Product Description

Every time you turn around, you run into Excel. It’s on your PC at work. It’s on your PC at home. You get Excel files from your boss. Wouldn’t you like to understand this powerful Microsoft Office spreadsheet program, once and for all? Now, you can crunch financial data, add sparkle to presentations, convert static lists of numbers into impressive charts, and discover what all the shouting’s about regarding databases, formulas, and cells. You may even decide that getting organized with a good spreadsheet is downright useful and fun!

Flip open Excel 2003 For Dummies, and you’ll quickly start getting the basics of Excel in plain English. Written for the rest of us, this down–to–earth book gently shows you how to:

• Create a spreadsheet from scratch
• Apply the basics of formatting cells
• Take on database forms—even add records—and prevail
• Get organized and stay that way
• Save worksheets as Web pages for your company intranet

In a clear and easy–to–understand style, veteran software trainer and technology writer Greg Harvey explains the basics of worksheets and workbooks, how to enter data and work with formulas, and how to print your masterpieces. When you’re feeling very bold, he’ll have you adding comments and pictures, saving files with security protection, and learning to zip between multiple worksheets in a workbook with ease. And there’s much more:

• Clip and save the Top Ten Beginner Basics of Excel 2003
• Pay heed to the Top Ten Commandments of Excel 2003
• Impress your colleagues by creating a company org chart
• Re–open those documents and add or edit new data with aplomb
• Move between these sheets without trouble
• Decipher and take charge of helpful tools and commands such as Sort, Filter, Format Cells, and PivotTable

You’ll finally be able to stop pestering the Excel experts in your office. Become your own expert with the friendly and down–to–earth practical instruction you’ll find in Excel 2003 For Dummies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24006 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 408 pages

From the Back Cover
Format cells, enter formulas, and print your worksheets

You too can excel at organizing information in spreadsheets, charts, graphs, and more

There it sits on your computer – Excel 2003. Now, what do you do with it? Hundreds of things, and this friendly guide gets you started! It gently leads you through the basics, so you can build great ways to organize business data, create cool charts for presentations, or just keep track of what’s in your pantry.

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

About the Author
Greg Harvey is a veteran computer trainer, consultant, and the author of more than 50 books. He also owns and manages a multimedia publishing venture, Mind Over Media.

Customer Reviews

Excellent book for self-tuition and reference
This book is easy to follow and by a step-by-step tution method eventually teaches one to do some fairly advanced things. This book is only set at an intermediate level but I have found that it meets all my business and professional needs.

I`m a beginner, and this worked for me...
If like me you just want to get to know the basics of Excel so you can do simple budget sheets and calculations, you`ll like this. It`s well paced and easy to follow. I bought this after I`d learnt the basics by following Everyday Home Computing, a great dvd which you watch on your tele and gets you started with everything. This book takes you onto a different level, and there`s plenty in here I don`t need but I just pick the bits I need. Highly recommended, well worth the dvd too, as it`s perfectly designed for beginners.

A must
This is a gem of a book for picking up new ways of using excel. Most of us are self taught but this book allows you to go beyond those self taught bondaries