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Title: Complete Guide to OneNote by W. Frederick Zimmerman ISBN: 1-59059-216-6 Publisher: APress Pub. Date: 17 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Place to Start with OneNote
Comment: As a new OneNote user I found this book was a great guide to get me going. I read the book from cover to cover. The writing style is casual, but not cutesy. After reading a section, I found used what was described without having to thumb back through the book to read again how it worked. I am enjoying OneNote as a product and I believe that much of the productivity gains that I am experiencing come from having gotten off to a great start with this book.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing heavily padded book....
Comment: Why is it that computer books never get proper proof readers?!! On the surface this looks to be a book that should have a large audience - OneNote is a powerful tool with very little information available to help unleash its power. The problem with this book is that it can't make its mind up whether it's written for the Windows newbie (painfully showing screenshots for every little action required) or for the Power User (too slow and time-consuming to plough through).
Ultimately it leaves both high and dry. Screenshot examples are inconsistent even at the most basic level (text talks of blank page backgrounds, but corresponding step-by-step screenshots show stripey pages; a list of Jazz author's keeps changing the order of the authors in subsequent screenshots without any rhyme or reason, there's no understanding of what non-US readers will see in terms of metric units etc etc). What should be a simple explanation of how to create a table (page 101) just doesn't work (this may be a software bug, but if so why describe something that doesn't work?!).
The long winding introductory chapter about note taking systems all the way since the mainframe is hardly relevant, nor is a long interview with Dr Miller about "the personal knowledge base". Frankly the chapters smack of "self indulgence", although they do help turn the book from an over-priced pamphlet into something resembling a real book.
Chapter 2 which labours the installation process to the point of tedium makes one think the book is aimed at the complete Windows novice and we're a quarter of the way into the book before a simple introduction to OneNote starts - with examples that just don't work on the production release (see tables example on page 101) or contain terminology that just confuses (the definition of what's a container can't make up its mind what's one container and what's two containers inside another container). Put simply, the book confuses rather than explains. The book is not cheap and frankly poor value for money. It may be that a good book is hidden away inside what's here and that a half-decent editor or proof-reader could sort it out, but I hadn't the patience to persevere with it after the first few chapters. Avoid!
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Title: Microsoft OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Todd W. Carter ISBN: 032122373X Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 15 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title:Microsoft OneNote 2003 ASIN: B0000AZJVG Publisher: Microsoft Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $199.00 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $179.99 |
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Title: How To Do Everything with Your Tablet PC by Bill Mann ISBN: 0072227710 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 26 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Tablet PC Quick Reference by Jeff Van West, Jeff van West ISBN: 0735618631 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Office 2003 Inside Out by Michael J./Halvorson Young, Michael J. Young ISBN: 0735615128 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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