Book Description
The goal of this book is to introduce learners to intermediate and advanced word processing management concepts, with an emphasis on business documents and correspondence. Through the projects in this book, users build upon a basic understanding of Word by creating more complex documents, using a full range of Word's more advanced features and tools. Utilizing a comprehensive approach to creating integrated documents, this book emphasizes the features in Microsoft Word for integrating Access and Excel data, and building web-based solutions for distributing business information. This book will be MOUS certified at the Expert level.

From the Inside Flap
Preface The SELECT Lab Series uses a class-tested, highly visual, project-based approach that teaches students through tasks that use step-by-step instructions. You will find extensive 4-color figures that guide learners through the basic skills and procedures necessary to demonstrate proficiency using each software application. SELECT Lab Series: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 introduces an all-new design with ample space for note taking. The easy-to-follow, clean presentation uses bold color land a unique design program that helps reduce distraction and keeps students focused and interested as they work. We have developed additional instructional features to further enhance the students' learning experience as well as provide the opportunity far those who want to go beyond the scope of the book to explore the features of Word 2000 on the Web. Each project concludes with a review section that includes a Summary, Key Terms and Operations, Study Questions (multiple choice, short answer, fill-in, and discussion), and two Hands-On Exercises. In addition, two to six On Your Own Exercises provide students the opportunity to practice and gain further experience with the material covered in the projects. Microsoft Certification The content of this text is driven by the Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) guidelines, and the author has developed the material from the ground up to reflect these objectives. Everyone who masters the projects in this text will be prepared to take the expert level exam in Microsoft® Office 2000. It is becoming mare and more important in today's competitive job market to have the skills necessary to be productive with today's most widely used applications software. SELECT Lab Series: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 is designed with this purpose in mind. Word 2000 The new Microsoft® Word 2000 features improved tools that simplify traditional word-processing tasks and adds an expanded menu of Web-related capabilities and email integration. Ten new SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 introduce students to features of Word, focusing an the MOUS objectives needed to prepare students for the expert certification exam. Features Running Case The Selections, Inc. Department store is an all-new case for SELECT Lab Series: Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000. As a Running Case, Selections, Inc. puts students in an environment they can relate to, both as students and as future professionals. Each project begins with a scenario that puts students in the department store where they perform tasks that relate to a particular area or division of the store. For example, this Advanced Word module has students create product information for Ritchey Bicycles. Using Word 2000 powerful tools the students integrate various graphics into company brochures for printing or publishing on the web. Students relate what they're doing in Word 2000 to a real-world situation that helps prepare them for what they may encounter in the business world as professionals. Challenge/Solution/Setup Once the student is familiar with the Running Case scenario for the project, the Challenge explains what they are actually going to do as they work through the tasks, and the Solution summarizes a plan for achieving that goal. The Setup provides the settings necessary to ensure that the screen the student sees will match what is shown in the book. Web Tip This all-new feature provides the student with links to helpful Web sites and tips for locating additional information about specific topics on the World Wide Web. Web Tips often relate to Word 2000, but include tips students can use in their everyday lives. Each project contains at least three Web Tips that encourage students to explore Web sites that relate to the tasks they are performing in the application, highlight professional organizations that enhance the material, or direct them to topics of interest on their own. Because the Web is constantly changing, some links referenced in Web Tips may become inactive during the course. CheckPoint Check Points are placed at intervals throughout each project and provide review questions that seek to assess a student's conceptual or procedural understanding of the current task. Break Point Each project in SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 has been designed to take approximately one hour in the lab. Because students learn at different paces or may not have a full hour to complete a project, the Break Point feature appears at about the midpoint in each project and alerts students of a good stopping point if they need a break but want to continue the project later. Break Points take the guess work out of having to decide whether or not it's appropriate to stop and make it easier for students to start working on a project that they may not have time to complete. Tips and Troubleshooting Boxes These feature boxes, popular with both instructors and students, appear throughout the text and have been revised and updated for SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000. Tip boxes include material that may be useful but that is not required in the step-by-step task instructions. Troubleshooting boxes alert students to problems they may encounter while using the applications and suggest possible causes for the problems along with potential solutions. Appendix The SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 book contains a useful appendix, Working with Word. It covers basic editing, formatting, navigation and getting help tools. The goal is to provide a review of Word for students who need to brush up on their skills.The Introduction sets the stage for the project and explains its purpose. Clearly defined and measurable Objectives outline the skills covered. The Running Case puts the students in the real-life environment of the Selections, Inc. department store. The Challenge states the reasoning for the project. The Solution describes the plan for completing the project, which consists of tasks leading to the final product. The Setup tells the student exactly which settings should be chosen so their computer screens match the illustrations in the book. Each topic begins with a brief introductory paragraph that explains the concepts and operations students will learn. An illustration shows the typical screen the student will see. Appropriate, full-color illustrations move the emphasis away from text and toward the visual-based application. Tip and Troubleshooting boxes appear at appropriate places throughout each project to highlight important, helpful information pertinent to the topic being discussed. New Break Points show where students can pause within a project. Clearly defined Tasks guide students step-by-step through each process, providing reassurance and increasing confidence for independent or group work. New Check Points reinforce a concept. Web Tip boxes refer students to Internet sites and offer helpful information about using the World Wide Web. Student Supplements Student Assessment Software: SkillCheck Professional Plus for Microsoft® Office 2000 features fully interactive test items that allow students to answer questions by performing complete tasks in virtually any correct way the software allows. All of the essential software features are fully simulated, so no additional software is required. In addition to independently validated tests that cover beginning, intermediate, and advanced skills, each SkillCheck Professional Plus system includes a database of more than 100 interactive questions for each Office application. The instructor has complete control over every important aspect of testing and reporting, allowing users to customize or create tests with ease and speed. Companion Web Site: SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 is accompanied by a Companion Web site. Interactive online study guides offer interactive quizzes, chat rooms, and much more to help students with the material covered in the text. Instructor Supplements Instructor's Resource CD-ROM: Instructors get extra support for this text from supplemental materials, including the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM. The CD-ROM includes the entire Instructor's Manual in Microsoft Word format, and Test Manager™, a computerized test bank designed to create printed tests, network tests, and self-assessment quizzes. Student data files and completed data files for Study Questions, Hands-On Exercises, and On Your Own Exercises are clearly organized on the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM. PowerPoint slides, which include keywords, objectives, running case, and solutions, are also included on the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM. The Instructor's Manual includes a test bank, with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, as well as some screen captures that illustrate the solutions. The Instructor's Manual also includes expanded Student Objectives, Answers to Study Questions, and Additional Assessment Techniques. The Instructor's M

