teach yourself...PageMaker® 6.5 for Macintosh® and Windows®

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Summary: Works with PageMaker 6.5 Plus, too!
Review: Although I don't cover the clip art and other minor additions to PageMaker 6.5 in the new Plus version, everything else in this book works great as a tool for teaching you to use this pervasive DTP tool.

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Summary: What a great book!
Review: Despite what beginning DTP workers might think, you can't write, edit, and lay out any sort of book in less than a week, and you can't become an expert in less than 90 minutes. However, if you're willing to invest the time to learn how to do things right, this book will teach you everything you need to know. I'm using it both in my high school classes and in some courses I teach at our community college, and find that my students like the writing style, learn from the examples, and finish with a solid grounding in PageMaker techniques. Although Adobe doesn't seem to be promoting this program any more, there are lots of us who still find it useful, and I'm glad there are good books like this one available to teach PageMaker's fundamentals.

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Summary: What a great book!
Review: Despite what beginning DTP workers might think, you can't write, edit, and lay out any sort of book in less than a week, and you can't become an expert in less than 90 minutes. However, if you're willing to invest the time to learn how to do things right, this book will teach you everything you need to know. I'm using it both in my high school classes and in some courses I teach at our community college, and find that my students like the writing style, learn from the examples, and finish with a solid grounding in PageMaker techniques. Although Adobe doesn't seem to be promoting this program any more, there are lots of us who still find it useful, and I'm glad there are good books like this one available to teach PageMaker's fundamentals.

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Summary: 5 Stars?
Review: I had been given the task of continuing the production of a local newsletter and I thought this book would help me out. Since I have little experience with Macs and no Adobe skills, I thought it would be particularly helpful. However, after spending one workday with it (and finishing it) I found it terribly lacking, and from what I have learned on my own in the past month I am certain I could write, edit, and lay-out a much better book about Pagemaker on my own--in less than a weeks time. I finished the so-called weekend tour in less than 90 minutes, moved ahead, and wound up turning to a co-worker for advice. Later, when I attempted to use it for a reference tool, I found the content suitable for a preschooler and the index and general referencing simply horrible. Since I am learning the program in Japanese, this senseless guide compounded my frustration. Because this is the type of books MIS lets past its editors, I will never purchase a book from them again.

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Summary: 5 Stars?
Review: I had been given the task of continuing the production of a local newsletter and I thought this book would help me out. Since I have little experience with Macs and no Adobe skills, I thought it would be particularly helpful. However, after spending one workday with it (and finishing it) I found it terribly lacking, and from what I have learned on my own in the past month I am certain I could write, edit, and lay-out a much better book about Pagemaker on my own--in less than a weeks time. I finished the so-called weekend tour in less than 90 minutes, moved ahead, and wound up turning to a co-worker for advice. Later, when I attempted to use it for a reference tool, I found the content suitable for a preschooler and the index and general referencing simply horrible. Since I am learning the program in Japanese, this senseless guide compounded my frustration. Because this is the type of books MIS lets past its editors, I will never purchase a book from them again.

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Summary: If you want to learn PageMaker, this is the book!
Review: I was extremely happy with Teach Yourself PageMaker 6.5. It did a great job of walking me through the ins and outs of this really nice peice of software. It was definately worth every penny.

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Summary: Great for the beginner!
Review: Very well written and easy to follow. I found this book to be a fantastic reference if I found myself stuck and I needed answers quickly. Loved the Weekend Tour.