Sample chapters

How to Add Sound and Movies to Microsoft PowerPoint 2010

• Jun 29, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Step by Step, you’ll insert a sound clip and a sound file and make various adjustments to their settings. You’ll also insert two video files, edit one of them, and format them both.

Managing the Search Experience in Microsoft SharePoint 2010

• Jun 24, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Pocket Consultant will show how to configure search so that users can easily define and refine both the query and the results.

Working with Special Content in Word

• Jun 24, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft Office 2010 Plain & Simple talks about cover letter templates, inserting equations, using text boxes to create sidebars and pull quotes, creating watermarks, and working with other special characters and content.

Creating Queries in Access 2010

• Jun 15, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft Access 2010 Plain & Simple explains the concept and function of queries and shows how to create them using the Query Wizard or on your own. It also introduces more advanced concepts such as using queries to calculate values or find duplicate records.

Managing a Calendar in Microsoft Outlook 2010

• Jun 15, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft Outlook 2010 Plain & Simple shows how to work with calendars in Outlook including creating appointments, events and meetings as well as working with objects and attachments, making changes, and sharing calendar information.

Using Formulas and Functions

• Jun 15, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft Excel 2010 Plain & Simple explains the use of formulas and functions in Excel, including creating, editing, and debugging.

Creating Dynamic Worksheets by Using PivotTables in Microsoft Excel 2010

• Jun 2, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft Excel 2010 Step by Step, you’ll learn how to create and edit PivotTables from an existing worksheet, focus your PivotTable data using filters and Slicers, format PivotTables, and create a PivotTable with data imported from a text file.

Fine-Tuning Task Details in Microsoft Project 2010

• Jun 2, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step, you examine and use a variety of advanced features in Microsoft Project 2010. These features focus on fine-tuning task details prior to saving a baseline, as well as commencing work on the project with the goal of developing the most accurate schedule representation of the tasks you anticipate for the plan.

How to Insert and Modify Diagrams in Microsoft Word 2010

• Jun 2, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft Word 2010 Step by Step, you’ll insert a diagram into a document and specify its size and position. Then you’ll change the diagram’s layout, visual style, and color theme. Finally, you’ll see how to use a diagram to arrange pictures in a document.

Organize Information in Columns and Tables in Microsoft Word 2010

• Jun 2, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft Word 2010 Step by Step, you’ll first create and modify columns of text. Then you’ll create a simple tabbed list. Finally, you’ll create tables from scratch and from existing text, and format a table in various ways.

Setting Up Resources in Microsoft Project 2010

• Jun 2, 2010
• Microsoft Project 2010 supports three types of resources. These are work resources, as well as two special-purpose resources: cost and material. In this chapter from Microsoft Project 2010 Step by Step, you will set up work and cost resources.

Building a Presentation Outline in PowerPoint 2010

• May 15, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 Plain & Simple shows how to use PowerPoint's outline for organizing your thoughts and information to include in your presentations.

Understanding AJAX and ASP.NET

• May 15, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Step by Step covers AJAX, helping you understand the problems AJAX solves, how it is supported in ASP.NET, and how to write AJAX-enhanced websites to improve the user's experience.

Creating Web Sites and Web Pages by Using Visual Web Developer and ASP.NET

• May 12, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Step by Step, you’ll learn how to build Web sites and Web pages by using the Visual Web Developer tool included with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

Introducing the Task Parallel Library in Microsoft Visual C# 2010

• Apr 15, 2010
• In this chapter from Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Step by Step you will see how to improve concurrency in an application by using the Task Parallel Library.

MCITP Self-Paced Training: Troubleshooting Software Issues in Windows 7

• Mar 15, 2010
• This chapter from MCITP Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-685): Windows 7 Enterprise Desktop Support Technician looks at the various causes of software errors and provide strategies for how to resolve them.

Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway: Using Network Monitor 3 for Troubleshooting TMG

• Feb 10, 2010
• This chapter from Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator's Companion covers the basics of Network Monitor, including how to capture data and some Network Monitor capture scenarios.

Managing File Systems and Drives in Windows Server 2008

• Dec 28, 2009
• Wherever disk resources are located, your job as a system administrator is to manage them. The tools and techniques you use to manage file systems and drives are discussed in this chapter from Windows Server 2008 Administrator's Pocket Consultant, 2nd Edition.

Designing Help Documentation for Windows PowerShell Scripts

• Dec 16, 2009
• In this chapter from Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices, you will look at proven methods for providing custom help in Windows PowerShell scripts.

Monitoring and Performance in Windows 7

• Oct 21, 2009
• This chapter from MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-680): Configuring Windows 7 (Corrected Reprint Edition) looks at monitoring resources and performance on a computer running Windows 7. It considers the various tools that tell you what resources are available on a computer and report problems encountered in using a resource. The chapter discusses performance monitoring, establishing baselines and logs, and determining where bottlenecks might occur before they happen. It looks at checking the potential of the computer to perform resource-intensive tasks and how to capture both local events and events on other computers.