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If you work in an office, you probably don’t lose much sleep worrying about whether your files are safe if your PC melts down. Company IT departments handle those things for business networks. But how about all those precious photos, address lists, the family genealogy, and everything else that lives on your home network? Windows Home Server can [Read More]

By itself, Excel 97 can do some pretty amazing stuff. Add Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and you add a whole other dimension of automation and customization. Excel 97 Programming For Windows For Dummies offers plenty of practical examples of Excel programming in action and explains in plain English how toSave time and improve accuracy by autom[Read More]

Windows XP For Dummies Quick Reference covers the essentials that new and experienced Windows users need to become familiar with the latest release of the Windows operating system and use its basic and brand new features. Covers the latest updates to Wind

To get a real productivity boost from Outlook, you need Microsoft Outlook 97 For Windows For Dummies Quick Reference. With this handy, concise guide, you won't waste time looking up how to use the many powerful features built into Microsoft's multifaceted scheduler, contact manager, and communications program. The perfect on-the-road companion to t[Read More]

If you've used the latest version of Microsoft's best-selling word processing program, you know that the enhancements are more than skin-deep. Sure, Word 97 features a spiffed-up user interface and an animated paper-clip-with-eyes Office Assistant named Clipit, but Word 97 also has plenty of typographic, Web publishing, and other powerful capabilit[Read More]

You certainly get your money’s worth with Office XP. In one convenient bundle, you get a world-class word processor (Word 2002), a spreadsheet program (Excel 2002), a presentation program (PowerPoint 2002), an e-mail program (Outlook 2002), and a database program (Access 2002). Plus, you get a grab-bag of other useful programs. What a bargain! [Read More]

A terrific value-a full-size book plus video demonstrations of key Windows 7 tasks Windows 7 is Microsoft's much-anticipated new release of the operating system that powers nearly 90% of the world's computers. This two-for-one package provides the step-by-step guidance that will get you up and running with all the exciting new features. Thi[Read More]

* This wide-ranging guide helps ordinary users fight back against Windows slowdowns, glitches, and annoyances * Windows is the world's dominant desktop operating system, with 93.8 percent of the market as of 2002 * Packed with savvy tips for decluttering a system, speeding up access to programs and data, customizing the interface, rooting out resou[Read More]

The first full upgrade to Microsoft Windows since XP is on its way! Be prepared with this special preview edition of Windows Vista For Dummies, and get a head start on all the cool new features plus a sneak peek at Office 2007. Windows is the #1 operating system in the world, and Vista is loaded with exciting new features like a task-based i[Read More]

This book boils down to this simple fact, some people want to be windows wizards. They love interacting with dialog boxes. While sitting in front of their computers, they randomly press keys on their keyboards, hoping to stumble onto a hidden, undocumented feature.