From the Back Cover
The goal of this book is to introduce learners to intermediate and advanced word processing management concepts, with an emphasis on business documents and correspondence. Through the projects in this book, users build upon a basic understanding of Word by creating more complex documents, using a full range of Word's more advanced features and tools. Utilizing a comprehensive approach to creating integrated documents, this book emphasizes the features in Microsoft Word for integrating Access and Excel data, and building web-based solutions for distributing business information. This book will be MOUS certified at the Expert level.

About the Author
DR. PHILIP A. KONEMAN has over ten years of experience in computers and education. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems and Advanced Computer Applications at Colorado Christian University. His teaching responsibilities include Introduction to Computer Applications, where students learn the primary applications in Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition. Dr. Koneman has a broad professional portfolio that includes a variety of activities outside the university. He assisted Nivo International in defining the MOUS Certification objectives for Office 2000. In addition to being an author on numerous Select modules; he is also the Series Consulting Editor for the entire Select series. Dr. Koneman is President of Instructional Design Consultants, Inc., a company that develops educational multimedia and provides consulting for curriculum design and educational measurement. Dr. Koneman received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado at Denver, School of Education, Division of Instructional Technology. His research interests include computer-based learning, educational testing and measurement, and ethical issues in computers and technology. He is a certified Microsoft Office User Specialist for Office 2000.

