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Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 2000 Small Business Edition by Woody Leonhard, Ed Bott, Jim Minatel ISBN: 0-7897-1969-X Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 23 April, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The book is great! But the software...
Comment: I have found the book to be absolutely indispensable! I found every thing I needed, spelled out in plain and easy to understand language. I am no computer geek, but now I can certainly make Office 2000 do geeky things! My friends are in awe!
However... The book comes with a set of enhancements called the WOPR pack. Many of the utilities are very useful, though some of them are handy only to certain types of writing. One problem is that there are a few bugs in the programs (The Zip code lookup feature for one) that have not been remedied. Posts at the WOPR website indicate that this problem has existed since at least January 2000, and there is still no fix, or even a mention that they are working on it! Emails asking for help or information go unanswered and the posts on the message boards keep piling up asking when there will be a fix.
For people so good at asking Microsoft where the fixes are, you would think they would take some of their own advice and at least admit they have been unable to fix the darn thing!
Don't let this criticism dissuade you from buying the book, just be aware that the software is not perfect and the support leaves a lot to be desired.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Office 2000 book by the Best Office 2000 authors.
Comment: If you are not a developer, this is the only Office 2000 book you will ever need. As usual, Woody Leonhard (not to slight co-author Ed Bott) has produced the definitive guide to Office 2000. I've read his books religiously since the old Word for Windows days, and no one beats his understanding of what makes Office tick. You'll get the unvarnished truth--good and bad--about Office, not just a re-written Help file.
Every chapter contains one final section: "Secrets of the Office Masters" which is often worth the price of the book itself. Add to this a registered copy of Woody's Office Power Pack on CD and no other book can touch the value and plain usefulness of this one. Just get it, and don't look back.
Rating: 4
Summary: A lot of tips, but still not all the answers
Comment: I bought "Woody Leonhard Teaches MSO 2000" and realized that I needed a more advanced book on MSO 2k, so I bought the Special Edition (SE).
Yes, it covers by far more topics than the first one I bought... but not all: It does not have all the answers for my questions, and maybe just the same for yours. For example, it doesn't cover MS Equation Editor (the one you use in Word). OK, I found interesting (and maybe useful later) info on handling formulae in Word and Excel, but not on editing equations.
I had found a solution for my problem before searching in the SE book, but I wanted a faster one (mine was somehow time-consuming). The book had nothing better to offer.
Moreover, even though this SE had the solution for other problems, it was difficult to find through the book. You have to read section after section till find what you need.
One more problem you should consider are the differences between editions of Office 2k, say, language or release time. What worked for one Office 2k didn't work for another Office 2k. This might not be a fault of the book, but think on it if you are going to use it.
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Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Word 2000 by Bill Camarda ISBN: 0789718529 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 08 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Excel 2000 by Patrick Blattner, Ken Cook, Laurie Ulrich, Timothy Dyck ISBN: 0789717298 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Mastering Microsoft Office 2000 Professional Edition by Gini Courter, Annette Marquis ISBN: 0782123139 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Outlook 2000 (Special Edition Using) by Gordon Padwick ISBN: 0789719096 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: May, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Microsoft Access 2000 by Roger Jennings ISBN: 0789716062 Publisher: Que Pub. Date: 09 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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