Customer Reviews

Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Premium Video Edition (Shelly Cashman)

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I was a technical writer and instructional designer for 20 years. I bought this book because I went back to school to retrain as a paralegal, and a community college course required it. I could have gotten the requirement waived based upon my work experience, but really wanted to strengthen my facility with Excel and Access. What a mistake!
Very disappointing book that bombards the reader with lots of useless verbiage (did ANYONE edit this?), includes outright keystroke mistakes (did ANYONE proof it, or did they just run the pages through the spellchecker?), and most fundamentally, the book fails to use any basic instructional design principles. It is clear that the writers who worked on it were much more familiar with writing tools, since they devote an inordinate amount of space in each chapter to formatting your output, and it's clear that nobody had an accounting or even basic mathematical background, the Excel formula explanations are that weak. I dread looking at the Access section.
Instead of learning and practicing important skills within each application, and then adding competency gradually, you go through the exercises just following key stroke instructions but not absorbing any concepts and consequently there's nothing to retain.

For less money and better learning, you could buy a Dummies book for each of the applications.

What a deal. I know that most people like digital books, but I am old fashion. This great book cost only a fraction of the cost from previous years. The delivery was fast and everything was in great shape.Microsoft Office 2007: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Windows XP Edition

Kindle edition buyers note there is NO VIDEO whatsoever that goes with this. I didn't find any links within the book so I called publisher and they said you don't get video access unless you buy a REAL book. Very misleading since description in kindle store doesn't say you don't get video. I did not expect this from a shelly- cashman product especially given the price.

I was so excited to find my textbook on Kindle. I dream of downloading all my textbooks and just carrying my iPad from class to class. It will happen some day. The Kindle version of this book is terrible. There are no page numbers. The Figures in this book are such poor quality as to be unreadable and useless and I needed them for an assignment.

I ordered this book for a class two weeks in advance and have already been able to complete my first homework assignment. I received in 2 days. Your service is great and I will be ordering from you and only you. Thanks Amazon.

when i recieved my book the side was sliced open like someone had used a knife to open the box containing it. I would also recommend that the book be sent in a box rather than an envelope . The edges were banged up all the way around and when i opened the dvd it was all messed up and dirty. I think the book itself is a good instructional book though.

I bought for my son computer class. He seemed satisfied with it and it was far less than buying it at the school's bookstore.

excellent study material for people who have been using computers not digging deeper into the system.

Informative Textbook with CD-Rom teaches all Microsoft office programs. Informative, includes shortcuts, keyboard shortcuts, and many uses I didn't know existed! Very heavy though.

This book was amazing when it came to me! Still in the wrapping! This book was gonna cost me 180 dollars USED in my local college book store! Excellent buy, from an excellent person. Thanks!!!