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Office 2001: The Missing Manual ships

updated 01:10 pm EDT, Wed May 16, 2001

 
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Office 2001: The Missing Manual is a new $30 guide book for Microsoft's productivity suite, which ships without a manual. The book begins by covering the basics of the suite's four programs—Word, Entourage, Excel, and Powerpoint—and then delves into the more advanced and less frequently used features of each program.


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    Branching Out

    David Reynolds is branching out, doing books now i see. thats cool. im still puzzled on where he finds the time, writting practically half of MacAddict himself it seems from month to month, i know i wouldnt have the enegy to write a book. So now i have two favorite mac authors for books, David Pogue and David Reynolds.

    SWGS

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    ian/david = yin/yang

    yeah, and ian writes the other half. ;-)

    macaddict - still the only mac magazine that i feel is deserving of my subscription. and still the highest content/ad ratio of any mac mag i have found.

    i used to subscribe to macworld, but ever since it's "redesign" (i.e. "let's choose a huge slab serif for our body text, double the leading, remove almost all screenshots from our reviews, and move all of the lost content to our website as "value-added" material. yeah!"), it pains me to see where that mag has gone.

    p.s. only macworld would, in the same issue, give a product a rating of two out of five stars/mice, yet 20 pages later, give it an editor's award (happened ealrier this year with ibm's viavoice). sigh.

    p.p.s. while i do like david and, uh, david, the "sample" book they included with a recent macworld was riddled with typos. i'm sure they corrected them, though. well, i hope so, anyway. ;-)

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    terrible

    Talk about too little too late.

    What c***! I'm not going to shell out $30 on a book that's going to be obsolete in six months.

    Haven't they heard of OfficeX?

    I have quite the opposite opinion about MacAddict. They repeat the same boring articles over and over again, the magazine is ugly, their jokes aren't funny, all the columnists besides Dave and Ian are completely worthless, and neither of them can share the full extent of their knowledge because the magazine basically contains stupid information about games and obvious reviews of strange products.

    I let my subscription run out a while ago. Best thing I ever did. Sorry, MacAddict, but that's my opinion.

    (Even their site is terrible. The only reason I ever go there is to read the X Philes from time to time. Another David & Ian shtick, of course.)

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    Office X = Office 2001

    It'll be the same program, just running native under Mac OS X.

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    A nice complement

    To that hotline download :)

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    It's a Microsoft Product

    Can't we just pretend it doesn't exist?

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    well, they speak to me...

    i just find their articles and reviews much more real-world than these ultimately useless benchmarks that macworld has always relied on. and the anzovin brothers are two of the best people out there for 3d app reviews (though they don't have as much time these days to devote to macaddict).

    the magazine ugliness issue seems to be a purely subjective thing - i find it much better (fun, i guess) than the other mags (again, the new "design" of macworld still makes me cringe), and it's far better than it's first two years (you want hideous? it's amazing they still got funding after 4 months). kinda the same with the jokes. i like 'em, for the most part, but i can see how they can get old. ;-)

    yes, the articles seem to get repeated (for example, how many times can you have a "use your old mac" feature article, or tips on keeping your mac running (yeah, yeah, rebuild the desktop)), but all of the mac magazines fall into this trap (see latest macworld issue for an example) - it's not a macaddict-specific phenomenon. they're just lucky they have two quality regular editors that can acrry the load during the dry months.

    and they (macaddict) were the ones to start interviewing mac celebrities on a regular basis (though they got in trouble for the interview with ice-t. oops) - a cool thing that macworld has only recently hooked its cart to.

    and, truth be told, ian sammis is my personal hero. if he were a cast member on gilligan's island, he'd be the one making the satellite hookup system off bamboo and coconut milk. a full tutorial of how to make a game of crazy eights in filemaker pro. creating a bus-powered flashlight off his firewire port. writing an article off a liberty terminal hooked up to a begie g3 running os x (sure, i know it's already built-in, but he's the only person i know geeky enough to try "just because he can.") he may be the MAIN reason i tune in every month - just to see what psycho thing he's trying to do ("...this month, ian break into the c.i.a. using only a copy of simpletext and a trs-80"). plus, he now seems to write 50% of the magazine by himself every month.

    yeah, the website has always been bad. but it's been so bad at times that i really like it. a face only a mother could love. crazy, huh? ;-)

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    SimpleText & TRS-80?

    Assume you speak of the original TRS-80.

    This won't work. The original TRS-80 only did i/o via 8 inch floppies. ST was never put on 8 inch floppies.

    So there.

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    aw, you KNOW what i mean

    simpletext & trs-80 = the impossible task (which ian seems to like to challenge himself with).

    plus, if i thought anyone could pull that stunt off, impossible or not, it'd be him.

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    my first comuter

    TRS-80 was my first computer. It was replaced by a Macintosh Classic a few years later. I have fond memories playing Frogger and Missile Attack on the attached cassette tape. Fun… WOW!

    As for the Office 2K1 Manual… enuff people will buy it. And then they can make minor revisions and sell another load when the OSX version comes out. I wish the manual came on DVD with QT movies instead. Who reads books anymore anyway?

    MC

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