I don't have goglobal_2000's experience with XML. (I probably don't have his tenacity either, but let's not get personal.) So I don't know if his criticism is on-point or completely made up. But I think highly enough of Que Publishing's "Using" series in general - and the Word titles in particular - to want to post some praise of its broader merits.
I have perused pretty much every Word instruction manual on the market, and this is the one I'd go with. Most importantly, it is *extremely* comprehensive. Speaking personally, I can figure out how to cut-and-paste for myself. It's programming macros and the other scarily powerful features at the far edges of Microsoft-space that I… Read more
Knowing that it's mostly intelligent, clear-thinking people who will be willing to venture outside the for-your-own-good totalitarianism of Microsoftland, the authoress efficiently plots you a straight-line course to mastery of the product. She doesn't waste your time telling you where to find the File menu, or, at the other extreme, how to parse the source code. Her revivifying doses of occasional wit are actually amusing - unlike the Borscht Belt shtick found in the "For Dummies" volumes. And there's no bullstuff either. One section is aptly titled "How To Turn Off Annoying Features". And when she finds the DirectCursor feature more of a menace than an asset, she tells… Read more
Whatever you think of "Atlas Shrugged" as a work of literature or a work of philosophy, there is no arguing away its massive and enduring connection with its readers. The book is not assigned in schools, and yet it has been a continuously strong seller for 47 years now despite its daunting bulk and lengthy sermonizing. Obviously, there is something in it that speaks to people.
Many here would say that it merely flatters the adolescent reader (whatever their age) and their sense of themselves as an unappreciated but superior person. There is a large grain of truth in that, and I think only a die-hard Randian would feel the need to dispute it.
