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Microsoft Office XP Step by Step (Step by Step
Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to use the complete suite of Microsoft® Office XP applications. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
WORD: Create and publish great-looking documents quickly and easily EXCEL: Develop easy-to-use spreadsheets and perform calculations ACCESS: Build your own databases for better decision making POWERPOINT®: Produce and deliver compelling presentations FRONTPAGE®: Get yourself—or your company—on the Web fast by constructing your own site PUBLISHER: Create professional-quality marketing materials—without being a designer OUTLOOK®: Manage your e-mail communications and calendar
WORD: Create and publish great-looking documents quickly and easily EXCEL: Develop easy-to-use spreadsheets and perform calculations ACCESS: Build your own databases for better decision making POWERPOINT®: Produce and deliver compelling presentations FRONTPAGE®: Get yourself—or your company—on the Web fast by constructing your own site PUBLISHER: Create professional-quality marketing materials—without being a designer OUTLOOK®: Manage your e-mail communications and calendar
784 pages, Paperback
First published July 18, 2001
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December 24, 2022
Limited and misleading but useful if you need discipline
There is no such thing as XP but this looks good in the library and lets people know that you were around then.
Step-by-step is a great concept for beginners. And the pictures are truly worth 1000 words. The book is well divided into the products that compose office 2002. I have Microsoft works which contains Word 2002. I also bought separately FrontPage.
The examples in the book and on CD follow what you would normally do yourself when testing a new product or update. There is no new insight or trick. The only advantage of buying the book is the discipline of going from "a to z" instead of jumping around a possibly missing a critical step.
The big disadvantage is not learning the information that you need to complete your task in a timely manner. Rule one in any discipline, know your purpose then pick the tool (hammers do not work well with screws.) You are also led down the garden path (especially with FrontPage.) Instead of picking a good commercial ISP that uses mainstream tools for web hosting such as Perl and with a proven operating environment such as SUN OS, HPUX, AIX, or even Linux. You are directed to anyone with a toy as long as it has the other half of the FrontPage functions on it (server-side applications.)
Bottom line this is a good beginner book but can lead you into a corner if you try to use it for anything but learning the basic functions of Office XP.
There is no such thing as XP but this looks good in the library and lets people know that you were around then.
Step-by-step is a great concept for beginners. And the pictures are truly worth 1000 words. The book is well divided into the products that compose office 2002. I have Microsoft works which contains Word 2002. I also bought separately FrontPage.
The examples in the book and on CD follow what you would normally do yourself when testing a new product or update. There is no new insight or trick. The only advantage of buying the book is the discipline of going from "a to z" instead of jumping around a possibly missing a critical step.
The big disadvantage is not learning the information that you need to complete your task in a timely manner. Rule one in any discipline, know your purpose then pick the tool (hammers do not work well with screws.) You are also led down the garden path (especially with FrontPage.) Instead of picking a good commercial ISP that uses mainstream tools for web hosting such as Perl and with a proven operating environment such as SUN OS, HPUX, AIX, or even Linux. You are directed to anyone with a toy as long as it has the other half of the FrontPage functions on it (server-side applications.)
Bottom line this is a good beginner book but can lead you into a corner if you try to use it for anything but learning the basic functions of Office XP.
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