Word 97 Simplified (Paperback)

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If you're eager to learn Microsoft Word 97 but want your education to be as painless as possible, check out Word 97 Simplified. In this large full-color book, a mascot--a hybrid of a floppy disk and dog--shows you the way through the essentials of using Word 97, pointing out every step in each task with easy-to-read screen shots and simple advice.

You'll learn about the most rudimentary Word tasks, such as saving, opening, and printing files; navigating in Word; moving and copying text; and specifying fonts, colors, borders, shading, paragraph formatting, and tab settings. You'll also learn how to customize pages with page numbers, footnotes, margins, and columns; work with templates, wizards, tables, graphics, and multiple documents; perform mail merges; and use the Web tools in Word. None of this information is extraneous. This book is ideal for beginners who want lots of friendly handholding as they learn.

Product Description

Even if you're a long-time Microsoft Word user, the newest version of the world's most popular word processing software, Word 97, takes some getting used to. Besides finding your way around a redesigned interface with new buttons, icons, and menu items, you'll want to waste no time getting acquainted with fancy features that enable you to do things like… Format text, pages, and whole documents efficiently with built-in styles and templates Check grammar and spelling Create three-dimensional graphics right within Word itself Wrap text around graphics for professional, desktop publishing-quality newsletters and other documents Use Word 97 as a richly featured Web browser and Web page editor -- creating original pages for the Internet or transforming existing word processing documents into real live Web pages Customize Word's toolbars, menus, and keys to suit your needs

As always with the top-selling titles in the Simplified series, you can count on the renowned illustrators of maranGraphics to do what no other computing how-to book can do: not just tell you how to do what you need to do but show you as well. In Word 97 Simplified, you see exactly what to click, where to drag and drop, what to type, and what to scroll -- user-friendly has never been so user-friendly!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 225 pages
• Publisher: Hungry Minds; 1 edition (March 14, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764560115
• ISBN-13: 978-0764560118
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,620,944 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now I'm teaching the Kids!, March 20, 2000

By	LYNDA E HAZELDINE (Staffordshire, England) - See all my reviews

I was getting sick and tired of asking my daughter and son, (10 and 14 year-olds) how to do anything and everything on the PC we've owned for a year. I challenged myself to running our business from home with me and the PC at the helm! Within 4 days of receiving this book, I feel confident to tackle anything the machine can throw at me - I'm designing letterheads, customizing documents, sending e-mails...you name it, I now feel confident to try it.

This book has completely dispelled all my fears about computers - now I'm ordering a copy to be sent to my 68 year-old Dad!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best book you could buy to learn Word 97!, September 28, 1999

By A Customer

I had never worked with Word 97 before last year. This book helped me to learn the application quickly. It presents the material in a clear and simplied manner that is easy for even the most novice Word user. I highly recommend this book.