Teach yourself Windows 98 Visually
&
Teach Yourself Word 97 Visually

Reviewed by: Jean Bird**(TwoBirds@tasman.net )

 **Webmaster's Note
Jean Bird is the wife of a retired officer, Ron Bird, who retired from DT8 at Lewisham in 1971. Jean E-mailed us following our letter to the London Police Pensioner's Magazine. As they live in New Zealand, she points out that living about 20,000 km from the club's headquarters, may make getting to the monthly meetings a bit of a problem! She has kindly forwarded a couple of book reviews which are reproduced below.
Bob Giles.

Author: Publisher: ISBN: Price

Maran R. MARANGRAPHICS 0764560255 £26.09 (10% Available) $69.95 (New Zealand)

Author: Publisher: ISBN: Price

Maran R. MARANGRAPHICS 0764560328 £26.09 (10% Available) $69.95 (New Zealand)

You've got your PC and you've done a couple of Seniornet courses. E-mailing is going well and you have typed, printed and filed the Bowling Club minutes and a few letters. However, if you are to get real value from your computer there is a great deal more to learn, such as how to manage your files, how to customise your computer to suit your particular needs, and how to optimise it for maximum efficiency.

Just as you need the manuals that come with all the other machines you possess - the car, the TV, the dishwasher, etc., etc. - a good computer manual is a necessity. There are a number of these on the market and it is easy to get trapped into buying, as I did at first, an inappropriate one - and they don't come cheap!

"Teach Yourself Windows 98" is now my most used tool. Text is minimal, so that instructions are not smothered by unnecessary words. Each step in an operation is demonstrated in a series of full colour windows and dialog boxes exactly as they appear on the monitor. Other diagrams immediately focus one's attention with, again, a lack of superfluous text and the clear, colourful presentation.

A totally computer-illiterate beginner can open the book and immediately start to work with his/her computer, whether it is e-mailing, browsing the web, managing the files, changing the speed and/or position of the mouse buttons, setting up a screen saver, or using any of the multitude of operations possible with Windows 98.

Finding that book so valuable prompted me to buy "Teach Yourself Word 97 Visually" and, although I have not had it long enough to get full use of it, I can see that it is going to have as much value as "Windows 98 Visually" as it has all the same attributes. Without it, it would take me forever to find all the things I can do with Word 97.

Also available in the same "Visually" series are Windows 95, Netscape Navigator 4, Office 97, Networking, the Internet, etc., a wide range of simplified manuals, and, for those who want to go further, a "Master" series.