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Problem Solved!
Uses your favorite top-drawer tool—the Post-it® Note. Great for individuals, great for groups—large or small.
Problems come in all shapes and sizes, yet most have common characteristics that can be addressed with the techniques found in this book. Rapid Problem-Solving with Post-it® Notes shows you how to use six types of techniques:
The Post-up—Provides methods for getting information into chunks
The Swap Sort—Shows listing and organization methods
The Top-down Tree—Works when the nature of the problem is unknown
The Information Map—Maps messy problems and complex relationships
The Action Map—Plans actions or maps an existing process
More than 70 diagrams and examples for solving everyday problems.
This refreshing book reminds us the simplest ideas are often the most effective.
Solve problems, create solutions and find answers fast—all with the help of Post-it® Notes. Tens of millions of Post-it® Notes users can now learn how to do far more with these great little tools. Post-it® Notes can be used to help solve difficult problems because they:
Are the right size to hold one piece of information from a problem Are easily to attached to flat surfaces and stay put Can be moved and reattached many times
Customer Reviews:
Incredible planning / problem solving tool.......2007-06-07
Really great reference book for identifying and solving problems, planning and information mapping. Takes several management systems and combines them in a practical, time-effective method for working individually or in teams.
Simple, but not simplistic.......2007-05-06
This book offers problem solving techniques that may be used well in the suggested sequence, and may be used independently, as well. And, of course, each technique employs Post-It Notes.
At first glance, it may seem that Straker's techniques are almost too simple -- simplistic. They are not. In fact, they reflect a deep understanding of the problem solving, and how to profitably involve groups in that process.
The book is short, well-organized, and clear. Reading it cover to cover won't take long and is time well spent. However, you can cherry pick his chapters and still benefit.
My partner and I recently introduced Straker's method (and book) to a client -- a Washington think tank. They were immediately able to reach faster, better solutions that included a broader range of input. They have become, in their words, "sticky note zealots." Well, me too.
Highly recommended.
Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes (Purchased on 11/12/2006.......2007-01-11
I have not recieved the book. I vant you to find out why te delivery is so slow.
Very good tool.......2006-11-07
This is an easy tool to follow the rules for problem solving. It has helped to reduce the time of response in hard difficult working situations. To maintain the level of usage, the students read it for present information in class in other ways, in more understandble way.
Constantly recommending this book to others.......2006-11-03
I'm the author of "Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative Thinking Techniques," and other books on creative thinking. As such, I read pretty much everything that's published that can be useful in facilitating creative thinking workshops and seminars. I find the ideas in this book fun,useful and extremely effective. I'm constantly recomending it to people looking for ways to become more creative in their personal and business lives.
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- The definition of classic
- Perfect starting place for Bukowski beginners
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"It began as a mistake." By middle age, Henry Chinaski has lost more than twelve years of his life to the U.S. Postal Service. In a world where his three true, bitter pleasures are women, booze, and racetrack betting, he somehow drags his hangover out of bed every dawn to lug waterlogged mailbags up mud-soaked mountains, outsmart vicious guard dogs, and pray to survive the day-to-day trials of sadistic bosses and certifiable coworkers. This classic 1971 novel—the one that catapulted its author to national fame—is the perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of legendary writer, poet, and Dirty Old Man Charles Bukowski and his fictional alter ego, Chinaski.
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The definition of classic.......2007-09-28
My introduction to the works of Charles Bukowski, Post Office is a scathingly funny tale with some depressing undertones that helped catapault Bukowski to fame. Henry Chinaski lives a redundant life of women, booze, the race track, more booze, and working as a mail carrier. Anything the least bit good that comes his way is eventually extinguished, whether it be a certain woman or a run of luck with the horses, and it's all illustrated here with dripping sarcasm and sly wit. There's really not much else to the story, and there is no need for there to be either, as Post Office offers a truly unique look into the uncompromising mind of one of the true great writers of the past thirty plus years. If you've never read any of Bukowski's novels or poetry, Post Office is a more than perfect place to start.
Perfect starting place for Bukowski beginners.......2007-09-14
If you hate your job and are looking to laugh over a beer and a book, this has your name on it.
