Microsoft Office Home and Student Edition 2013 All-in-One For Dummies

When our old computer (Windows XP Home Edition with Microsoft Office Suite 2003) finally expired and we had to purchase a new computer (Windows 8), I learned that Office 2003 would not work on it. :-( We bought the Office Home and Student Edition 2013 since we only use Word and Excel and, occasionally, Powerpoint. The changes Microsoft made in 10 years were just too much for us to figure out, so I ordered this Dummies reference book. Within a day of receiving it (on time) my wife and I were able to use Office and Excel to our satisfaction. As I write this review the book sits close at hand, ready to be used when needed. I find it to be well written and easy to use, with humor included here and there, and recommend it highly.

For me this in not a book to read like you would a novel. I look up information when necessary to help solve a problem. For that purpose it is very good. 8.1 is so very different from the Vista that I had before that I needed help. It helped very much for me to make the change.

It's a thick volume and the binding really isn't up top the job. I may just peel out the pages I'm most likely to be consulting, punch holes in them and use a loose leaf binder.Also, and this may be partly the fault of Word 2013, some of the explanations are so convoluted as to be useless. An example -- see if you can figure out,, guided by this book, how to number pages in a document so that the number "1" doesn't appear on the first pages but "2" appears on the second.

super speed on getting them to me. They came to me when my class was about to start. both have useful information that I will be using for a long time.The books were in both excellent condition and very reasonable.Easy to understand.

The index is woefully inadequate and all too frequently the instructions bring you in from the middle (assuming you have read everything up to that point) rather than instructing from the very first step and continuing to the last step. Microsoft 2013 is quite different from my previous versions and the book doesn't make the transition easy. Don't know if other books are any better.

There is always something useful I can find in these books. I just can't deal with on screen "paper". I need it in my hands

Had some specific questions and this book helped solve them as well as being a good resource.

I use Dummies books for reference. I have not yet gone through this book but Dummies books have been helpful to me in the past and I know this one will serve my needs.

I found it wordy and confusing. Although only one person is listed as the author, I get the impression that it was written by a committee al of whom had to have a say about everything. Their motto seems to" be why use one word when you can use five". Perhaps I am getting too old for this as I had to read instructions two or three times to understand them. I am slowly getting things sorted out.

An excellent book which can be used for instruction or just reference I wouldn't be without it. Because Microsoft fe has changed over time it is a very much needed book

An excellent book which can be used for instruction or just reference I wouldn't be without it. Because Microsoft fe has changed over time it is a very much needed book

the problem with this book is that the illustrations are too small and very difficult to read. When reading the text the references to illustrations make the going hard work!Other than that it's fairly standard fare for the dummies series.

Easy to understand processes and fun to learn. I was a technophobe when it comes to computers, but have learnt so much.