2007 Microsoft® Office System Plain & Simple (Plain & Simple Series) (Paperback)

by Jerry Joyce (Author), Marianne Moon (Author)
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Product Description
Get the fast answers--in full color--that make learning the new 2007 Microsoft Office system plain and simple! This no-nonsense guide helps you learn the easy way to navigate the latest version of Office with numbered steps and concise, straightforward language that show the most expedient ways to learn a new skill or solve a problem. You'll become familiar with the new, easy-to-use user interface and learn the essentials for working with Microsoft Office programs--discovering how to perform everyday tasks and answer your own questions quickly. You will discover how to create documents with Microsoft Office Word, spreadsheets with Excel®, and presentations with PowerPoint®. You'll even get the basics for designing a publication using Publisher, creating a Web page with FrontPage®, sharing information with SharePoint®, and more. With PLAIN & SIMPLE, you don't have to wade through superfluous details. This easy-to-use book delivers fast, precise information--exactly how and when you need it!

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Key Book Benefits:

-Your no-jargon, quick reference to everyday questions about the 2007 Microsoft Office system -Covers common tasks including creating documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, and sending e-mail messages -Features an easy-to-read design--including numbered steps, concise information, and helpful tips and exercises--in full color -Delivers concise answers in visual format for people who want information they can put to work right away; ideal for beginning-level users of Office 2007

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (February 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735622736
• ISBN-13: 978-0735622739
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,690 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for beginners, April 10, 2007

By	Bernard Campbell "Intelligent-biz.com" (San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is well laid out and easy to understand. The step by step, visual format makes it easy for you to quickly complete topics without guesswork - it shows you all of the steps you need to take! Excellent as a manual or reference book, generally you can go directly to a topic and learn all that you need to know about that topic without having to read previous sections.

The book starts off by covering the features common to all Office 2007 programs - extremely useful to quickly familiarise you to the general workings of any Office 2007 program. Each of the following chapters then focuses on an individual Office 2007 program(Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, Access).

CHAPTER LIST

01. About This Book
02. Working in Office
03. Common Tasks in Office
04. Viewing and Editing Text in Word
05. Formatting in Word
06. Working with Special Content in Word
07. Working in Excel
08. Analyzing and Presenting Data in Excel
09. Creating a PowerPoint Presentation
10. Presenting a PowerPoint Slide Show
11. Working with Messages in Outlook
12. Organizing with Outlook
13. Creating a Publication with Publisher
14. Working in Access
15. Exchanging Information Among Office Programs
16. Customizing and Securing Office

After reading this book you will do more with Office 2007.

One note of caution: The content is targeted towards beginner to low-end intermediate users who need step-by-step instruction. Intermediate- Power- and Advanced-users may find the material covered to be too basic to be useful.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Overview, April 9, 2008

By	Admiralu "admiralu" (Camarillo, California United States) - See all my reviews

I purchased this book in addition to some of the other more advanced Office books (Office 07 Inside Out & Office 07 Bible) for the full color screen shots to see how the new Office System's Ribbon looked. Don't let the title fool you, although this book is indeed geared toward the newbie, there is some excellent coverage of some advanced topics I have not found in some of the other advance Office books. The organization may not be layed out very logically, but you can jump to whatever section you please with ease. The sections of Outlook (written by Jim Joyce, an Outlook MVP and author of various Outlook Inside Out editions and Beth Sheresh) are a nice intro to the Outlook Plain & Simple book. (Also worth it.) The Access section by Curt Frye (another advanced author) gives a nice intro to one of the most advance programs Office has. I was also pleased to see some coverage (although limited) for Publisher 2007. A lot of advanced Office System books don't cover Publisher at all.
Some of my favorite highlights are:

Explanation of the new Office programs and Office Tools
Explanation of the new Office File Formats (including saving in the Office 97-2003 formats and templates for people without the new 07 System)
How to use common tasks
Exchanging Info Among Office Programs (Excellent chapter with various options for using data from one program in another and coverage of how to use the Microsoft Office Document Imaging program to scan documents and convert to text. This is missing from many other Office books!)
Explanation of customizing and securing Office with great screen shots

My one big disappointment is the lack of coverge for OneNote 2007. OneNote can can interact with Outlook via tasks and other items and this would have been wonderful info to readers.

If you don't have Office 2007 and are considering purchasing it or looking for a way to use Office more effectively, this book is a wonderful full color guide and well worth the attractive price. The Plain & Simple series may start with simple tasks, but does include more advanced topics without too much technical jargon. Enjoy!

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not so plain, but yes, simple!, May 31, 2007

By	Bookdancer "librarylady" (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews

This is a great book for anyone who does not want any type of theory but just the information to get going on a project. Lots of great illustrations and just what this busy librarian needs who does not have time to go back to school for a computer science degree. The book contains easy to read page layouts with instructions on how to preform various task in a simple step by step manner. Who knew a marine biologist and former caterer could cook up such a book.