Buk hit his stride here and stayed in form for almost two decades. Pot Office is a great primer for the would-be Bukowski fan, though some of his poetry is a more immediate and visceral hit.
If you have no problems with the mailman-meets-nutty lady scene, you will laugh happily through much of his work. If not, please move on to someone more PC.
An easy read, written with concision and lots of humor. Not great literature, but very entertaining and perceptive. Not everything has to be War and Peace to merit five stars.
Hilarious but Sad.......2007-08-30
Remember the smart but passive guy in your high school math class who did no work, attracted a certain kind of girl, always had a little money for beer, skipped school when it suited him, and didn't treat teachers as authority figures? Well, imagine that same guy 30 years later, working in the post office sticking mail. That's Hank Chinaski, the wily but nonchalant protagonist of the hilarious POST OFFICE, who is depressed by (but dependent on) a job in which "...all you moved was your right arm."
POST OFFICE is a funny novel with frequent laugh-out-loud moments. But the book also has a sad undertone, with Hank floating through life and letting good things slip away, such as women who make him happy or time with his baby daughter. But boozing Hank hardly notices through the haze of his hangover and the exhausting drudgery of work. He's too stupefied to do much more than tweak the postal tyrants and subtly defy the bureaucratic insanity, as he pushes the empty fifths under the bed.
In the final section of this book, Chinaski describes waking up from another binge. "In the morning, it was the morning and I was still alive." Believe it or not; but this sort of sums up Hank Chinaski in this terrific and funny book.
Classic.......2007-08-25
Please read this book. If more people read things like this, the world would be a better place.
brilliant.......2007-08-07
This book is the reason that i read a new book every week. It is brilliant and funny and depressing and I never knew that writing like this existed until I learned of Charles Bukowski.
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- My Favorite Cozy Mystery Series!
- The Cats, The Mailbox, and the Missing Maid
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"Inheriting unexpected millions has left reporter Jim Qwilleran looking like the cat who swallowed the canary. While his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, adjust to being fat cats in an enormous mansion, Qwilleran samples the lifestyles of the rich and famous by hiring a staff of eccentric servants. A missing housemaid and a shocking murder show Qwilleran the unsavory side of the upper crust. But soon it's Koko's purr-fect propensity for clues amid the caviar and champagne that gives Qwilleran pause to evaluate the most unlikely suspects...before his taste for the good life turns into his last meal. "
Customer Reviews:
My Favorite Cozy Mystery Series!.......2006-08-10
In the 6th book in The Cat Who...series, James Qwilleran aka "Qwill", is just settling in to his new life as a millionaire in Pickaxe City (400 miles north of everywhere). He has moved his two beautiful Siamese cats (KoKo and Yum Yum) into the old Klingenschoen mansion and is settling in for a five year stay to fulfill the requirements of Aunt Fanny's will.
As the book begins, Qwill is lying in a hospital bed, suffering from amnesia caused by a bicycle accident. His old friend, Arch Riker, flies into town to assist Qwill in regaining his memory, and succeeds in bringing Qwill out of his fog. While beginning to heal, Qwill starts to have vivid dreams of the moments leading up to the mishap, and eventually remembers that it was no accident...a truck had purposefully run him off the road! While trying to piece together who may have meant to harm him, Qwill begins some renovations to his new home. During his explorations of the mansion, Qwill stumbles across the room of a former employee, Daisy. Her room was completely painted with a graffiti style mural of daisies, and it arouses Qwill's keen curiosity. He begins to ask questions about the former employee of Fanny, and finds that Daisy disappeared rather abruptly. And when everyone that Qwilleran speaks to about her begins to have "accidents", he becomes suspicious that someone will kill to keep Daisy hidden forever.
This is my favorite cozy mystery series! I had read all of the books in the past, and wanted to read them again for a second time. This time around, I have chosen to listen to them on CD, as I love the voice of George Guidall. I am happily rediscovering how Qwill became a resident of Moose County, and how many of the series regulars join him from "down below". In this installment, Qwill hires Iris Cobb as his house manager. She cooks for him (and the cats), and is in charge of cataloging all of the antiques in the old mansion. For those that have not read the series, I do recommend reading the first several first. Many others can be intermixed, but this book offers good insight as to how Qwill became associated with Moose County. This is a great series by my favorite author!
