Quick Course® Series

Series Overview

Quick Course® books show how to use the most useful features of popular software packages to create documents that can actually be used in the workplace. Ideal for both self-paced training and instructor-led classes, each Quick Course book offers 20 to 60 hours of quality, step-by-step instruction. Quick Course books are the textbooks of choice for many high schools, technical schools, community colleges, universities, training companies, and corporate training departments. Priced from $14.95 (with discounts for orders of 5 or more of the same title), they meet most instructional needs and are within most budgets.

Because of the hands-on, step-by-step nature of Quick Course training, each book functions as a fully self-contained instructional unit.

All the Quick Course training products are created by the same team of authors, so if you like one, you'll like them all!

Quick Course Training Philosophy

Are you just starting to learn a new computing skill? The Quick Course training series is designed so that you can do useful, independent work after following along with just the first few chapters. Subsequent chapters build on these basic skills, so that by the end of the book, you are equipped to tackle most of the common tasks you will need to perform—and many of the not-so-common ones, too!

To accomplish its purpose, Quick Course training is designed with an approach that we call Tell Me, Show Me, Let Me Do It.

• Tell Me. Each course consists of comprehensive, skill-based instruction that walks you through procedures one step at a time.
• Show Me. We don't just take a simple "do this, do that" approach, because when you've finished the course, we want you to be able to apply what you have learned to your own work. So the first time you perform a procedure we explain how you need to set things up and why, what's going on at each step, and what the results will be. And we include lots of screen shots so that you can check your work in progress. So there is never any question about what you need to do when.
• Let Me Do It. As you learn new skills and increase your proficiency, you work through procedures you have already learned on your own; you can refer back to earlier exercises at any time if you have questions.

The step-by-step instructions in each course are self-contained, meaning that you create the files you need as you go along, and no additional files are necessary.

Real-World Learning

For the main tutorial, we set the scene with a fictitious scenario so that all the files you create pertain to a single company or organization. Instead of providing files you've never seen before and asking you to perform an isolated task with them, we show you how to build files from scratch and gradually increase their level of sophistication and complexity. By the end of the course, you have created a set of files that you might want to recycle for your own purposes—and what's more, you'll know how!

Quick Course Series

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Volume Discounts

We offer a 20% discount to trainers and educators ordering five or more copies of the same title.

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