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Learn how to extend Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 with this comprehensive reference. Complete with code samples in Microsoft Visual Basic® and Visual C#®, this guide delivers the information that developers need to create customized solutions.

Get the definitive guide to learning how to exploit the built-in functionality in Outlook 2007. Written by two experts on Outlook extensibility, this book delivers practical guidance and extensive code samples to help you extend, adapt, and customize information flow to the desktop.

Discover how to:

• Programmatically create built-in item types to expose Outlook functionality in your solution
• Use the Items collection and Table object to access containers for Outlook items
• Connect to shared folders, Internet calendars, and RSS subscriptions
• Write event handlers and hook up event delegates for Outlook objects
• Implement programmatic search and organizational schemas
• Add controls at design-time or runtime to help you build rich form regions Download Now »

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Build robust Excel 2010 apps quickly and efficientlyKnown as “Mr. Spreadsheet,” John Walkenbach’s name is synonymous with excellence in computer books that explain the complexities of various topics. With this collection of favorite Excel tips and tricks, you get a unique look at ways to make Excel 2010 more efficient than you ever imagined.

Packed with easy-to-understand advice regarding all aspects of Excel, this book shares improved ways of speeding up application development with Excel and maximizing the power of Excel to create robust applications.

• Addresses the extensive changes to the 2010 version of Excel and shares tricks and shortcuts for making your Excel experience as successful and efficient as possible
• Reveals ways to deal with function arguments, create “impossible” charts, and tame the Ribbon bar
• Discusses absolute vs. relative references, change data entry orientation, and sort more than three columns
• Demonstrates ways to enter fake data for testing purposes

With John Walkenbach’s Favorite Excel 2010 Tips and Tricks, you’ll get a jump start on mastering the extensive changes to the 2010 version of Excel.

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Office 2011 for Mac is easy to use, but to unleash its full power, you need to go beyond the basics. This entertaining guide not only gets you started with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and the new Outlook for Mac, it also reveals useful lots of things you didn’t know the software could do. Get crystal-clear explanations on the features you use most — and plenty of power-user tips when you’re ready for more.

• Take advantage of new tools. Navigate with the Ribbon, use SmartArt graphics, and work online with Office Web Apps.
• Create professional-looking documents. Use Word to craft beautiful reports, newsletters, brochures, and posters.
• Crunch numbers with ease. Assemble data, make calculations, and summarize the results with Excel.
• Stay organized. Set up Outlook to track your email, contacts, appointments, and tasks.
• Make eye-catching presentations. Build PowerPoint slideshows with video and audio clips, animations, and other features.
• Use the programs together. Discover how to be more productive and creative by drawing directly in Word documents, adding spreadsheets to your slides, and more.

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Office for Mac remains the leading productivity suite for Mac, with Apple’s iWork and the free OpenOffice.org trailing far behind.  And now it’s being 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 little-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.

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This book takes a practical problem-solution approach to common business challenges. You’ll not only encounter interesting code samples, but also see how to combine these examples with the Microsoft collaboration platform’s services. The book’s solutions focus on using Visual Studio 2008 and its built-in Office development tools to construct the user interface layer. And solutions can interact with SharePoint as a service provider, taking advantage of SharePoint’s many collaboration features like document repositories, collaboration sites, and search functions.

This book is unique because it starts with challenges that end users deal with every day when using the Microsoft collaboration platform to support business processes. The solutions are presented as hypothetical business challenges of a fictional company. By presenting the examples in this context, author Ed Hild makes it easier to relate to the challenges and solution value. The goal of these examples is to build applications that apply the benefits of the Office desktop interface to the richness of SharePoint collaboration features. This book will help you develop real-world solutions to complex business problems and challenges. Download Now »

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Discover how to take advantage of the many new features in SharePoint 2010. SharePoint provides content management (enterprise content management, Web content management, records management, and more), workflow, and social media features, and the new version boasts enhanced capabilities. This introductory-level book walks you through the process of learning, developing, and deploying SharePoint 2010 solutions.

You’ll leverage your existing skills and tools to grasp the fundamental programming concepts and practices of SharePoint 2010. The author clearly explains how to develop your first application for SharePoint 2010 and guides you through the many aspects of a SharePoint 2010 development project.

• Explains how SharePoint is more than simply a portal and is capable of providing content management, workflow, social media features, and more
• Details the new features and functions of SharePoint 2010 and provides a thorough look at the fundamental programming concepts and practices of SharePoint 2010
• Walks you through how to perform common developer tasks in SharePoint and the tools required to do so
• Reviews building and deploying Web parts, integrating Office applications with SharePoint, interacting with data in SharePoint 2010, developing Web Services for SharePoint, and creating enhanced user experiences for SharePoint Download Now »