Microsoft® Office Document Designer: Your Easy-to-Use Toolkit and Complete How-To Source for Professional-Quality Documents (Bpg-Other) (Paperback)

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Key Book Benefits:

- Build even the most complex documents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint without knowing advanced layout, formatting, or design techniques. - Kit includes dozens of ready-to-use professional designs and layouts, tools for creating your own templates, and custom toolbars for simplifying document-creation tasks. CD also features special "How Do I...?" articles for on-the-spot reference and help. - Companion design guide provides expert tips, examples, and ideas—in full color. - Save time by focusing on getting the job done—instead of having to learn advanced software features. - Covers Microsoft Office XP and Office System 2003 editions.

About the Author

Stephanie Krieger is a professional consultant, trainer, and writer who specializes in creating solutions with the Microsoft Office System. She helps clients customize software and design templates, and also provides train-the-trainer services.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (September 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735620377
• ISBN-13: 978-0735620377
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #330,406 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond Awesome, really!, June 4, 2005

By	David A. Grossman "Dave" (Seattle) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I am a business consultant that works with Microsoft, HP, Oracle, HP, Xerox etc. and teaches how to conduct sales presentations to CXOs for a living. I can say that this book has taken the look, feel and ease of creating a first class executive level business case to a level I could have not imagined. At first it is quite daunting and overwhelming. But I had to get some business cases together for 50 marketing professionals in Sydney on a special workshop and I crashed into it. The MODD system once you "get it" is easy, fast and addictive. I ripped through Excel, PowerPoint and Word integrated data and information in no time flat with the MODD tools. It scared me it worked so well. This stuff is like awesome and it is refreshing to actually see a program work without a hitch. ( I wonder how they did that?)Krieger has made me look really, really good. Go for it!

32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Helpful for Creating Documents + Great Tools, November 24, 2004

By	AlexJ (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This book is like having an assistant to help with my documents. I create a lot of my own documents at work, and they have to look good. The book is a true help with that, not to mention the tools that come with the book. And, I can't believe how many how-to articles and tip sheets come along with the tools on the CD. Those articles are so great for quick and practical answers to the whatever I need to get done - I use them all the time.

This is the first book on Office that's not a theoretical reference or a laundry list of all the stuff you can do but will probably never use. The book and the tools actually help me get my work done. The tools save a lot of time, and they help me do things I didn't think I could do (like complex page layouts in Word or formatting Excel charts). I think Office 2003 is great, but I can do a lot more with it since I started using this book.

31 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great integration of programs, Excellent CD, February 27, 2005

By	Allan Bach (Allentown, PA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have trained over 3,000 people in Microsoft Word. None of them had ever heard of or used styles. Styles are necessary if you're going to use Word correctly. So, I bought this book for two reasons. First, I find that a woman writes a better book about learning software. I think women authors seem to explain software in better detail, especially for beginners. Second, the back cover describes a CD that has "Dozens of professional designs and layouts." I like examples for learning.

So, I opened the book. It looked very good. Good topics, easy reading, nice coverage of Word, Excel,and PowerPoint. But, not a single reference to Word styles. Did I waste my time? No. I then looked at the CD and guess what? There is more information for Word users on the CD than in the book. Don't get me wrong - the book is good. But the CD has articles that explain more about how Word works than most people know. And as for styles, I found them when I loaded the samples, they were filled with styles. And, the CD tells much about their use.

How about Excel and PowerPoint? They are also covered very well on the CD, along with great examples in the book.

So, this book is about integration of three programs, yet each is covered very well. In today's world of business, if you know how, you can always find a job. You will learn the "how" with "Document Designer." You'll also learn the "why", and, if you know why, you can always be the boss.