Amazon.com Review
This 1,500-plus
Professional Reference Edition is packed with accurate detail about each of the Office 97 applications, offering you practical and comprehensive support and taking the extra steps needed to promote you to power-user status.
Microsoft Office 97 Unleashed devotes several chapters to integrating different applications (such as using a spreadsheet in your Word document or PowerPoint presentation) and presents several other chapters on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA--the macro language shared by all Office applications). The book also features a guide for moving from WordBasic to VBA and several useful tables for advanced users who need to push Office to its limits.
Additionally, this book supports typical tasks, such as mail merges in Word and how to use Access tables for merges. Because the book covers these topics, it escapes the trap of becoming little more than a second manual.
The book's CD-ROM includes an assortment of shareware, trail software programs, utilities, macros, and electronic texts. If you're looking for one mammoth, complete reference guide to Microsoft Office 97 that will help you tackle any task, Microsoft Office 97 Unleashed should be a prime candidate.
From the Publisher
Microsoft Office 97 1998 Edition Unleashed, Professional Reference Edition will teach the user advanced topics such as the VBA language common to Excel, Access, and now Word, how to use binders, a crash course in the Active Document technology, new Internet and intranet tools, and the integration of scheduling and communications in Outlook. - This book will show the reader how to turn the Office suite into a fully integrated business powerhouse and Internet and intranet publishing tool
- Focuses on sharing of information across applications and networks, not just using the applications
- Microsoft is the largest suite producer in the market today, with more than 22 million users