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Microsoft® Office Home and Student 2007 Step by Step
Joan Preppernau
$14.70

About this product:
The smart way to learn Microsoft Office Excel® 2007, Office OneNote® 2007, Office PowerPoint® 2007, and Office Word 2007 one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy, numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to master the fundamentals of working with the Microsoft Office programs in Office Home and Student 2007, including how to navigate the new user interface. You will discover how to create, edit, and proofread documents and create polished presentations that you can really be proud of. You ll also learn how to create spreadsheets and quickly calculate data. Plus learn how to digitally manage all of your notes so that you can easily find them and take action! With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes a companion CD with hands-on practice files.

Key Book Benefits:

Learn how to use Office Home and Student 2007 by taking just the lessons you need or by working from cover to cover you set the pace.

Includes coverage of the fundamentals for working with Excel 2007, OneNote 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Word 20007 including creating attractive documents and presentations, organizing data and performing calculations, and digitally managing your notes.

Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises.

Includes a companion CD with practice files and other resources.

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Microsoft Office 2007 Illustrated Introductory, Windows XP Edition
Elizabeth Eisner Reding
$58.54

About this product:
This Microsoft Office 2007 Illustrated Series book covers the essential information that you need to know about how to use Office 2007 applications. Our signature two-page spread design has been updated and refreshed to take full advantage of the new features of the Office 2007 software. This practical, easy to navigate book provides you with the essential knowledge you need to succeed at both work and beyond.

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The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit: With SQL Server 2005 and the Microsoft Business Intelligence Toolset
Warren Thornthwaite
$32.95

About this product:
This groundbreaking book is the first in the Kimball Toolkit series to be product-specific. Microsoft’s BI toolset has undergone significant changes in the SQL Server 2005 development cycle. SQL Server 2005 is the first viable, full-functioned data warehouse and business intelligence platform to be offered at a price that will make data warehousing and business intelligence available to a broad set of organizations. This book is meant to offer practical techniques to guide those organizations through the myriad of challenges to true success as measured by contribution to business value.

Building a data warehousing and business intelligence system is a complex business and engineering effort. While there are significant technical challenges to overcome in successfully deploying a data warehouse, the authors find that the most common reason for data warehouse project failure is insufficient focus on the business users and business problems. In an effort to help people gain success, this book takes the proven Business Dimensional Lifecycle approach first described in best selling The Data Warehouse Lifecycle Toolkit and applies it to the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 tool set.

Beginning with a thorough description of how to gather business requirements, the book then works through the details of creating the target dimensional model, setting up the data warehouse infrastructure, creating the relational atomic database, creating the analysis services databases, designing and building the standard report set, implementing security, dealing with metadata, managing ongoing maintenance and growing the DW/BI system. All of these steps tie back to the business requirements. Each chapter describes the practical steps in the context of the SQL Server 2005 platform.

Intended Audience

The target audience for this book is the IT department or service provider (consultant) who is:

• Planning a small to mid-range data warehouse project;
• Evaluating or planning to use Microsoft technologies as the primary or exclusive data warehouse server technology;
• Familiar with the general concepts of data warehousing and business intelligence.

The book will be directed primarily at the project leader and the warehouse developers, although everyone involved with a data warehouse project will find the book useful. Some of the book’s content will be more technical than the typical project leader will need; other chapters and sections will focus on business issues that are interesting to a database administrator or programmer as guiding information.

The book is focused on the mass market, where the volume of data in a single application or data mart is less than 500 GB of raw data. While the book does discuss issues around handling larger warehouses in the Microsoft environment, it is not exclusively, or even primarily, concerned with the unusual challenges of extremely large datasets.

About the Authors

JOY MUNDY has focused on data warehousing and business intelligence since the early 1990s, specializing in business requirements analysis, dimensional modeling, and business intelligence systems architecture. Joy co-founded InfoDynamics LLC, a data warehouse consulting firm, then joined Microsoft WebTV to develop closed-loop analytic applications and a packaged data warehouse.

Before returning to consulting with the Kimball Group in 2004, Joy worked in Microsoft SQL Server product development, managing a team that developed the best practices for building business intelligence systems on the Microsoft platform. Joy began her career as a business analyst in banking and finance. She graduated from Tufts University with a BA in Economics, and from Stanford with an MS in Engineering Economic Systems.

WARREN THORNTHWAITE has been building data warehousing and business intelligence systems since 1980. Warren worked at Metaphor for eight years, where he managed the consulting organization and implemented many major data warehouse systems. After Metaphor, Warren managed the enterprise-wide data warehouse development at Stanford University. He then co-founded InfoDynamics LLC, a data warehouse consulting firm, with his co-author, Joy Mundy. Warren joined up with WebTV to help build a world class, multi-terabyte customer focused data warehouse before returning to consulting with the Kimball Group. In addition to designing data warehouses for a range of industries, Warren speaks at major industry conferences and for leading vendors, and is a long-time instructor for Kimball University. Warren holds an MBA in Decision Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and a BA in Communications Studies from the University of Michigan.

RALPH KIMBALL, PH.D., has been a leading visionary in the data warehouse industry since 1982 and is one of today's most internationally well-known authors, speakers, consultants, and teachers on data warehousing. He writes the "Data Warehouse Architect" column for Intelligent Enterprise (formerly DBMS) magazine.

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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services 2005
Brian Larson
$27.39

About this product:
Microsoft's Reporting Services product is a vital part of the SQL Server 2005 business intelligence platform, but it works with virtually any data source. This hands-on guide explains how to transform data into insightful and interactive Web-based reports using Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. With coverage of everything from installation to administration, the book demonstrates how to use this powerful server-based reporting solution to improve business decision-making and facilitate company-wide -- even worldwide -- communication.

