Written in an entertaining style, this book combines the right amount of information with interesting asides, helpful tips and cautions, practical projects, amusing illustrations, and cross-references that let the reader use the book as either a tutorial or a reference.

The Complete Idiot's Pocket Guide to Word for Windows distills the most essential information from the original Idiot's Guide and presents it in a handy lightweight guide. Organized by task, the book provides a fast and easy refresher on how to start the program, create and edit a document, add a few fancy touches, save it, print it, and get on with your life.

Covers installation, Word 97 basics, editing and text formatting, graphics, multimedia features, tables, templates, desktop publishing, and creating a Web page

With over three million users, Microsoft Office is by far the most popular suite product available. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Microsoft Office gives true beginning computer users all the basic information they need, in addition to taking them into more intermediate-level uses. The book's friendly format and lighthearted style take the fear out of learning Microsoft Office.

Guide to using the word processing program Microsoft Word 97, with information on installing and formatting options, basic editing and text formating, proofing tools, saving, printing, adding multimedia features, creating tables and graphics, using templates, and getting around the Internet.

For the technically timid novice user of Microsoft Word for Windows, this guide covers the truly essential tasks needed to use Word for Windows, in short info-bites that provide a brief (but oh-so-approachable) description of the task, a screen shot, and quick steps that are easily referenced.