Product Description

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 !!

Brilliant Office 2007 will show you how to ….

·         Organize information in Office and add impact with Clip Art, SmartArt diagrams, tables and charts using the new results-oriented interface

·         Create great-looking documents faster in Word using themes, styles and templates

·         Use organizing, processing, and presenting tools to create data in Excel

·         Create powerful presentations faster in Powerpoint using ready-made design templates and themes

·         Use tools for creating and managing your email, calendar, contacts and tasks in Outlook

·         Use task panes to quickly create a brochure or a newsletter without being a designer using Publisher

·         Use Groove and SharePoint Team Services to collaborate and share documents and information

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77749 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 752 pages

From the Back Cover

Brilliant Office 2007

What you need to know and how to do it

When you're working on your PC and come up against a problem that you're 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 helplines 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….

·         Now in accessible full colour design throughout

·         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 realted tasks and information in the book

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

Brilliant Office 2007 will show you how to ….

·         Organize information in Office and add impact with Clip Art, SmartArt diagrams, tables and charts using the new results-oriented interface

·         Create great-looking documents faster in Word using themes, styles and templates

·         Use organizing, processing, and presenting tools to create data in Excel

·         Create powerful presentations faster in Powerpoint using ready-made design templates and themes

·         Use tools for creating and managing your email, calendar, contacts and tasks in Outlook

·         Use task panes to quickly create a brochure or a newsletter without being a designer using Publisher

·         Use Groove and SharePoint Team Services to collaborate and share documents and information

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Steve Johnson has written more than 35 books on a variety of computer software and is a founder of Perspection, Inc. which is committed to providing information and training to help people use software more effectively. Since 1991, they have written more than 80 computer books, and sold more than 5 million copies.

About the Author

Steve Johnson has written more than 35 books on a variety of computer software and is a founder of Perspection, Inc. which is committed to providing information and training to help people use software more effectively. Since 1991, they have written more than 80 computer books, and sold more than 5 million copies.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant by name, not by nature...
The author is proof of the fact that just because someone has done something, even loads of times, this doesn't mean they are necessarily that good at it.

The book isn't clear if it is aimed at entry-level users or above, but either way it is not a well written book. There is marked tendency from the start for the text and illustrated examples to be disorganisation, especially in how they inter-link and relate to each other. There is not always a clear link between a written point or example and the graphic.

The author also appears to have a very bad - and lazy - tendency to do something in one program (mostly Excel) and then presume that this applies to every other Office program, which is not the case. This is very confusing when you try to follow examples only to find that he is talking generally for tasks that are specific to one program. You need constantly to check the pictures in the hope it is one that makes it obvious which Office program he is using in order to be able to follow the book.

If you are new to computers, especially if you are new to Microsoft Office, or you just want a user-friendly, "start from the basics" book and don't want to or don't have the previous knowledge to do a lot of work yourself - this is not the book for you.

I have used Microsoft products for a good number of years, both at work and at home, and I have found the writer's style confusing and, eventually, totally exasperating. In retrospect I'd have paid double the price and bought Microsoft's own Office manual.

Quick and comprehensive overview. Gets you started!
If you're like me, and you've just upgraded to office 2007 then you are probably sat looking at it wondering where everything has gone. Office 2007 really is radically different from all previous versions. The task for most of us is not learning how to use office as such, its learning where they have put everything now.

This is where this book comes in, it gives a good overview of all the main components and shows you where everything is now. It's not an in depth guide to the use of formulas and database queerys.Think of it as an ordnance survey map for all those menus.

The book is visual and colourful; being easy to read and find the section that you want. If you've just upgraded, this book will help you find your way. It's not too expensive either.

Detailed, comprehensive, yet concise
As a Microsoft Office trainer of some 12 years' experience I found this resource invaluable. The contents pages clearly indicate the new features in Office 2007 with an appropriate symbol, as do the book's pages themselves- great if you are upgrading and quickly want to get to grips with the new features.

The layout is logical and well thought through and clearly maps the contents against the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist qualification. I was so impressed by the thoroughness of the way this book was put together and would heartedly recommend it to the more experienced user. Will definitely look to purchase more in this series.