The standard suite of business applications, now updated for the new Windows XP platform, Microsoft Office XP for Windows is a full-featured word-processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and information management package. Office XP for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide guides users right to the most frequently-used tasks in Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook, using clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrated with hundreds of helpful screen shots. For users who don't have the time or resources to wade through long passages of text and just want a quick reference to the essentials of each Office application, this is the ideal guide.


The visual quickstart guides use pictures rather than lengthy explanations to introduce readers to the basic details of the package covered. This is designed to show new users how to create business presentations easily and quickly. It begins with basic introductions before moving on to specific functions. It also covers the new fully revised application of this program.

The secret to the popularity of Peachpit's bestselling Visual Quickstart Guide series (over 1,000,000 copies now in print) is that each book provides exactly what the title implies -- a fast, simple way to get up and running a new program. The books use a format in which illustrations predominate, with text playing a supporting role. Once you have learned a program, you can continue to use a Visual Quickstart Guide as an easy reference on particular functions and features.