CD-ROM Review: More than Just Facts

New and improved Bookshelf reference

Jesse Friedman

Whether you're a student, publisher, lawyer, or business manager, Microsoft's Bookshelf 98 will help you clarify and improve your writing. The product description claims it's "one-stop shopping for reference information." This may be true, depending on how extensive your reference needs are. However, for most simple tasks, the new and improved Bookshelf 98 is ideal.

This version's new features include QuickFootnote, which allows you to footnote documents automatically, and QuickShelf, which lets you click on any other program while still staying in the current one. Other key new features include an Internet Dictionary; an Encarta 98 Desk Encyclopedia, whic h contains nea rly 16,000 entries; and a Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, which has more than 18,000 remarks and quotations on over 1500 subjects.

Updated versions of The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , and the National Five-Digit ZIP Code and Post Office Directory are also included. A new parental-control feature enables parents and educators to block words and phrases that they consider unsuitable for children. With these new features, Bookshelf 98 is easier, quicker, and more enjoyable to use.

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Product Information

Bookshelf 98..........................$54.95

Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA
Internet: 
http://bookshelf.msn.com


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One-Stop Shopping if Needs are Simple

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