Beginning with a series of quick primers that help build proficiency in all the major components of Office 2002, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, and FrontPage, this encyclopedic reference explains, streamlines, and organizes for business professionals the key elements of each program. The specific features of these programs that are most likely to be used by the businessperson, such as Word’s documenting and formatting tools, Excel’s formulas and functions, and Office’s macro and VisualBasic for Applications feature, are discussed in detail. Also provided are step-by-step plans for accomplishing common business projects with Office, such as creating a contact database with Access, publishing an e-mail newsletter using Outlook, creating a business pro forma using Excel, and creating a sales presentation with PowerPoint.