Appleworks: Boosting Your B
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APPLEWORKS: Boosting Your Business With Integrated Software
by Charles Rubin
Foreword by Rupert Lissner
Price: $16.95  Pages: 320
ISBN: 0-914845-47-0
Pub. Date: July 12, 1985

Boost the Productivity of Your Small Business with CHARLES RUBIN'S APPLEWORKS

   "No matter how sophisticated you may be in the use of AppleWorks, you will
learn how to do more by reading this book.  I know I did." - Rupert Lissner,
creator of AppleWorks, from the foreword to APPLEWORKS

   AppleWorks, the integrated software package from Apple Computer Inc., a
best-seller since it introduction last spring, now surpasses Lotus 1-2-3 in
monthly sales.  Offering a full-function word processor, spreadsheet, and
database manager, it is the only such package available for the over 2 million
Apple IIe and IIc owners.  Now, Charles Rubin, emerging authority on Apple ;II
technology and author of THE ENDLESS APPLE, shows how to unleash AppleWorks'
full potential in APPLEWORKS: Boosting Your Business with Integrated Software.
Scheduled for publication on July 12, 1985, APPLEWORKS will be supported with
a major computer trade print advertising campaign.  In addition, the book has
been chosen as a Featured Alternate by Macmillan's Small Computer Book Club.
   More than just a how-to, this book is designed as a guide to improving
productivity with AppleWorks,  Charles Rubin Emphasizes ways to transfer and
recycle data - thereby saving time and effort - and demonstrates how
individuals can create their own customized systems to process information.
   Rubin begins with a discussion of the concept of integration.  He then
presents a detailed overview of the applications - word processing,
spreadsheet, and database - that make up AppleWorks, stressing each
application's capabilities and limitations.  After highlighting the techniques
that will teach users how to transfer data within AppleWorks, the author shows
how information can be exchanged with other programs, such as VisiCalc.
Finally, Rubin provides many examples, from profit/loss statements and sales
letters to a personal net-worth report, that will serve as useful models for a
wide range of business and personal needs.
   APPLEWORKS includes two helpful appendices.  The first outlines the
physical limitations of the program.  Rubin has also put together a
comprehensive listing of third-party hardware and software products that will
further enhance AppleWorks' performance.  In addition, the book tells how
AppleWorks operates, and gives valuable advice on using it with hard disks and
file subdirectories.
   Charles Rubin attended Antioch College, the University of Southern
California, and San Francisco State University.  He holds both a Bachelor's
and a Master's degree in English, and has been writing about microcomputers
since 1981.  Currently a contributing editor for Personal Computing magazine,
his work has also appeared in such publications as PC Week, A+, LOTUS,
Newsweek, Access, and InfoWorld.  His book THE ENDLESS APPLE was published in
November 1984 by Microsoft Press.  Charles is also the author of Thinking
Small: The buyer's Guide to Portable Computers.  Charles Rubin lives in
Oakland, California, and has been using an Apple IIe since 1983.
   Microsoft Corporation, based in Bellevue, Washington, develops and sells a
wide range of operating systems, languages, application programs, and hardware
products, as well as books, for the microcomputer marketplace.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1986.