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Title: How to Do Just About Anything on a Computer by Reader's Digest, Readers Digest ISBN: 0-7621-0241-1 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Familiar format for seniors
Comment: I purchased this book for my senior parents who have in the past year bought not one, but two new computers. Brave as they are, computer jargon is new to them, and sometimes I am hard pressed to help them out long distance. It was great to find this book that looks SO MUCH like the red Reader's Digest Do-It-Yourself book that has occupied my father's bookshelves for as long as I can remember. That familiarity is bound to feel something like climbing a new mountain in a pair of comfortable old jeans.
Rating: 5
Summary: Clarity, usefulness - and superb step-by-step guidance!
Comment: As a technophobe whose spine turns to syrup when I encounter video machine instructions or, worse still, who feels positively assaulted by those iniquitously obscure computer manuals, I was delighted to have been given this lucid new computer book.
And, having completed a few of the useful but easy projects, my enthusiasm transmuted into gratitude and respect, for HOW TO DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING ON A COMPUTER is the most invaluable and accessible book of its kind I've ever seen, designed for those who dislike obscurity and who, conversely, enjoy clarity, lack of prententiousness and extreme utility.
Such excellence of communication is the Reader's Digest hallmark, and this magnificent book is a premier example of a story well told - and a superb guide to unleashing your computer's awesome power.
As you turn its pages, you are taken on a vivid tour that makes your computer your servant rather than your master. It, literally, puts you in the pilot's seat. No longer will your home computer merely be used to churn out those tedious Christmas Round Robins, but you'll find that it will, with the aid of this book, sprout wings and whisk you into the New Millennium with a host of engaging projects.
Now you can engage your wider family with an impressive full-colour family magazine instead of the Round Robin. And it will be enhanced by the inclusion of home-scanned photographs of little Sally's first walk. Within minutes you'll be turning out professional letterheads, creating menu planners or eye-catching CVs. Indeed, as the title suggests, you and your family will now be able to turn out 'just about anything'. Amazingly, this book shows you how to use your computer to compose music, paint pictures and much more!
You'll be taught how to use Internet - in minutes rather than hours! - and shown how to do historical research. It will lead you step-by-step (and, thankfully, picture by picture) through such arcane obscurities as how to inject more 'oomph' into your PC, how to maximise disc space and how to chase away those naughty viruses.
This book does everything a major and thoroughly entertaining computer course would do - and is suitable not only for the beginner but also for the middle-weight and the advanced user. As a face-to-face course could cost thousands of dollars, the value of this book is, accordingly, immense.
And in comtemplating the myriad of uses readers would find for this book, I thought at once of how teachers would find it invaluable, for they are always seeking clear and well-organised classroom material. This book is ideal for them - not only for instructional use - but also as an essential inclusion in every school or college library.
The Reader's Digest have a knack with language and have found a formula for reaching the great, vibrant majority of mankind. This book exemplifies these skills, for it is as accessible and as appealing to ten-year-olds as it is to post-docs. Created, I'm told, partly in response to the growing need of baby boomers to learn skills they missed in their youth, this comprehensive book will surely satisfy their needs handsomely.
Congratulations, Reader's Digest, for opening the doors to the wonderful world of computers for the vast mass of mankind - and for having so sensitively considered the fears of technophobes!
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Title: 1,001 Computer Hints & Tips: An A-To-Z Guide to Making the Most of Your Computer and the Internet by Readers Digest ISBN: 0762103388 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: How to do Just About Anything in Microsoft Windows by Readers Digest, Reader's Digest ISBN: 0276425898 Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc. Pub. Date: 24 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: How to do Just About Anything in Microsoft Word by Readers Digest, Reader's Digest ISBN: 027642588X Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc. Pub. Date: 24 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Windows XP by Ruth Maran ISBN: 0764536192 Publisher: Visual Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Teach Yourself VISUALLY MORE Windows XP by Ruth Maran ISBN: 0764536982 Publisher: Visual Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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