RE: Book review of: Microsoft Word for Medical and Technical Writers

Subject: RE: Book review of: Microsoft Word for Medical and Technical Writers
From: Jean Hollis Weber <jean05 -at- jeanweber -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:40:19 +1000

Bonnie Granat wrote,
> http://www.tech-word.com/
>
> The above page has links to sample content, TOC, etc...
> Frankly, the sample content I just looked at seems like Word
> 101 to me, so I think the book is a primer, at best... The
> audience for this one appears to be novices.

To me, the TOC and sample content look a lot like the "Taming
Microsoft Word" books I wrote on Word up through OfficeXP: topics
targeted at the things techwriters need to know how to do,
without all the extra info that the big, more-general, books
cover. Aimed at novices at using Word, yes. Whether it meets the
needs of any particular member of this list is another matter.

I haven't read the book either, but I was glad to see that
someone had written one for a version of Word that I haven't
used. And got better distribution, too. <g>

Cheers, Jean
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