Office 2000 for Busy People [Paperback]

Peter Weverka (Author), Stephen Nelson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 1999 | Series: For Busy People

This volume should help the reader to master Office 2000, the computer office suite. It covers Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Access and Publisher, allowing the reader to take advantage of the integration among all the Office products.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Office 2000 for Busy People steers wide of the traps that snag many books for absolute novices by simplifying its material without dumbing it down or abridging it beyond recognition. This book covers the seven major programs in the Microsoft Office 2000 suite--Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Publisher, and Internet Explorer--authoritatively and in some depth, but without intimidating the newcomer.

In this liberally illustrated book, readers find out how to create, edit, and format several kinds of documents. They also learn how to build databases, perform calculations, generate graphs, manage time, and communicate over the Internet.

The book makes life easier for readers by explaining which of the Office applications have procedures in common. If you learn to apply text formats in Word, you can do the same in Excel, for instance. The book also integrates its written procedures with its illustrations very well. If the second step of a procedure involves clicking a button, you'll find the number 2 pointing to the button in the adjacent illustration. There are also plenty of lists that explain the options you'll encounter in various situations, such as when choosing an alignment for a paragraph in Word or deleting rows and columns in Excel. --David Wall

From the Back Cover

The book to use when there's no time to lose! Get up and running with office 2000 right away using this visually powerful learning tool. Packed with four-color art, annotated figures, and step-by-step directions, Office 2000 for Busy People shows you the best, most efficient way to accomplish your tasks--while offering you insights into how the suite's powerful features can make your more productive. "inviting and useful...does a good job of highlighting important shortcuts."--Business Week. "About as far from the old, dry textbook-style computer books as you can get, with good navigational aids, lots of illustrations and shortcuts."--Computer Life. "Well-organized and illustrated and aimed directly at working people who need to get specific jobs done quickly."--Library Journal. "The introductions and overviews are super...a comprehensive and logical index and table of contents make it easy for you to find what you need."--Charlotte Sun Herald. "Well-presented, easy to read, and gets to the vital substance fast. It is a lesson in simplification."--Berkeley Personal Computer Users Group Newsletter.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 305 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill Osborne Media (July 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072118571
• ISBN-13: 978-0072118575
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,254,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Weverka is the author of Word For Dummies Quick Reference, Microsoft Money For Dummies, and other computer books. His humorous nontechnology articles have also delighted readers of Harper's.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Office 2000 for Busy People, April 13, 2000

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This book will suprise you with how easy and quickly you can learn Office 2000 and with more depth including important infomation you can use NOW! This book even makes creating databases understandable. You're going to love it!