REVIEW - Teach Yourself Microsoft Word 97 in 24 Hours


Title:

Teach Yourself Microsoft Word 97 in 24 Hours

Author:

Linda Jones, Ruel T. Hernandez

Publisher:

Sams Publishing (1997)

Pages:

466pp

Reviewer:

Brian Bramer

Reviewed:

June 1998

Rating:

★★☆☆☆


It is not intended that one would work through this text in a single 24 hour session! The book contains 24 one-hour lessons organised over a six-day period. Day 1 is an introduction - outline of what Word does, installation, getting around it. Day 2 deals with text - entering, setting up paragraphs, pages, etc. Day 3 is personalising Word - setting up defaults and styles to suit ones requirements. Days 4 and 5 look at tools - tables, mailmerge, graphics, drawing, etc. Day 6 looks at adding elements to documents, use with other Office applications and for Web authoring.

The book is easy to read and well laid out. Each chapter finishes with a Q&A session and each day with a useful 'real world' example using facilities covered. One may ask why one needs such a text such as this when there is extensive on-line help? The problem is that Word is a large complex (and not easy to use) package - the help is helpful if you know what to look for and it can take considerable time to find a particular topic. For example, I was preparing a conference paper that had diagrams containing text boxes. I wished to switch off the box around the text. The on-line help was no use but ten seconds after picking up this book I found out how to do it.

A useful book to learn Word 97 or to be used as a reference to look up facilities as required.


Book cover image courtesy of Open Library.





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