I bought this book to create a brochure for the business. The book walks through the basics and then onto more the advanced interesting things.
Within a week, I had what I thought was a great brochure. Be aware you need to have photoshop too. This is really pagemaker underneath and is great for page layout. You will learn about printing and layout terminology but if you know it already it makes some of the lesson go quickly.
I've had it now about a month and rejigged the brochures which traditionally would have been so tedious I would have left well alone. Now it took an hour to change the layout and tranfer (drag and drop) the images and text from one design to the other.
HAs some really brilliant ideas, if you paste text into a box and the area is too small, you can create another text box, link it to the first and the "missing" text continues. If you change the font size so it takes less or more room, it automatically adjusts it.
It is also good as a reference, when the "I have forgotten how to do..." happens.
It can export the document in the usual formats required by printers (the press not the laser). It handles printing to the printer really well too, with all kinds of options (cutlines, bleed etc etc)
If you want to make and update a brochure/document/book it is fab.
Good luck...