The first book in the series is called "The Cat who Could Read Backwards". Enjoy!
The Cats, The Mailbox, and the Missing Maid.......2005-10-12
This is number six in Lilian Braun's long running 'The Cat Who' series and marks the beginning of Jim Qwilleran's transplantation to the far northern town of Pickaxe. Qwilleran has managed to become the heir of the community's wealthiest resident and must stay in Pickaxe for five years in order to inherit. As we all know now, he lasted a lot more than five years, and may still be north of everywhere enjoying the foibles and gossip that play such an important part of the world's coziest cozies.
Qwill has just moved into the Klingenshoen mansion with his two Siamese cats - Yum Yum the delectable and arch-detective Koko. Koko, through various manipulations of his owner's behavior, manages to arouse Qwill's curiosity about the disappearance of a housemaid a few years previously. In the process of investigating, the newspaperman introduces us to many of Pickaxes residents for the very first time. When he isn't being his by trucks, that is. It is interesting in retrospect to meet these characters again, who often started out one way and then became something else as Braun added layer after layer to her confection of characters and mysteries (and cats).
I can only read so many of these in rapid succession before I have to stop. Lilian Braun has a tendency to let her characters run in a groove with very little development over a number of volumes. She makes up for this by using Qwilleran to create witty dialogue, but there are only so many Pickaxe witticisms that one can read before feeling a desire for something with a bit more meat to it. This volume is a change of pace (if you've been reading in sequence). There's a bit less sarcasm and a bit more story and that makes this one of the best of her early books.
Don't look for a complicated mystery here. Braun's villains tend to be obvious, and more often than not the means are just as visible. You read these tales for lightweight enjoyment and the zany characters that chitchat their way through the pages. And, of course, you read them because you can't resist Qwill's owners, the Siamese masterminds.
Pretty Good Listening.......2005-10-08
At first when I started to hear the tapes, I was thinking that the narrator's voice was not dynamic enough. But by the middle of the first tape, I was ok with it. I've just gotten so tired of listening to Los Angeles radio stations in the car (we sit in traffic a lot out here) that I thought it would be nice to be entertained by something I really love. I was glad I did. Even if you've read the books in the past, it's fun to let the narrator do the reading for you. AND... something I thought was neat and that made me laugh was... when the narrator would be talking about Koko and Yumyum and a noise they were making, he would sound EXACTLY like my own Siamese cat. So it made it funny, because I knew exactly the "language" he was referring to. (He must have studied Siamese cats before attempting this narration!)
Anyway, I will probably buy more "Cat Who" books on tape. I don't anticipate L.A. traffic to be letting up anytime soon. And for some strange reason, listening to it in the car makes me feel like my own cat is in there with me. I say if you live in a city with heavy traffic... buy the tapes!
The Cat Who Played Post Office........2005-09-30
These are great stories Lillian Jackson Braun does a wonderful job of writing. I hope to one day have all the Audio Tapes in the series. Amazon.com is a great company to do bussiness with.
Koko Plays Beethoven.......2005-04-25
Lillian Jackson Braun opens this, her sixth cat mystery with Jim Qwilleran waking up in a hospital bed and not knowing who or where he is. It seems that he had been run off of the road by a truck as he bicycled on Ittibittiwassee Road. As he tries to regain his memory the reader is led along with him while he thinks back on events leading up to his accident. Most of these events involve the perplexing disappearance of one Daisy Mull who had been employed by Qwilleran's "Aunt Fanny." Once he is home from the hospital things begin to happen at a more rapid pace and a mystery that no one in Moose County had thought about all that much ends up bringing down some of Pickax City's leading citizens and leads to more deaths. Had Qwilleran paid attention to Koko's clues a little earlier some of this mayhem might have been avoided but the Siamese wonder can't seem to make his human friend understand. Koko finally gets so disgusted with Qwilleran that he refuses to have anything to do with him.
