This book/CD-ROM package teaches core-level skills required for Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certification, featuring a wealth of color visuals, screen captures, and illustrations. Offers graduated instruction, from guided tutorials to independent learning, emphasizing best practices in information processing as well as problem-solving and communication skills for the contemporary workplace. Each chapter contains objectives, an overview, exercises, a summary, a commands review, questions, and skills assessments. The CD-ROM contains exercise files. Students do not need prior experience or familiarity with Windows. A knowledge of high school freshman mathematics is required. The author is affiliated with Pierce College at Puyallup. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR