Just the tips, man for Microsoft Word 2000 |
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| Title: | Just the tips, man for Microsoft Word 2000 |
| Author: | Bob Flisser; Wendy Richardson |
| Publisher: | Nerdy Books |
| Type: | Book / Spiral-bound |
| Publication Date: | 01 May, 2001 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1930041012 / 9781930041011 |
| List Price: | $9.95 |
| You Save: | $0.96 |
| Amazon Price: | $8.99 (via Amazon marketplace seller) |
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Editorial Review / Publisher's Information:
Product Description
Yeah, you can do a lot with Microsoft Word. It's not the world's most popular word processing software for nothing.
But take all of Word 2000's power and boil it down to "Just the tips, man" for Microsoft Word 2000, and you've got power and speed. From manipulating text, to adding graphics, to using tables, to putting it all on the Web, you'll be amazed at how much faster and more efficient you'll be when you learn all the tips, tricks and shortcuts that no one ever told you about.
Amazon.com Review
Just the Tips, Man: Microsoft Word 2000 takes what are often the best parts of how-to books about computer software--the succinct tips that call attention to obscure features and time-saving shortcuts--and makes an entire book out of them. "Book" is a bit of a stretch, actually. This publication looks more like one of those spiral-bound calendars that sits on your desk, presenting a new vocabulary word or Far Side cartoon each day. This isn't a calendar, but it will stand up like one--you can set it up so that the keyboard shortcuts associated with a particular procedure are visible when you're working at your computer. The tips range from the obvious (does anyone not know that Ctrl+B makes text bold?) to the obscure yet nifty (you can generate nonsense placeholder paragraphs by invoking a particular Word function). The tips are never more than two or three sentences--usually plain statements, sometimes numbered steps--in length. The format lends itself to casual browsing, though there is an index you can use to locate tips by subject. If you're looking for comprehensive documentation of Word 2000, investigate another book. Flip through this one if you prefer quick, potentially timesaving suggestions. --David Wall Topics covered: Miscellaneous hints, tricks, shortcuts, and factoids for the user of Microsoft Word 2000 for Windows, including those that have to do with formatting, file management, publishing on paper, and the Internet.
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Customer Reviews:
• Not What I Wanted
31 December, 2001
I found the booklet awkward to use, and written in an irritating and patronizing 1960's "hip" style. I was hoping for something straightforward but the authors seemed more intent on showing off their cleverness than in helping someone struggling with a complex machine. It was also overpriced. The cartoons were kind of cute but if I want a cartoon book I'll buy a copy of "Peanuts".
- Amazon Customer Review
• Just The Tips, Man
18 January, 2001
As a graphic designer, I thought this book is an excellent tool to have next to your computer to be able to review any shortcuts of the program you are working on. I love the characters and their clever quotes on the tips. It's an easy and fun way to work. This is the first book of its kind!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Develop Control Over Word's Automatic Formats!
01 February, 2001
This book deserves more than five stars for all the time and frustration it will save you.If you are like me, Microsoft Word has two major drawbacks: (1) Automatic formats that change things from what you want to what you don't want, and are hard to disable(2) A manual that would cause a hernia to lift (and is daunting to contemplate opening).This book overcomes both of those problems.Let me explain a little about why this book is valuable before describing it. First, the authors clearly have a lot of experience with Word because they had tips for every problem I have ever had using the program. Soon, I found myself racing through to find the sections that would help me. Second, this book will be especially valuable to authors and others who need to create long text files. I knew there had to be ways to automatically do a universal change of one word for another. Now I know how to do it! Wow! Can you imagine how much time that will save?Third, I suspect this book will be even more valuable to those who would like to add a lot of snazzy graphics to their Word documents. I don't plan to, but I was impressed to see how to do that. The book is spiral bound and comes with a cardboard stand, so I can leave it on the top of my word processing station and flip through it easily without having to clear a lot of space. The structure is logical in that it begins with simple subjects and moves on to more specialized ones. Here are the topics:Documents, documents, documentsNavigating a document Selecting and navigating textCharacter and paragraph formattingChanging fonts and point sizesSpecial charactersParagraph stuffLists?Creating, editing and applying stylesUndo, cut, copy and pasteLost something?Page breaks, section breaks and columnsAutoCorrect, AutoText and the Spike Creating and using forms and mail mergeSpell check and the ThesaurusOut in the fieldThose nasty tabsTables, rows and columnsMaking templatesHeaders, footers and cool page stuffSquares, circles, stars, lines, autoshapes and more!Selecting, moving and duplicating objectsFills, lines, colors and shadowsInserting objects and clip artHyperlinksToolbarsMenusHelpEach tip page has more than one tip on it. The main one is presented in straightforward fashion. "#88 To paste the contents of the clipboard Press Ctrl + V." Then there is a comical cartoon figure (a surfer in this case) with another tip. These secondary tips vary in difficulty, with the type of character used indicating the complexity level. "The very happening thing is that I noted the last 4 shortcuts (Ctrl + Z, X, C and V) are in a row on the keyboard." This page format works very well for breaking up the text, and making it more interesting. The shift in style allows the mind a break from one complicated item to another. It also creates a dialogue on the page that makes it easier to remember the idea.It turns out that these ideas work on almost all versions of Word, so even if you do not have Word 2000, you will get benefit from this book. I use Word 6.0, and almost everything applies. A number of the directions apply to Excel and Powerpoint, as well. What I had not realized is that Word is not well enabled for those who only use the mouse. The more sophisticated adjustments almost always require using the keyboard, instead. So that insight was worth the price of the book alone. I had found myself using the keyboard more and more with Word, and did not know why. Now I understand. It's because I can get my results faster and easier that way. Let me give you one word of caution. Because the book starts with the simplest and works towards the most complex applications, you may already know most of the first 50 tips. Keep going. At some point, almost everything will be something that you did not know before. I wish I could give you an idea of how to go right to the place where you will find exactly the right material to solve your own issues. I don't know how to do that. I suggest that you flip pages so that you can scanned everything once. Then you can come back when you want to use an item. You might add colored Post-It notes to mark the places with a note jotted on them about how you want to use the advice. The only drawback I found in the book is that sometimes I did not understand the terms used, so the advice did not mean anything to me. A glossary of terms would have helped. Perhaps the "Help" feature in Word can get me through those.I think there is also a potential benefit in seeing other ways to use Word. I did not realize that the 2000 version has list and mail merging features. That may be something we can use in our office. After you have finished finding great nuggets of knowledge here, I suggest that you take something that you do for others. Ask them what difficulties they have in using what you provide. See if you can boil down what they need into easier-to-use formats, as well.Go straight to the solution!
- Amazon Customer Review
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