Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Inside Out [Paperback]

Katherine Murray (Author), Mary Millhollon (Author), Beth Melton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 20, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0735623309 | ISBN-13: 978-0735623309

You’re beyond the basics with Word, so dive right in and really put your content to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Word 2007—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery!

• Master the tools to expertly organize, edit, and present your content
• Craft polished documents by using Building Blocks, Themes, and Quick Style Sets
• Add visual impact with SmartArt diagrams, charts, pictures, and drawings
• Create tables of contents, cross-references, and indexes for your complex documents
• Build online workspaces to manage and collaborate on documents
• Produce Web sites or publish a blog directly from Word 2007
• Discover the new Office Open XML format—and learn smarter ways to reuse your content
• Automate document creation by using Content Controls and Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

CD includes:

• Fully searchable eBook
• Resources for troubleshooting documents and optimizing performance
• Links to product demos, training courses, and user communities
• Resources for integrating Word 2007 with other Microsoft Office programs
• References for finding Word 2003 commands in Word 2007
• Windows Vista Product Guide eReference and other eBooks

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Key Book Benefits:

Makes hundreds of tips, tricks, and workarounds easy to find and apply with the award-winning INSIDE OUT format Drills into the features and functions in Office Word, delivering comprehensive details--but no fluff--in a single volume Includes a companion CD with tools, eBooks, and more

About the Author

Katherine Murray is a communications expert who specializes in teaching people and businesses how to improve their productivity with Microsoft® technologies. She has written more than 50 books related to Microsoft® Office, Web technologies, and the digital lifestyle, including MICROSOFT® OFFICE WORD 2007 INSIDE OUT.

Product Details

• Paperback: 912 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (June 20, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735623309
• ISBN-13: 978-0735623309
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #571,932 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What do you want to know (really, really know) about Word 2007?, March 5, 2008

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Bill Coan (Hortonville, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Inside Out (Paperback)

What do you want to know about Word 2007?

If all you want to know is how to click the buttons on the new fluent ribbon interface, then any book on Word 2007 will probably meet your needs. In that case, I recommend whichever book will look nicest sitting next to the other books on your bookshelf.

If you want to know how styles and themes work (and how to exploit them), or when to customize document defaults on the one hand and when to customize a style or a theme on the other, then how a book looks next to your other books probably isn't a matter of grave concern to you. In that case, I recommend Microsoft Office Word 2007 Inside Out.

This is a book that is extremely task-oriented, by which I mean that nearly every single section of every single chapter discusses how to DO something. Yet the book doesn't just tell you what to do, it tells you how Word works so that you can continue to put Word to work for you long after you put the book down. (Background information and special tips are presented as sidebars so that you can focus on the steps of a procedure when that's all you're interested in.)

The book is extremely comprehensive. I've worked with Word since 1985, yet I gained important new insights into the program within minutes of picking it up. The authors have been working with Word for many years, too, and this has enabled them to offer helpful notes and tips for users transitioning from earlier versions of Word to Word 2007. For readers completely new to Word, the book's discussion of foundational concepts such as paragraphs, tables, and sections, and global and attached templates (user and workgroup) will prove revelatory.

Some software books read like a catalog of features, but this one is organized around the small, medium, and large tasks associated with creation of documents. This approach has two advantages: 1)the major divisions of the table of contents let you turn instantly to the part of the book where the information you need can be found, and 2)as you're reading about, say, controlling text placement with textboxes, you'll find closely related subjects nearby.

The book is just as authoritative as it is comprehensive. In addition to reflecting the long, varied experiences of the authors, it offers special, difficult-if-not-impossible-to-find information gleaned from senior program managers on the Word development team. The book's companion CD, with its searchable ebook version of the content, is well worth installing on your computer for quick access while you're working.

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "Special Edition: Using Word 2007" is better, August 13, 2007

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Brews (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Inside Out (Paperback)

This book suffers from the "new" Microsoft viewpoint. For example, "toolbar" apparently is an unacceptable concept nowadays. At any rate, "toolbar" is not in the index.

Wonder where the "help" facility has gone in the new menu system? Well, "help" is not in the index either. Wonder how to paste an Excel Chart into Word as a picture (rather than linked to the spreadsheet)? Not in the index either: not under "Excel", not under "Paste".

My biggest objections to this book are its poor index and cross-referencing. As a comparison, Faithe Wempen's "Using Word" has a three-level index of 41 pages. "Inside Out" has a two-level index of 26 pages.

For a book of this type, used constantly to find how Word handles a particular problem, such failure is fatal.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A Book of Blather, March 27, 2009

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Nathan Packer (West Lafayette, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Inside Out (Paperback)

Where are the editors when you need them? The book was supposedly written by experienced authors, but they must have been paid by the word. Just removing the wordy phrase "need to be able to" would have shortened the book by pages. When I read the phrase "Planning up front is usually best," I had to ask just when planning behind was better. After reading the word "simply" time and again to modify a verb, (as in simply click) it was obvious the authors assumed the readers would be simpletons.

Insets such as notes and tips should be used sparingly to emphasize the special information found inside the inset. Too many insets are a sure sign that the body text on the page is lacking of information. When the front cover gushes about the "Supremely organized book and CD," you can rightly assume that this puffery is preparing you to overlook the mush inside. Supremely organized? Really?

There is content, but the poor sentence structure, the weak verbs, the misspellings, and the wordiness make this book a difficult read and a poor guide. The manuscript should have been sent back for a re-write.