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PDFM360 | Although this is older, the core of the program is explained and is applicable to online programs with similar names (AI did not exist at the time of this publication) |

Table of Contents

Word 2013 & 2016 - Productivity/Accessibility Tab Explained pg. 1
Word 2013 & 2016 - Using the Accessibility Checker pg. 6
Word 2013 & 2016 - Requirements to Make a Document Accessible pg. 13
Word 2013 & 2016 - How to Make an Old Document Accessible pg. 16
Word 2013 & 2016 - Templates & Styles, the Basics pg. 18
Word 2013 & 2016 - How to Make Figures Accessible pg. 22
Word 2013 & 2016 - Hyperlinks pg. 24
Word 2013 & 2016 - Colors and Contrast pg. 26
Word 2013 & 2016 - How to Make Accessible Tablets pg. 29
Creating Accessible Documents in Microsoft Word 2013 & 2016: Word Forms pg. 33
Word 2013 & 2016 - Converting to PDF pg. 40
Outlook 2013 & 2016-Creating Accessible Emails pg. 48
Excel 2013 & 2016- Creating an Accessible Excel Spreadsheet, Part 1 pg. 55
Excel 2013 & 2016- Creating an Accessible Excel Spreadsheet, Part 2 pg. 64
Excel 2013 & 2016-Accessible Excel Forms, Part 2 pg. 70
PowerPoint 2013 & 2016-Designing Accessible Presentations pg. 76
PowerPoint 2013 & 2016-Delivering Accessible Presentations pg. 89
Summary pg. 98

Software

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Note: I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Interesting to see the decisions that go into designing an art style that is meant to both modernize as well as call back to the original and the delicate balance that goes into that. I wish there was more info about this. I wish there was more concept art too. It can be frustrating how many concepts don't have any captions providing context. A lot of concept art that was chosen had a backlit quality to it that obscured the foreground: I assume that this is intentional to show the environments, but, again, lacking a framing, it doesn't have the impact that it could have.

I mostly just want more of it.

NA

A standard textbook - for slow and hard to work through.
Has good information, though

so spreadsheet addicted (odd addiction, i know,)
love Excel for so many purposes

This book is a great preparation for the 70-058 test. The book prepares you for a computer specialist position.

Good for .Net work

This is the Getting Started manual for Microsoft Visual Basic Version 5.0. Besides telling you how to install Visual Basic 5.0, this manual serves as a road map to the other Visual Basic manuals.

Visual Basic 5.0 works exclusively with 32-bit versions of Windows. At the time of its release, VB5 ran on Windows NT 3.51 or later, or on Windows 95. Minimum hardware requirements include: 80486 or higher CPU, hard disk with 50MB available space, CD-ROM drive, VGA or higher screen resolution, 16MB RAM, and a mouse.

Following an introductory chapter dedicated to using Visual Basic 5.0, the remaining chapters of the book are dedicated to subjects, such as: Introduction to Data Access Objects, Introduction to ActiveX Components, Introduction to Internet Applications, Using ActiveX Controls, Introducing Add-Ins, Introduction to Client/Server Applications, Introduction to Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, and Introduction to the Microsoft Repository.

Programmers who prefer to write 16-bit programs can import programs written in VB4 to VB5, and VB5 programs can be converted with VB4.

VB6 is the successor to VB5. Mainstream Support for Microsoft VB6 ended on March 31, 2005. As of March 2008, VB6 has entered Microsoft's non-supported phase. The Visual Basic user community expressed its grave concern and lobbied users to sign a petition to keep the product alive, but Microsoft refused to change their position on the matter.

Visual Basic .NET is Microsoft's designated successor to VB6. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform. Visual Basic.Net compiles and runs using the .NET Framework. It is not backwards compatible with VB6, VB5, VB4, etc.

This manual's cover states: "For Distribution Only With a New PC."

Although the title suggests a singular "User's Guide" (User's Guide: Microsoft Windows for Workgroups Operating System Version 3.11), it really consists of two volumes in one.

Volume 1 is called Microsoft Workgroup Add-On for Windows: User's Guide for the Microsoft Windows Operating System, (1993). This volume provides the reader with information about enhancements and new applications for Windows for Workgroups Version 3.11. The enhancements and new applications are all about networking, mailing, and faxing

Volume 2 is called User's Guide: Microsoft Windows Operating System Version 3.1 (1993). This volume provides the reader with the information needed to use Microsoft Windows Version 3.1, such as, starting and stopping Windows, using the Program Manager, File Manager, and Print Manager, using the Control Panel, and switching between applications (both Windows and MS-DOS applications).

A Comprehensive Index at the end of the 2-in-1 manual lists entries for both guides. Each volume contains its own Table of Contents.

