Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh: The Comprehensive Guide [Paperback]

Ned Snell (Author), Brian J. Little (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 6, 1998

Provides step-by-step instructions and examples on using all the Office 98 components. Features myriad techniques for improving productivity and enhancing creativity, including working faster and easier in Word, designing livelier presentations with PowerPoint, and organizing with Outlook. Efficiently divided into sections based on the Office 98 elements: Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel.

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About the Author

Brian Little (Charlotte, NC) is a technical writer and editor and a network systems administrator at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He provides technical support for the Office for Macintosh suite to the student body and several hundred faculty members. Other books he has contributed to include The System 7 Book, Voodoo Macintosh, The Microsoft Excel Power Toolkit, and Desktop Publishing with Word.

Ned Snell (Gotha, CA), an award winning computer journalist, is the author of six other computer books, including Souping Up Windows and Navigating the Internet With Windows 95 (SAMS). In addtion, he has written hundreds of articles for Datamation (where he was also a contributing editor), Software Magazine and others; and he was editor-in-chief for several national publications, including Edge magazine and Art and Design News .

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group (May 6, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576102793
• ISBN-13: 978-1576102794
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,909,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the money!!, April 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh: The Comprehensive Guide (Paperback)

I feel bad saying this but I think this book is not at all worth the money. In fact, I don't even want it taking up space on my shelf. The authors have hardly covered any of the programs in any depth whatsoever. Something as simple as the concept of Macros isn't even listed in the index.(It may be covered in the book, but without a mention in the index, what good is it?) I bought this book because the manual is so bad. But this book is even worse than the manual. Even the Visual Quickstart for Word 6 covers more than this book. Worse than the utter simplicity in the book is the fact that the authors actually give some bad information. Not only that but the layout and graphics of the book are horrible. No callouts for the figures. No good captions. And they manage to put a rather distracting grey texture behind too much of the text. I am actually going to spend more of my own money to ship this book back to amazon.com. I don't care. It's a VERY bad book!!!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent reference, good explanations, January 7, 2000

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Robin Lindquist (Dallas, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh: The Comprehensive Guide (Paperback)

I'm not sure which book some of the other reviewers are reading, but I was very pleased with the book, on the whole. I do agree that the indexing was not what I might like, but I found the explanations of process and procedure very usable, and the guided exercises were quite helpful. Money well spent, IMO.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good help for beginners, May 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Microsoft Office 98 for Macintosh: The Comprehensive Guide (Paperback)

When I bought this book, I was still pretty new to Office. I found it very helpful in learning the features and little bits of each program. The index wasn't so great, but everything else was really helpful. Thanks for a good intro!