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Q223173: Bookshelf 2000: What’s New in Bookshelf 2000

Article: Q223173
Product(s): Microsoft Home Multimedia Titles
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Keyword(s): kbpolicy kbref kbimu
Last Modified: 27-MAR-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Bookshelf 2000 
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SUMMARY
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This article lists the new features and updated content included in Microsoft
Bookshelf 2000, in addition to differences between Bookshelf 2000 and Microsoft
Bookshelf 99.

MORE INFORMATION
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Bookshelf 2000 includes the following new features and updated content.

New Features
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- Bookshelf 2000 displays a letter from the editor when you start the program
  for the first time.

- A drop-down button between the Back and Forward buttons on the Bookshelf 2000
  menu bar lists up to 19 items you have opened during the current session and
  enables you to return to any of these items with a single mouse click.

- The Microsoft Word toolbar contains a Bookshelf button that starts Bookshelf
  2000 directly from Word.

Updated Content
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- The Timeline feature has been updated to include events occurring through
  November, 1998.

- Articles have been updated to include content current through December 31,
  1998 (about six months more recent than the content included in Bookshelf
  99).

The following differences exist between Bookshelf 2000 and Bookshelf 99.

Differences Between Bookshelf 2000 and Bookshelf 99
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- Bookshelf 2000 does not play an introductory animation.

- The Bookshelf 2000 menu bar does not contain the Suite menu (a menu that
  enabled you to start another Encarta Reference Suite 99 program directly from
  Boookshelf).

- Bookshelf 2000 installs Macromedia Shockwave Director 7.0 if a later version
  is not already installed on your computer.


Additional query words: multi multi-media media mm bs2000 bs2k bs99

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Keywords          : kbpolicy kbref kbimu 
Technology        : kbHomeMMsearch kbBookshelfSearch kbBookShelf2000
Version           : WINDOWS:
Issue type        : kbinfo

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