Braun also uses this book to set up Qwilleran's new life in Moose County. Arch Riker comes up from Down Below for a visit and hints that he might just like to make the move to Pickax City himself and Mrs. Iris Cobb does make the move and becomes Qwilleran's housekeeper, cook and the curator of his newly acquired house full of antiques. Ever the ladies man, our hero has hooked up with the lovely green-eyed Dr. Melinda Goodwinter and the relationship has blossomed since it began in the last book. He even begins to hint at a marriage. He also makes the acquaintance of Amanda Goodwinter who seems to be a perfect match for the newly divorced Arch Riker.
There are a few more twists and turns in this story than in some of the previous books but once again the mystery is not the main attraction of the book. Braun's talent for creating memorable characters and settings is very much in evidence in this book and she appears to have even created a man for Iris Cobb. Just Like Iris' first husband, nobody can stand this guy either. As usual, the cats steal the show as they march together in a dinner line and wait impatiently for the mail to come through the slot so that they can dive in the pile. And once again the cats save Qwilleran's life. This time it is Koko that comes to the rescue at the end of this highly enjoyable and entertaining book.
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For the past three decades, the Shelly Cashman Series® has effectively introduced computers to millions of students, consistently providing the highest quality, most up-to-date, and innovative materials in computer education. We are proud of the fact that our series of Microsoft Office 4.3, Microsoft Office 95, Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft Office 2000, and Microsoft Office XP textbooks have been the most widely used books in computer education. With each new edition of our Office books, we have made significant improvements based on software changes and comments made by both instructors and students. Our Microsoft Office 2003 books continue with the innovation, quality, and reliability that you have come to expect from the Shelly Cashman Series.
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The all new 4th edition of
Post Office Jobs, includes a new
473 and 473-C Postal Exam study guide and provides all the information needed to locate job vacancies, prepare for exams, and explore all jobs including those that don't require entrance tests. This updated edition covers all occupations from janitors, general maintenance and technicians to truck drivers, mail carriers, clerks, administrative, and clerical positions.
Having worked for 35½ years for Uncle Sam, the author provides an insider's perspective on what it takes to go from job hunter to hired, and everything in between.
The Postal Service started screening applicants with the new
473 Major Entry-Level Jobs Exam in December of 2004. This new exam screens applicants on job-related characteristics and it permits them to compete for job vacancies. Included in this new edition is a comprehensive study guide along with helpful test-taking strategies to improve test scores.
Those considering a job with the Postal Service will find Damp's book filled with useful and up-to-date information. This is the only Postal Service career guide that includes related civil service job options, provides online updates, prepares the reader for interviews, and covers ALL occupations from professional and administrative to mail carrier, maintenance, and clerical.
Post Office Jobs helps job seekers:
1) Identify ALL vacancies.
2) Match your skills to postal jobs.
3) Locate postal exam test dates.
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5) Complete job applications.
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7) Apply for jobs that don't require exams.
8) Explore viable civil service job options.
The revised 4th edition of Post Office Jobs includes a new and comprehensive
473 study guide, contact information, current addresses and phone numbers for the 80 hiring Postal Districts, on-line Internet connections and addresses, new pay scales, web sites that offer employment guidance and toll-free postal service employment hotlines. This expanded edition also includes chapters on Postal Inspector jobs and Civil Service related occupations plus an Appendix on how to find lucrative corporate jobs with the Postal Service that don't require entrance exams.
In today's uncertain times, seek out secure and high paying Post Office jobs and related Civil Service opportunities with this indispensable book.
Customer Reviews:
Techniques for studying.......2005-10-11
My daughter and I recently took the postal exam for carrier/clerk/sales. After using some of the techniques, we both found the test to be a lot easier then we both expected. We both put this book to good use. I would recommend this book for anyone who is taking the exam. Whether the exam is for City Carrier or Rural Route, Clerk or any other position, this book will give you what you need and is an excellent source of information.
