Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Word 2003

by Neil Randall and Bill Camarda

bull; Offers practical, business-focused coverage of Word's key enhancements, including real-time collaboration and XML support. bull; Superior coverage of features that have always been essential to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078972958X
• ISBN13: 9780789729583
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 1231 Pages
• Weight: 4.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Good reference, great weight

This is a good reference book I got for the office. It's got a ton of information and is easy to read. It's reflects this with it's weight and when you stack this with other books in the series it gets heavy quick. I like the information, even if a lot, better too much than not enough.

Terrific Word Resource

My work requires me to format documents in many ways on a single page. I must change page orientation frequently, make unusual bulleting, such as '2B),' etc. So far, Bill Camarda's Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Word 2003 has shown me how to do everything I need. Additionally, it comes with a CD that includes itself, plus a lot of aftermarket manufacturer programs (that Microsoft contracts to write their sub-programs) to add features that are extremely useful. And because these are the programmers that write Word, they provide toolbars similar to Word to click on and perform the work. That CD has a home in my laptop case and I use it on the road, while my book is on my shelf at home. Great package: Book and CD. I'd buy it again and I recommend it.

Great book

This book is definitely one to buy. I have discovered so much about Word 2003 from reading this book that I would not have learned through using it every day. Comprehensive yet easily understood explanations accompany every topic. I especially like the Tips boxes and am quickly waering out a highlighter on them.

Cheaper than therapy, and more effective

I really love this book. I work large documents for a government agency and really strain what Word can do (and what you should do with Word). This book provides intelligent answers to difficult questions far beyond an idiots guide. I'm not an idiot, so why would I use that book? I make extensive use of auto-references, links, styles, and the whole shebang to make editing and revisions a snap. There's also the Section 508 thing so that the final document is ADA compliant. You're not an idiot, so buy this book.

I come to praise Que, not to bury it

I don't have goglobal_2000's experience with XML. (I probably don't have his tenacity either, but let's not get personal.) So I don't know if his criticism is on-point or completely made up. But I think highly enough of Que Publishing's "Using" series in general - and the Word titles in particular - to want to post some praise of its broader merits.I have perused pretty much every Word instruction manual on the market, and this is the one I'd go with. Most importantly, it is *extremely* comprehensive. Speaking personally, I can figure out how to cut-and-paste for myself. It's programming macros and the other scarily powerful features at the far edges of Microsoft-space that I need my hand held with, and Camarda does it nicely. But as thick as this volume is, it's all muscle - no bad jokes, no time wasting.