This book is not for someone that just wants to get a cursory understanding of Microsoft Word 2000.
If that's all you want, you'd be much better off with a Dummies book. Using Microsoft Word 2000 is
over one thousand pages (1,402 to be precise) detailing every subtle nuance of Microsoft Word.

In the beginning
Introduction to Word 2000 and Everyday Word Processing Techniques comprise the first eight
chapters and contain information that most users are already somewhat familiar with, like creating,
opening and saving files, text formatting, using find, search and replace and using the spell checker,
grammar checker and thesaurus.
The section called Increase Productivity moves into if not unknown, then options underused by
the average user. You'll find such topics as working with tables and lists and defining your own
styles. I've worked some with lists, but never with tables. Don't laugh. I had thought tables were
just an HTML function. I hadn't known that Word could do it natively. This section also has things
that would have been so useful to me when I did term papers like adding headers and footers,
footnotes and endnotes.
Incorporate Data and Objects from Other Sources was my favorite section. This section teaches
you how to link and embed objects from a variety of other sources, such as, other office applications
like Excel, PowerPoint and Access. You'll also learn how to create charts and drawings inside Word
itself, and create a watermark. I didn't know you could do either of these functions in Word.
Use Word at Work - Real World Solutions shows efficient ways to do several common and not so
common office tasks. A few that stand out in my mind are sending a fax with the fax wizard, creating
business cards, creating mail merges and designing forms.
Use Word with the Internet was quite a surprise. I think that most people at all familiar with Word
know that it can save files in HTML. But it can do so much more. You can design a whole Web
document from scratch. It even has a Page Wizard to help you do it. It even has a chapter that
describes, among other things, how to create an Online Catalog.

How far can you go?
Automate, Customize and Fine Tune introduces the user to the wondrous world of macros. Learn
how to customize menus, toolbars, commands -- you name it.
All in all I would have to say this is a strong book, teaching you everything you could possibly do
with Word save one: VBA. Its coverage of Visual Basic in Word is extremely weak. If you want
this information, you'll have to go elsewhere, but if you just want a good solid grounding in
Word, this is the book for you.