Using Microsoft Word and Excel 2000 (Special Edition Using)
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Using Microsoft Word and Excel 2000 (Special Edition Using)
by: Bill Camarda, Patrick Blattner, Laurie Ann Ulrich
Using Microsoft Word and Excel 2000 (Special Edition Using)
By Bill Camarda, Patrick Blattner, Laurie Ann Ulrich
Publisher: Que
Number Of Pages: 1300
Publication Date: 1999-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0789719290
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780789719294
Product Description:
Special Edition Using Microsoft Word and Excel in Office 2000 is a comprehensive reference to Word and Excel. It briefly covers the basics of the programs and then moves quickly on to cover roughly 600 pages each of Word and Excel at the intermediate and advanced feature level. This book gives you complete coverage of both Word 2000 and Excel 2000 in one convenient reference.
Summary: one of the best on the topics
Rating: 5
I don’t know where the previous reader was coming from but this was one of the most comprehensive and organized books on Excel and Word that I have read (and I read lots of them.)
Summary: OK for Excel – hopeless for Word
Rating: 2
This book looked great in the bookstore, when I was looking for an Excel guide with some help on Word. But when I got it back to the office I found that the index lacked adequate references to Word functions. You would expect that the index would have at least a reference to every term in the drop-down lists from the main Word toolbar. No, it doesn’t. So, if you are looking for help with Word, look elsewhere. Can I suggest, too, that you take any computer book on appro for a day or two – save you falling into the trap I fell into.
On the Excel side, it is OK but – like Microsoft products themselves – it assumes you want lots of options to make things pretty for a “presentation” rather than making your work more productive for analysis. That is, I have lots of big spreadsheets that I work on intensively. I’ll spend half a day on one spreadsheet working out what it can tell me. Then I’ll do a summary table or maybe a graph or two. But this book assumes you work the other way about: you have a handful of data which requires virtually no analysis and you are prepared to spend a day making it look pretty.
Look elsewhere.
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