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This is the eBook version of the printed book. Real World QuarkXPress is the world's best-selling reference on QuarkXPress. At many design firms and schools it’s considered required reading. With its friendly, easy-to-read style, you’ll learn QuarkXPress from the bottom up as a beginner. If you’ve had some experience with QuarkXPress, this book will help you sharpen your skills with all the new features of version 7. And if you’re an advanced user, all the tips, tricks, and techniques will turn you into a raging, inexorable QuarkXPress demon. In this book, you'll learn how to:.: Speed up just about every task with the new Measurements palette; Apply sophisticated drop shadows to text, images, boxes, and more; Experiment with transparency and image e  ects; Create expert tables with imported Microsoft Excel data and rich formatting; Collaborate with others using the Shared Content and Composition Zones; technologies; Prevent sticky output problems with color setups, output styles, and Job Jackets; Automate your projects with new QuarkXPress scripts and third-party XTensions; For the latest updates, visit the Real World QuarkXPress site: www.peachpit.com/Quark7. "This is the book. Period. I’ve learned something from every new edition of Real World. QuarkXPress since 1990.”. —Jay Nelson, Editorial Director, PlanetQuark.com and Design Tools Monthly more...

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Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office XP in 24 Hours is the quick and easy way to learn how to get up to speed and productive with the Office XP applications. Microsoft Office is the most popular application suite in the industry. Knowing how to get around and get work done in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint are essential prerequisites in just about any organization today. Most users only scratch the surface of the Office applications - they only want to quickly learn the most common, most important tasks for each of the suite's main applications. Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office XP in 24 Hours is designed precisely for this beginning-level user - somebody who doesn't want to become an Office expert but just wants to get productive as quickly and as smoothly as possible. The book covers the most commonly used and needed Office applications and tasks, and is carefully organized into clear, step-by-step tutorial lessons. more...

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Special Edition Using Microsoft Office XP organizes each of the major applications in the Office suite in its own section. Before diving into specific features of individual programs, however, you will be guided through the sections that cover techniques common to all applications including the essentials of Office. In addition, learn to personalize your interface, banish spam, eliminate risk of missing appointments, supercharge your editing abilities, wow your audiences with PowerPoint presentations and automate macros. more...

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