Running Microsoft Office 2000 Premium (Running (Microsoft)) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Michael Halvorson (Author), Michael Young (Author) "Microsoft Office 2000 Premium is a state-of-the-art application suite containing seven application programs for Microsoft Windows and several powerful utilities that will improve your productivity..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
If you've paid for Office 2000 Premium, the top-of-the-line version of Microsoft's productivity suite, you owe it to yourself to have a complete software reference on hand. Running Microsoft Office 2000 Premium includes exactly the sort of detailed how-to information you need on each application's features and tools. It's a great choice for individuals and businesses that live and die by their Office 2000 skills.

Running Microsoft Office 2000 Premium takes the classic approach of comprehensive Office books--it tackles the applications one at a time and explains each application's functions and capabilities using stepped procedures along the way. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, Publisher, FrontPage, and PhotoDraw each get a turn in the spotlight. The authors explain the basics of each application before working up to its specialized features. You'll also find a bit about the Small Business Tools and coverage of multiapplication tasks like creating a compound document or using Binder to hold multiple files together for easy management.

While it covers basic facts and skills, you'll also find advanced user information in Running Microsoft Office 2000 Premium. The authors include an introduction to macro-writing that sheds light on some of the most useful features of Visual Basic for Applications. --David Wall

Product Description
RUNNING MICROSOFT OFFICE 2000 PREMIUM is a reference that takes readers through the Office Premium Suite: Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint(r), Outlook(tm), Internet Explorer, Access, Small Business Tools, Publisher, Microsoft FrontPage(r) and PhotoDraw(tm). The Running series is designed to be easy-to-use, with a friendly, open design, featuring copious screen shots, call-outs, cross-references, and tips. The new generation, Running series, is more in-depth than ever before!

Product Details

• Paperback: 1504 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press; 1 edition (April 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572319453
• ISBN-13: 978-1572319455
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,766,945 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Typical Microsoft, September 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Running Microsoft Office 2000 Professional (Paperback)

After having this book for only one day, I gave up and returned it. There are numerous editing errors throughout. For instance, In the middle of the Outlook 2000 section, some color-coded guide tabs and page headings read "Access 2000".

Also, the index refers to wrong or misplaced pages. Further searching reveals particular index entries are nowhere to be found. Clearly rushed to press without much editing or forethought. Office 2000 "Professional"? Hardly.

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete Waste of Trees and Money!, August 28, 1999

By A Customer

This book contained neither detailed nor summary information on either of the two progams I was using: Word and Front Page. It is not targeted at beginners or advanced users. Instead it is a hodge podge of topics; most of them irrelevant to what I wanted to do. Even though the book is physically huge it covers very little in total because there are so many programs involved.

As context I have been using Word and Front Page since their very early versions. In Word I was simply trying to figure out why things were being formatted in such a strange way (I know--futile). For Front Page I was looking for an introduction to the new features and new interface.

Save your money unless you need a colorful doorstop.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction To Microsoft Office 2000, July 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Running Microsoft Office 2000 (Paperback)

Book was very helpful at introducing me to the features of Microsoft Office 2000 Professional. I really liked that it explained all the operations available in the suite while placing a 2000 symbol next to features that were new within the 2000 version. This let me skip only to the new features that I wanted to learn about but provided me a reference book I could use for the whole application.