Filled with self-checks and 150 screen shots, a beginner's guide to the powerful desktop publishing software includes advice on how to create charts, templates, macros, and screen shows, as well as instructions on importing data from spreadsheets. Original.

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Offers advice on using the business presentation software to create slides, transparencies, and handouts; publish presentations on the Internet; download special effects from the Internet; and create timesaving macros

Offers advice on using the business presentation software to create transparencies, and handouts, publish presentations on the Internet, and create timesaving macros

Advances in Soft Computing contains the most recent developments in the field of soft computing in engineering design and manufacture. The book comprises a selection of papers that were first presented in June 1998 at the 3rd On-line World Conference on Soft Computing in Engineering Design and Manufacturing. Amongst these are four invited papers by World-renowned researchers in the field. Soft computing is a collection of methodologies which aim to exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth to achieve tractability, robustness and low solution cost. The area of applications of soft computing is extensive. Principally the constituents of soft computing are: fuzzy computing, neuro-computing, genetic computing and probabilistic computing. The topics in this book are well focused on engineering design an d manufacturing. This broad collection of 43 research papers, has been arranged into nine parts by the editors. These include: Design Support Systems, Intelligent Control, Data Mining and New Topics in EA basics. The papers on evolutionary design and optimisation are of particular interest. Innovative techniques are explored and the reader is introduced to new, highly advanced research results. The editors present a unique collection of papers that provide a comprehensive overview of current developments in soft computing research around the world.