Rural diners used to post signs promising "Sudden Service." Some probably still do. This book is intended to offer much the same thing: quick access to help you get an immediate job done using iWork for the iPad. You can read it end to end. But you'll often find it more useful as a handy reference to help you get the most from the iPad versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. In fact, you can carry this book in electronic form, right on the iPad itself. Check the Contents for the job you need to do; then, you can jump directly to that section. Cross-references lead you to other helpful information. Working with the iPad can be an interesting, productive experience. Enjoy.

Office in a Minute, Steps for Performing Basic Tasks in Microsoft Office 2013 This book is a must have tutorial for anyone interested in quickly learning Microsoft home and student editions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote 2013. These self-paced tutorials also include chapter timings to provide the reader with the estimated time it takes to complete each task.

Written in an engaging, easy-to-follow style, Learning Adobe Connect 9 is a practical guide that will help you master the use of this web conferencing platform and its most important features. This book is ideal for users who would like to start utilizing Adobe Connect for web meetings, e-learning, and webinars. Those who are looking to learn Connect and get up to speed with using all of its features would find this book extremely useful.

This is a practical, step-by-step guide that will help you to quickly become a proficient Octave user. The book is packed with clear examples, screenshots, and code to carry out your data analysis without any problems. This book is intended for anyone interested in scientific computing and data analysis. The reader should have a good level of mathematics and a basic understanding of programming will be useful, although it is not a prerequisite.

Essential Articulate Studio '09 Is Designed To Help Novice To Intermediate Users Of Articulate Studio '09 Get The Most From Using These Tools--Presenter, Engage, Quizmaker, And Video Encoder--To Develop Quality Informational And Instructional Materials. It Was Written With The Following Goals In Mind: Help New Users Get Up To Speed As Quickly And Painlessly As Possible Assist Users Of Previous Versions Of Articulate Studio (And Previous Versions Of Presenter, Engage, And Quizmaker) In Capitalizing On Improvements Made To These Tools In The '09 Versions Provide Tips And Tools That Make Information Presentation And Instruction Faster, Easier, And Better Help New And Previous Users Develop Information And Instruction That Is More Valuable For The Intended Audience(S) This Book Is Unique Because It Can Serve As Both A Tutorial For The Studio '09 Products And As A Primer On Designing And Building Good Information And Instruction With These Tools. The Advice And Insights Are Practical And Take Into Account The We-Need-It-Yesterday Environments That Most People Who Use These Tools Operate In. Many Books About Online Learning Discuss How To Build Good Instruction, But This Book Actually Shows You How To Build It, Using Some Of The Best Authoring Tools In The Industry.

Written in a cookbook style, this book offers solutions using a recipe based approach. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by an analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. If you are a software developer interested in content management systems, who wants to work with Alfresco or is already experienced in Alfresco, this cookbook will get you up and running quickly. If you want rapid implementation of Alfresco's most important and effective features then this is the cookbook for you.

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Microsoft Outlook Programming unleashes the power of Microsoft Outlook, allowing administrators and end users to customize Outlook in the same way that they've used macros and templates to customize other programs like Excel and Word. Experienced developers will find the quick-start information they need to begin integrating Outlook into their applications. Microsoft Exchange administrators will get help automating common tasks such as announcing public folders and importing data to custom forms.
Microsoft Outlook is the most widely used email program, and it offers the most programmability. This book introduces key concepts for programming both Outlook forms for storing and exchanging data and Visual Basic for Applications modules that add new features to Outlook. Central to this new edition, which covers both Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002, is awareness of tighter security in Outlook. Designed to prevent transmission of computer viruses, the security restrictions can also get in the way of legitimate programs, but this book offers workarounds within the reach of novice programmers. It also covers many of the new features of Outlook 2002, such as the integrated Outlook View Control and searching across multiple folders using SQL syntax and the Search object.
-Building block procedures for the most common Outlook programming tasks
-Jargon-free language and practical examples to make the material more accessible to new Outlook programmers
-Coverage of Outlook Email Security Update
-Coverage of the Office XP Web Services Toolkit

Whether you're new to Office 97 or upgrading, this book has everything you need to maximize its powerful features and apply them to your own projects. It covers all five applications separately, and includes a section on how to integrate them -- so you can focus on just what you need. Simple step-by-step walkthroughs lead through a variety of tasks to quickly get you up to speed.

Information visualization is a language. Like any language, it can be used for multiple purposes. A poem, a novel, and an essay all share the same language, but each one has its own set of rules. The same is true with information visualization: a product manager, statistician, and graphic designer each approach visualization from different perspectives. Data at Work was written with you, the spreadsheet user, in mind. This book will teach you how to think about and organize data in ways that directly relate to your work, using the skills you already have. In other words, you don't need to be a graphic designer to create functional, elegant charts: this book will show you how. Although all of the examples in this book were created in Microsoft Excel, this is not a book about how to use Excel. Data at Work will help you to know which type of chart to use and how to format it, regardless of which spreadsheet application you use and whether or not you have any design experience. In this book, you'll learn how to extract, clean, and transform data; sort data points to identify patterns and detect outliers; and understand how and when to use a variety of data visualizations including bar charts, slope charts, strip charts, scatter plots, bubble charts, boxplots, and more. Because this book is not a manual, it never specifies the steps required to make a chart, but the relevant charts will be available online for you to download, with brief explanations of how they were created.

Designed as a project and case-oriented approach to learning Excel, the emphasis of this book is on learning by doing. The book presents a series of progressively reinforcing problem sets, which allow the exploration of real-life business problems. First, the background, theory, formulas, and calculations are discussed, followed by the design of Excel spreadsheets, which support the creation of effective spreadsheets for these applications. Finally, the proper solution and other related aspects are discussed, forming a cohesive set of practical application problems. Some of the topics explored include amortization tables, weighted averages, cash flows, payroll calculations, break even analysis, and spreadsheet databases. Excel techniques include formulas and functions, cell addressing, conditional and lookup functions, graphs, sorting, and filtering. FEATURES Provides 30 projects, several How-to Guides, and Application Types to learn Excel skills using problems, applications, and case studies featuring practical business problems Explores formulas and functions, financial functions, cell addressing, conditional functions, lookup functions, graphs, sorting, and filtering, amortization tables, future values of an investment, weighted averages, cash flows, payroll calculations, break even analysis, economic order quantity, spreadsheet databases, and more Companion files with four Excel video tutorials and images from the text. Instructor resources available.

Ever think about turning a hobby into a commercial venture? Or working full time as an independent contractor? Or simply wondering if textbook economic principles are relevant in real life? Through a sequence of short cases, this book shows you how to use the basic tools of economic and financial analysis to answer common business questions such as: whether or not a new business venture makes economic sense for you; when to hire extra help; what variety of products and services to offer; what production process to use and what pricing strategies to follow. Includes glossary, index, and business templates that can be adapted for any commercial venture. Appropriate for both personal and classroom use.

"Microsoft Office 2003 Real World Applications -- Introductory" is the first of this new, two-volume series. This introduction to Office 2003 covers Microsoft Office Specialist objectives for Word 2003, Excel 2003, Access 2003, and PowerPoint 2003.

"Microsoft Office 2003 Real World Applications -- Introductory" was written specifically for high school students. It is age-level and interest-level appropriate. The student edition also integrates basic language arts and mathematics skills.

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