Product Description

What you need to know and how to do it

When you are working on your PC and come up against a problem that you are unsure how to solve or want to accomplish something in application that you aren't sure how to do, where do you look ?? Manuals and traditional training guides are too unwieldy and make it hard to get to the info you need right away, and help-lines are rarely that helpful ! Brilliant guides allow you to find the info you need easily and without fuss and guide you through the task using a highly visual, step-by-step approach - providing exactly what you need to know when you need it !!

Spend less time reading and more time doing with a simple step-by-step approach to beginner and intermediate level office tasks.

Brilliant guides provide with the quick, easy-to-access information that you need, using ….

· Detailed index and troubleshooting guide to help you find exactly what you need to know

· Each task is presented on one or two pages

· Numbered steps guide you through each task or problem

· Numerous screenshots illustrate each step

· “See Also …” boxes point you to related tasks and information in the book

· “Did you know ?...” sections alert you to relevant expert tips, tricks and advice

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12868 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-24
• Binding: Paperback
• 592 pages

Synopsis
What you need to know and how to do it When you are working on your PC and come up against a problem that you are unsure how to solve or want to accomplish something in application that you aren't sure how to do, where do you look ?? Manuals and traditional training guides are too unwieldy and make it hard to get to the info you need right away, and help-lines are rarely that helpful ! Brilliant guides allow you to find the info you need easily and without fuss and guide you through the task using a highly visual, step-by-step approach providing exactly what you need to know when you need it !! Spend less time reading and more time doing with a simple step-by-step approach to beginner and intermediate level office tasks. Brilliant guides provide with the quick, easy-to-access information that you need, using . * Detailed index and troubleshooting guide to help you find exactly what you need to know * Each task is presented on one or two pages * Numbered steps guide you through each task or problem * Numerous screenshots illustrate each step * See Also boxes point you to related tasks and information in the book * Did you know ?...sections alert you to relevant expert tips, tricks and advice

Customer Reviews

Save Much Frustration Buy It
This is a tremendously helpful, easy to use text for Vista users. If moving from Windows XP to Vista, do buy it. The book will save you much frustration. I can't count the number of times I said, "Aha! So that's how it's done," when using this book. Coming to Vista after being so familiar with XP could have been a much slower learning curve. Much thanks Steve Johnson and Amazon.

Great way to get started with Vista
If, like most of us, you are new to Vista, you will need to know how to make the many new features work. This book explains what is new for PC users -- but not for technicians -- and also covers features that carry over from Windows XP. The target audience seems to be competent users in homes and small businesses. You can decide what you want to learn, then go to a double-page spread and see and read what to do very quickly. All the explanations are brief and very clear, accompanied by small screenshots, and delightfully free of gushing about the rich, wonderful "experience" we are all going to have with an operating system. Sometimes you will find that a feature is described that is disabled in your version of Vista. For example, in the two "Home" versions, you cannot back up the whole system. The organisation of the book means that you can read the sections or individual topics in any order. Over my first couple of weeks of using Vista I dipped into the book several times a day on a need-to-know basis, and learned most of what a user needs. There is no underlying technical detail, so this book is not for support technicians or software developers. Not much troubleshooting either. The whole emphasis is on what to do when your PC is running normally, and you are working in a standard way with the visible parts of Vista. I guess that you would use the book intensively for a few weeks, then it can sit on your shelf for quick reference when you try something new.