Find out just about everything you need to know to use Office 2000 -- the smart way. Whether you have to create a dynamite presentation complete with cash flow analysis, marketing reports, and funny jokes by tomorrow morning, or want to annotate the Web page your colleague just e-mailed you from Tokyo, Microsoft Office 2000 Bible is the one reference you can always rely on.

Welcome to the office of the future! Microsoft Office 2000 has many new features, and sorting them out can be a challenge without a guidebook. Pick up the Microsoft Office 2000 Bible and get the word on Word, access to Access, and lots more. It's a comprehensive tome aimed at beginners and intermediate users, as well as more advanced folks who just want the dirt on the new stuff and plan to study in depth later.

From its pull-out "Quick Start" booklet through its advanced chapters on macros, collaboration, and document integration, you'll find plenty of information on how to make this application suite meet all of your needs. Lengthy sections on Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, and Outlook are complemented by easy organization, clear writing, good illustrations, and strong cohesion to form a good working reference.

Publisher and FrontPage, as well as advanced material like Visual Basic for Applications, don't get as much space, so if you're destined for Web work or programming, you might want to consider another general title, or at least one specific to the application you'll be using. But if you want a good introduction to the most used parts of Office 2000, this book and CD-ROM (containing templates, documents, searchable text, and utilities galore) will serve you well. --Rob Lightner