Word 2007 For Dummies [Paperback]

Dan Gookin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 26, 2006 | ISBN-10: 0470036583 | ISBN-13: 978-0470036587 | Edition: 1

• Dan Gookin's For Dummies guides to Word have consistently led the pack, selling more than 1.7 million copies in previous editions
• The author's irreverent sense of humor and crystal-clear prose make getting up to speed on Word a snap
• Thoroughly updated to cover Word's new interface, new file format options, and new collaboration and connectivity features
• An essential resource for everyone who wants to hit the ground running with Word 2007 and make the most of all the new features

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The word is "easy" with this friendly guide!

Take advantage of cool new file formats and cruise around Word's new interface

From bestselling author Dan Gookin, here are words to live by about the world's most popular word processing program — Word 2007. From starting things up (there's a good, better, and best way) to formatting your documents, dressing them up, and giving them style, here's everything you need to know to make sure your words get noticed!

Discover how to

• Use keyboard shortcuts
• Navigate with scrollbar buttons
• Undo and redo edits
• Format text, paragraphs, and pages
• Split windows on a single document
• Collaborate and review documents

About the Author

Dan Gookin started the whole Dummies phenomenon with DOS For Dummies in 1991. He's the author of numerous bestsellers with more than 11 million copies in print.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (December 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470036583
• ISBN-13: 978-0470036587
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,341 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #3 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Word Processing
  • #8 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Word

More About the Author

Dan Gookin has been writing about technology for over 20 years. He combines his love of writing with his gizmo fascination to create books that are informative, entertaining, and not boring. Having written more over 120 titles with 12 million copies in print translated into over 30 languages, Dan can attest that his method of crafting computer tomes seems to work.

Perhaps his most famous title is the original DOS For Dummies, published in 1991. It became the world's fastest-selling computer book, at one time moving more copies per week than the New York Times #1 bestseller (though as a reference, it could not be listed on the NYT Bestseller list). From that book spawned the entire line of For Dummies books, which remains a publishing phenomena to this day.

Dan's most popular titles include PCs For Dummies Word For Dummies, Laptops For Dummies, and Droid X For Dummies. He also maintains the vast and helpful Web site, www.wambooli.com.

Dan holds a degree in Communications/Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Presently, he lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he enjoys spending time with his sons playing video games inside while they watch the gentle woods of Idaho.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

47 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really dumb, August 29, 2007

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Richard Barrett - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Word 2007 For Dummies (Paperback)

I'm a big fan of the Dummies series; the information is usually complete and explained well. The Word 2007 volume, however, is nothing but fluff. The writer explains the features of Word 2007 by using words like "thing" and "stuff". The banter is usually tolerable (or easy to skip over) in the Dummies series, but this book has so much of it that it's no surprise there is no room for explaining new features such as the new interface, particularly the ribbon. The writer says the ribbon can't be modified. That's not true. Reading this book is like eating cotton candy.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I HATE THIS BOOK!, September 17, 2009

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JJ - See all my reviews

This review is from: Word 2007 For Dummies (Paperback)

This book is just plain awful!

I will give you examples. I've been trying to do a simple header with a page number. He tells you how to do a header, but he does not tell you that it's a mistake to use the header button if you want to also have a page number on your header. For that, you just use the page number button and within that you can add your header information. I ran in circles trying to figure this out.

He tells you the easy way to add a cover sheet, EXCEPT if you make your cover sheet and then do your page numbers, it does not create a separate section for the cover sheet, so you will have a page number for it---GRRRR. Which means you have to start over.

There are no nice screen shots to tell you how to do something. At best you get the picture of the button you need to use and a paragraph (OR TEN!) on how to find that button. I HATE THIS BOOK!

I bought it for one reason, it will tell you how to insert a file into a document and the other (better written ones with the nice screen shots) did not have that in the index. It's easy to insert a file into a document, BTW, but I made a diagram on the right (beside all his paragraphs). The diagram is four blocks with a word in each block. That's it, Dan, that's all you needed. He has the irritating habit of telling you all the things you can do with something, like highlighting. Yes, there may be more than one way to turn it off, more than one color, etc., etc., etc.,---but I just want to get the ^&%$ to work and move on. Put that in a little box somewhere for people who care!

So, not only is the book misleading (see above with headers), it's confusing without the screen shots, and when he does give you a summary that actually works, it's so wordy you want to scream.

I have to agree that all the cutesies in this book are distracting and annoying. Those are great in some books, but this is more of a reference book (or it should be) and you want to go to the index, find the page for what you want to do (the index is good), then jump to the section with the information, and THEN have screen shots that take you from one level to the next. FORGET ALL the cutesies, Dan, and forget all the words unless each one is absolutely necessary. DO NOT TALK---SHOW!

I've had it with this book and I'm looking for something else. Good luck to you if you buy it!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Word 2007 for Dummies, January 27, 2008

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Larry A. Major "Squeak" (My office-Port Orchard,WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Word 2007 For Dummies (Paperback)

The book is exactly what it is! If you have word, get this. O.K., don't use your real name when buying it. Don't let the "Dummies" intiminate you. It is very helpful, having neat little tips that you would't normally find. I have found that an instruction manual should be written for the person with the lowest level of experience as possible. This is the one.