Product Description

When you think of number–crunching and spreadsheets, you think of Excel, right? After Word, it’s the most popular program in the Microsoft Office suite. But if technical jargon isn’t your first language, you may have found Excel just a teeny bit frustrating. It can be really hard to pick your way through the many features and make Excel do what you need for it to do.

Once you know how, you can use Excel to

• Create fill–in–the–blank forms
• Prepare expense reports and invoices
• Manage all sorts of data
• Keep sales and inventory records
• Analyze financial data and create forecasts
• Present information in charts and graphs

Excel 2003 All–in–One Desk Reference For Dummies tames the Excel monster. Nine minibooks break things down into manageable, logical sections covering the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, working on the Web, and tweaking Excel with a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA. In the friendly, plain–English For Dummies style, this book makes it easy to find what you’re looking for and get instructions for doing what you need to do. You’ll be able to

• Find your way around Excel’s menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes, and access online help
• Format a professional–looking spreadsheet that presents data the way you choose
• Edit an existing spreadsheet without disturbing its design or contents
• Build Excel formulas and use built–in functions to produce the calculations you want
• Share spreadsheet data with other people and programs, and collect comments
• Create great–looking charts and find out how to choose the right format to display your data effectively
• Use Excel to maintain large amounts of data, then filter the data to extract the information you need
• Publish spreadsheets and charts on the Web in HTML format
• Explore ways to customize Excel with VBA

Best of all, it’s easy to find what you need in Excel 2003 All–in–One Desk Reference For Dummies. Before you know it, you’ll discover you’ve developed a friendship with Excel that will make your life easier, boost your business, and impress your friends!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16307 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 840 pages

From the Back Cover
9 books in 1– your key to Excel 2003 success!

Your one–stop guide to building worksheets, creating formulas, managing data, and more

Excel is famous for its incredible range of capabilities – accompanied by incredibly complex explanations that only a devout techie can understand. Jettison the jargon with this perfectly organized reference guide! You’ll discover how to use Excel’s every feature, and best of all, find the answer in a hurry should you still get stuck.

The Dummies Way

• Coverage of the essentials and beyond
• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Thumbtabs and other navigation aids
• Tear–out cheat sheet
• A dash of humor and fun

About the Author
Greg Harvey is a veteran computer trainer and consultant who has written more than 50 books. He’s the owner of a multimedia publishing venture called Mind Over Media.

Customer Reviews

Written in plain english
What a breath of fresh air to find a down to earth explanation of how to get on with Excel 2003. It's written in plain english, with a sense of humour thrown in. With clear step-by-step instructions and plenty of illustrations to get you through each subject, you can't go wrong. In just a few days, I've read the book and carried out the instructions of the exercises with ease, and I'm not a computer whizz by any stretch of the imagination. Well worth the money.

Excellent
This book helped me to understand and explore the use of Excel, it gave me a real helping hand when coming to do my As ICT coursework and would recommend it to anyone...

Brilliant book for all standards of user
I am an entirely self taught Excel user. Having had to learn quickly to use formulae, charts, pivot tables and macros I found this book invaluable as a complete beginner and also later as a quick reference guide. I understood the basics i.e. copy, paste but only used Excel for writing lists but could not do anything productive with them.

This book explains the basics of Excel really well and in easy to follow language. The only negative being that the book really is aimed at total beginners to advanced users so will teach you quite simple things like how to save documents etc but I tended to skip these parts. You also do need to have a computer to hand so that you can try out the things you learn otherwise it can get a little complicated. The positive side of going through this, however, is that you actually learn why you need to do certain things and later, when your Excel knowledge has improved, this makes it easier to understand advanced functions and macros etc.

My Excel knowledge is now quite advanced but I still find myself nipping in and out of this book whenever I am confronted with a request that I am unsure about. It pretty much has everything in here that you need. I particularly like the Understanding Errors bit. There are also quite a few picture examples given though a few more would have been great as I find these quite useful.

Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who needs a good Excel book. Just be aware that this book is aimed at all user abilities.