Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2007 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) [Paperback]

Elaine Marmel (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470045930 | ISBN-13: 978-0470045930 | Publication Date: November 29, 2006 | Edition: 1

• Covers the much-anticipated new features of Word 2007, including collaboration tools, XML tags in Word, and the Word 2007 facelift-the first redesigned UI since Office 97
• Ideal for users migrating from older versions of Word and who want to get up to speed on the changes in the application
• Filled with clear, step-by-step screen shots that show readers how to tackle dozens of Word tasks, including new features like the Research Pane, side-by-side comparisons, smart tags, and maximizing the benefits of the Task Pane
• Revised interior design offers readers a more sophisticated look with easier navigation

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From the Back Cover

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Word 2007 tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including:

• Using the Ribbon with the mouse or the keyboard
• Saving documents in PDF format
• Sharing text among documents
• Working with the thesaurus
• Setting paragraph line spacing
• Wrapping text around graphics

• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

About the Author

Elaine Marmel is president of Marmel Enterprises, LLC, an organization that specializes in freelance technical writing and software training. Elaine has an MBA from Cornell University and has worked on projects to build financial management systems in New York City and Washington, D.C. Elaine spends most of her time writing; since 1994, she has been a contributing editor to monthly magazines Peachtree Extra and QuickBooks Extra. She co-wrote Peachtree For Dummies, 2nd Edition (Wiley, 2004), and wrote Microsoft Office Project 2003 Bible (Wiley, 2003), Master VISUALLY Project 2003 (Wiley, 2004), and Master VISUALLY QuickBooks 2005 (Wiley, 2005), and she has authored and coauthored more than 30 other books. Although a native of Chicago, Elaine has seen much of the world, including Cincinnati, Ohio; Jerusalem, Israel; Ithaca, New York; Washington, D.C., and Tampa, FL. As of this writing, she has settled into a perfect house in Arizona, and lives with her purrfect cats, Cato, Watson, and Buddy (who seems to be made of velcro, sticking to Elaine when she starts to write), and her doting and loving dog, Josh (who watches the door for visitors and may lick you to death while performing the job of general welcoming committee).

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (November 29, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470045930
• ISBN-13: 978-0470045930
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #51,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleased Purchaser, July 13, 2007

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JMB - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2007 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) (Paperback)

Very user friendly. Much easier to use than the manual that was provided for Word 2007. A great book to browse through to find capabilities that are available in Word 2007 that a user might not have even known were available.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great layout---but not enough information for me., September 22, 2009

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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2007 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) (Paperback)

I think these books are great---but I can't give this boook five stars because it covers so little of what I want to know about Word 2007. The better plan would be to have Word 2007 Ultra beginner (the beginners version for those who don't know how to highlight) and Word 2007 Advanced (for those of us who do). I was only able to use 10 pages of the book and I am so frustrated because I know there are cool things you can do in Word, like find all your comments at once. Nevertheless, I did learn how to put a comment in a document, which I could not figure out from the Word 2007 for Dummies book with his many, many, many, excessive words and verbage and did I say words and more words (and no screenshots). To the Dummies people: a screenshot paints a thousand words.

Here's what you get in the 13 Chapters:

1.) Opening Word

2.) Manage Documents: Various ways to open and close---there are a couple of sections you might not know

3.) Editing Text: (You really will start yawning because they tell you how to insert blank lines in a document---not kidding---I realize there is someone out there who does not know that and it is valuable for THEM to learn, but MOST OF US can press return.

4.) Proofreading: In this chapter you learn how to make comments and delete comments and find comments, but, as I said, there is a way to do it on the right slider and that's sophisticated and I WANT SOMEONE TO TEACH ME THAT SORT OF THING, not how to check spelling and grammar, also in this chapter. So many of the topics are a right click away on the screen when you are working in word.

5) Format text---big yawn---how to change the size of your fonts, hihglight them, bold, italic, underline---it pretty much is more basic than basic

6 & 7) Formatting paragraphs & pages--I know there are some really important things to learn about sections and formatting and this is where I wanted a lot of help---but I got about 10 pages out of it.

8.) Printing---I don't need a chapter for this

9 & 10) Tables, charts, and art---I don't use any of this

11) Customize word---macros, keyboard shortcuts, etc

12.) Mass mailings---I'm sure this is vital for some folks, but not me

13.) Emailing-- how to set up a doc as a web page, emailing a doc (ultra beginners book) and hyperlinks

I think MOST people use word for wordprocessing---nothing fancy---just let me create a document and put page numbers on it and maybe share it with some people. I'd just like to know how to do the things I know Word can do, and I did not get that from this book.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Teach Yourself Visually Word 2007, March 11, 2008

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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2007 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) (Paperback)

Apart from the attractive visual instructions, I found very little that was new information from the Word 2000 textbook that I started with ten years ago. This would be a great textbook for beginners.