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Title: Word 97 for Windows for Dummies by Dan Gookin ISBN: 0-7645-0052-X Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 27 December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It helps---sometimes
Comment: Plenty of us are still using older version of Microsoft software, and if you're one of those this guide is as good as any. You may spend a little time searching for the answer but it's usually hidden somewhere. The book is helpful in steering neophytes away from fancy but overly complicated or even risky features.
Rating: 4
Summary: "FOR DUMMIES"? NO, FOR SMART FOLKS WHO COULD USE SOME HELP
Comment: I used to have a teacher who'd say, with a wry grin,"The wise man can always play the fool, but the fool can never play the wise man." With that in mind, I have no problem picking up a book about a subject I want to know with "...for Dummies" in the title. The wise man knows his limitations, and the wise man should have a sense of humor.
Dan Gookin lets you know out front that he's a professional writer, not a technoguru. His expertise with Microsoft Word is based on years of using it and writing about it - therefore, functional knowledge, and only as technical as need be. That's the approach he takes, in straight-forward, easy to read language.
His command of English is heaps easier to understand and apply than Microsoft's owner's manual and computer tutorial program writers. His large dollops of humor, which might be occasionally irksome, are something I believe should be requisite when using computers; you need to keep your perspective and remember hardware and software are just tools. Tools! OK, to some people they're expensive toys, too. Too expensive to make jokes about? Puh-leeze...Check this book out, it may save you time and aggravation.
This book is great for someone like me. My life does not depend upon my working knowledge of Word - but it's helpful. I am neither dummy nor beginner. Starting a few years ago, when the local public library began to offer free instructor-led and computer-based self-tutorial classes, I learned and worked with Word for my personal and home-based business use. I tend to be self-taught. A lot of what I learned about using Word to suit my simple purposes came from my mistakes. As someone said, though, Experience may not be the best teacher, but it's certainly the most painful.
Gookin has saved me some pain. He's written a reference book, not a textbook. That means you don't have to read it straight through. Just open it to wherever you want or need. I skipped the opening, beginner's stuff - I'm sure it's great and I may read it for fun someday - and proceeded directly to stuff that affected me (the care & feeding of files and folders), might affect me (functioning of the Web toolbar and HTML documents, which Gookin was dead-on about: they are a pain), to stuff that may become important to me, like Mail Merge.
Bottom line, I found the book informative, accurate, encouraging, empowering, and sometimes bitingly funny. It's like reading an entertaining encyclopedia. After Gookin is through demystifying toolbars & floating palettes, features, buttons and option windows, the hidden bangs for the buck, the ten things you should always do and a few you might not want to ever do, or even consider...well, you just might feel in control. Yeah, an average person, the computer "semiliterate," in control! Is the book "perfect"? I don't know. It did alright by me - I was looking for help, not perfection, and I believe I got it. Could be you will, too.
Rating: 3
Summary: A GOOD BOOK FOR BEGINNERS
Comment: This book can really provide a helpful dose of information to newcomers to Word '97 but it may not satisfy the intention of more sophisticated users. However, the name itself (dummies) shpould tell you who it was designed for in the first place.
The only thing that I don't really like too much about it is that there are too many jokes - almost in every paragraph that this can sometimes get you a bit turned off.
All in all it provides good reading and learning for persons who may have little or no idea of the subject and want a cheap way to learn it.
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Title: Excel 97 for Windows for Dummies by Greg Harvey ISBN: 076450049X Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 03 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Windows 98 for Dummies by Andy Rathbone ISBN: 0764502611 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 05 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: PowerPoint 97 for Windows for Dummies by Doug Lowe ISBN: 0764500511 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 03 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Office 97 for Windows for Dummies by Wallace Wang, Roger C. Parker ISBN: 0764500503 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 03 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title: Word 97 for Windows for Dummies Quick Reference by Peter Weverka ISBN: 0764500708 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 13 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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