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Office Annoyances: Vital Changes and Settings

By Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth,
T. J. Lee

Office is comprised of five base components: Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, and PowerPoint. In order to optimize how the pieces fit and work together you have to not only deal with each individual piece, but you have to look at Office as a whole and then how all of Office fits into Windows itself.

This chapter covers a host of changes that every single Office user should make, not only to the individual applications, but to Office as a whole, and to Windows itself. By and large they're easy, quick changes designed to rectify annoyances in the "stupid annoyance" category we discussed in the previous chapter.

Make these changes the minute you install Office. If you already have Office installed, make these changes immediately. Even if you've been using Office for months or years, go through this list carefully and make any changes you haven't already encountered in your copious and hard-earned experience.

It should take you between one to two hours to go through this chapter, modifying Office as you read. We guarantee you'll save at least an hour the first month you put these changes to use. By the end of the second month, you should've paid for this book-just using the tips in this chapter. And from then on it's gravy.

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 Sections In This Chapter
Introduction
Office 97 Version Vertigo
Installation Odds and Ends
  Get the Latest Version
  Download all the Freebies
Custom Settings for Everyman
  Office in Your StartUp Folder
  Disable Find Fast
  Start Menu Hubris
  Some Common Pan-Office Settings
  Max Your Most Recently Used File List
  Office Shortcut Bar
  Get Internet Explorer Installed
  File New and the Templates Folder
  The Office Assistant
How Office Fits Into Windows
  Max Out Your CD
  Scan and Defrag
Tips for the Working Office-ianado
  Customizing Shortcut Menus
  Customizing Your Command Bars
Quick Change Checklist


  
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