Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) [Paperback]

Joyce Cox (Author), Joan Preppernau (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735623023 | ISBN-13: 978-0735623026 | Publication Date: January 31, 2007

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to create impressive documents with Word 2007. With Step By Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Apply styles and themes to your document for a polished look
• Add graphics and text effects—and see a live preview
• Organize information with new SmartArt® diagrams and charts
• Insert references, footnotes, indexes, a table of contents
• Send documents for review and manage revisions
• Turn your ideas into blogs, Web pages, and more

Your all-in-one learning experience includes:

• Files for building skills and practicing the book’s lessons
• Fully searchable eBook
• Bonus quick reference to the Ribbon, the new Microsoft Office interface
• Windows Vista® Product Guide eBook—plus more resources and extras on CD

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

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Key Book Benefits:

-Learn how to use Office Word 2007 by taking just the lessons you need or by working from cover to cover--you set the pace
-Includes coverage of all the fundamentals, including editing a document's appearance, working with document layout features, and using collaboration features
-Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises
-Includes a companion CD with practice files and other resources

About the Author

Joyce Cox has 20+ years of experience developing training materials on technical subjects for non-technical audiences, specializing in Office and Windows® technologies.

Joan Lambert is the author of more than a dozen books on Windows® and Office, including several popular STEP BY STEP titles from Microsoft Press®.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (January 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735623023
• ISBN-13: 978-0735623026
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,588 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #9 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Word Processing
  • #21 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Word

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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great - Especially when an Upgrade, July 1, 2007

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JoannieH (CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

As a Word user for a long time, the 2007 version looks much different. This book really helped me track the changes. I'm also helping some new users to Word and they thought it very easy to follow. They liked the CD with practice data for the work sessions. 'Microsoft Office Word 2007 Plain & Simple' is another book that is great for raw beginners, this would be a good follow-up. It's much more complete and goes into diagrams, charts, table of contents, index, mail merge, reviewing, email, and the Web. Will get to XML later. Well worth the $16.50!

46 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Series needs better proofing, August 2, 2007

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Bobby W. (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

I was attracted to this title because the I liked the concept of working through the examples in the book in tandem with the sample files on the accompanying CD.

This title is one of a series of "Step by Step" books published by Microsoft Press for the various 2007 Microsoft Office System applications
(I bought both this and the Excel book).

The books are good, but there are a surprising number of errors in the printed content. For example, on page 12 of the Word book, the table listing keyboard shortcuts for moving the insertion point indicates pressing Ctrl + End to move the insertion point to the beginning of the document (the Excel book has tons of errors).

Given who published these books, and the target audience, you'd think they would have been bullet-proofed.

40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money, March 24, 2008

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Barrie W. Bracken "Researcher" (Daytona Beach, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft® Office Word 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

One reviewer has said you would think that Microsoft would spend more money and time on protecting is manual and this shows. I totally agree. If you want to learn how to use Microsoft word 2007 I would suggest you look for a different kind of manual.
This book depends entirely upon your using the so-called practice files on the CD. If these practice files don't show you what you need to know, you're out of luck. Let's take a look at some examples of how the book works:
The instructions for sending a fax are included in a text box about 3 x 5 inches and tell you virtually nothing about how to send a fax.
Instructions for adding bookmarks and cross-references occupied four pages of text and the only instruction really useful is found in a text box consisting of three sentences.
Instructions for creating and printing labels is covered in four pages of the text and refers you to the different elements of the practice files on the CD. Hopefully the files will show you everything you need to know because the text tells you nothing.
Chapter 6 "instructs" you on working with graphics symbols and equations. Of course it only tells you how to use the practice files.
This book takes up a lot of wasted space in your bookcase. In the interest in conserving both space and money you might want to consider purchasing a teaching disk. These are normally pretty useless things, but no more so than this Microsoft text. I give it one star because it does look impressive sitting on your shelf.