Good afternoon,
I have finally convinced my boss that I don’t know as much about Office as he (and the rest of the office) thinks I do. There are just so many necessary features that are only intuitive once you have finally stumbled across it. For example, centering a text box on a page in Word = Draw > Relative to Page, Draw > Center. Fine, easy… makes sense. But it took a damned long time to figure that one out.
So I now have a small budget to order up a small computing library. Ahh, but which books to get? Personally, I want a gargantuan reference book, encyclopedia style with a good cross-referenced index. A book that isn’t so advanced that it spends a lot of time on VBA, but not too basic that it spends three chapters on cutting and pasting. I have a personal copy of the Access Bible which comes pretty close. I’ll get something similar for Word and Excel if I need to, or a good compendium if it is out there.
Will that be enough? I should also like to get a more basic how-to guide. (It’s amazing how easy it is to make a wish-list when it is your bosses’ money). Not so basic as the Dummies series, but something I can point to when I don’t have time to answer someone’s question myself.
I’ve spent a good amount of time in B&N, etc., but would like to hear from you… which books, in use, have you found to be the most helpful, complete, useful? Our empty shelves await your response.
Thanks,
Rhythmdvl