Product Description: Microsoft Office 2001 for the Macintosh computer, is a new program which supports Mac technology without losing any of the trademark Mac style. This reference provides comprehensive coverage of the new Project Gallery, Entourage features, and the new versions of Word, excel and PowerPoint. It also provides details on features which are exclusive to Mac Office, such as QuickTime movies in PowerPoint and the new formatting palettes, toolbars and icons.
A Real Winner I couldn't believe the thoroughness of this book! Very descriptive, nicely organized for each component of the massive suite program. Until I read the book I was utilizing less than 20% of the suite program's potential. "Mastering Powerpoint" was a masterpiece! Get this book before it's out of print
A disappointing reference What sells this reference is it's lovely (and very persuasive) cover design. It would appear to be a 'Complete Reference' but it's not. There is much instruction that simply doesn't instruct, typos, and lots of wrong information. The 'Advanced Word Processing Techniques' chapter of the Word section is especially disappointing. Auto-Chapter Headings, headers and footers that work? Not here. Thanks to this book I've been spending more time (and quality time at that) in the Word newsgroups (and getting straight info). Any reference that 'fluffs' itself up with large type, large pictures, generous line spacing, and page after page of hugely set keyboard shortcuts is simply trying to fill up space. Look at other reference books before considering this one.
Yes, it does cover outlining! Despite what this other reviewer told you, this book indeed has a section on outlining in Word. I'm looking at the 3rd printing, which also has some material on the Mac OS X version. Evidently that other reviewer read a different book and got confused.
I highly recommend Mr. Steinberg's book for a thorough look at the Mac version of Microsoft's office productivity suite.
Failed on my one test I had a question about using outlines in Word. (Why my "body text" styled paragraphs are showing up with Outline Level 1.) I turned to this book and looked in the index. It mentions only two pages about outlining in Word: "outlining documents, Word 2001 keyboard shortcuts, 288-289." The rest of the outlining entries concern PowerPoint and Excel. So, even though I'm using Office 2001, I turned to my copy of Office 98 Bible by LeVitus et al. It has 13 pages about outlining in Word. So I'm ordering the Office 2001 Bible now. The "Complete Reference" failed me on my admittedly only test so far.
Lots of Advanced Information This "missing manual" reviewer sounds like he or she is involved with that other book. In fact, the Office 2001 for Mac: The Complete Reference title has plenty of highly advanced information on using formulas in Excel, using the List Manager, and setting up mail merges in Word. The person who says otherwise isn't telling you the truth about this book. It's great, just great!
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