Microsoft Windows for Workgroups (WFW) 3.11 was released in 1993. It supported full 32-bit file access, TCP/IP networking, and file caching. WFW was not integrated with DOS. It was like any other application that ran on DOS. WFW was superseded two years later by Windows 95, Microsoft's first attempt to integrate MS-DOS and Windows into a single product.

As of October 2008, WFW 3.11 is still being sold. Microsoft is selling it in their embedded product line, but not for long. In July 2008, Microsoft announced that as of November 1, 2008, WFW 3.11 would finally go away.

Incidentally, WFW 3.11 was the first Windows operating system to include Minesweeper.

Version 4.5 was the last version of Microsoft QuickBASIC. There is good news and bad news about the manual that came with the software.

The good news is that QuickBASIC 4.5 and its compiler are fantastic. Compact executables can be quickly created from source code. These programs compile and run just fine under Windows XP in a DOS emulation window.

The bad news is that the manual consists of two books in one with separate tables of contents and separate alphabetical indexes. ("Old Fumble Fingers" has a hard time finding stuff.)

Book One, Learning to Use Microsoft QuickBASIC, Part One is about getting started. Here the reader learns how to install the program, run it, use QuickBASIC menus and commands, and navigate through QuickBASIC's windows. There is also a chapter for beginners.

Book One, Part Two is a hands-on tutorial for QuickBASIC. It tells how to create a sample program called QCARDS. In this section, readers learn how to edit a program in QuickBASIC's view window, how to program with on-line help from within the QuickBASIC environment, and how to debug while programming.

Book One, Part Three covers QuickBASIC menus and commands. Here the reader learns about the File Menu, the Edit Menu, the View Menu, the Search Menu, the Run Menu, the Debug Menu, the Calls Menu, the Options Menu, and the Help Menu.

Book One ends with a glossary, an alphabetical index, and some answers to common questions about QuickBASIC.

Book Two, Programming in BASIC, Part One, Chapters 1-7 deal with selected programming topics, such as, control-flow structures, SUB and FUNCTION procedures, file and device I/O, string processing, graphics, error trapping, event trapping, and programming with modules.

Book Two, Part Two, Chapters 8 & 9 bring the reader to the heart of BASIC. Chapter 8 is devoted to a statement and function summary. Chapter 9 consists of seven quick-reference tables: (1) Summary of Control-Flow Statements, (2) Summary of Statements Used in BASIC Procedures, (3) Summary of Standard I/O Statements, (4) Summary of File I/O Statements, (5) Summary of String-Processing Statements and Functions, (6) Summary of Graphics Statements and Functions, and (7) Summary of Trapping Statements and Functions.

The remainder of Book Two is devoted to appendices: (A) Converting BASICA Programs to QuickBASIC, (B) Differences from Previous Versions of QuickBASIC, (C) Limits in QuickBASIC, (D) Keyboard Scan Codes and ASCII Character Codes, (E) BASIC Reserved Words, (F) Metacommands, (G) Compiling and Linking from DOS, (H) Creating and Using Quick Libraries, and (I) Error Messages.

The most disappointing thing about this two-in-one manual is the way Microsoft buried its most helpful information, the "Quick-Reference Tables." Yours Truly, "Old Fumble Fingers," finds nothing quick about locating the "Quick-Reference Tables" in Book Two, Part Two, Chapter 9, Pages 297-308.

This book is a reference manual for Microsoft Works, Version 2.0, for DOS.

Microsoft Works is an office suite ("home productivity software suite") available from Microsoft. It is smaller, less expensive, and has fewer features than its big brother, the Microsoft Office suite.

The core functionality of Microsoft Works Version 2.0 includes a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a database manager, and a terminal emulator for communications.

Setting up and starting Works is relegated to an appendix.

I tried to use Works a time or two, but was so disappointed by its limitations that I quickly abandoned it in favor of shareware and freeware applications that did the same things, only better.

I bought this set planning on using it to get another Microsoft Certification. I haven't had time to study for that. What little I've looked at it, makes it seem like a good set to get Certified but not very great for learning real world applications of the .Net framework.½

Document No. 000-28620

This was produced during the waning days of decent technical writing at Microsoft, but it's still pretty good, compared to the page or two we get now. Kathryn Hamilton is credited as the "Project Lead". Charlotte Lowrie and Janet Wilson were also contributing authors. This manual is dedicated to Charlie Golder.

i wish they hadn't stopped making reference manuals--they were so much more easy to use than the computer help menus--most of the time--i liked it back in the day--when we had both :( oh the good old days...

not sure why i hang on to this stuff--must have been useful once½

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The truth about the Microsoft-Apple relationship.
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The global organization that speaks in 38 languages.
What the people at Microsoft really think about the Justice Department lawsuit.
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