在我对Microsoft Office 2010 Plain & Simple的评论中，我注意到那本书采用了一种简单的方法，对于我们这些想要更多信息的人来说，还有其他书籍可以更全面地了解Office 2010 。那么——不是你需要的简化书吗？您是否想要一份可靠且易于理解的参考资料(easy-to-understand reference)，以了解有关Microsoft Office的所有信息？Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out可能正是您想要的。
现在，话虽如此，我必须注意，本书并未尝试涵盖每个Office 2010版本中包含的所有可能程序。它旨在深入了解Word、Excel、OneNote、Powerpoint和Outlook。它涵盖的程序是最常用的，大多数人可能拥有的Office 2010版本中的程序——老实说，如果这本书详细介绍了每个Office组件，你需要一个叉车把它捡起来。它已经超过 900 页，索引为 47 页。请注意，这不是投诉。作者在这些页面中做了很多解释，而且他们做得很好。
入门，详细
本书首先概述了Microsoft Office 2010 ，并为直接从(Microsoft Office 2010)Microsoft Office 2003升级的用户提供了特别帮助，他们将看到Office界面发生了根本性的变化。我（作为一个更熟悉Office 2003的人）非常欣赏这本书的一个特点是“由内而外”("Inside Out")的技巧出现在他们自己的小方框中。它们清楚地解释了为什么某些事情会以它们的方式工作，并提供非常有用的建议来解决软件问题。介绍性章节详细介绍了功能区(Ribbon)，该功能区最初是在Microsoft Office 2007中引入的(Microsoft Office 2007)，并且已在Microsoft Office 2010中扩展和更新。还对Office 2010(Office 2010)的各个版本中包含的内容、每个版本的系统要求以及没有从一个版本到下一个版本的简单升级路径的优秀建议进行了广泛的了解，因此最好绝对确定您的在您为任何给定版本投入资金之前需要。Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out还给出了我见过的最全面的安装过程描述。(installation process)我认为没有人会因为没有足够的信息而阅读它。
有用于自定义所有Office组件的选项的详细说明，并深入了解Backstage View。（长期使用Office的用户可能会认为Backstage View是 DOS 版本(Backstage View)Word中(Word)传输(Transfer)菜单的更新版本。）我还喜欢自定义功能区(Ribbon)的深入说明，其中包括一长串您可以做和不能做的事情看待。以有意义的方式将事物组合在一起是使此类复杂软件更易于理解的最佳步骤之一。介绍性章节(introductory chapter)的其余部分同样详细介绍了这些命令，(file manipulation and formatting)所有Microsoft Office 2010组件共有的文件操作和格式设置。阅读本书的前 186 页后，您应该对Office的工作方式有一个很好的、扎实的介绍。是的，阅读量很大。但这就是本书的目的——深入、全面地解释一切。
我们知道什么，我们不知道什么
我认为可以肯定地说，大多数使用Office的人都熟悉其中的一两个组件程序，可能永远不会接触其他程序，或者对它们的经验有限。作者创作本书的目的是为最常用的Office程序提供最好的(Office)参考工作(reference work)，他们成功了。如果您有Microsoft Office 2010 由内而外(Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out)手头上，您不必费力地尝试使用不太熟悉的软件——书中有专家级的说明。与其他此类书籍一样，无需阅读整本书，也无需按任何顺序阅读，即可从中获得最大收益。事实上，只要阅读第一个介绍部分，就可以为大多数人提供使用任何组件的非常坚实的基础。涵盖Word、Excel、OneNote、Powerpoint和Outlook的各个部分与简介一样全面。每个部分都从对基本命令、格式、文档创建等的详细讨论开始，逐步介绍大多数用户需要了解的内容。每个组件的部分都以“Inside Out”一章，从基础到更高级的任务。这些“Inside Out”章节还解释了Microsoft添加到Office 2010中的一些内容，例如Building Blocks（我想很多人会提到作为“模板”）和Office的网页创建功能，即使没有添加Publisher也是相当可观的。每个“Inside Out”部分都以作者最喜欢的Office组件调整和提示结尾。
以正确的音符结尾
Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out完成了处理文件共享和安全性的章节（并将两者正确链接在一起）。最后一部分，称为“故障排除主题索引”，("Index to Troubleshooting Topics,")采用了一种独特的方法。它没有重复前几章中的故障排除建议，而是按字母顺序在包含最常见问题和解决方案页码的表格中列出了(page number)Office的组件。我认为这是一个很好的方法。
判决
现在，我首先要说并非所有使用Microsoft Office 2010的人都需要这本书。但是，如果您想超越简单的文档创建(document creation)、格式化和打印基础知识，这本书绝对适合您。它将帮助您充分利用Microsoft Office 2010以及熟悉的和不太熟悉的组件。与其他一些冗长的软件手册类型的书籍不同，这本书没有浪费空间。我已经使用Word和Excel几十年了，我对我仍然不知道该怎么做感到惊讶。多亏了这本书，我正在走向一个全新的专业水平。是一个守门员。
Book Review - Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out
In my review of Microsoft Office 2010 Plain & Simple, I noted that that book took a bare-bones approach, and there were other books that could give a more complete look at Office 2010 for those of us who wanted a lot more information. So—is a simplified book not what you need? Do you want a good solid easy-to-understand reference for just about everything there is to know about Microsoft Office? Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out might be just what you're looking for.
