jnp@calmasd.UUCP (11/19/87)
Does anyone know of a Microsoft Word book/tutorial other than the standard
docs? (Like the 3rd party Excel books, etc.)
Thx,
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John M. Pantone @ GE/Calma R&D, Data Management Group, San Diego
...{ucbvax|decvax}!sdcsvax!calmasd!jnp jnp@calmasd.GE.COMesf00@amdahl.UUCP (11/21/87)
In article <2529@calmasd.GE.COM> jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) writes: > >Does anyone know of a Microsoft Word book/tutorial other than the standard >docs? (Like the 3rd party Excel books, etc.) > I bought a copy of "Microsoft Word 3.0 (for the Macintosh) Made Easy". It's a decent introduction to MS Word 3.0. I've ended up with a new editor every eighteen or so months for the last bunch of years, and I've developed my own methods for clubbing the beasts into submission. The book taught me a lot of stuff that I didn't discover in getting Word to work for me. It also taught me a bunch of stuff that I didn't remember finding when I read the MS tome that comes with Word. It's reasonably well written, even if it does (more than occasionally) refer to figures that occur on later pages. One caveat: the title lies. Some stuff is covered in excrutiating detail at a pace that's slow for anyone except a yuppie who's trying to figure out the difference between his Mac and his Cuisinart (but that's ok if you never met up with it before, either), and some stuff is covered in CS8086x style ("...intuitively obvious..."). I'd still like a real reference manual for MS Word. (But then I want some real reference manuals for UNIX :-)). -- Elliott Frank ...!{hplabs,ames,sun}!amdahl!esf00 (408) 746-6384 or ....!{bnrmtv,drivax,hoptoad}!amdahl!esf00 [the above opinions are strictly mine, if anyone's.] [the above signature may or may not be repeated, depending upon some inscrutable property of the mailer-of-the-week.]
chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) (11/21/87)
>Does anyone know of a Microsoft Word book/tutorial other than the standard >docs? (Like the 3rd party Excel books, etc.) There are two books for Microsoft word that I know about. The first is "Microsoft Word Made Easy" and is published by Microsoft Press. It's a decent introduction/tutorial, but doesn't go into any advanced topics or beyond beginners. It's okay, but anyone with any background in word will outstrip it rapidly. Still an improvement over those things Microsoft ships with the software, though (I refuse to call them manuals) The other is a new one, and is called "The definitive guide to word 3.0" and is published by the cobb group. About 700 pages, starts at the beginner/tutorial level and tries to cover as much stuff as it can. Pretty accurate, pretty complete (although not definititive -- no postscript coverage, minimal math formula coverage, and a few other areas that need expansion) but really a good book overall. [****-] on the OtherRealms scale, and is one of the books that gets the very scarce shelf space on the desk my computer lives on (most books are in the bookcase nearby, unless I use it quite often - this should tell you how often I refer to it). chuq --- Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM Delphi: CHUQ