The following are five PowerPoint tutorial movies that demonstrate some of the tips & tricks you can do to unlock PowerPoint's capabilities. You will need Quicktime to view these.

5 PowerPoint Movie Tutorials

More Ways Than One There are more ways than one to do the same tasks in PowerPoint and this PowerPoint tutorial will look at the various options you have.

Customizing The Toolbar This PowerPoint tutorial will show demonstrate how you can customize PowerPoint to work the way you do

Multiple Guides This PowerPoint tutorial will demonstrate how to create multiple guides when laying out your PowerPoint slides

Greyscale Preview Optimize your PowerPoint presentation to print or fax in Black & White without affecting the color

Inserting Unique Symbols This PowerPoint tutorial will demonstrate how to insert copyright, trademark, monetary & other unique text symbols into PowerPoint

Here is a nicely written and illustrated 4-page tutorial, in pdf format, teaching how to perform the mail merge feature using Office XP or Office 2003. It contains great screen shots as it moves step by step through the process of merging name and addresses to be mailed.

Mail Merge in Office XP and Office 2003

Here are lots of tutorials, articles, and support documents for helping you learn and use Microsoft Visio 2003. These will get you up-to-speed on and using many of the basic and advanced features of this graphical, diagramming, and workflow application. These are authored by Microsoft.

Tutorials and Help for Microsoft Visio 2003

» Startup and Settings Installing and Activating Visio | Accessibility | Getting Help | More... » Setting Up Your Workspace Working with Menus and Toolbars | Arranging Windows and Stencils | Restoring Original Settings » Creating Drawings Block Diagrams | Brainstorming Diagrams | Building Plans | More... » Working with Drawings Viewing Drawings | Working with Pages | Working with Layers | More... » Working with Shapes and Text Finding and Adding Shapes | Positioning Shapes | Adding and Formatting Text | More... » Printing Printing Large Drawings | Preparing Drawings for Printing | Printing Drawings » Sharing Information Reviewing Drawings | Sharing Information with Other People | Sharing Information with Other Programs | More... » Work Essentials with Visio Administration | Team Collaboration | Consulting | More... » Visio and the Web Office System files on Web servers | Publishing to the Web | Using Hyperlinks in Drawings | More... » Using Your Data in Drawings Entering Data in Shapes | Creating Reports from Data | Linking Shapes and Drawings to Databases » Security and Privacy Digital Signatures | Macro Virus Protection | Privacy | More... » Automating Tasks and Programmability ActiveX Controls | Macros » Language-Specific Features Working with Asian Languages | Working with Vertical Text » Visio at Home » Columns, Demos, and Quizzes Crabby Office Lady | Taming Templates | Demos | More...

Here are 2 free Microsoft Office Ebooks: 'Microsoft Office 2003 in 10 Steps' and 'Excel for Dummies'.

The links for these 2 ebooks are in this google groups post:
2 Free Microsoft Office Ebooks

To access the download link for 'Microsoft Office 2003 in 10 Steps' on rapidshare.de, click on the Free button at the bottom of the rapidshare page, wait about 30 seconds, then enter the 3 character code and click on the download button. To uncompress the .rar files you can use 7-Zip. The download file size is 12.3 MB, when uncompressed it is a PDF file. This Office ebook has 645 pages.

To access the download link for 'Excel for Dummies' on megaupload, wait 45 seconds, click on the 'X' on the 'Megaupload Links' box at upper right, then click on 'Click here to download'. The downloaded file is a PDF, and the file size is 15.6 MB. This Excel ebook has 410 pages.

Here are 4 free ebooks for Microsoft Excel.

To access the download links on rapidshare.de, click on the Free button at the bottom of the page, wait about 30 seconds, then enter the 3 character code and click on the download button. To uncompress .rar files you can use 7-Zip.

Microsoft_Office_Excel_2003_-_Step_By_Step
11.7 mb, 382 pages, pdf after uncompress rar file

Manage Your Money and Investments with Microsoft Excel, part 2
(password: educ843)
Manage Your Money and Investments with Microsoft Excel, part 1
(password: educ843)

Microsoft Office Excel 2003 Bible
(password: bibleguru)

Guide to Microsoft Excel 2002 for Scientists and Engineers Third Edition
5.5 mb, 338-page pdf after uncompress rar file
(password : www.blueportal.org)
To access the download link, wait 45 seconds, click on the 'X' on the 'Megaupload Links' box at upper right, then click on 'Click here to download'.