If you use Microsoft Word, you might be interested in checking out my new book, The Word Book for Macintosh Users (ISBN#1-56830-088-3), fresh off the presses from Hayden Books. It's bright red, somewhat thick at 776 pages, and contains much of what I know about Word 5.0 and 5.1.

The book starts with the usual preliminaries about using the Macintosh for word processing, continues with detailed installation instructions, and talks about Word's interface and how to personalize Word. It then shows about twenty sample documents. (They were created with the assistance of Jon.Hersh, a friend and Seattle-based designer who created the "Caring for Your Wrists" document we distribute on the Internet at:)

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/misc/

The documents and their surrounding text help you visually find topics in the book. After the sample documents come various chapters such as Boxes, Borders, and Lines; Conversions; and Printing Techniques and Problems. Besides explaining how to create, edit, and format documents, I mention problems fixed by patches and updates, workarounds, and situations where you want to proceed carefully in order to avoid trouble. Given that in a former life I did phone support for Word, I have a somewhat unique perspective to offer.

Finally, to make the book more useful for Internet users, I've uploaded various updates and enhancements for Word to:

ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/thewordbook/

The Word Book should be in the distribution channel this week, so bookstores can order it, although they may not have it in stock right away. If you are interested, you can order it directly by email or phone (wait a day or two before ordering via phone) at a 25 percent discount. You must give the magic code "WORD" to receive the discount.

Ordering Details

The Word Book for Macintosh Users, by Tonya Engst.
Published by Hayden Books. ISBN 1-56830-088-3.
$24.95 U.S. $32.95 Canada. Shipping cost varies (generally
about $3 for U.S. mail and $6 for FedEx in the U.S.). Tax
is included for orders from Indiana.

800/428-5331 (U.S. toll free voice orders)
317/581-3535 (U.S. local voice orders in Indiana)
317/581-3500 (Switchboard voice)
800/448-3804 (U.S. fax orders)
317-581-3550 (General fax)
orders@hayden.com (email orders)
WORD (Magic code for 25% discount)

Email Orders -- Fill out and return the form at the bottom of this article to <orders@hayden.com>. If you aren't comfortable with sending your credit card information through email, use another ordering method. Sorry, Hayden doesn't take Discover.

U.S. Orders -- Call or fax using the appropriate phone number. Don't worry if the operator says it's Prentice Hall Computer Publishing or Macmillan Computer Publishing - Hayden is an imprint. If you fax, make sure to include all of the information requested on the form below - in fact, print it out, fill it in, and then fax it back.

International Orders -- First, send email to twb@tidbits.com for a list of the international distributors that we know of. If working through them does not work (it can save money on shipping), either use email as explained above or call the switchboard number above and ask to be connected to "International Sales." They will either take your order or tell you the easiest way to get a copy in your country. If you want to fax in your order, send the form below to the general fax number above and note clearly that it's for "International Sales."

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