As the latest version of the best-selling Microsoft Office word processor, Word 2003 features a host of innovations that add even more muscle to this amazing program. Now you can create, read, and share impressive-looking documents more easily than ever. The bad news is that keeping track of all the improvements on your own can be a timely and daunting task. The good news: the Word 2003 Personal Trainer from O'Reilly details everything for you. As the most complete and engaging tutorial available for Microsoft Word, this invaluable guide can assist users of all expertise levels. You'll work out with Word at your own pace, adding valuable knowledge and skills with each session, and you'll never take on more than you can handle with your Personal Trainer next to you. To launch your training program, the Word 2003 Personal Trainer includes sections on editing text, as well as formatting characters, paragraphs, and pages. It also covers these other Word fundamentals: Templates WordArt Charts Drawings Graphics Forms More seasoned Word users shouldn't feel left out either, as the book examines how to perform mail merges, create web pages, and facilitate document collaboration, among other advanced tasks. To best guide learning, Word 2003 Personal Trainer includes detailed diagrams, dozens of task-oriented lessons, and a fully interactive training simulation CD--everything you need to become a Word pro. Part of O'Reilly's new Personal Trainer Series, this book is based on content from CustomGuide (www.customguide.com), a leading provider of computer training materials. Founded by instructors who grew dissatisfied with the industry's dry course materials, CustomGuide offers courseware (for instructors and students), quick references, to software bulletins and e-learning courses that are fun, flexible, and easy to use.
This is a a very good book for the beginner to intermediate level student, and it also includes some advanced features of word not found in other books of this kind. The CD also helps tremendously with hands-on exercises that will teach you all you need in order to use the MS word effectively. Unfortunately there is not a word 2007 edition published yet.
Word 2003 Personal Trainer (Personal Trainer (O'Reilly))
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
If you need to refresh your skills in Word this book is user friendly. Great handy guide and easy to use.
clear summaries
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
i would recommend this instruction book to anyone like me, a computer novice. summaries at the end of each section, give clear, simple use instructions. index is well done, complete.
Cream of the crop
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
The Personal Trainer series is golden!! I teach software applications and have found these books to be invaluable. I am not teaching intensive knowledge of the subject, but mainly to people who want to brush up on an application or to those who are not familiar with the programs at all. The CD topics are comprehensive, interactive, easy to digest, and very informative. I have people who will spend hours on them and come back for more. The CD topics follow the topics in the book. People can use the CDs, the books, or both in conjunction. They are valuable either way. There are practice files for more in-depth information. These are well presented - very clear and with excellent diagrams. I have recommended these on a regular basis for other learning centers and to individuals. Even bought a set for myself as, no, I do not know everything! This review covers the series in general because they are all very well done. I will admit when I first saw the covers, I thought oh-oh, tacky! But upon opening the books, I found they are great.
Easy learning - declarative approach
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Microsoft Word has been with us for over 10 years. Naturally, with each revision, more features are added. So where do you start learning? Well, this book breaks down the effort into small lessons. A single lesson does not seem that hard. The lessons are also buttressed by a review and quiz (with answers) at the end of each chapter. Hopefully, you should not find anything too difficult here. MS Word fundamentally deals with stuff (text and images) that are WYSIWIG. Relatively few abstractions. The lessons have the virtue that you can perform an operation and usually see its effect immediately in front of you. The most advanced and abstract idea is at the end - writing and running macros. A chance at programming! Any of you programmer types will dig this. Though what you can fully do with macros is only hinted at.
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