An eight step process to securing a post office position.......2005-08-06
Now in a completely revised and updated fourth edition, Post Office Jobs by federal employment expert Dennis Damp, continues to be the definitive resource and instruction guide workbook for anyone seeking employment in the U.S. Postal Service. Post Office Jobs offers the prospective applicant an eight step process to securing a post office position. These steps include identifying all job vacancies; matching personal skills to postal jobs; locating postal exam test dates; specifically studying for the new 473 Postal Exam; accurately completing job application forms; preparing and practicing for job interviews; applying for jobs that don't require exams; and exploring viable civil service job options. Post Office Jobs is enhanced a wealth of accessible contact information including current addresses and phone numbers for the eighty hiring Postal Districts, on-line Internet connections and website addresses, the new pay scales, web sites that offer employment guidance, and even toll-free postal service employment hotlines. New to this expanded edition of Post Office Jobs is the inclusion of informed and informative chapter son Postal Inspector jobs. Thoroughly "user friendly" and ideal for the non-specialist general reader seeking either seasonal, temporary, or permanent employment within the U.S. Postal Service, Post Office Jobs is a "must" -- and should also be a part of any city, town, and village public library employment resource shelf, as well as every community highschool and technical college library Jobs/Careers reference collection.
Customer Reviews:
Not Just for Cat Lovers!.......1998-03-19
An expert story-teller, Lilian Jackson Braun pulls the reader into her Cat Who stories with the finese of Jim Qwilleran's two feline companions Koko and Yum Yum. Each story weaves mystery with deftly portrayed characters and cleverly detailed plots. No cardboard characters or loose ends in these books. Qwilleran is a reporter with a luxuriant mustache that frequently signals him when something peculiar is about to impact those around him. Murder, mystery, lies -- Qwilleran's sidekick Koko is there to help him solve all the riddles. (Yum Yum helps, too, but she often prefers to watch the two males bend their minds to the puzzles while she stalks bright shiny objects or flirts with Qwilleran's guests.) Any Cat Who book is a delight. And, best yet, it's not necessary to read them in order.
KoKo and Yum Yum are the cats meow!.......1998-03-19
Lilian Jackson Braun's mystery series of "The Cat Who..." books are definately the cats meow, and a must read of any cat and mystery lover! This is a compilation of three of the early books from "The Cat Who" series. They are fast reads, the type of books that one can not put down! One thing I like about this series is that they focus on the same group of characters, which lends continuatity from one book to the next.
In "The Cat Who Saw Red" reporter Jim Qwilleran is given an assignment to work on a food column. While working on this assignment, Jim and his two Siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum are surrounded by strange incidents, among them disappearance and murder! KoKo and Yum Yum goes about helping Jim solve the murders.
In "The Cat Who Plays Brahms", Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese decides to get away from the big city and go to a lake house, belonging to a family friend. This is the book which explains how Jim inherits his fortune.
"The Cat Who Played Post Office" is the first book that actually details the City of Pickax and the various communities in Moose County. Jim is living in the K mansion and soon a murder takes place. KoKo goes right into action, and proceeds to *assist* Jim into solving the murder. I liked it that the continuation of this book was that the characters of Arch and Hixie have followed Qwill to live in Moose County.
By the continuation of characters from one book to the next, I have really found myself looking forward to each new book in this series. I highly recommend this book series!
You'll love Moose County; 400 miles north of everywhere!.......1998-03-17
Don't make the mistake I did by reading The Cat Who Saw Red first. I love these books but although The Cat Who Saw Red got the most press and is listed first inside the cover pages of all the books from the series it gives away too much from the earlier works. Of course, if you aren't like me and enjoy a good series from the beginning they can be picked up at any point and are thoroughly enjoyable each and every one. You'll love sensible Jim Qwilleran who treats his siamese cats, Koko and Yum Yum, like pampered guests. And why not? They are instrumental in solving mysteries and deciding who can be trusted and who cannot.
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The exquisite menu at The Old Post Office Restaurant on Edisto Island, SC, has garnered this one-of-a-kind establishment legions of fans from around the country. It has been written up in the New York Times, Travel and Leisure, USA Today, Wine Spectator and Gourmet.
