Customer Reviews

Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out

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Ed Bott and Carl Siechert make a terrific team providing clear susinct technical writing. This book is no exception.

Having said that, I am gravely disappointed by the publisher's marketing move. All the Inside-Out books published by Microsoft Press (O'Reilly) used to come with a CD containing the full book in electronic form. Honestly, my collection of Inside-Out books gather dust on the shelves, but the searchable electronic copies are on my notebook harddrive whenever and wherever I need them. With THIS book, O'Reilly makes the electronic version of the book available as an online web site - but ONLY after you create an account with O'Reilly's Safari Library. You also get free 'Tips', which is a thinly disguised way to market you for more books. I don't always have fast Internet access, and sometimes such access might cost me as much as I paid for the book. If you want to put a copy of the book on your harddrive - pony up for a subscription - the cost of the book no longer includes local electronic storage rights.

It looks like O'Reilly is following the path blazed by the airlines by unbundling services and charging additional fees. Come on! Charge a fair price for the book and give me the electronic version! As a business traveller I'm waiting for the hotel industry to jump on board this sad trend and put coin operated toilet paper dispensers in their rooms.

To anyone who has purchased past series titles, definitely get this here. This book is several hundred pages thinner, and in the biggest change, there is no CD included. There has always been a CD with the Windows and Office versions in the past. Still a good book, but not so good a buy anymore.

Good basic overview and reference of Office 2010. On line access to electronic edition is not clear or easily accomplished, so my assessment relates to the printed book only. If you want to install and be guided through the most common features of Office 2010, this will do a good job. I've since purchased the Outlook Bible (written) and an electronic version of Excel to get to the detailed feature use I was looking for. I would have purchased individual Word, Excel, and Outlook publications as these programs were of the greatest interest to me and I was looking for more detail and application of feature examples than were provided.

I still prefer Inside Out to other Office books. I find the information useful, easy to find and sometimes entertaining to read. Disappointed CD was left out, made it easy to carry the book with me. I bought this version knowing there was no CD, so the book obviously stands on its own as a worth wile purchase. Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out

I have been using the Inside Out Books for quite a while now, and the only difference with this version is 'no CD' with the book, but it can be read, printed and kept on the drive they provide with the book itself.

This is not my first book of the Inside_Out series. I find it and the others to be quite thorough and informative. A very good introduction to Microsoft Office or authority for any user of Office.

This is the 6th Inside / Out reference manual I've purchased.(Office 2003, 2007, Windows XP, Vista & 7)
And as with the rest of them, I can learn as little or as much as I want. The added bonus with this one is the web access to the whole manual!
I alway s use this manual as a reference point when going after certifications.

I am reviewing the Kindle edition of this book and giving 5 stars on balance. The bad news? The index on Kindle is unformatted and pretty useless, although if you find your topic, clicking will navigate close to the relevant text. The text refers to page numbers which Kindle DX does not support. The screen shots mostly are unreadable to my eyes. The good news? You can set up a Kindle library on your computer(don't ask me how, my octogenarian mind has forgotten)and the cover picture of the book appears there. Click this to download the full text to this library in a minute or two (yes all 1000 plus pages) and Eureka! the graphics are just readable; the index is formatted; and headings appear in color. Both location and page number appear on the bottom of the screen albeit in miniscule font. Navigation is easy , click on the main Table of Contents, click on the desired section such as Word, and in the section Contents click on the topic heading; you will be transferred to there. It is easier to navigate than having to flip the pages of a book. It is also easier to read the book on your monitor and you can have your project on a second monitor and just look up the information as required on the first monitor. You can also have two columns to a page. On both Kindle and your monitor you can zoom the font to your liking. As for the text itself? A few errors but fabulous information!

this reference contains comprehensive information that is actually understandable! so much to 2010 to learn and this book does the trick in teaching it. also fast shipping as usually through amazon. good value for price.

Hello? Hello? Oh I am online, sorry ... being ultra sarcastic. And to say I have always been a huge fan of Ed Bott, while indeed there are some information in there but come on, if you can't sleep at night - this would be a good night cap for you, seriously! (Sorry Ed, my first ever serious critic to you.)

Then of course, I typed in the keyword MS Office 2010 Inside Out Deluxe as I had learned there were two versions of this, one having a CD and one not - and I too am one of those stuff without a CD version and I feel like I've been ripped off.

Being frank and honest - out of all the Microsoft's Inside/Out Series I own; this is the first time ever without a CD? Oh, (being really sarcastic)I think I know why ....

If reading the book hadn't put you to sleep yet, the CD would had or the downloadable version would had (I haven't even downloaded it yet).

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UPDATE NOTIFICATION:

THE NEW VERSION - SECOND EDITION COMES WITH CD FOR YOUR INFORMATION! MICROSOFT HAS NOW MOVED FORWARD INTO HEARING THE COMPLAINTS FROM OWNERS OF MICROSOFT BOOKS SANS THE CD'S OF 2010'S (SOME HAD THEM AND SOME DID NOT) ... SO MY ADVISORIES IS TO CAN THIS VERSION AND LOOK FOR THE NEWEST SECOND EDITION WITH CD INCLUDED FOR IT ALSO INCLUDES MORE INFO, TIPS, AND TRICKS - MORE THAN THE FIRST EDITION HAD.