Summary:
The best beginners book on this low-cost, entry-level productivity suite, Microsoft Works Suite 2000 for Dummies guides readers painlessly through installing and using major modules such as Word, Money, and Internet Explorer, as well as fun stuff such as Picture it! Express and Expedia Streets & Trips 2000.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
	What's in This Book	1
	Who Do I Think You Are, Anyway?	2
	How to Use This Book	2
	How This Book Is Organized	3
	Icons Used in This Book	5
	The One Shortcut Used in This Book	6
	Where to Go from Here	6
Part I	Crunching Numbers, Organizing Information	7
Chapter 1	Starting Your Suite Programs	9
	Finding and Starting the Works Task Launcher	9
	Starting Works Suite Programs from the Start Menu	12
	Using and Losing the Task Launcher	12
	Starting by Choosing a Program from the Task Launcher	14
	Starting with a Task	15
	Opening Documents You've Worked On Before	16
	Opening Documents Not Listed under History	17
	Finding Documents with the Task Launcher	17
Chapter 2	Spreading Your First Sheets	19
	Understanding and Appreciating Spreadsheets	19
	Starting Out	20
	What's what in a spreadsheet window	20
	The spreadsheet toolbar	20
	The spreadsheet document	22
	Cells	22
	Entering and Editing Data in Cells	23
	Moving from cell to cell	23
	Typing stuff in cells	23
	Changing column widths and row heights	24
	Entering different kinds of cell contents	25
	Editing the contents of a cell	26
	Trying Out a Sample Spreadsheet	28
	Working with Ranges: Groups of Cells	30
	Selecting a range of cells	30
	Referring to a range by its address	30
	Copying, Moving, and Deleting	31
	Inserting and Deleting Rows and Columns	32
	Entering Sequential Headings and Data Automatically by Using Autofill	33
Chapter 3	Making Calculations	35
	Basic Ideas behind Spreadsheet Calculations	35
	Using Easy Calc in Works	36
	Writing Formulas: Beyond Easy Calc	39
	Entering a formula	40
	Seeing and editing formulas	41
	Hello, operator?: Mathematical operations	42
	You're Invited to a Function	42
	Shortcuts for Creating Formulas	43
	The Joys and Mysteries of Copying Formulas	45
	What happens if you copy formulas?	46
	Fixing formulas that don't copy correctly	47
Chapter 4	Formatting and Printing Your Spreadsheets	49
	Formatting in One Swell Foop!	50
	Formatting Cells Yourself	52
	Formatting Numbers	52
	Working with Dates and Times	55
	Typing dates and times	55
	Formatting dates and times	57
	Doing basic date and time arithmetic	57
	Adding Borders, Viewing Gridlines	58
	Sorting Your Data	59
	Dealing with Printing Peculiarities	61
Chapter 5	Creating Charts from Spreadsheets	63
	A Gallery of Chart Types and Variations	63
	Creating Any Chart, Step-by-Step	65
	Using the Chart Window, Menu, and Toolbar	68
	The chart menu bar	69
	The chart toolbar	69
	Changing Chart Types and Variations	70
	Naming, Saving, and Managing Multiple Charts	71
	Customizing Axes and Other Lines	72
	Customizing the Y axis	73
	Customizing the X axis	74
	Customizing Charts: Text and Numbers	75
	Font and style	75
	Number formats	75
	Chart and axis titles	75
	Data labels	76
	Printing a Chart	78
Chapter 6	Organizing Your Data with a Database	79
	Using a Database	79
	What does the Works database do for you?	80
	Fields and records: How Works stores information	80
	The Database Window	81
	Starting the Database Program	83
	Creating New Database Fields	83
	Viewing Your Database	86
	Navigating in Different Views	88
	Navigating in Form view or Form Design view	88
	Navigating in List view	89
	Entering Data	89
	Creating a Sample Database	90
	Moving and Resizing Fields	91
	Moving fields in Form Design view	91
	Moving fields in List view	91
	Resizing fields in Form Design view	92
	Resizing fields in List view	93
	Editing Data and Field Names	93
	Surviving (or Using) the Protection Racket	94
	Adding and Deleting Fields	94
	Adding new fields	95
	Deleting (removing) fields	96
	Adding, Inserting, and Deleting Records	96
	Adding a record	96
	Inserting or deleting a record	97
	Applying and Changing Formats	97
	Printing Your Database	99
Chapter 7	Getting Answers from Your Database	101
	Finding Specific Records	101
	Using Selected Records: Marking, Showing, and Hiding	102
	Filtering Your Data	103
	Applying, changing, and deleting filters	105
	Using more than one criterion	106
	Trickier filtering using formulas	107
	Sorting	108
	Reporting	109
	What's a standard report?	110
	Creating a standard report	110
	Modifying your report	118
	Modifying your report by using Report view	119
Chapter 8	Works Wizardry for Popular Tasks	121
	Tempting Templates	122
	Creating a template	122
	Using a template	123
	Creating an Address Book	124
	Creating Your Own Junk Mail	127
	Creating your form letter	128
	Viewing your form letter with real data	129
	Tips for Using Task-Created Documents	130