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Preface The SELECT Lab Series uses a class-tested, highly visual, project-based approach that teaches students through tasks that use step-by-step instructions. You will find extensive 4-color figures that guide learners through the basic skills and procedures necessary to demonstrate proficiency using each software application. SELECT Lab Series: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 introduces an all-new design with ample space for note taking. The easy-to-follow, clean presentation uses bold color land a unique design program that helps reduce distraction and keeps students focused and interested as they work. We have developed additional instructional features to further enhance the students' learning experience as well as provide the opportunity far those who want to go beyond the scope of the book to explore the features of Word 2000 on the Web. Each project concludes with a review section that includes a Summary, Key Terms and Operations, Study Questions (multiple choice, short answer, fill-in, and discussion), and two Hands-On Exercises. In addition, two to six On Your Own Exercises provide students the opportunity to practice and gain further experience with the material covered in the projects. Microsoft Certification The content of this text is driven by the Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) guidelines, and the author has developed the material from the ground up to reflect these objectives. Everyone who masters the projects in this text will be prepared to take the expert level exam in Microsoft® Office 2000. It is becoming mare and more important in today's competitive job market to have the skills necessary to be productive with today's most widely used applications software. SELECT Lab Series: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 is designed with this purpose in mind. Word 2000 The new Microsoft® Word 2000 features improved tools that simplify traditional word-processing tasks and adds an expanded menu of Web-related capabilities and email integration. Ten new SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 introduce students to features of Word, focusing an the MOUS objectives needed to prepare students for the expert certification exam. Features Running Case The Selections, Inc. Department store is an all-new case for SELECT Lab Series: Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000. As a Running Case, Selections, Inc. puts students in an environment they can relate to, both as students and as future professionals. Each project begins with a scenario that puts students in the department store where they perform tasks that relate to a particular area or division of the store. For example, this Advanced Word module has students create product information for Ritchey Bicycles. Using Word 2000 powerful tools the students integrate various graphics into company brochures for printing or publishing on the web. Students relate what they're doing in Word 2000 to a real-world situation that helps prepare them for what they may encounter in the business world as professionals. Challenge/Solution/Setup Once the student is familiar with the Running Case scenario for the project, the Challenge explains what they are actually going to do as they work through the tasks, and the Solution summarizes a plan for achieving that goal. The Setup provides the settings necessary to ensure that the screen the student sees will match what is shown in the book. Web Tip This all-new feature provides the student with links to helpful Web sites and tips for locating additional information about specific topics on the World Wide Web. Web Tips often relate to Word 2000, but include tips students can use in their everyday lives. Each project contains at least three Web Tips that encourage students to explore Web sites that relate to the tasks they are performing in the application, highlight professional organizations that enhance the material, or direct them to topics of interest on their own. Because the Web is constantly changing, some links referenced in Web Tips may become inactive during the course. CheckPoint Check Points are placed at intervals throughout each project and provide review questions that seek to assess a student's conceptual or procedural understanding of the current task. Break Point Each project in SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 has been designed to take approximately one hour in the lab. Because students learn at different paces or may not have a full hour to complete a project, the Break Point feature appears at about the midpoint in each project and alerts students of a good stopping point if they need a break but want to continue the project later. Break Points take the guess work out of having to decide whether or not it's appropriate to stop and make it easier for students to start working on a project that they may not have time to complete. Tips and Troubleshooting Boxes These feature boxes, popular with both instructors and students, appear throughout the text and have been revised and updated for SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000. Tip boxes include material that may be useful but that is not required in the step-by-step task instructions. Troubleshooting boxes alert students to problems they may encounter while using the applications and suggest possible causes for the problems along with potential solutions. Appendix The SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 book contains a useful appendix, Working with Word. It covers basic editing, formatting, navigation and getting help tools. The goal is to provide a review of Word for students who need to brush up on their skills. The Introduction sets the stage for the project and explains its purpose. Clearly defined and measurable Objectives outline the skills covered. The Running