Offices and Professionals Books

As a receptionist in the internet field, I need to know thecurrent software. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Office was agreat starting book for me. I was able to quickly find the topic Ineeded and quick clear precise instructions on how to do it.

I urge you if you are starting out in the computer field or are looking to increase your knowldge this book is for you.

Numerous academics have pointed out how jobs are gendered and so often the universal worker is really the male worker. Well, here, Professor Creese using history shows how unions are also gendered (as well as racialized and stratified by class). Though union leaders say they fight for all workers, they really put the interests of the white, male worker with a family at home first. False consciousness is again shown to be a Marxist delusion: unions are very much interested in separating and differentiating between "us" versus "them."

Like the grand majority of academic texts, the introduction here differs noticeably from the body chapters. Oftentimes, introductions are so complex and impenetrable that they are there merely to impressive tenure committees or dissertation panels, making lay readers afraid to continue reading the book. Other times, the introduction summarizes things so well that the body chapters are mere illustrations of a point that has already been well made. (Though highly praised, Eve Sedgwick's "The Epistemology of the Closet" is a classic example of this.) This book acts in the latter fashion. The introduction uses sociology and statistics to make a clear illustration about inequality in the workplace; the body chapters are merely a history of a Canadian utilities company proving that point. Thus, there is no need to read beyond the first fraction of the book, unless are you hardcore into Canadian union activism, or union busting, actually.

So much of what this book says is true, but it's still frustrating. Women are pushed into low wage, dead-end positions. People of color, on average, never earn as much as their white counterparts. White, older, men get opportunities through their seniority but other workers are told they must come through the door already (over?)qualified. Women, and assumably people of color, have to take cases to administrative courts just to get what is due to them. This book will definitely put you in a bad mood if you are not already in one when you first pick it up.

If this book had not mentioned race, I would have condemned it for its lack. However, the text is imbalanced, possibly even with the best of intentions. This book deals heavily with biological sex, race is merely an afterthought, or an additional comment. But Canada does not have as many people of color as the United States. It does not have the stark and tragic history of slavery, genocide, and immigration exclusion. Thus, people of color are not in the picture here as much just given the historical background of that country. The author spells out myriad ways in which male supremacy is drenched in the workplace, but one would almost think the superior positions of white men in this union were mere happenstance.

This book reveals something profound about the Canadian identity. When Professor Cleese cannot find Canadian studies to back her facts, she first uses numbers from the United States, and then from either the United Kingdom or Australia. This proves its strong attachment to (Anglo-) North America and the (predominantly white) English-speaking world.

This book is small in size. However, its print is equally small. This will not be a quick and easy read for most readers.

The ultimate Dilbert calendar would combine this product with a daily dose of Dilbert. For a wall calendar this one is bright and large enough to note important dates. I need more Dilbert though like the daily desk calendar!

This was one of those, "must have for the course" type of books. I thought that I would use it later down the road, but I have already sold it. If you are trying to obtain a certification, this book will help. If you are just looking for general knowledge, you may want to look somewhere else.

This book is not for the "average" user. It is a whopping 1568 pages and weights over six pounds! The size did not scare me, but the wire binding did. I would highly recommend that you DO NOT purchases the wire bound version of this book. The pages are difficult to turn and the wire binding easily bends. This book has good content, but make sure you pick-up a non-wire bound copy.

If I could rate the structure of the book, I would give it 1 star, but since I cannot, I am giving it 3 stars because of its content.

This book was in good condition seller just failed to list that there was the exercise were already filled out

This book is good for beginner folders. It does not contain any difficult folds. While the advanced folder may be a bit disappointed with the models, most of which are in other origami books, it's great for what it's designed for - 5 minute entertainment at work.

There are games to make that can entertain your colleagues for hours, handy boxes etc, but my favourite has to be the "Executive Decision Maker" (a fortune teller).

In summary, while, most of the folds are not original, the book contains a good compilation of folds suitable for office entertainment.

If you are brain dead you could find this funny. It hurts to read this I could not get past a full section with out getting sick. THIS BOOK SUCKS!

This was a hilarious book! I had such a great time reading it. Passed it on to my boss so he won't fire me and he can watch his back, too!

For those ordering this book thinking it will contain many cute pictures of those lovable primates from the CareerBuilder ads will be greatly disappointed. The only picture is the one seen on the cover. Still an entertaining book for those that have served many a year in the office environment.

Potable Water is the proper construction term and that is what it is known as industry wide. This is a construction dictionary not a slang dictionary. I am buying it!

Just in looking at the sample pages I decided this book was not worth sending for. A good example is "Agua Potable".....translated to "Potable water" in English. Ask the typical American for Potable Water and 9 out of 10 people won't know what you're talking about. Ask those same people for Drinking Water and you'll get a response.
The translations are very poor, and obviously not done by a native English speaker.

