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Book:   AppleWorks 6: the Missing Manual
Subject:   AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual Review
Date:   2000-07-09 17:52:46
From:   Hartley Jackson
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

The 65 page manual shipped with AppleWorks 6 is inadequate, and the Help system is not a replacement for a manual. Easy as it is to use, to get real value out of AppleWorks 6 you need a manual.


AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual is a complete manual that is well written and is never a chore to read. Since it is not an Apple book, it can and does call a bug a bug, and tells you how to fix it. It tells you how the program works, and includes step by step tutorials to help you do it. Reading The Missing Manual, I learned how to do things that I was not able to figure out by myself.


The Missing Manual books, like AppleWorks 6, are designed to enhance working with them. AppleWorks 6: The Missing Manual opens flat and stays open so you can read it while working on your Macintosh.


The authors, Jim Elferdink & David Reynolds, credit David Pogue as being the greatest editor a first time author could hope for. My expectations were high when I saw the name Pogue on the cover. I was not disappointed. I have read and used The Missing Manual, and I recommend it.