Publisher's Synopsis
This guide is a new software oriented, microcomputer text that helps create a learning environment geared to the work environment. It discusses the following commercially available packages: WordStar, Wordperfect, Easywriter, PFSWrite, R Base, dBase III, RIM, PFSfile, LOTUS 1-2-3, SuperCalc3, and Symphony. Focusing on microcomputers as the tools of the business person and end-user, the guide provides students with hands-on training for several of the most popular software packages within each of the five applications areas: operating systems, word processing, data base management, spreadsheets, graphics/sound and BASIC programming.;The guide focuses on the concepts in each application area and shows students step-by-step how each package can be used to apply those concepts. It analyzes each type of package in relevant depth so that students understand their differences in useful detail. Also incorporated in the book is a micro laboratory assignment to each applications chapter, and to facilitate hands- on use, the command structures are given for the major packages. The guide is carefully designed to give enough specifics so that students can actually use software packages for simple and intermediate applications, and the importance of microcomputers as professional productivity tools in business organizations is illustrated throughout.
