Word 2003 Personal Trainer [With CDROM]

by CustomGuide Inc.

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596009364
• ISBN13: 9780596009366
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book!

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))

If you need to refresh your skills in Word this book is user friendly. Great handy guide and easy to use.

clear summaries

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

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

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.