	Working with word processing documents	130
	Working with spreadsheet documents	131
	Working with database documents	131
Chapter 9	Dating Yourself by Using Microsoft Calendar	133
	What's What in the Calendar Window	134
	Viewing by Month, Week, or Day	134
	Looking Ahead or Behind	135
	Setting Up Appointments or Events	136
	Making happenings happen	136
	Entering birthdays and other recurring events	139
	Editing and moving appointments and events	141
	Using categories	142
	Setting up reminders	143
	Printing Calendars	144
Part II	Putting Words in Word	145
Chapter 10	Creating and Editing a Document	147
	Starting and Exiting Word	148
	Starting Documents	148
	Saving Documents	150
	The Word Window and Toolbar	151
	Typing and Deleting	151
	Typing	151
	The insertion point	152
	Deleting	153
	Typing spaces, tabs, and other invisible characters	153
	Seeing invisible characters	154
	Understanding paragraphs and paragraph marks	155
	Moving around	157
	Document Views	157
	Selecting Text for Editing or Formatting	158
	Moving and Copying	159
	Finding Elusive Fauna (Or, Where's That Word?)	159
	Finding words by using fragments	160
	Searching for Oscar Wilde and finding wildebeests	160
	Replacing Wildebeests with Whelks	161
	Meeting the Mighty Thesaurus	162
	Checking Your Spelling and Grammar	163
Chapter 11	Controlling Appearances and Printing	165
	Charming Characters	166
	Pretty Paragraphs	167
	Alignments: Making your lines line up	167
	Spaced-out paragraphs	168
	Quick indenting and outdenting	169
	The tab stops here	170
	The ruler: A benevolent monarch	174
	Having it your way: The Paragraph dialog box	176
	Having it their way: Styles	179
	Having it your way: Creating your own styles	179
	Perfecting Your Page Layout	180
	Page setup	180
	Margins	181
	Sideways documents	182
	Different-sized documents	183
	Page breaks	183
	Printing	184
	Previewing: Printing without paper	184
	Printing on actual paper!	186
	Terminating printing	188
Chapter 12	Dressing Up Your Document and Sending It Out	191
	Bulleted Lists: Shooting from the Toolbar	192
	Heavy Ammo: The Format Bullets Dialog Box	192
	Page Numbers, Headers, and Footers	193
	Inserting automatic page numbers	193
	Creating headers and footers	194
	Adjusting header and footer margins	196
	Footnote Fundamentals	196
	Tables	197
	Creating a table	197
	Modifying your table	198
	Borders and Shade	199
	Selecting what to border or shade	199
	Marking your borders	200
	Making shady paragraphs	201
	Columns	202
	The Envelope, Please!	203
	Creating and printing an envelope	204
	Printing labels	207
Chapter 13	Adding Graphics, Charts, and Sidebars	211
	Copying and Pasting Images	211
	Inserting Pictures from Files	212
	Drawing "Blob Art"	213
	Making shapes and text	213
	Modifying objects	215
	Creating Sidebars (Text Boxes)	216
	Clipping Clip Art	218
	Creating WordArt	219
	Inserting Charts and Other Foreign Objects	221
	Messing Around with Art in the Document	222
Part III	Learning to Love Money	225
Chapter 14	Setting Up Banking and Checking Accounts	227
	Deciding Whether Money's Good for You	228
	Preparing to Use Money	229
	Starting Money, Exiting, and Saving Your Work	229
	What's What in the Money Window	230
	Setting Up Accounts	232
	Viewing and Modifying Individual Accounts	234
	Setting Up Categories and Subcategories	235
	Viewing Money's categories	235
	Adding your own category or subcategory	237
Chapter 15	Doing Banking and Checking Transactions	239
	Recording Transactions in an Account Register	240
	Setting Up Recurring Bills and Scheduled Transactions	243
	Being aware of upcoming transactions	245
	Proceeding with scheduled transactions	246
	Printing Checks	246
	Setting up your printer for your checks	247
	Actually printing checks	248
	Reconciling Accounts	250
	Types of Electronic Transactions	252
Chapter 16	Budgeting, Reporting, and Analyzing	253
	Budgeting	254
	Getting started	255
	Income	255
	Long-term savings	256
	Occasional expenses	257
	Debt and loans	257
	Expenses: Spending by category	259
	Monthly or yearly summary	260
	Forecast	260
	Analyzing with Reports and Charts	261
	Choosing and using report and chart windows	261
	Customizing reports and charts	264
	Printing your report or chart	266
Chapter 17	Investing with Money	269
	Setting Up Investment Accounts	269
	Recording Your Buying, Selling, and Dividends	270
	Tracking Securities by Using Online Data	272
	Viewing Current and Prospective Investments	273
	Portfolio views	273
	Graphically viewing and comparing security prices	274
Part IV	'Netting Ventured, 'Netting Gained	275
Chapter 18	Gearing Up for the Internet	277
	Ways and Whys of Going Online	277
	Things to do online and why	277
	Finding the best way to connect	278
	Gathering What You Need	279
	Finding an Internet Service Provider Yourself	280
	Running the Internet Connection Wizard