Customer Reviews

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003: Complete Concepts and Techniques (Shelly Cashman)

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This is a good book for beginners in Publisher to learn the program. It provides good projects that help show the features of Publisher. To me, it is not a "reference" book for tips on the program--it makes you do projects to learn the program. The good thing is, it gives you multiple projects for all sorts of uses of the program, so that you will learn how to use a lot of the features and templates that the program has to offer. I was required to complete projects in this book for a graduate course in Desktop Publishing. It was good for that use. I would use the step-by-step projects in the book with my high school students too.

The "but" is after reading the first chapter of this book and looking through the contents there are some useful projects. I've been using Publisher since 2000 for a newsletter and brochure for a non-profit group and not much more. But now I can see several new uses for the program and I'll give them a try. Granted it's not a hard program to master the bare essentials but I think this book may open a much wider range of uses for this user. The only bad thing is the steep price for the book itself. I really would like to give the book a 3.75 star rating...

I suppose the acknowledgement that this book was created using Quark Express ought to tell the careful reader all he needs to know about Shelly Cashman and Starks's effort to explain Microsoft's desktop publishing software. At almost $60 a copy, this is the most expensive giant goldenbook I have hear of.

I bought this book to find out how to create a booklet of 20, 8.5x11 sheets folded into 8.5x 5.5 pages, printed on all four sides, a common situation in publishing. The table of contents says that bookfold will be addressed on PUB (why PUB and not page?) 258. It isn't.

All in all, this is a sloppily done work for which the people at Thomson ought to be deeply ashamed.

Tom Gordon

Dallas TX

This is an excellent instructional material and I have used it over and over again!!!

My biggest problem with the order was that I did not receive all that I ordered. The books that I did receive were in good condition and were fine. After a month, I still have not received at least 5 of the books that I ordered in March. One person wrote me back and gave me some type of sad story about how he lost his house, wife, kids, etc. As sorry as I was about all of that, I wanted my book. Amazon needs to keep up with the people they deal with.

The book is excellent for beginners of the publisher program. The learn at home concept with "lab work" help me to practice each of the steps. The screen pictures allows me to study the computer screen to find the appropriate "click". I did not receive the disk with the book and miss some of the lab work.
Phyllis

I tried learning Microsoft Office 2003 using their Step by Step series of books, but didn't understand or learn very much from them. Then a friend suggested I try Course Technology series of books on Office Pro. 2003. If you really want to learn Publisher, this book is it.. It is a complete step by step learning process with excellent what I call screen shots. It explains each step, what, and why, and makes it easy to understand. I am 77 years old so if I can learn it so can you. Thanks CT for the book.

I am glad I purchased this Shelly, Cashman Publisher manual. It has helped me better understand Publisher and how to create newsletters, flyers, brochures and how to use mail merge. I feel that I got my moneys worth purchasing this product and would recommend this product to anybody.