Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition for Dummies

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 432 pages
• Published by: For Dummies
• Edition: 1st Edition July 14, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0764503537
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0764503535
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Product Description
Everything you could possibly ever need -- from word processing and spreadsheet software to database and graphics applications, Web publishing tools, and even a personal organizer -- is packed into this top-notch, integrated suite of computer programs. With the powerful array of Lotus programs at your fingertips, you will not be lacking anything else to turn your computer into a full-service systemexcept, of course, a copy of Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition For Dummies, your all-in-one guide to just about any Lotus computing task you can imagine.

Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition For Dummies helps you manage your day-to-day workload at home or at the office with step-by-step coaching, clear and concise explanations, and fast and friendly tips and techniques for making the power of Lotus SmartSuite work for you. Create professional-looking letters, memos, and reports; crunch numbers to your heart's content; manage and massage huge chunks of data; create high-quality graphics; organize your personal and professional life; and publish it all on the World Wide Web with the wide range of programs that make Lotus SmartSuite a must-have for all your computing needs.

Back Cover Copy
Ten Great Tips and Shortcuts Inside!

Get the Most Out of Word Pro, FastSite, 1-2-3, Approach, Freelance Graphics, and Organizer! Streamline your workday using this fully integrated suite of powerful work tools. With clear explanations and tons of time-saving tips, Lotus® SmartSuite^® Millennium Edition For Dummies^® shows you how to create outstanding memos, reports, and spreadsheets, unique multimedia presentations, and even eye-popping Web pages - in no time!

Inside, find helpful advice on how to:

• Get an overview of each program in the respective "Boot Camp" chapters
• Use the new FastSite program to build and publish an entire Web site
• Dictate memos, letters, and reports straight to your computer using SmartSuite's new ViaVoice feature
• Flow data into manageable spreadsheets and let 1-2-3 crunch the numbers
• Create, manage, and join complex databases easily with Approach
• Choose from over 100 dazzling Freelance Graphics presentation formats
• Use Organizer to maintain your schedule, store contact data, and keep a "to-do" list

Reader Reviews
The photo of the cover shows a book called, "Smartsuite X For Dummies". The title beside the photo says, "Lotus Smartsuite Millennium Edition For Dummies". "Millennium Edition For Dummies" is about release 9.5, and isn't a bad book for a rank beginner, but I had to buy several other books to really figure out most of what this book promised (like sharing data between the various programs in SmartSuite, which is addressed nowhere in the book but on the front cover, as far as I could tell). "Smartsuite X" is (presumably) about release 10, which I don't have, so I haven't read this book. If I do upgrade to release 10, though, I won't bother to buy the "Dummies" book. The QUE book "Using SmartSuite Millennium Edition" was a much better tutorial on 9.5, so I'd sooner buy the release ten edition of that book instead. As far as I can tell, anyone who wants to build stand alone applications with Lotus needs to learn Uncle Bill's Visual Basic Script language (VBS), which isn't really addressed in any Lotus book I've seen (Duh!). Might as well learn DBase or FoxBase; you can do a lot more a lot easier.