[X4U] Best OSX beginners book?

[Fabian Fang]

On Aug 17, 2005, at 8:03 AM, Jim Colgate wrote:

> Although definitely not comprehensive, I have found the "Visual",
> "Simplified", and "Illustrated" books the best for beginners if you  
> can find
> them. I got "maran Illustrated Mac OS X v.10.4 Tiger" for my 80  
> year old
> Father and he found it useful for understanding the specific tasks  
> he wanted
> to do. Now if one of those publishers would just produce one for  
> Office 2004
> we would be set.

You and your father would have been set quite some time ago if you  
had found "Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X" by Steve Schwartz, a  
good book in the Peachpit Press Visual Quickstart Guide series (ISBN:  
0-321-24747-7).