This exciting new cookbook is part of the Roadfood Cookbook Series by Jane and Michael Stern, two of the most popular and successful food writers in America. Like a visit to this historic Southern island (less than an hour from Charleston), Lowcountry Cooking from The Old Post Office Restaurant contains more than 150 favorite recipes for Southern dishes with a classical twist, such as Fussed-Over Pork Chop, P.B.'s Ultimate Filet Mignon, Coca Cola Cake, and Key Lime Mousse. It includes an 8-page color insert.
Chef Philip Bardin says, "Breads and desserts are prepared daily and all of the produce and seafood are local and the freshest available in the area. Our stone-ground grits - milled to our specifications - have been a specialty since 1988."
Previous Roadfood cookbooks include: Blue Willow Inn Cookbook (1-55853-991-3), El Charo Cookbook (1-55853-992-1), Durgin-Park Cookbook (1-4016-0028-X), Harry Carey's Cookbook (1-4016-0095-6), Louie's Backyard Cookbook (1-4016-0038-7), Carbone's Cookbook (1-4016-0122-7), and The Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant Cookbook (1-4016-0138-3).
Customer Reviews:
FIVE STAR DINING IN YOUR OWN HOME.......2004-06-16
Having dined at The Old Post Office Restaurant on many occassions, I was thrilled to discover that Chef Philip Bardin has put some of his culinary creations to pen and paper for all of us to try at home. I'm blessed to live in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, near The Old Post Office Restaurant, and therefore I have access to some of the same sources of fresh produce, fresh seafood, and quality meats and poultry that the restaurant does. Chef Bardin emphasizes that you have to start with quality ingredients like they use in the restaurant to achieve the best results. With my already having access to quality ingredients, this book provides the final piece of the puzzle and allows me, and my friends, to create some of the same dishes we crave at The Old Post Office Restaurant. This book also provides a wonderful glimpse of our local culture on and around Edisto Island, South Carolina. Living near Edisto Island, I can say that the book gets it right when talking about the local culture, and if you're not from this area the book does an excellent job of introducing you to our wonderful, unique, paradise. If you don't think you'd enjoy the taste of "The Lowcountry" then you haven't tried our food or you haven't been able to try it done right. This book from Chef Bardin of The Old Post Office Restaurant will help you do do southern food right.
Customer Reviews:
Ufficio Postale.......2007-01-26
Great little board book about the Post Office. Cute mouse characters. No English translation.
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Anyone interested in a challenging career, with job security and excellent pay, needs to explore the lucrative Postal Service job market. Adding benefits, overtime, and premiums, the average hourly rate is $26.19, or $54,481 a year. Executives, professionals, and administrative employees earn between $20,875 to $161,200 per year.
The Postal Service employs 860,000 workers in hundreds of job categories for positions at over 39,000 post offices and branches throughout the United States. Approximately 40,000 postal workers are hired each year to backfill for retirements, transfers and for employees who choose to leave for other reasons.
This new third edition includes updated information, two new chapters and a new Appendix covering Postal Inspector positions, high paying related federal civil service occupations, and step-by-step guidance for those interested in applying for administrative and professional non-tested positions.
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7) Apply for jobs that don't require written tests
8) Explore viable civil service job options
Post Office Jobs is a one-stop resource for those interested in working for the Postal Service. It presents what jobs are available, where they are, and how to get one. This new edition covers ALL occupations including: professional, administrative, mail carrier, postal inspector, maintenance, technical, and clerical.
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Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman Series, this book covers more advanced Microsoft Office XP functionality for skilled users.
Customer Reviews:
Best of the Best.......2004-02-14
I am an (Master) instructor of Microsoft Office, and have reviewed a number of books to use in the classroom for my adult students and have found this series to be the most useful for students from rank beginners to advanced. If you are looking for a book that will let you learn on your own, this is it. You will need no other. If you are looking for a course to prepare you for certification for MOS (Microsoft Office Specialist) this is it. Everything you need in one series.
I've seen better.......2002-09-18
This book to me did not explain certain things so well and I would have to ask others how to do them. I did not like the books approach at all. But the book definitely told you how to open the programs up. Ex:Go to start and click all programs, then click word.
If you don't know how to do that, you are in big trouble because this book in depth detail in all the different office applications.
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