Microsoft Books

I was introduced to the Microsoft Office Guide when I became the Technology Teacher for 1st through 8th grades. The curriculm for 7th and 8th grade was to learn Excell and Access - which I had never used. Therefore, I opened the book, went through each step for both chapters on Database and Spreadsheet. The book was so well designed and organized in presenting and educating that I learned quickly! The material gave me a strong understanding of each program - so much so that people feel I have been working with Excel and Access for years (I was already strong in Word). This is a great book for people wanting to learn how to use the software (especially if you need it for upgrading your career!) It is also a great book for teaching and trainers for colleges or organizations. (If my kids can do it! So can you!) Questions? You can email me at MSTOMAS@aol.com. Take care

I love this book. It takes you step by step through the process of putting together a power point presentation that gets results. Great guide for content, design and technical assistance with clear examples and diagrams. I highly recommend this pragmatic, well written book to anyone who wants to put together a presentation that will knock their socks off!

What started as information sharing among scholars has gotten so big that now there is a need for A GUIDE TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB. Business might be the biggest presence, and multiyear studies could show how well corporate web pages do over time. Information browsing and research also account for web surfing, and libraries are pioneering electronic publishing and site evaluations. In fact, the Library of Congress shook the 20th century up in the beginning years by championing the card catalogue and in the ending years by digitizing for the public, with online exhibits such as the Dead Sea scrolls and the NASA launch footage, lunar pictures, and technical reports. While who will clearinghouse Internet sites and users is being worked out, Lory Hawkes suggests keeping a personal discovery journal listing site names and URLs and using your own rating system. The author also says to go with your instincts about sites: look for recent and relevant bibliography; bookmarks pointing to other sites; respectfully treated events, people, and places; easily self-directed exploration; and comprehensive and timely information. Her book leaves readers current on everything from academic experiments such as Georgia Tech's graphics, visualization, and usability center; commercial experiments such as the Microsoft and Netscape pacesetter sites, and the Utopia virtual reality site; APA and MLA electronic documentation; search engines; web pages; and web TV dreamscape possibilities. She gets readers ready for the next web level: Alfred Glossbrenner's SEARCH ENGINES FOR THE WORLD WIDE WEB; Randolph Hock's THE EXTREME SEARCHER'S GUIDE TO WEB SEARCH ENGINES; Lincoln Stein's HOW TO SET UP AND MAINTAIN A WEB SITE; Rick Stout's THE WORLD WIDE WEB COMPLETE REFERENCE; and Robert S Want's HOW TO SEARCH THE WEB and THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ONLINE.

Although Excel 2000 is currently out, I still find this book a valuable asset in helping me decipher Excel. The author is funny and gives great tips. He doesn't dumb it up, though. The book is well organized and I found the examples helpful and represenative of trying to solve problems in the real world. If you are trying to learn Excel for the first time, this is your book.

If you're new to a computer, you're studying something related to computers, you're having trouble with your computer or you just wanna learn something more about it, you don't want to miss this book. It's a gotta have in your library!

I found the book to be very informative and a definite buy for those wanting protect their servers. The need to have a source to assist in securing our busness' servers is tremendous in this era of hacking. This is a must buy.

I'm a third of the way through the book and am extremely satisfied with the way it was put together. The author carefully steps one through the process of creating a presentation without boring you if you're familiar with other MS Office software.

I, unfortunately, purchased the "Hands On Excel 2000" assuming that the material would be presented in the same way. Well, we know what "assume" means, don't we. Don't bother purchasing the Excel book.

I ordered this book expecting a lot of computer jargon that I would not understand. I am new to programming and this book really helped me learn a few things about VB5 and web development. The instructions were very informative and really explained how everything works. There were lessons to follow that made everything easier for me. The CD that comes with the book was very helpful and made the location of the code in the book easily accessible for reference. I would recommend this book to anyone learning VB5 and web development.

This strategy guide tells you almost everything. How to beat different enemies, where the items of interest are, etc. It makes it so easy and fun to play. I'm very hapy.

Disclaimer: I was the technical editor of the book

"There's more than one way to skin a cat", as the old saying goes.

Everything, and more, that can be done using the graphical, mouse-driven, interfaces provided by Windows, can be accomplished by using the command-line. What's more, these tasks can get scripted and be automated!

This book covers the basics of the command-line and how to go about writing batch files (or scripts).

After these fundamentals are covered, commands in various areas of system, domain and network administration are discussed. From configuring and using the task-scheduler, to performance, to managing disks, to AD administration, to network trouble-shooting, one is ready to tackle any administrative task from the command line.

The book also contains a very handy Appendix for those MS-DOS old-timers amongst us. The Appendix covers the MS-DOS commands no longer supported in Windows XP and those not supported in Windows 2003.

A final note is that this book was written with Windows XP and Windows 2003 in mind.