by Parsons, Dan Oja, Patrick Carey, Roy Ageloff
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Product Description
Part of the New Perspectives series, this text offers a case-based, problem-solving approach and innovative technology for meaningful learning of Microsoft Excel 2003.
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Average Customer Review:
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Book was in horrible condition., 2006-02-14
The item description said the book was in "pretty good" condition. When i received it three and a half weeks later it was badly water damaged and almost every page was ripped.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Needs Buffing, 2005-12-25
My comments apply both to EXCEL and ACCESS textbook since they follow the exact same style:
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Since the heavy text is closely used near a PC, what is needed is some type of new binding, where the specific tutorial a student is working on, can be removed from the main book's binding and when finished it can be returned to the its original spot.
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Often the yellow places, where the authors discuss specific intructions or procedure to accomplish a given task, the authors get carried away with adding extra discussions and "warnings" etc that a student forgets what is being discussed at hand.
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Most dialog boxes should be in quotes since the authors mention these dialog boxes as if the student already knows of their existence. If placed in quotes, then it alerts the reader to look out for a specif dialog box when they finally do appear on the screen.
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Also the authors write in a sort of condensed style by essentially "compressing" two steps into one, such as for typical example:
"Open table Member in the Case 2/Brief folder."
Instead, they should say:
"Open Case 2/Brief folders."
Then
"Open Member Table."
The above authors' writing style chosen by these authors assumes already that the first time student understands right away what is being asked of them to do.
The entier book seems to be written in this style !
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The Case studies seem to be error free and have enough hints to help student finish assignments -- which are critical to getting through these books.
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All major subsections should begin atop a new page !
Again readers get the feeling they are trying to CRAM as much as possible on one page.
All is now left to do is to go over the entire books and buff out the stuff that makes them foggy.
Apparently the authors have been making constant changes since the original texts first started with in 2000 series and they did finally change some of the more complicated tutorial examples and gray background, but now they must keep buffing these books and make them easier to carry to a PC desk area which is often cramped.
Gerard Sagliocca,P.E.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Comprehensive, 2005-07-06
This book was OK, It had minor tears on several pages.
other than that it as good.
I had to wait awhile for this book to arrive.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent, 2005-02-25
This is the most well written software learning guide I have ever seen. The structure is logical and easy to follow. The graphics are incredible. Imagine the most well written textbook you have ever read. That's what this book is like. This isn't a how-to book, it's a complete course.
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