Product Description

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this text offers a clear screen-by-screen, step-by-step approach to learning the fundamentals of Microsoft Office XP.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213702 in Books
• Published on: 2003-02-12
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1136 pages

From the Publisher
Contains fifteen projects on computer concepts, Windows, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Office XP Integration. Includes sufficient material for a first course on Office XP applications. Projects and exercises take full advantage of the new features of Office XP. Introduction to Computers section has been revised to start students off with the most up-to-date introduction to computer concepts. Supplementary exercises have been added to provide additional project reinforcement.

About the Author
Gary B. Shelly wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. More than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman Series' textbooks have been sold. Gary and a talented group of contributing authors have produced books on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software that are the leading textbooks in the computer technology market today. Gary has hosted the annual Shelly Cashman Institute, a week-long training event focusing on the latest topics in technology, for the past 34 years.

Thomas J. Cashman received his education at California State University, Los Angeles. He established one of the first business data processing programs in the U.S. at Long Beach City College in California, where he taught and served as department head. In 1969, he began collaborating with now best-selling author, Gary Shelly.

Misty E. Vermaat has more than 20 years of experience in the field of computer information systems. She has co-authored many textbooks for the Shelly Cashman Series, including multiple versions of Discovering Computers, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Office Word books.

Customer Reviews

Helped me ace "Computers 101" at St. John's U.
Easy enough for a technophobe to learn from. Concepts explained well, although a bit drawn out at times. I don't know how it compares to other instruction manuals, but this one got me through a year of basic computer science at St. John's U.

Pretty good info, Doesn't instill as much "critical thinking"
I work in a world where critical thinking skills are a must, so for things like this you should have more exercises that are "at your own pace" and "figure it out yourself" type of deal.

This book is also horribly lacking the ability to check how close your Office document that YOU made to their example. It's no use if you don't know how well you did. Things can look similar, but there are probably errors here-or-there.

It's fairly comprehensive, but like I said, since you don't really use your brain much, you don't really gain the ability to do these type of things on your own.

Great Book, For Those Who Are New To Computers!
This is a great textbook! This book is very easy to follow, as it has provided step-by-step instructions on how to do each of the chapters in this book and of Office XP. It also has a chapter review section with more exercises.