Amazon.com description: Product Description: For any course teaching application software using Microsoft Office 2000 applications. This book will appeal to students in a variety of disciplines including liberal arts, business, and the sciences. All books in this series offer consistent presentation - common design, pedagogy, and writing style. Concepts as well as key-strokes are stressed. Hands-on exercises in every lesson provide just the right amount of practice time. This best-selling author teams hands-on approach and conceptual framework helps students master important concepts, as well as the features of the powerful new Office 2000 applications.* NEW - MOUS Certification throughout the expert level for all individual applications and Office 2000. * Provides the necessary training to pass the MOUS exam at the expert level, preparing students to enter todays job market. * NEW - The Proficient Certification Edition provides training for the proficient level MOUS exam in all Office 2000 applications. * Quality, four-color, spiral bound - Exploring Office 2000 series covers Word 2000, Access 2000, Excel 2000, and PowerPoint 2000. There are three combined texts in the series, Exploring Microsoft Office 2000, Vol. I and II and Brief Office Professional 2000. * Gives students up-to-date information on current applications in an attractive, and easy-to-use format. * Three levels of chapter-ending exercises - Multiple Choice (study guide), Practice (hands-on), and Case Studies (open-ended). * Offers students plenty of opportunity for review and reinforcement. * Incorporates the Internet and WWW throughout - An exploring the WWW icon appears in the text whenever there is a Web activity. * Keeps students up-to-date with the pervasiveness of the Internet and makes it easy for them to locate Web-related information. * A unique OLE (object linking and embedding) icon - Appears in the margin next to any example or exercise that asks students to take advantage of this Windows 95 feature. * Makes it easy for students to locate this information. * Companion Website - Additional resources for the instructor and the student are available at www.prenhall.com/grauer * SkillCheck - Skills-based assessment/testing software (simulated applications testing all the way through MOUS Expert-level Certification) is available through the Prentice Hall Points Program. Demo CD (0-13-084884-0). * Each text in the Office 2000 series is part of the Prentice Hall custom binding program, the Right PHit. * Supported by interactive, CD-ROM based tutorials developed by CBT Systems and certified at the expert level of proficiency in Microsofts MOUS (Microsoft Office User Specialist Program). These tutorials may be value packed with any text in the Grauer/Barber Office 2000 series. * All supplements for this series, including Instructors Manual, Solutions Disk, PowerPoint, and Data Disks, as well as the Computerized Testing System, are available on one CD (0-13-013295-0).