Book details of 'Windows® 3.1 For Dummies® Quick Reference'

Title	Windows® 3.1 For Dummies® Quick Reference
Author(s)	Greg Harvey, Lowe
ISBN	1568849516
Language	English
Published	June 1994
Publisher	Hungry Minds, Inc

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Think, for a second, about the problem of organizing a guide to a GUI (graphical user interface) system. You can't use an alphabetical list of commands, because there are no commands. You can use the menu items and jargon, but that does rather eliminate the "ease of use" advantage of the GUI. (Quick: what's a "split bar"?) OK, now we'll make it a bit harder: how do you organize a quick reference? Given the constraints of the task, then, Harvey has done an admirable job. This book is designed for the beginner who has at least some Windows experience but who wants to learn more, quickly. The book is divided into Windows basics, application basics, Program Manager, File Manager, Central Panel, Windows for Workgroups, and a quick list of keystroke shortcuts. Within a chapter, topics are listed alphabetically, sometimes by item title, but more often by description. Since even descriptive titles may not be intuitive (do you list "Changing File Attributes" under change, file, attribute, alter, modify, amend, edit ...?) the index, for a book of its size, is extensive. It is difficult to say that the choice of material is a shortcoming. Certainly, a great many options, menu items and dialog box buttons are described as "best left to a Windows guru". There is no word on .INI files. This book is, however, quite adequate to make a computer-literate non-Windows- user proficient within an hour or so. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994
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Now, you can have all the functions and features of Windows 3.1 right at your fingertips whenever you sit down to work. Windows 3.1 For Dummies Quick Reference, 2nd Edition, is the essential compact reference you can turn to any time you run into a stumbling block, need to jog your memory, or just want to see if a better way to do something with your operating system is available. With coverage of Windows for Workgroups through Version 3.11 as well as coverage of Windows 3.1, this little book is sure to become one of the most-thumbed Windows guides on your bookshelf.