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Office 2001 for Mac: The Complete Reference (Osborne Complete Reference Series)

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I don't understand how Microsoft can release such a complicated set of software without documentation and the help menus are simply pathetic. Thank heavens for "Office 2001 for the Mac." This is a terrific book, and I learned so many tips and tricks that I can't believe I've become so good at these programs. This book is highly recommended!

I had a question about using outlines in Word. (Why my "body text" styled paragraphs are showing up with Outline Level 1.) I turned to this book and looked in the index. It mentions only two pages about outlining in Word: "outlining documents, Word 2001 keyboard shortcuts, 288-289." The rest of the outlining entries concern PowerPoint and Excel. So, even though I'm using Office 2001, I turned to my copy of Office 98 Bible by LeVitus et al. It has 13 pages about outlining in Word. So I'm ordering the Office 2001 Bible now. The "Complete Reference" failed me on my admittedly only test so far.

Despite what this other reviewer told you, this book indeed has a section on outlining in Word. I'm looking at the 3rd printing, which also has some material on the Mac OS X version. Evidently that other reviewer read a different book and got confused.

I highly recommend Mr. Steinberg's book for a thorough look at the Mac version of Microsoft's office productivity suite.

This "missing manual" reviewer sounds like he or she is involved with that other book. In fact, the Office 2001 for Mac: The Complete Reference title has plenty of highly advanced information on using formulas in Excel, using the List Manager, and setting up mail merges in Word. The person who says otherwise isn't telling you the truth about this book. It's great, just great!

I couldn't believe the thoroughness of this book! Very descriptive, nicely organized for each component of the massive suite program. Until I read the book I was utilizing less than 20% of the suite program's potential. "Mastering Powerpoint" was a masterpiece! Get this book before it's out of print

What sells this reference is it's lovely (and very persuasive) cover design. It would appear to be a 'Complete Reference' but it's not. There is much instruction that simply doesn't instruct, typos, and lots of wrong information. The 'Advanced Word Processing Techniques' chapter of the Word section is especially disappointing. Auto-Chapter Headings, headers and footers that work? Not here. Thanks to this book I've been spending more time (and quality time at that) in the Word newsgroups (and getting straight info). Any reference that 'fluffs' itself up with large type, large pictures, generous line spacing, and page after page of hugely set keyboard shortcuts is simply trying to fill up space. Look at other reference books before considering this one.

I really enjoyed the book. It has pages and pages of complete step-by-step instructions on how to do the most simple to the most complicated step-by-step procedures on various functions in Word, Excel, Entourage and PowerPoint. This isn't just a listing of menu commands, but a complete tutorial, the one that Microsoft itself should have published.

This is a wonderful book. Before I read Mr. Steinberg's book, I didn't know anything about Office. After reading it from cover to cover and enjoying its conversational style, I learned how to make a spreadsheet from scratch, a word processing document, a slide show and how to handle myself in an Internet newsgroup. I was especially pleased with all the step-by-step instructions and real world examples, like the information on how to make a chart for dieting in Excel.