Stephanie Krieger - Documents, Presentations, and Workbooks: Using Microsoft® Office to Create Content That Gets Noticed

In of this book, Document Essentials, youll find guidance for planning effective documents, presentations, and workbooks; sharing content electronically; choosing the best program for the task; and understanding features that make a difference to the content you create in multiple Microsoft Office programs.

For example, in , youll learn about a few features, including the incredibly valuable formatting functionality known as themes. But its not about how to click to apply a built-in theme to your document. In that chapter, youll find a thorough introduction to themes that explains not just what they are, but why they are important and how they integrate with features across Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Youll also learn how to customize and create your own themes to more easily implement your own formatting requirements (such as corporate branding) across your documents, presentations, and workbooks.

In , youll learn about the six features that can enable you to create any document you need and how to put the pieces together to create better documents more easily.

For example, the Word chapter on styles () does not walk you through steps for how to use the New Style dialog box. Instead, the chapter addresses the way that styles are structured, how to create effective style sets, and how to manage styles in documents and templates. It also provides guidance for more advanced tasks, such as how to simplify your work with the often overcomplicated lists (bullets, numbering, and outline numbering).

In , learn how to craft great presentations that are as easy to edit as they are powerful to share, discover how you can do more with Office Art graphics, and get help for taking your presentations to the next level.

For example, the PowerPoint chapter on creating presentations () does not step you through the basics of applying a layout or explain the difference between adding your logo to a master or an individual slide. Instead, this chapter explains the relationship between themes, masters, layouts to help you create presentations and templates that look and behave the way you want. It provides best practices for creating and customizing layouts, working with various content types (such as charts or embedded Word tables) in your presentation, and tips for managing and troubleshooting presentations.

In , explore the documents known as Excel workbooks and the powerful functionality you can include in them, from formatting worksheets and working with data to using charts, tables, data visualizations tools, and PivotTables.

For example, the chapter on charts () does not step you through creating a basic chart or explain basics such as what an axis is. Instead, the chapter gives you the direction you need to create and customize charts efficiently; tips for creating more effective charts; help for more advanced tasks such as managing data, combining chart types, and working with secondary axes; and step by step instructions and troubleshooting for creating complex chart types such as price/volume charts and bubble charts.