AppleWorks 5 for Dummies [Paperback]

Bob LeVitus (Author), Deborah Shadovitz (Author), Dennis R. Cohen (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764505572 | ISBN-13: 978-0764505577 | Publication Date: March 31, 1999 | Edition: 1

Put the power and productivity of AppleWorks 5 to work as you create exciting, professional-quality documents and presentations. Get the most from every element in this feature-packed productivity suite with AppleWorks 5 For Dummies by Bob LeVitus (known around these parts as Dr. Mac) and Deborah Shadovitz as they guide you through the entire range of the exciting features in AppleWorks 5 and share tons of little-known tips and tricks that can make your work go faster.

AppleWorks 5 For Dummies delivers fast and friendly know-how on creating professional-quality reports with charts, tables, spreadsheets, and pictures. Use the AppleWorks basic page layout techniques to create everything from family newsletters to business reports, and enhance your presentations with state-of-the-art digital sound and video. Build an address database, print your own mailing labels, and run the mail merge program to personalize and print form letters. Design a Web page with images, videos, and links to promote your business, organization, or personal perspective on the world, or insert hyperlinks into your desktop documents to take readers straight to the Web.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Standard equipment on the iMac, AppleWorks 5 helps you complete almost any general office task or personal project. Whether you're writing a letter or creating a budget, AppleWorks (formerly called ClarisWorks) includes an application that can help you. AppleWorks 5 for Dummies shows you how to get the most out of the iMac's suite of productivity software.

The key to using AppleWorks efficiently begins with familiarizing yourself with the interface elements that all of its programs have in common. That's the first order of business in AppleWorks 5 for Dummies, an organizational decision that helps streamline the remainder of the book. After covering the suite as a unit, the authors proceed to cover AppleWorks's word processor, spreadsheet, and database programs in succession. They also take care to explain how (and why) to embed tables, graphs, pictures, and multimedia elements in various kinds of AppleWorks documents.

Throughout, authors LeVitus and Shadovitz use the Dummies style to maximum effect, communicating a lot of detailed information without overwhelming the reader or getting bogged down in unimportant details. They present most of the information in stepped procedures, so it's likely you'll find the section that explains precisely what you need to do to achieve a particular result. --David Wall

From the Back Cover

Tips on Solving the Ten Most Common AppleWorks Problems Inside!

Get the Most Out of Every Element of This Powerful Productivity Suite! AppleWorks^® 5 For Dummies^® shows you how to use and integrate the powerful AppleWorks productivity tools to create exciting, professional-quality documents and presentations. With their trademark humor and high spirits, authors Bob LeVitus (a.k.a. Dr. Mac) and Deborah Shadovitz guide you through all of AppleWorks' exciting features — and share loads of little-known tips and tricks that will make your work go faster. AppleWorks^® 5 For Dummies^® is the smart way to get the most out of AppleWorks — starting today!

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

• Create professional-quality reports with charts, tables, spreadsheets, and pictures
• Design a presentation with state-of-the-art digital sound and video
• Use basic page layout techniques to create everything from family newsletters to business reports
• Build an address database and print labels from it
• Run mail merge to personalize and print form letters
• Design a Web page complete with images, videos, and links to promote your business or organization
• Insert hyperlinks into documents to take readers straight to the Web
• Use AppleWorks Stationery and Assistants to prepare timesaving pre-formatted documents

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (March 31, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764505572
• ISBN-13: 978-0764505577
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,607,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #9 in Books > Computers & Technology > Apple > AppleWorks

More About the Author

Edward C. Baig is the Personal Technology columnist for USA TODAY and the author of Macs For Dummies, 10th Edition. Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus pens the popular Dr. Mac column for the Houston Chronicle and is the author of Mac OS X® Snow Leopard For Dummies.

Customer Reviews

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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great manual for the manualess program, October 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: AppleWorks 5 for Dummies (Paperback)

I have used this program since the ClarisWorks 3.0.1 version, and was a little overwhelmed by all the changes in the latest version of this book. A lot of information in the book I already knew, but a lot I did not. I only wish I had this book 5 years ago, and it would have saved me A LOT of frustration.

2.0 out of 5 stars No improvement over the manual, April 3, 2000

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This review is from: AppleWorks 5 for Dummies (Paperback)

I confess to having been spoiled by Pogue's books on the Palm Pilot and the Mac, and so expected a lot of information that went way beyond the Appleworks manual, but I didn't find this book at all helpful in the areas I most needed the help. For years I've happily used the old Microsoft Works (version 2.00e) program and switched a year ago to the Appleworks program. The vastly larger number of bells and whistles made it difficult to figure out how to do things that were simple on the older program, and Appleworks 5 didn't provide much or easily findable help (e.g., TRY to find out how to get numerical data formatted as dollars in the manual.) I'd hoped this book would give me the answers, but found it essentially repeats the program manual's lack of helpfulness. Index wasn't very good either.