting you to purchase and register the program. The program and this book get you going at warp speed. You are going to find that the number of uses for MindManager grows each day you use the program. Imagine sitting in a large room. Innumerable things you have to solve, organize, or communicate surround you. There are doors on the opposite side of the room marked Web Interface, Document Publishing, Professional Presentations, and Task Tools, but they are all locked. A computer screen rises in front of you. MindManager is running. External information links are active. You look at each problem and solve it. One of the previously locked doors opens, easily, effortlessly. You take the tasks and organize them. Another door springs open. You structure and data mine seemingly unrelated bits of information. Now all the doors are open. You link stakeholder needs to activities. The mountain of tasks disappears, handled brilliantly. The sun shines, the birds sing, and work has become joyful and fulfilling. MindManager is fun to use. You are going to see that simplicity and fun can bring big benefits. Enjoy yourself, and use the program in ways unimagined. Share your discovery with others.
Twenty-five years ago, people developed reports using an advanced programming language that usually ran on the mainframe. With the advent of the personal computer in 1982, it was possible to use a programming language called Basic to write some basic reports with formatting. In the mid-1980s, Microsoft Excel came along and many people began to use the formatting capabilities and developing reports directly in Excel. Since then, Excel has continued to be the preferred tool for reporting and analysis for financial analysts and accountants due to its ease of programming formulas and formatting capabilities. Beginning in the 1990s, Microsoft began the development of a database management system called SQL Server. The early versions of SQL Server were clunky and the solution was not as popular as other database management solutions on the market. The first serious scalable version of SQL Server was SQL Server 7. In 2000, the SQL Server 2000 database was launched and until recently has been a scalable database system for developing enterprise solutions, especially for departments of large companies or midmarket companies. The price of the software running on Windows was a compelling feature of this database product. In the last few years, Microsoft began to expand its reach into reporting tools. Microsoft began developing Reporting Services. It was originally conceived to run as a Web service on top of a database in SQL Server 2000 and leverage the Web services – based architecture of the .NET framework. The design goals for the product were to include tight integration with Visual Studio .NET, leverage the overall extensibility of the framework, and offer a short learning curve to developing reports. In January 2004, Microsoft launched Reporting Services 2000 and offered it as a free download from their Web site. When it was launched, a Webcast was done to communicate the features of Reporting Services. This Webcast was the second most popular Microsoft Webcast ever, with 5,000-plus people viewing! Also, in just a short time, the number of downloads for Reporting Services outnumbered the number of known licenses of Crystal. This was a sweet spot in the marketplace. There was demand for an intuitive reporting tool that was an extension of a powerful database management system. Twenty-five years ago, people developed reports using an advanced programming language that usually ran on the mainframe. With the advent of the personal computer in 1982, it was possible to use a programming language called Basic to write some basic reports with formatting. In the mid-1980s, Microsoft Excel came along and many people began to use the formatting capabilities and developing reports directly in Excel. Since then, Excel has continued to be the preferred tool for reporting and analysis for financial analysts and accountants due to its ease of programming formulas and formatting capabilities. Beginning in the 1990s, Microsoft began the development of a database management system called SQL Server. The early versions of SQL Server were clunky and the solution was not as popular as other database management solutions on the market. The first serious scalable version of SQL Server was SQL Server 7. In 2000, the SQL Server 2000 database was launched and until recently has been a scalable database system for developing enterprise solutions, especially for departments of large companies or midmarket companies. The price of the software running on Windows was a compelling feature of this database product. In the last few years, Microsoft began to expand its reach into reporting tools. Microsoft began developing Reporting Services. It was originally conceived to run as a Web service on top of a database in SQL Server 2000 and leverage the Web services – based architecture of the .NET framework. The design goals for the product were to include tight integration with Visual Studio .NET, leverage the overall extensibility of the framework, and offer a short learning curve to developing reports. In January 2004, Microsoft launched Reporting Services 2000 and offered it as a free download from their Web site. When it was launched, a Webcast was done to communicate the features of Reporting Services. This Webcast was the second most popular Microsoft Webcast ever, with 5,000-plus people viewing! Also, in just a short time, the number of downloads for Reporting Services outnumbered the number of known licenses of Crystal. This was a sweet spot in the marketplace. There was demand for an intuitive reporting tool that was an extension of a powerful database management system.
SQL Server 2005 is huge. No book of this size can hope to cover it all. I have had to make choices about the topics to include in this book to help you understand how SQL Server works and how to use a range of its functionality. Here are some of the things you can do with this book:
This book is jam-packed with instructions, advice, shortcuts, and tips for getting
What reduces pain, enhances athletic performance, job efficiency, improves the circulation, raises immune efficiency, promotes the healing of tissues, increases the functioning of the skin, enhances focus and emotional balance, and improves appearance? Right, massage! So what are you waiting for? Discover how to knead your way to relaxation and wellness with this fun guide to the art of massage. With the help of numerous step-by-step hands-on photos and illustrations, Massage For Dummies, 2nd Edition shows you, move by move, how to harness the healing power of touch. In no time you’ll master the basics and learn how to give and receive a therapeutic massage.
In this book, I show you how to organize yourself, your team, and your business by creating procedures for goals control, communication through e-mail, sales control, marketing activities, tasks, and information sharing. You discover how to use Outlook to help you change attitudes and achieve balance in your life. How can software solve attitude problems, you ask? Well, using the Reminder feature can help employees remember to deliver a task on time. Sharing a task folder with your boss paves the way to negotiating the tasks you should do first. Using e-mail rules to filter out and expose behaviors helps to eliminate unnecessary messages before they’re even written. All these actions can reduce your anxiety and improve your attitude toward your goals.
