Windows and Office 2000 made easy

A FIRST COURSE IN COMPUTERS - 2000 Edition: Sanjay Saxena; Vikas Publishing House, 576, Masjid Road, Jangpura, New Delhi-110014. Rs. 200. (website: www.gobookshopping.com) .

IF LIKE this reviewer, you find the manuals or the on-line help accompanying most proprietary software packages, difficult to read, you will welcome a book like the one under review, which sets itself a simple task: take a widely used operating system like Windows 2000 and its stable-mate, Office 2000 - and spoon- feed the contents to the reader, in manageable, pleasant doses.

The "2000 edition" in the title seems to refer to the vintage of the Windows and Office packages - and not to the year this was published which is 2001.

The author is the head of a consultancy firm whose clients include many international bodies. He covers a vast subject ground - Windows 2000 features, MS Office components like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage Outlook and Publisher, and throws in an introduction to the Internet.

ANAND PARTHASARATHY

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