MS-Office lets me down

If there is one software you need to know well as an MBA , then it is undoubtedly MS-Office. With the myriad project submissions,presentations & spreadsheet work the Word,Excel,Powerpoint skills are tested at every stage.

Unfortunately I am very mediocre in MS-Office. I never really cared much for it during my IT years and its costing me badly now. Its high time I either grab a good book on MS-Office or attend a training. This ranting is a result of submerged work of project submissions during the weekend when I felt seriously handicapped by my MS-Office skills. How I wish speech recognition was a reality today ( I speak and the docs & ppt's are auto generated from the audio inputs ....Is MS working on it ? )