Product Description

Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2000 have become almost as commonplace on today’s personal computers as word processors and games doesn’t mean that they’re either well understood or well used. Excel is a great organizer for all types of data, be they numeric, textual, or otherwise.

Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies covers all the fundamental techniques that you need to know in order to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets. In addition to showing you around the worksheet, this fun and friendly book exposes you to the basics of charting, creating databases, and converting spreadsheets into Web pages. Expect to pick up invaluable tips and tricks on

• Creating a spreadsheet from the get–go
• Dressing up the look of your cells
• Printing your spreadsheet masterpiece
• Facing a database
• Making sense of multiple worksheets
• Editing your worksheet Web pages

Keeping things simple, this book cuts to the chase by telling you in plain terms just what it is that you need to do to accomplish a task using Excel. With spreadsheets as the focus, Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies shows you how to

• Launch Excel from a toolbar or browser
• Mess around with the menu bar
• Fabricate fabulous formulas
• Tamper with how text wraps
• Add hyperlinks to a worksheet
• Work with WordArt
• Customize and design your own toolbars
• Explore top features of Excel 2000

One look at the Excel 2000 screen (with all the boxes, buttons, and tabs), and you realize that there′s a whole lot of stuff going on. With this book as your expert companion, you can tame your anxiety over the tech stuff and cell–abrate success with all the computing, text–editing, and formatting potential in this powerhouse program.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54430 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
You may not be a dummy but that doesn't mean you were born knowing how to use spreadsheets. Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies will bring you up to speed on Microsoft's pre-millennial package, even if you've never used anything like it before.

A great reference for the beginner and the pressed-for-time, this book is organised in a series of chapters that build from the basics of pointing and clicking and figuring out the different parts of the spreadsheet to more advanced topics like Web-based data entry and macros. Visual learners will find much to love as well--there are screen shots galore and plenty of icons to point you to the most salient items quickly.

Written in characteristic Dummies-style--laid-back and humorous--the text is as non-threatening as can be; even the most diehard computer-phobes will find themselves chuckling as they (gulp) learn how to enter data. The techno-geeks of the office might snigger at the bright yellow book on your desk but you can snigger right back because you know you have better weekends. --Rob Lightner

From the Back Cover
Get time–saving tips on data entry, formatting, and more

Find out how to save worksheets as interactive Web pages

Start crunching numbers today even if you don′t know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet Excel 2000 can help you keep records, track trends, and analyze results once you get up to speed. That′s where this friendly guide comes in. Packed with expert tips and tricks, it walks you step–by–step through Excel fundamentals and shows you how to take advantage of the enhanced Internet and workgroup tools as well as other cool features.

Discover how to:

• Create worksheets and enter data
• Use formulas and functions
• Make your spreadsheets look terrific
• Organize multiple worksheets
• Work with charts, databases, and hyperlinks
• Customize Excel

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear–out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

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About the Author
Greg Harvey is a veteran software trainer and the author of more than 30 computer books.

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Customer Reviews

Easy to use and understand.
Clear information, easy to follow instructions and examples and good fun too. This is ideal for new users and those moving onto more complex functions. However it does not cover functions (other than auto sum), lookup tables etc and more creative uses of Excel. It's an execellent reference book for the office!