Microsoft Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition (Step by Step (Microsoft)) [Paperback]

Online Training Solutions Inc. (Author), Curtis Frye (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735615209 | ISBN-13: 978-0735615205 | Publication Date: September 24, 2003

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to use Microsoft Office Access, Excel, FrontPage, InfoPath, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word. With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need, or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Create and publish professional-quality documents, brochures, and Web pages
• Develop powerful but easy-to-use spreadsheets and databases
• Manage your e-mail communications and workday
• Produce and deliver compelling slide presentations
• Get your Web site up and running quickly
• Learn how to take notes electronically
• Easily capture and reuse information with InfoPath forms
• Work better together using the collaboration features across the Microsoft Office System

Practice your skills using the files on CD!

Your Microsoft Office System Reference Pack on CD includes:

• Twenty-five templates straight from the Microsoft Office team
• Microsoft Office System Quick Reference eBook
• Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 eBook—describes new notetaking features in Office
• Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition, eBook—10,000+ entries!
• Introducing the Tablet PC eBook
• Complete STEP BY STEP eBook
• Skill-building practice files

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

The print version of this book ships with a CD or DVD. For those customers purchasing one of the digital formats in which this book is available, we are pleased to offer the CD/DVD content as a free download via O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution services. To download this content, please visit O'Reilly's web site, search for the title of this book to find its catalog page, and click on the link below the cover image (Examples, Companion Content, or Practice Files). Note that while we provide as much of the media content as we are able via free download, we are sometimes limited by licensing restrictions. Please direct any questions or concerns to [e-mail].

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About the Author

Curtis Frye is the author of numerous books on Excel and other Office products, most recently Microsoft Excel 2010 Step by Step. He graduated from Syracuse in 1990 with a degree in political science, and then moved to Washington, DC, where he worked as a defense trade analyst for four years and as the director of sales and marketing for an ISP for one year. He moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1995 to launch his freelance writing career. When Curt's not writing, and often while he is writing, he is a keynote speaker, mentalist, and professional improvisational comedian.

Product Details

• Paperback: 992 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 24, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735615209
• ISBN-13: 978-0735615205
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #176,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Curtis Frye is the author of numerous books on Excel, Access, and privacy-enhancing technologies. Microsoft Excel 2010 Step By Step is consistently among the best-selling Excel books. Before beginning his writing career in 1995, Curt spent four years with The MITRE Corporation as a defense trade analyst and one year as Director of Sales and Marketing for Digital Gateway Systems, an Internet Service Provider. When not writing, Curt is a popular conference speaker, corporate entertainer, and professional improvisational comedian with ComedySportz Portland.

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154 of 158 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review of MICROSOFT OFFICE SYSTEM 2003 Step-ByStep, January 2, 2004

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Douglas E. Parsons (Melba, ID United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

Book Review by Douglas E. Parsons/IPCUG

MICROSOFT OFFICE SYSTEM 2003
Step-By-Step
From OnLine Training Solutions Inc. & Curtis Frye

This 908 page book is chock filled with instructions and a training disk to allow you to learn at your own pace. If you know everything about Office 2003 you will not need this book but as I don't know as much as I wish I found this book fascinating. I love to learn new things and this book is filled with them. Even if you know how to do a lot of the things in Microsoft Office there are always new techniques available to make your work easier.

Using this book and the tutorials on the training disk you can build just the right skills you need to do your jobs and tasks. There are several `real world' examples for you to practice on and improve your skills. The CD-Rom disk included with this book is filled with the Step-By Step & One Note 2003 e-books, Microsoft Computer dictionary, business templates and clip art with which to practice your Office computing skills.

There is one section of Quick Reference for those of you that know all the stuff but just need a brief list of do this, do that to accomplish your task. In browsing through this I was amazed to find out there were so much more that could be done in Office 2003 than I ever knew.

The easy to read chapters in the book cover all the 2003 programs, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, FrontPage, Publisher, OneNote and InfoPath (The last two are new to 2003).The chapters are laid out in easy to follow steps to complete the task you want. For instance, in chapter 11, Access 2003, Sorting for information the instructions tell you to start Access, and use the GardenCO database in the practice file folder (this is followed by complete instructions on where to find this folder; detailed step by step instructions such as I need and admire). Following this is an eight step instruction list on how to sort customers by City and Region. Many of the different chapters on the various programs give screen shots and show you how to come up with these screens. Several times I was warned that if my screen did not look like the one in the book I should go back and re-do it until is matched.

Of particular interest was chapter 29, `Working with Notes' as this covered the new OneNote 2003 program that Microsoft just came out with this year. This program makes the notes you take at meetings or in classes more useful by providing a number of ways to find them, mark them and share them. You can jot sown a great idea for the saving of mankind with minimal interruption of your current task. Then you can search your notes-no matter how big or lengthy they are. Sharing with others via e-mail and creating tasks for yourself is easy with the integration into Microsoft Outlook.

The list price for this book is $39.99 but Amazon.Com is having a 30% off sale making it $27.99 and some deal for free shipping. They also have some used copies for $25.75. You might try to find other companies that sell used books at great prices. I have bought several by doing a web search for cut rate books.

Therefore, if you are interested about becoming better at the Microsoft Office 2003 products you must get this book. Not only get it but spend a few evenings with it going through the STEP-BY-STEP tutorials. You will be very glad you did in the future when you are able to do the things you want easier and faster and develop a much better looking product. DEP

63 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a lookup book for people in a hurry, April 4, 2005

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Jim (Miami, FLA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

I feel I was misled when I purchased this book (or maybe I was half asleep and didn't read the book description carefully enough). "Microsoft Office 2003 Step by Step" is a tutorial. It covers all the Office programs, but it does so with the idea that you can learn the programs best by getting hands-on instructions for using them. You won't find much commentary, much advice, or many tips or tricks. You will find a CD with raw data and a number of step-by-step lessons to help you gain experience with the Office programs.

If you have time to load the sample data from the companion CD and, when you need to know how to complete a task, pick your way through a step-by-step lesson, this book is for you. But if you're in a hurry and you just want to get the information quicky, try a reference book instead.

This book is not for people who, say, are at work and have to get the thing done before five o'clock. It's aimed at readers who want to learn Office programs from the ground up and have the time to do that.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book sucks, February 18, 2006

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David Edward Ludd (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

First of all, the CD did not have all of the Practice Files I need to actually USE the book. Second, the features it runs through are so basic as to be useless to anyone who has ever used Word, Excel, etc. There's nothing on how to creat mail merges in Word, for example. This was a complete waste of $20. Only buy this crummy book if you know absolutely NOTHING about Word, Excel, etc.