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Two new ebooks for Word users


best strategy for upgrading to Word 2004

Make the most of your investment in Microsoft Office by learning Word 2004's new features!

Microsoft Office 2004 is expensive, so turn to Word expert Matt Neuburg and the 73-page "Take Control of What's New in Word 2004" for the best strategy for upgrading to Word 2004 and handling the 80 fonts that Word installs, complete with info about four fonts you should not delete and those you can delete to avoid conflicts, shorten your Font menu, and make Word launch faster. Save time and increase accuracy when typing and pasting text with smart buttons. Discover the new Navigation Pane and three workarounds to an annoying bug that may bite you. Learn how to use Notebook view effectively. Read an overview of important changes to Unicode support, styles, and using markup, plus find out what's new with AppleScript and what Microsoft put in the Toolbox. Bonus! Summaries of ten changes to preference panes, six subtle changes to menus, and three important changes to commonly used dialogs.

Advanced Editing & Formatting

Next is the 78-page "Take Control of What's New in Word 2004: Advanced Editing & Formatting," which picks up where the first book leaves off. Under Matt's expert guidance, you'll get help with the complex changes in Word's editing and formatting features. You'll learn the hidden rules that govern smart buttons and animated blue underlines and find out how to take advantage of new style features, including table and list styles. Matt also explains how to type special characters and teaches you three techniques for entering frequently used characters. Anyone relying on Unicode or unusual fonts needs Matt's real-world help and explanation of why fonts may not work as expected, including four solutions to common problems with old fonts. Finally, Matt explains in detail how you can use the new comment and revision tracking features most effectively.

You can buy either volume by itself for $5 (be sure to use the 10-percent user group discount with code CPN31208MUG) or buy both together and get a 50-percent discount on the second volume (sorry, the user group discount can't be combined with the bundle discount).

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