1. Getting Up to Speed with the Office Applications


2. Learning Common Tools Across the Office Suite


3. Working with Text


4. Using Pictures and Shapes in Your Documents


5. Customizing Office to Suit You


6. Entering Text and Using Views


7. Adding Style: Formatting Your Documents


8. Creating Complex Documents and Layouts


9. Creating Business Documents with Mail Merge


10. Revising and Reviewing Documents


11. Printing, Securing, and Sharing Documents


12. Creating Workbooks and Entering Data


13. Formatting Your Worksheets


14. Creating Powerful and Persuasive Charts


15. Crunching Numbers with Formulas and Functions


16. Creating Simple Databases and Solving Business Problems


17. Manipulating Data with PivotTables


18. Starting to Build a Presentation in PowerPoint


19. Creating Clear and Compelling Slides


20. Adding Life and Interest to a Presentation


21. Delivering a Presentation Live or Online


22. Using E-mail Effectively


23. Keeping Your Contacts in Order


24. Managing Your Calendar


25. Working with Tasks and Notes

Office for Mac remains the leading productivity suite for Mac, with Apple's iWork and the free OpenOffice.org trailing far behind. Now, it's been updated with a cleaner interface and more compatibility with Exchange and SharePoint. 

Learn Office 2011 for Mac OS X offers a practical, hands-on approach to using Office 2011 applications to create and edit documents and get work done efficiently. You'll learn how to customize Office, design, create, and share documents, manipulate data in a spreadsheet, and create lively presentations. You'll also discover how to organize your email, contacts, and tasks with the new Outlook for Mac. Conveying information quickly and concisely, the book brings you from beginner or intermediate to an experienced and confident user.

This book provides the best combination of accessible and focused coverage of the Office 2011 applications. Rather than cover every seldom-used feature, the book covers real-world usage, putting emphasis on practical tasks and troubleshooting common problems, such as sharing documents with Windows users and older versions of Office.

Guy Hart-Davis is the author of more than 50 computer books, including How to Do Everything with Microsoft Excel 2007 and How to Do Everything with Microsoft Word 2007.