Case puts the students in the real-life environment of the Selections, Inc. department store. The Challenge states the reasoning for the project. The Solution describes the plan for completing the project, which consists of tasks leading to the final product. The Setup tells the student exactly which settings should be chosen so their computer screens match the illustrations in the book. Each topic begins with a brief introductory paragraph that explains the concepts and operations students will learn. An illustration shows the typical screen the student will see. Appropriate, full-color illustrations move the emphasis away from text and toward the visual-based application. Tip and Troubleshooting boxes appear at appropriate places throughout each project to highlight important, helpful information pertinent to the topic being discussed. New Break Points show where students can pause within a project. Clearly defined Tasks guide students step-by-step through each process, providing reassurance and increasing confidence for independent or group work. New Check Points reinforce a concept. Web Tip boxes refer students to Internet sites and offer helpful information about using the World Wide Web. Student Supplements Student Assessment Software: SkillCheck Professional Plus for Microsoft® Office 2000 features fully interactive test items that allow students to answer questions by performing complete tasks in virtually any correct way the software allows. All of the essential software features are fully simulated, so no additional software is required. In addition to independently validated tests that cover beginning, intermediate, and advanced skills, each SkillCheck Professional Plus system includes a database of more than 100 interactive questions for each Office application. The instructor has complete control over every important aspect of testing and reporting, allowing users to customize or create tests with ease and speed. Companion Web Site: SELECT: Advanced Projects for Microsoft® Word 2000 is accompanied by a Companion Web site. Interactive online study guides offer interactive quizzes, chat rooms, and much more to help students with the material covered in the text. Instructor Supplements Instructor's Resource CD-ROM: Instructors get extra support for this text from supplemental materials, including the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM. The CD-ROM includes the entire Instructor's Manual in Microsoft Word format, and Test Manager™, a computerized test bank designed to create printed tests, network tests, and self-assessment quizzes. Student data files and completed data files for Study Questions, Hands-On Exercises, and On Your Own Exercises are clearly organized on the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM. PowerPoint slides, which include keywords, objectives, running case, and solutions, are also included on the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM. The Instructor's Manual includes a test bank, with multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, as well as some screen captures that illustrate the solutions. The Instructor's Manual also includes expanded Student Objectives, Answers to Study Questions, and Additional Assessment Techniques. The Instructor's Manual is available on the Instructor's Resource CD-ROM and on the Companion Web site at www.prenhall.com/selectadvanced. Companion Web Site (www.prenhall.com/selectadvanced) Instructors can download the Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint slides from the Web site, as well as obtain the student data files and solutions files. Additional test questions will be available for each project, and an automatic assessment will be made after each test is taken. Each test question refers to the section to review in the text.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The goal of this book is to introduce learners to intermediate and advanced word processing management concepts, with an emphasis on business documents and correspondence. Through the projects in this book, users build upon a basic understanding of Word by creating more complex documents, using a full range of Word's more advanced features and tools. Utilizing a comprehensive approach to creating integrated documents, this book emphasizes the features in Microsoft Word for integrating Access and Excel data, and building web-based solutions for distributing business information. This book will be MOUS certified at the Expert level.

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This textbook presents the more advanced features and tools of the Word 2000 word processing program, such as formatting documents with sections and paragraphs, graphics and charts, mail merge, templates, the collaboration feature, and integrating other Office data. Step-by-step instructions walk through creating business letters and correspondence for an imaginary department store. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

ACCREDITATION

DR. PHILIP A. KONEMAN has over ten years of experience in computers and education. He is an Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems and Advanced Computer Applications at Colorado Christian University. His teaching responsibilities include Introduction to Computer Applications, where students learn the primary applications in Microsoft Office 2000 Premium Edition.

Dr. Koneman has a broad professional portfolio that includes a variety of activities outside the university. He assisted Nivo International in defining the MOUS Certification objectives for Office 2000. In addition to being an author on numerous Select modules; he is also the Series Consulting Editor for the entire Select series. Dr. Koneman is President of Instructional Design Consultants, Inc., a company that develops educational multimedia and provides consulting for curriculum design and educational measurement.