How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 (How to Do Everything) [Paperback]

Laurie Fuller (Author), Laurie Ulrich (Author), Ken Cook (Contributor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072229373 | ISBN-13: 978-0072229370 | Publication Date: September 15, 2003 | Edition: 1

Discover a spate of splashy new buttons, menus, and colors—plus, learn to maximize significant new features and functions of Office, including XML support, SmartTags, and much more. Highly qualified author Laurie Ulrich has trained more than 10,000 people to use Office, and is well versed at explaining complex concepts to a varied audience.

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From the Back Cover

Get a first-hand look at the freshest upgrade to Office in years. In addition to beautiful visual updates, Office 2003 offers greater compatibility between applications, significant changes to Outlook, SmartTags throughout the suite for greater consistency, and much more. How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 provides solutions to using the most powerful tools and features of each application within the suite. Whether you're interest is Word, Excel, Outlook, Access, PowerPoint, or FrontPage, author Laurie Ulrich gives plenty of insights, timesaving tips, and practical examples to help you make the most of Office. Open this amazing resource now and be on your way to ultra-efficient and productive Office 2003 operation!

• Reinvent the basic business letter using Word's various graphics features
• Analyze any kind of financial, statistical, or scientific data in Excel
• Design a persuasive PowerPoint presentation using sound and animation
• Create an efficient and effective Access database for storing and viewing your data
• Manage your time and contacts using Outlook's calendar and email features
• Build an attractive, user-friendly Web site with FrontPage
• Publish your worksheets, presentations, or virtually any Office content to the Web
• Master the entire Office 2003 suite and become a truly powerful, creative user

About the Author

Laurie Ulrich Fuller (Lancaster, PA) is a teacher, writer, and marketing professional. Since 1992, she’s been teaching people to make more confident and creative use of their computers, conducting courses in everything from computer basics to the advanced use of applications in the Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative suites. She has trained more than 10,000 students, in person, to use Office, teaching everyone from college students to displaced workers to corporate employees to military and government staff to first responders. Her ability to focus on the unique needs of each student – and in this case, the unique needs of the academic user – makes her a perfect match for the topic and the audience. She’s developed online courses, training surveys, and self-assessment tools for colleges and corporate training centers, and understands the need to understand the students’ goals, clearly outline how they will be achieved, provide the step-by-step guidance to get them to their goal, and to evaluate their own progress so that challenges are met and each student is successful.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (September 15, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072229373
• ISBN-13: 978-0072229370
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,092,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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102 of 104 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars How to do everything? Not quite..., October 9, 2004

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Steve B (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 (How to Do Everything) (Paperback)

I understand that "how to do everything" is a marketing conceit. Explaining everything there is to know about all the Office programs -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and FrontPage -- in a book of 500 pages is impossible. Entire books, some of them a thousand pages long, have been written about Word, Excel, and the other Office programs. How can "How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003" cram everything there is to know about these programs in only 500 pages?

The answer is it can't. In fairness to the author, she writes clearly and is good at explaining the basics. This book's 500 pages (110 on Word, 74 on Excel, 50 on PowerPoint, 42 on Access, 38 on Outlook, and 40 on FrontPage) are a good starting point for learning those programs.

What you won't get out of this book are the tips, shortcuts, and workarounds that make using the programs easier. For example, the book devotes only five pages to Word styles, and being a Word afficianado, I happen to know that using styles is the key to mastering Word. The author devotes only two pages to designing a database, which pretty much renders the rest of the material on Access meaningless, since Access databases are useless if they aren't designed properly from the get-go. I feel sorry for anyone who attempts to lay out Web pages in FrontPage using instructions from this book. Only one of the layout tools, the hardest to use, is described.

My biggest complaint about this book has to do with Outlook. Outlook 2003 is radically different from its predecessor. The program (as I learned from another book) offers numerous ways to sort mail as it arrives. This is a godsend for people like me get reams of e-mail daily. But in this book, you won't find a detailed discussion of handling e-mail automatically in Outlook.

At 500 pages, "How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003" is a good introduction to the Office programs. It just doesn't dig down very far.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars And I thought I already knew Office! Great book., April 1, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 (How to Do Everything) (Paperback)

If you need to get up to speed on one or all the parts of Office, this is the book!! The examples are really appropriate and practical, and the author's training background is obvious, you wish you could take a class with her to get even more info. This book is really well organized, clear, and fun to read (if you can say that about a computer book!). Don't waste your money on one of those huge books that cover every little nook and cranny. This book is at a great price, gives you great coverage, and teaches you the stuff you need to know and gives you such a strong foundation that you'll be able to learn even more on your own as you go along using the software at work, home, or whatever. Buying this book saved me about $100 in other books I was going to buy on the individual apps (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) because it says it all!

29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really good, no nonsense book on Office 2003, November 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 (How to Do Everything) (Paperback)

If you want a direct and clear reference to Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Access, and Frontpage) you want this book. It isn't one of those 1000+ page books that cover every little radio button in every little dialog box, but it shows you how to do real things. The examples are realistic and you know just what the author's talking about and can think of ways to apply everything to your own work. The author doesn't baby you and she doesn't talk over your head either. If you need use Office at work or at home and don't like wasting time, this is the best book out there. GET THIS BOOK!