Description:
All-inclusive books about bestselling word-processing applications can be dry; but they can be an office manager's best friend when Gertie in Receivables can't figure out how to import spreadsheets into documents or Hap from Marketing needs to know how to do a mail merge. Omnibus application guides like Mastering Word 2000 Premium Edition keep the wheels of commerce spinning, or at least aware of how to do columnar layouts. This book is a fine example of its genre, with detailed coverage of Microsoft Word 2000's extensive feature set, written in a way almost any Word user can follow. Because no one reads books like this from beginning to end, this type of text requires a good index. This book has a fine one, with detailed entries and boldface page references for the most important procedures. The procedures themselves are high quality, with a fair number of supporting illustrations (though the illustrations aren't labeled with callouts). The book also contains lots of sidebars that explain subjects like HTML versus plain-text e-mail, and a way to sort text that isn't in a table. The material's well thought-out, overall. At its stern, this book incorporates a "Master's Reference," with quick, text-only statements of the procedures to follow to make various effects, such as inserting a clip-art image or applying a border. --David Wall Topics covered: Everything most users of Microsoft Word 2000 will want to do with the program, from basic text editing and formatting to moderately complex macro creation. Clip art, columns, mail merges, tables, linked objects, Web publishing--if Word can do it, this book covers it.
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