Congratulations! Instead of blowing several hundred bucks on the biggest and most muscle-bound word processor, database program, spreadsheet program, graphics, and communications software you can find, you're using Microsoft Works 2000 - a program that can do probably everything you need for a lot less trouble and money.
Now it's time to stretch out your fingers and get ready to put this software to work. This step-by-step guide is for those people who
Want to learn about their software without being bored silly
Feel as though there should be a manual to explain the software manual
Actually want to get some work done. Soon. Like today.
Don't want to wade through a lot of technical gibberish/
Don't think the way computer software engineers seem to think.
This book describes how to use all the programs of Microsoft Works 2000, separately and together, plus some introductory things on Windows, disks, and other basics. In this book, you'll explore the following topics and more:
Window basics (opening, closing, and painting them shut)
Word processing (like food processing, only messier)
Spreadsheets (for soft, comfortable naps on your spreadbed)
Databases (for storing all your baseless data)
Graphics (for charting uncharted waters and general doodling)
Calendarification, Calendarizing? (Using a calendar program)
Web browsing (for schmoozing the Internet's World Wide Web)
Newsgroups (for ranting about your pet peeves)
E-mail (for sending and receiving messages and files)
"Mail merge" of letters, envelopes, and labels (for doing your very own junk mail)
Unlike software manuals, this book doesn't have to deliver a positive message about the software, so it doesn't breathlessly try to show you everything you could possibly do. Nor does it describe, as a manual does, every button and command. Instead, it focuses on the everyday things you have to do, gives you some background, points you toward shortcuts, and steers you around some of the stuff you probably don't need.
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My particular problem was not addressed in the book. But the author promptly responded to my e-mail question. The result was that my problem was solved. I then asked another problem not related to the subject of this particular book and he again swiftly answered with a solution that solved my problem.
Works 2000 for Dummies:
Whether you are new to Microsoft Works or new to computing in general Microsoft Works 2000 for Dummies will get you started in a real way. As with all the "Dummies" series of books, is an excellent book for a beginner. Jargon, the bane of most computer books, is explained in plain English. This is not a book to sit down and read through like a novel but one to sit at the computer and try things out. The step by step instructions really help in making the computer do what you want it to. The only problem I... more info
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