Microsoft® Office System Inside Out -- 2003 Edition (Bpg-Inside Out) - Softcover

No one's going to read a book like this cover-to-cover, and few readers will tackle a chapter end-to-end either. That's why the index in this book is central to its usefulness. It's a carefully thought-out index, with headings that distinguish among topics as they apply to different Office programs (in other words, references to coverage of Excel columns are obviously distinct from those to Word columns and Access columns in the index). There's also a separate and reasonably handy troubleshooting index, in which you can quickly scan for problems like "Protection for worksheet or workbook unavailable" and get a page reference for a possible solution.

When you locate the page you want, coverage is clear and concise. The authors assume you're familiar with basic Microsoft Windows conventions, but take care to use stepped procedures wherever possible and provide many labeled screen shots as landmarks for your progress through the procedures. --David Wall

Topics covered: This is a carefully designed and exhaustively researched guide to every user-level function of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, FrontPage, and InfoPath. There's not a lot of coverage of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)--Office's automation language--but there's enough of that to get you oriented.

Michael Young is an author of books on using and programming computers (including several editions of Running Microsoft Office) a contributor to several computer magazines, and a freelance programmer. He has written 15 computer books, including AFC Developers Workshop for Microsoft Press, and he has used and written about Microsoft Office applications for almost a decade.

Michael Halvorson is the author or co-author of twenty computer books, including Microsoft Office XP Inside Out, Visual Basic 6 Professional Step By Step, Learn Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Now, Running Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition, and Microsoft Word 97/Visual Basic Step by Step. Michael earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington, and master’s and doctoral degrees in History from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. He was employed at Microsoft Corporation as a technical editor, acquisitions editor, and localization manager from 1985 to 1993. Michael currently spends his time developing innovative software solutions for Microsoft Office and Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, and teaching European history courses at colleges in the Pacific Northwest.