This is a self-paced and self-study guide. The core of this guide is the hands-on practice that you will learn while completing a project. The text in this guide is kept to a minimum and is used to introduce features. The guide contains more that 60 screen-shots with descriptions in simple language of the steps to follow in accomplishing any task. More than 40 exercises are included that builds your skill from starting Word all the way to creating a Fax document. The skills learnt while completing the project will allow you create other documents independently and confidently in your day-to-day work with computers. Although this is an introductory guide, some of the skills you will learn are actually from more advance skills sets. The author has included these to give you as complete a set of skills as possible to become independent quickly – thus making your money well spent.

If you had just got your first copy of Word 2000 and need a quick, easy and cost-effective way of learning it’s major features, than this guide is just the thing. Old users of Word, looking to brush-up on their skills will also find this guide particularly useful. If you a migrating from other word-processing software and want to quickly come up to speed on the most popular word processor in the world, this guide will be your best companion. Finally, if you have a need to learn the fundamentals of creating documents such as letters, resumes, reports etc, there is no better place to start than this guide.