How to Use Netscape Communicator 4 (How to Use Series) [Paperback]

Rebecca Tapley (Author)

Book Description

Series: How to Use Series | Publication Date: January 1997

Presents step-by-step instructions for browsing the Web using audio, video, and 3D technology. Each page spread in the text is dedicated to a specific task.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Sometimes you just have to get a visual image of how something works in order to learn how to use it. If that sounds like the way you like to learn new software, then this highly visual guide to Netscape Communicator 4.0 is for you. Each page uses a modicum of text and rich, colorful graphics, including numerous screen shots, to walk you through the various elements of Communicator. The book's seven sections cover the basics of Communicator, including installation, Web browsing, and e-mail management with Messenger; participating in newsgroups with Collabra; making voice calls with Conference; creating Web pages with Composer; and multimedia, security, and other items such as plug-ins. Three training projects allow you to practice what you've learned. How to Use Netscape Communicator 4.0 is probably one of the easiest and most painless ways to learn the Communicator suite of programs. And even though the book assumes you are a beginner, it never talks down to you.

From Library Journal

This is the absolute beginner's book packed with lots of pictures, and it should probably be in every computer lab that has Communicator running. This will get the users started easily, though they will outgrow it in one long morning of browsing.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Ziff-Davis Press (January 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562764675
• ISBN-13: 978-1562764678
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,042,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars An excellent visual guide to using Netscape Communicator 4.0, November 19, 1998

By 

[e-mail] (Trenton, NJ 08625) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Use Netscape Communicator 4 (How to Use Series) (Paperback)

This work is an excellent visual guide to using Netscape Communicator 4.0. Chapters with excellent screen prints examine how to install and use Navigator's tools, how to explore the web using the Personal Toolbar, how to use Messenger, the e-mail component, and how to use Collabra, the newsgroups component. Other interesting features of the work include placing long distance calls over the Internet, building web pages, and security on the Internet. Illustrations enhance the written text.

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutly Useless for MAC Users, January 30, 1998

By 

[e-mail] (Sedona AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Use Netscape Communicator 4 (How to Use Series) (Paperback)

Well written for Windows users. Impossible for MAC users -especially beginners. Trying to follow the book, had to call Communicator Help several times to find out how to do something. For a MAC user, I wasted the price of the book. This is not amazon's fault but there should be a notation that it deals with Windows only!