How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 (How to Do Everything) Review

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How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 (How to Do Everything) ReviewI understand that "how to do everything" is a marketing conceit. Explaining everything there is to know about all the Office programs -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook, and FrontPage -- in a book of 500 pages is impossible. Entire books, some of them a thousand pages long, have been written about Word, Excel, and the other Office programs. How can "How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003" cram everything there is to know about these programs in only 500 pages?
The answer is it can't. In fairness to the author, she writes clearly and is good at explaining the basics. This book's 500 pages (110 on Word, 74 on Excel, 50 on PowerPoint, 42 on Access, 38 on Outlook, and 40 on FrontPage) are a good starting point for learning those programs.
What you won't get out of this book are the tips, shortcuts, and workarounds that make using the programs easier. For example, the book devotes only five pages to Word styles, and being a Word afficianado, I happen to know that using styles is the key to mastering Word. The author devotes only two pages to designing a database, which pretty much renders the rest of the material on Access meaningless, since Access databases are useless if they aren't designed properly from the get-go. I feel sorry for anyone who attempts to lay out Web pages in FrontPage using instructions from this book. Only one of the layout tools, the hardest to use, is described.
My biggest complaint about this book has to do with Outlook. Outlook 2003 is radically different from its predecessor. The program (as I learned from another book) offers numerous ways to sort mail as it arrives. This is a godsend for people like me get reams of e-mail daily. But in this book, you won't find a detailed discussion of handling e-mail automatically in Outlook.
At 500 pages, "How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003" is a good introduction to the Office programs. It just doesn't dig down very far.How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office 2003 (How to Do Everything) Overview

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