Product Description

Microsoft(r) Word is the best-selling word processor from the Microsoft Office suite of applications. And innovation is at the heart of its success, with new features that enable PC users to focus on content and easily create great-looking documents fast.

MICROSOFT WORD 2000 STEP BY STEP instructs the beginning to advanced user on getting the most out of the powerful word processor. The personal training system offers easy-to-follow lessons that include clear objectives and real-world business examples. Users can learn exactly what they need to know, at their own pace. Each volume consists of approximately eight hours of instruction with dozens of screen shots and illustrations. A companion CD is included with practice files tightly integrated with the lessons. Other features include a "QuickLook Guide" for easy visual navigation and "Finding the Best Starting Point for You" to help users get the most out of the book. A special binding stays flat when the book is open.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #176145 in Books
• Brand: MSOFT
• Published on: 1999-05-07
• Platform: No Operating System
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.10 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Amazon.com Review
Microsoft Word 2000 has great potential, but it's only as powerful as its user. If you want a tutorial that will help you make the best of your documents, look to Microsoft Word 2000 Step by Step. Catapult, Inc., has teamed up with Microsoft Press to present 16 in-depth lessons covering installation and basic document handling, advanced editing, Web page production, and collaboration.

Each well-organized lesson summarizes key points, estimates the length of time needed for mastery, and highlights each feature for easy reference. Screenshots help the visually-oriented, and the multimedia examples on the CD-ROM show all the steps necessary for more complex functions, like inserting hyperlinks.

Though it's not intended as a reference, Step by Step will work well in a pinch or for the basic user. Between the index, table of contents, and QuickLook visual guide, you should find the instructions you need quickly and painlessly. While it's not quite comprehensive, and power users might sneer at its simplicity, it addresses all of the standard Word 2000 tasks a user needs to create great-looking documents at home or in the office. --Rob Lightner

Customer Reviews

Lacking in details....bigtime!
This book (being returned to Amazon) has less information on the fine points of creating personal preferences than does the application's built in help menu. It assumes that every user had just come from the previous version of Word. Coming from Word 5.1a (Macintosh) I might as well have been arriving from Mars. The book lacks essential detail of each operation in which I was interested. A new user would do best to stay away from both this book and Word and opt for a simpler program.

I purchased the book hoping for detailed information of things like how to create stylized envelope return addresses in default, kerning, and other features. Kerning is not listed in the index or anywhere else in the book. This is one reason why I upgraded from an older Word and this book doesn't even mention that feature at all? It was so lacking that I needed a $7.00 phone call to Miscrosoft support just to learn how to save a styled envelope.

I'd pass on this one.

GG

MICROSOFT WORD 2000 (STEP BY STEP)
THIS IS THE BOOK FOR FIRST TIME OR BRUSH-UP USERS WHO WANT TO GET A LITTLE MORE SUBSTANCE OUT OF THEIR EFFORTS IN A REASONABLY SHORT TIME. A MEDIUM AMOUNT OF WORDINESS, CLEAR PRECISE PROCEDURAL GUIDING, AND CLEAR B&W SCREEN PRESENTATION. THOUGH COLOR WOULD HAVE BEEN EXTRA NICE.

An MOUS Authorised Instructor from Nigeria
The book provides an excellent treatment for both new users and those upgrading from Word 97. It covers all neccesary topics without going into unneccessary detail. The only thing missing is the MOUS approved courseware logo which we hope should be put on it.

I recommend it to anyone wising to get up to speed quickly on Word 2000. keep up the good work!