Microsoft Office XP Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) [Paperback]

Perspection Inc. (Author), Online Training Solutions Inc. (Author), Curtis Frye D. (Author), Kristen Crupi (Author)

Book Description

Series: Step by Step (Microsoft) | Publication Date: July 18, 2001

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to use the complete suite of Microsoft® Office XP applications. 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!

• WORD: Create and publish great-looking documents quickly and easily
• EXCEL: Develop easy-to-use spreadsheets and perform calculations
• ACCESS: Build your own databases for better decision making
• POWERPOINT®: Produce and deliver compelling presentations
• FRONTPAGE®: Get yourself—or your company—on the Web fast by constructing your own site
• PUBLISHER: Create professional-quality marketing materials—without being a designer
• OUTLOOK®: Manage your e-mail communications and calendar

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Launched in October, Windows XP is Microsoft's first operating system to incorporate elements of its .NET initiative. The Office Suite marketed alongside it includes Word, Outlook, Access, Excel, FrontPage, PowerPoint, and a new entry, Publisher. Step by Step is the only title that covers Publisher. Otherwise, these books contain roughly the same material, use similar approaches, and are written for beginning to intermediate users. Purchase according to your patrons' preferences. A full-color book with a nice mix of text and screenshots, Step by Step is excellent for apprehensive users.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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: 784 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (July 18, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735612943
• ISBN-13: 978-0735612945
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,192,682 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #49 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Office XP

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.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step by step, it doesn't get an better., October 4, 2001

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

I installed Office XP about a week after it was released thinking there wouldn't be any differences from Office 2000, I was right for the most part however some things have change and it's time for me to sit down and learn what has changed.

Covering Word with topics like changing the appearance and tables, Excel with areas like formulas and filters, Access in topics like forms VBA and the query. To covering PowerPoint in adding and modifying slides and slide shows, to FrontPage with lists, tables, graphics and publishing.

Also Publisher with topics business cards and printing and Outlook are covered. The excellent color photos make it easier to visualize what you are working with as you learn. Loaded with tips and tricks and the inclusion of the practice files make learn as easy a 1 - 2 - 3.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good for beginners, December 19, 2002

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Jander Pannell- Website developer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

This is an excellent book for beginners! Even if you think you know how use programs like Word and Access, this book is sure to show you a few new things. All examples and lessons are very easy and small (for ease of mental "digestion") and give you instructions Step-by-Step. Even if you mess up somewhere, they tell exactly what is supposed to happen, thus you can see where your problem is.

I only have a couple gripes. One being that, since I am a web developer, I felt the Frontpage section did not address certain beginners problems. Also, I felt that there was not a plethora of seriously needed information in the Word section, but this could be because it is a beginners book.

All in all, I suggest this book to anyone (although you might do well to get it from the library first).

9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than nothing but not worth the Money, January 16, 2003

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Slinda "lindahudsonfla" (Bayonet point, Fla) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Microsoft Office XP Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) (Paperback)

I purchased this book, the day I bought the professional edition of Microsoft office for my XP computer. I had previously used, on occassion, Microsoft office for the Win95 system.

I feel I wasted my $ on this book. This book is fine for someone who is new to microsoft office, but it is not a good investment for someone accustomed to using the intermediate level Que books-which I had purchased for microsoft office for Win95.

I would never purchased his book, had the Q books been available to me, but I did not see any Que books on XP in April of 2002.

this book is beautifully illustrated, and so if you are not a computer tech junkie-as I am, perhaps looking at this book will get you excited about computers of today. But I would not recommend this book to anybody but a rank beginner of Windows-esp the WinXP system, since this book does not address the advanced features of the program-which is why I bought the book.