Product Description

• Dan Gookin's For Dummies guides to Word have consistently led the pack, selling more than 1.7 million copies in previous editions
• The author's irreverent sense of humor and crystal-clear prose make getting up to speed on Word a snap
• Thoroughly updated to cover Word's new interface, new file format options, and new collaboration and connectivity features
• An essential resource for everyone who wants to hit the ground running with Word 2007 and make the most of all the new features

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4315 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470036587
• BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed

From the Back Cover
The word is "easy" with this friendly guide!

Take advantage of cool new file formats and cruise around Word's new interface

From bestselling author Dan Gookin, here are words to live by about the world's most popular word processing program — Word 2007. From starting things up (there's a good, better, and best way) to formatting your documents, dressing them up, and giving them style, here's everything you need to know to make sure your words get noticed!

Discover how to

• Use keyboard shortcuts
• Navigate with scrollbar buttons
• Undo and redo edits
• Format text, paragraphs, and pages
• Split windows on a single document
• Collaborate and review documents

About the Author
Dan Gookin started the whole Dummies phenomenon with DOS For Dummies in 1991. He's the author of numerous bestsellers with more than 11 million copies in print.

Customer Reviews

Really dumb
I'm a big fan of the Dummies series; the information is usually complete and explained well. The Word 2007 volume, however, is nothing but fluff. The writer explains the features of Word 2007 by using words like "thing" and "stuff". The banter is usually tolerable (or easy to skip over) in the Dummies series, but this book has so much of it that it's no surprise there is no room for explaining new features such as the new interface, particularly the ribbon. The writer says the ribbon can't be modified. That's not true. Reading this book is like eating cotton candy.

Useless unless you're a novice to word processing.
I read this book cover to cover with the heavy use of a highlighter. I can only conclude the author is seriously unfamiliar with the featured product. Microsoft puffs the idea of the new "ribbon" approach to Word which the author all but ignors apart from a brief mention. The idea of adding PDF and XPS features gets less than cursory mention. Use the new Microsoft Upgrade to publish Blogs and Webpages directly? The author discourages this practice and recommends using a seperate software program. Therefore; if the author all but ignores the new features of this program, is it not fair to conclude he simply did a cut and paste from one of his previous "Dummy Books"? There is absolutely nothing in this book you couldn't know from having used "Microsoft Word 97". Don't waste your money or highlighter efforts on this worthless tomb.

Ease of use
I have had to use Word for dummies at least a dozen times and there does not seem to be question that the book can not answer.
The index in the rear of the book is very easy to use.
I have four dummies books that I use.
I am very happy with allof them.