This book is a comprehensive reference to Word and Excel. It briefly covers the basics of the Office programs and then moves quickly on to cover roughly 600 pages each of Word and Excel at the intermediate and advanced feature level. This book gives the reader complete coverage of both Word 97 and Excel 97 in one convenient reference. There is no competing book like this. This book offers a huge advantage in coverage of Word and Excel over any existing "Office" title.

The Camarda book is very good, but Person's is much more authorative and complete (a better buy if one is looking solely for a reference book). --Jon Hand