Now, having said that I must note that this book does not try to cover every possible program that's included in every version of Office 2010. It's designed to give an in-depth look at Word, Excel, OneNote, Powerpoint, and Outlook. The programs it covers are the most commonly used, and the ones found in the versions of Office 2010 most people are likely to have—and honestly, if the book went into this level of detail about every single Office component, you'd need a forklift to pick it up. It's already over 900 pages long, with a 47-page index. This is not a complaint, mind you. The authors get a lot of explaining done in those pages, and they do it well.
Getting started, in detail
The book begins with an overview of Microsoft Office 2010, and offers special help to people who upgraded directly from Microsoft Office 2003, who will be seeing radical changes in the Office interface. One feature of this book that I (as someone who's a lot more familiar with Office 2003) really appreciated is the "Inside Out" tips that appear in their own little boxes throughout the book. These give clear explanations of why certain things work the way they do, and provide very helpful suggestions to work around software problems. The introductory chapter goes into great detail about the Ribbon, which was first introduced in Microsoft Office 2007, and which has been expanded and updated in Microsoft Office 2010. There's also an extensive look at what's included in the various versions of Office 2010, the system requirements for each, and the excellent advice that there's no simple upgrade path from one version to the next, so it's a good idea to be absolutely sure of your needs before you plunk down your money for any given version. Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out also gives the most comprehensive description of the installation process I've ever seen. I don't think anyone will come away from reading it thinking they don't have enough information.
There's a detailed description of the options you have for customizing all the Office components, and an in-depth look at Backstage View. (Longtime Office users may recognize Backstage View as an updated version of the Transfer menu from the DOS versions of Word.) I also liked the in-depth instructions for customizing the Ribbon, including a long list of things you can and cannot do in that regard. Putting things together in a way that makes sense is one of the best steps to take in making such sophisticated software easier to understand. The rest of the introductory chapter goes into just as much detail about the commands, file manipulation and formatting that all the Microsoft Office 2010components have in common. Once you've read the first 186 pages of the book, you should have a good solid introduction to the way Office works. And yes, that's a lot of reading. But that's what this book was written for—an in-depth, comprehensive explanation of everything.
What we know, and what we don't
I think it's safe to say that most people who use Office are familiar with one or two of its component programs, and may never touch the others, or have limited experience with them. The authors' purpose in creating this book was to provide the best possible reference work for the most commonly used Office programs, and they succeeded. If you've got Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out on hand, you need not flounder around trying to work with less familiar software--there are expert-level instructions right there in the book. As with other books of this nature, one need not read the whole thing, nor read it in any kind of order, to get maximum benefit from it. In fact, just reading that first introductory section will give most people a very firm foundation from which to use any of the components. The individual sections covering Word, Excel, OneNote, Powerpoint and Outlook are every bit as comprehensive as the introduction. Each section starts with a detailed discussion of the basic commands, formatting, document creation and so forth, moving step by step through the things most users will need to know. And each component's section ends with an "Inside Out" chapter that moves on from the basics to the more advanced tasks.These "Inside Out" chapters also explain some of the things that Microsoft has added to Office 2010, such as Building Blocks (which I think many people would refer to as "templates") and Office's web-page-creation capabilities, which even without the addition of Publisher are considerable. Each "Inside Out" section ends with the authors' favorite tweaks and tips for that Office component.
Ending on the right note
Microsoft Office 2010 Inside Out finishes up with chapters dealing with file sharing and security (and quite properly links the two together). The final section, which is called "Index to Troubleshooting Topics," takes a unique approach. Instead of repeating troubleshooting advice from previous chapters, it lists Office's components alphabetically in a table containing the most common problems and the page number on which the solution appears. I think this is an excellent way to go about it.
Verdict
Now, I'd be the first to say that not everyone who uses Microsoft Office 2010 will need this book. However, if you want to go well beyond the simple basics of document creation, formatting, and printing, this book is definitely for you. It will help you get the most out of Microsoft Office 2010, familiar and less-familiar components alike. Unlike some other long software-manual type books, this one contains no wasted space. I have used Word and Excel for decades and I was astonished by how much I still did not know how to do. Thanks to this book, I'm on my way to a whole new level of expertise. It's a keeper.
