Microsoft Word 97 Simplified: IDG's 3-D Visual Series (Simplified (Wiley))

If you're eager to learn Microsoft Word 97 but want your education to be as painless as possible, check out Word 97 Simplified. In this large full-color book, a mascot--a hybrid of a floppy disk and dog--shows you the way through the essentials of using Word 97, pointing out every step in each task with easy-to-read screen shots and simple advice.

You'll learn about the most rudimentary Word tasks, such as saving, opening, and printing files; navigating in Word; moving and copying text; and specifying fonts, colors, borders, shading, paragraph formatting, and tab settings. You'll also learn how to customize pages with page numbers, footnotes, margins, and columns; work with templates, wizards, tables, graphics, and multiple documents; perform mail merges; and use the Web tools in Word. None of this information is extraneous. This book is ideal for beginners who want lots of friendly handholding as they learn.