Substance is minimal. The terminology is not day-to-day but technical and geared to projects with many trades and workers. Hopefully, somebody is not referring to this book to explain to a worker the technical details of a fire sprinkler system, but, there are about 15 entries for various types of fire sprinklers. Unfortunately, there is not consistent detail for all trades - the book would (should?) then be ten times as thick.
If you are seeking something to help you and one or two house construction laborers communicate, this isn't it.
There are 107 pages of straight English-Spanish word conversions, in very large type, the "S" pages averaged 15 per page, so you're getting about 1,600 words, many of which are repetitive.
Many words have two translations, but no help as to which to use.
These 107 pages are just as easily found in any on-line translation dictionary.
The 5 pages of "useful phrases" were helpful - again, geared towards a large construction site where your normal translator is on vacation and you have to fill in. BUT, ONLY 5 pages.
Tools span (span = luz, or vano, or claro, wonder which will convey my meaning) 7 pages and would have been a great place for illustrations, but no.
The illustrations are meager and not particularly helpful. The sketches on the cover are not included in the book - deceitful advertising. My first grader's illustrated spanish-english dictionary with one page devoted to a jobsite was more helpful.
Save your money. Don't spend it on this.

Just a few of the words I hoped to find, but didn't:
Deep, dirt, driveway, fill, place, pour, smooth, soak...
Very deficient in verbs.

A note to R. S. Means, who's books, guides, and standards I have used for decades - pull this book off the shelf and start over, you are damaging what used to be a good name.

This book is not written for the real world small business owner. Whomever wrote this book has no concept of pedagogy. The simplest tasks are rendered difficult because the writer failed to explain trivial but yet crucial steps to take in some instances. I usually don't write negative reviews. However, this book has given me so many headaches that i had to tell the truth about it. The only good thing about this book is that it is the only one written on the subject. If microsoft cannot get good writers to write books about MS accounting 2007-2008 therefore keep your money and buy Quickbooks software instead. By the way there are at least 20 books written on Quickbooks.

Good book to get the basics of the regular program. Full benefit of the book is possible only by having the advanced Office Accounting program.

Program advertised as not requiring accounting skills. This book should have taken on the same philosophy. It tells you how to manipulate through the tabs but is lacking in scenarios for common accounting situations...how do you handle employee expense acounts for example. Tech folks are smart but they often have a problem communicating with a user.

Like so many books an help manuals written today, this book never tells you how the pieces fit together. The section on Word starts with an example which occurs on the "ThisDocument_Startup" event, which then opens another document. (Actually, most of the examples are nested in an event handler of that name.) The author doesn't tell us what would ever cause this code to execute -- is it part of a standalone application? Is it triggered when you open a particular file with Word? etc.

I need to write code which operates in place of a Word macro -- i.e. there's a toolbar added to Word via a Global Template, and it has a button, and when that button is clicked, an object is instantiated which then begins to interact with the user and with Word. I've skimmed the entire section on Word, and found nothing of relevance. I'm ready to just skip out and buy another book.

VSTO (pronounced Visto) is a most interesting product when viewed from Microsoft's overall standpoint. It is a very carefully crafted product with the primary purpose of continuing Microsoft's continued dominance of the desktop marketplace, and a part of Microsoft's thrust to move more heavily into the server marketplace.

As best I can tell, it works something like this. Microsoft recognizes that servers handling up web pages, processing mail, etc. are a huge market, but that Linnux owns a big percentage of that market. Consequently Microsoft came up with the .NET strategy. .NET is a bunch of subroutines (if you will) that are written to provides all kinds of utility to programmers. You write your applications using propriatary programming languages such as C# and J# that use the .NET library and consequently have to run on Microsoft operating systems.

In the Office environment, packages such as OpenOffice have gotten to be pretty good, are basically Microsoft compatible so you don't have a re-training problem, and are FREE. I don't know how much success OpenOffice has had, but it appears to be enough to attract Microsoft's attention.

Enter VSTO. VSTO adds customization and productivity to Microsoft Office applications through 'links' that tie Office to the .NET framework. So to use VSTO first you must have and load the .NET framework, then you must load Visual Studio.NET - in that order -- then install Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office.

All of this is clearly explained by Mr. Bruney in this book, who then goes on to do an excellent job of explaing how to write programs using VSTO. As examples he includes some real world applications. Most of the book is on Excel applications, but Word and Outlook are included as well. Finally he concludes the book with an excellent discussion on pivot tables.

Conclusion: A well written, understandable and complete book on VSTO. If you're going to be using VSTO, this is an excellent place to start.

I bought this book because it was available from a 3rd party seller for a very low price. For the money it was okay. It got me familiar with VSTO. However, I'm very glad I didn't pay full price because frankly the text is full of errors, typos and mistakes. E.g., in one paragraph he is talking about the Range object and when referring to an object there is a particular font and style that is used. However, the Range gets referred to 1) using the style, 2) without the style but with a leading capital letter, 3) without the style and all lower case. Consequently I had to re-read the paragraph 3 or 4 times to figure out if he meant "range" in the English definition or the object. A pain. This sort of thing is all over the book.

Also I was reading it so I could automate Word and I found very little practical data in the chapters on Word.

So, unless you are getting it as cheap as I did, I'd say find a better book.