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Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Windows Vista Edition (Shelly Cashman)
Misty E. Vermaat
$74.83

About this product:
In Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques you’ll find features that are specifically designed to improve retention and prepare readers for future success. Our trademark step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach now encourages users to expand their understanding of the Office 2007 software through experimentation, exploration, and planning ahead.

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Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook, 2nd Ed.
Michael Linenberger
$12.73

About this product:
Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook is a book for the over-extended office worker whose workday feels out of control. It shows how to regain command of an over-committed workday and an overflowing, unmanaged e-mail in box. It does this by teaching the author's system of time, task, and e-mail management, and it shows how to implement the system in Microsoft Outlook.

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Microsoft® Windows® SharePoint® Services 3.0 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
Penelope Coventry
$12.99

About this product:
Experience learning made easy and quickly teach yourself how to use Windows SharePoint Services to enable effective team collaboration. With Step By Step, you set the pace building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Build your own SharePoint site with easy-to-use templates Create lists and libraries to store information Add discussion boards, wikis, and blogs Set up Document and Meeting Workspaces for easy collaboration Share calendars, contacts, and data from Microsoft Office programs Customize your pages with Web Parts Your all-in-one learning experience includes: Files for building skills and practicing the book s lessons Fully searchable eBook Windows Vista Product Guide eReference plus other resources on CD

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2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out
$14.81

About this product:
Dive into the essential features in Microsoft Office Access 2007, Excel 2007, Outlook 2007, PowerPoint 2007, and Word 2007. This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle what s new in your favorite Microsoft Office programs and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery! Expertly manage your inbox, contacts, and business information Master sophisticated document-layout and formatting techniques Build spreadsheets to help you perform complex calculations and data analysis Design databases, build data-collection forms, and manipulate data Learn advanced techniques for creating charts and reports Create dynamic slides using themes, custom slide layouts, and special effects Explore Office Groove 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services for powerful collaboration Configure security and privacy settings to help thwart worms, viruses, and malware Write macros using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications and work with Office Open XML CD includes: Fully searchable eBook plus bonus chapters!3 0+ sample files spreadsheets, databases, code, and XML Resources for customizing, configuring, and troubleshooting programs Links to demos, webcasts, training courses, and blogs Visual references for finding commands in the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface Online resources for InfoPath 2007, OneNote 2007, Project 2007, and Visio 2007 Windows Vista Product Guide eReference and other eBooks

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Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Access 2007 (Special Edition Using)
Roger Jennings
$31.48

About this product:
<>This book offers you comprehensive, information on using the new version of Access. Not only updated for the latest version, new chapters have been added on application automation with Access macros and collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint Team Server, both of which are hot topics.  All chapters are updated for the transition from Jet to the new Access database engine. Detailed, step-by-step instructions with icons guide you through Access through table design, data addition, importing data from external sources, query design and execution, and designing data entry forms and printed reports.

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Introduction

I Getting Acquainted with Access 2007

1 Access 2007 for Access 200x Users: What’s New

2 Building Simple Tracking Applications

3 Navigating the New Access User Interface

II Learning the Fundamentals of Access

Databases

4 Exploring Relational Database Theory and Practice

5 Working with Access Databases and Tables

6 Entering, Editing, and Validating Access Table Data

7 Sorting, Finding, and Filtering Data

8 Linking, Importing, and Exporting Data

III Transforming Data with Queries and

PivotTables

9 Designing Queries for Access Databases

10 Understanding Access Operators and Expressions

11 Creating Multitable and Crosstab Queries

12 Working with PivotTable and PivotChart Views

13 Creating and Updating Access Tables with Action

Queries

IV Designing Forms and Reports

14 Creating and Using Basic Access Forms

15 Designing Custom Multitable Forms

16 Working with Simple Reports and Mailing Labels

17 Preparing Advanced Reports

18 Adding Graphs, PivotCharts, and PivotTables

V Moving to Networked Multiuser Applications

19 Linking Access Front Ends to Access and

Client/Server Tables

20 Exploring Access Data Projects and SQL

Server 2005

21 Moving from Access Queries to Transact-SQL

22 Upsizing Access Applications to Access Data

Projects

VI Collaborating with Access Data

23 Importing and Exporting Web Pages

24 Integrating with XML and InfoPath 2007

25 Collaborating with Windows SharePoint Services

VII Programming and Converting Access

Applications

26 Automating Access Applications with Macros 2007

27 Learning Visual Basic for Applications

28 Handling Events with VBA and Macros

29 Programming Combo and List Boxes

30 Understanding Data Access Objects, OLE DB,

and ADO

31 Upgrading 200X Applications to Access 2007

VIII Appendix

A Glossary

Index

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Best Practices
Bill English
$34.89

About this product:
Get field-tested best practices and proven techniques for designing, deploying, operating, and optimizing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0. Part of the new Best Practices series for IT professionals from Microsoft Press®, this guide is written by leading SharePoint MVPs and Microsoft SharePoint team members who ve worked extensively with real-world deployments and customers. You ll find out how to deploy the software, design your environment, manage content, analyze and view data, perform disaster recovery, monitor performance, and more. You'll learn how to create SharePoint sites that help your organization collaborate, take advantage of business insights, and improve productivity with practical insights from the experts.

Key Book Benefits:

Delivers authoritative, field-tested best practices for working with Microsoft SharePoint solutions Covers the full IT lifecycle, from planning, design, and deployment through operations and support Includes a CD with job aids, utilities, and a fully searchable eBook