Building Essential Office Skills -- Getting Up to Speed with the Office Applications -- Learning Common Tools Across the Office Suite -- Working with Text -- Using Pictures and Shapes in Your Documents -- Customizing Office to Suit You -- Creating Documents with Microsoft Word -- Entering Text and Using Views -- Adding Style: Formatting Your Documents -- Creating Complex Documents and Layouts -- Creating Business Documents with Mail Merge -- Revising and Reviewing Documents -- Printing, Securing, and Sharing Documents -- Analyzing Data with Microsoft Excel -- Creating Workbooks and Entering Data -- Formatting Your Worksheets -- Creating Powerful and Persuasive Charts -- Crunching Numbers with Formulas and Functions -- Creating Simple Databases and Solving Business Problems -- Manipulating Data with PivotTables -- Creating Presentations with Microsoft PowerPoint -- Starting to Build a Presentation in PowerPoint -- Creating Clear and Compelling Slides -- Adding Life and Interest to a Presentation -- Delivering a Presentation Live or Online -- E-mailing and Organizing with Outlook -- Using E-mail Effectively -- Keeping Your Contacts in Order -- Managing Your Calendar -- 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.