How to Use Microsoft Word 2000

by Sherry Willard Kinkoph Gunter

How to Use presents you with a straightforward, visual approach to learning. The steps and graphics guide you through every task you'll need to perform in Word 2000. Book jacket. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672315319
• ISBN13: 9780672315312
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Sams
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 5.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.2" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

The book defines how to write a self-help book for beginners

Beginners in anything suffer from a great deal of anxiety and that is even more pronounced when learning something in computing. Furthermore, learning to use a piece of modern software is an exception to the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. No amount of words can possibly replace an image of what will appear on the screen. In most cases, adding unnecessary explanatory text to an image will tend to confuse the reader rather than help. Finally, so much of the interface of modern software is color coded that no number of shades of gray can truly convey the appearance on the screen. With all of this is a background, it is easy to see why books like this are so effective in teaching beginners how to use Word. The color images show you exactly what you will see down to how color differences are used as an aid in navigation. When beginners ask me about additional learning tools that are available, I recommend books of this form, so that they always know what to do. When teaching beginners how to use the components of Microsoft Office, the most common question that is asked has the form, "It says in the book to click on the ------, where is it?" With books like this, that question very rarely appears. Most of us can get by rather well using only the basic features of a software product. Using this book, you can quickly learn all the basics of Word in a manner that will step you through using figures that will tell you precisely what to do next.

Great learning guide for visual learners

I purchased this book after using the Frontpage 2000 guide in the same series. Features are much easier to learn when presented visually. I didn't think full colour would have much of an impact, but it seems to make commands easier to learn and remember. I'd especially like to draw attention to the way the guide shows the menus just as they appear, and walks you through the menu selections with a picture for each menu option you need to select. No more "Insert - Picture - Clipart". Every step is shown in full colour. While this guide doesn't have every command listed, it does provide people with the opportunity to learn the more useful commands, like formatting tables, and including pictures with documents. If you're looking for a full reference of every command, this book won't be for you. However, if you want to learn the more useful features of Word 2000 using an easy to understand step by step tutorial, I highly recommend this book!