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Summary: directions unclear and examples are often in correct
Review: I am very disapointed with this tutorial. I have found many mistakes and have spent hours cross referencing what the book says to do with the quarkxpress reference book. It has been very frustrating. I would not recomend it at all! If adobe classroom in a book were to write it than I would happily purchase it.
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Summary: !4 days to QuarkXPress
Review: I tried to use this book as a teaching guide for beginnng students. There were a lot of inconsistencies. For instance the instruction would not yield the expected result.The book did not even explain the measurement palette until very late in the chapters and it made assumptions that the user already knew something about Quark. This is not a book for a beginner to desktop publishing.
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Summary: GREAT! FOR LINING THE BIRD'S CAGE!!
Review: I wouldn't recommend this book to my worst enemy. The CD that comes with it doesn't work and the text has so many mistakes that I couldn't even count them all. I found over 20 in the first 4 days of my 14 days of teaching myself QuarkXPress. I spent over a month (Daily 6 hrs a day) and still didn't learn QuarkXPress! The only reason I gave it 1 star is because you can't give it -5 stars.
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Summary: Trash!! Pure and simple!! Wasted Money, Time & Environment
Review: If I were the author of this book, I too would not make myself available for questions. So many steps are left out that the only thing the book is good for is buring. We are using this as a text book at a local college and even our instructor, who makes a living with Quark, is having much problems getting the book to work.I'll not soon buy another product from Kate Binder or even SAMS!!!!! Clearly, SAMS does not have a Quality Control program up and running. You have been warned. Spend your money at your own risk.
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Summary: Simplest Things Cannot be Found, Even in The Index!
Review: LESS THAN 1 STAR. I took a class in Quark 4 and wanted a book to supplement the instruction, so I purchased this book, (Quark can seem quite difficult when you are beginning to learn about it). I needed something that I could turn to quickly to find out how to do something without wading through pages and pages trying to find it. Sam's Teach Yourself QuarkXPress in 14 Days? -- NOT! Want a well-edited book on Quark with an easy-to-follow layout? Get the Visual Quickstart Guide published by Peachpit Press.
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Summary: Awful book
Review: Plenty of errors. Imposible to learn Quark in 14 days. Most excercises have errors when you open them and you don't enjoy learning the software whith the CD content.
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Summary: Words cannot describe my disappointment in this book!
Review: The textbook is difficult to follow and the accompanying CD does not contain all the necessary items to successfully complete any of the lessons listed in the book. So far, nobody in my class, including the instructor, was able to follow the instructions given in this insufficient textbook. In my opinion, it is a complete waste of money and time. I am sure there are better product available!
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Summary: Don't believe the title!
Review: There is absolutely no chance that using this book I could learn Quarkxpress 4 in fourteen days. Not only is the book poorly written with confusing instructions, but the enclosed CD is lacking items to which the book makes reference. When I called McMillan Technical Support I received no response. I have found the Adobe Classroom in a Book for both Photoshop and Illustrator to be excellent and was hoping this book would be similar. Unfortunately, it fell far short of my expectations. This book is not worth the high price of $40.00.
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Summary: BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD..................WASTE of MONEY and TIME
Review: This book is full of errors and should not be listed for sale
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Summary: THIS BOOK HELPED ME
Review: This is belated I know, but this book helped me a lot even though I was using it to try and figure out Quarkxpress 5.0. It does have a few mistakes but I have never read a computer book that doesn't. I had checked out several books from the library designed for version 5.0 but their authors all seemed to be using them as an avenue to show off the extent of their knowledge rather than teach. The "For Dummies" book was especially bad. It started out simply but soon I was all in a wad. This book is simple, step by step, and it has lots of fun projects. My projects didn't always turn out quite right, probably because of the difference in versions, but I got the drift. I think Quark is a pretty complicated program, anyway. You can't really expect to start off at square one and know it all at the end of just one book. But I learned a lot from this one. Thank you Kate Binder!
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