Microsoft Office 2000 User Specialist Study Guide

The emphasis in this book, as in the exam objectives, is on procedures. You have to know what steps to follow in order to protect an Excel spreadsheet with a password, say, or print an envelope under Word. The authors typically present an objective and then quickly list the relevant steps (choose this, click that) with a supporting screen shot, where appropriate. They then follow the how-to material with a brief commentary on more exotic variations of the procedure. Each section concludes with a testing protocol similar to those that appear on the exams. In one test, you're asked to create a new PowerPoint presentation, then add various graphical and multimedia elements to it. The authors present a comprehensive statement of the skills expert users have. --David Wall

Topics covered: All concepts, facts, and skills that appear in Microsoft's published exam objectives for the seven Office 2000 Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) exams.

Product Description
Go into the exams confident-and come out MOUS-certified!

Earning your Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certification shows your current or future employer that you have the skills they need. This book helps you get those skills--by reinforcing what you know, teaching you what you don't, and preparing you for all the questions you'll face on the exam. Affordable and comprehensive, the Microsoft Office 2000 User Specialist Study Guide is the clear choice, and the only study resource you need to ready yourself to pass all the MOUS exams.

Meet every exam's objectives:
Word 2000
* Format characters and paragraphs
* Use styles, templates, and macros
* Publish documents on the Web
* Create tables and forms
* Generate a mail merge

Excel 2000
* Create, modify, and print workbooks
* Format worksheets
* Create charts
* Audit worksheets
* Create and use templates

Access 2000
* Create and modify a database
* Integrate information from other applications
* Publish Access data to the Web
* Build forms for other users
* Produce reports

PowerPoint 2000
* Create and modify presentations
* Add textual and visual information
* Deliver and distribute presentations

Outlook 2000
* Manage a contact list and calendar
* Send, receive, and organize e-mail
* Identify and filter spam and other unwanted e-mail
* Make Outlook work with other Office applications

FrontPage 2000
* Build and manage Web sites
* Publish Web documents from Word, Excel, and Access
* Create hyperlinks to link your site to others
* Craft your site's navigational structure using Navigation bars

PhotoDraw
* Learn the PhotoDraw interface and expansive tool set
* Import artwork or create your own graphics
* Touch up and enhance photos with designer effects
* Design your own professional images for the Web

Also, is this Microsoft certified? - I don't see the Microsoft logo on the book. I mean, let's call a spade a spade, shall we? This book is weak at best.


Bad Cross Reference   February 28, 2002
 7 out of 9 found this review helpful

Items listed under the exams section isn't always on the listed page number.

Why not put this together the way you take the tests instead of being all over the place. Doesn't make since.

I don't see a MS Office Certification logo on the book.


Office 2000 User Specialist Study Guide   January 4, 2002
 6 out of 6 found this review helpful

The book (Overall) is a fair book to use as a study guide..BUT in several areas you are not given the correct subject matter to study. Word Expert for example is missing several KEY topics, or they are missed labeled.
Main topics for other MOUS test study are good, I feel a better research job needs to be done, there are other books out there that cover the subject(s) much better.
To me it is NOT worth the price (for what you get out of it).As the book "states" it is a study guide. Would be nice if indeed it was.


Great Study Guide ... but no book replaces experience   October 12, 2001
 19 out of 19 found this review helpful

I found this MOUS study guide to be quite helpful. To help you judge for yourself, a bit about me: I am a "power user" of Microsoft Office .. I've used it for many years, and I actually create and teach courses for MS Office products.

I bought this book to help me get certified for a few main reasons:
> It was one of very few that covered all 5 exams required for Office 2000 Master certification
> it contained a certification map which describes the various topics covered on each exam, for each level (Expert vs. Core) and its topics are organized in that matter
> it is designed to be a REVIEW tool, with quick, step by step instructions AND brief explanations so that the reader will gain a basic understanding of the topic not just a memorization of steps (it is not a "course" book and will not replace a class if that is what you need).

I rate this as a great study guide, as long as you have some prior knowledge of the products. DON'T RELY ON THIS (or any other study guide) IF YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH MS OFFICE!!

P.S. I passed all five exams, in one day. Thanks to this study guide (the only review guide I used) and experience/practice.