Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 15:35:08 EST From: "Rob Slade, Ed. DECrypt & ComNet, VARUG rep, 604-984-4067" Subject: "The Underground Guide to Word for Windows" by Leonhard BKUNDWRD.RVW 940810 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Kelly Ford, Promotion/Publicity Coordinator P.O. Box 520 26 Prince Andrew Place Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8 416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948 Heather Rignanesi, Marketing, x340, 73171.657@Compuserve.com or 1 Jacob Way Reading, MA 01867-9984 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 5851 Guion Road Indianapolis, IN 46254 800-447-2226 Tiffany Moore, Publicity tiffanym@aw.com "The Underground Guide to Word for Windows", Leonhard, 1994, 0-201-40650-0, U$19.95/C$25.95 Woody Leonhard knows Word (or WinWord, as he and most others call it). Inside out, backwards and upside down. Unfortunately, he approaches it from a hacker and hobbyist perspective. The first two chapters deal with customization of the program. Beginning users may feel a bit uncomfortable with modifying something they don't understand. Chapter three covers basic concepts for Word. Concepts, not functions. This is a book for the field dependent. (I'm not complaining: I prefer to understand the fundamental ideas before I'm told what keys to punch. I just thought the many who are looking for keystroke guides should know.) Advanced shortcuts and performance enhancements are given in chapters four and five. Chapter six covers bugs. Chapters seven to nine deal with macros and programming. Outside resources are listed in chapter ten. The appendices are quite useful, listing character sets, built-in styles, key assignments, the files on disk, and the sample macro from chapter eight. There is a great deal of useful material here. It is, very much, a miniature version of "Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows". For rank neophytes, the conceptual overview of Word in chapter three is likely worth the price of the book alone, in terms of saved frustration. These same newcomers, however, will likely want also to get a guide to the functional aspects of program operation. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKUNDWRD.RVW 940810 ====================== DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" (Oct. '94) Springer-Verlag