Excel 2007 Pocket Guide: A Quick Reference to Common Tasks

By Curtis D. Frye

Book Overview

Moving to Excel 2007 is not a routine upgrade. Microsoft's radical redesign of the application's user interface has led to confusion among many who people who have relied on Excel for years. Our new edition of the Excel 2007 Pocket Guide has been written from the ground up to help newcomers and longtime users alike find their way around without getting lost.

With this book in hand, you'll be able to find your favorite Excel tools quickly. It's packed with information to guide beginners through the basics of creating spreadsheets and entering data, while providing advanced users with information on formulas, pivot tables, and more. Inside, you'll find: A visual guide to the new "Ribbon" interface that helps users find familiar tools

A section designed to give beginners enough information to dive right in and start creating rich Excel workbooks immediately

Quick answers about how to perform specific tasks in Excel, such as working with files, editing data, formatting, summarizing and displaying data

Convenient techniques for connecting data across worksheets and projects

Help for moving from the basics of spreadsheet construction to more advanced features

This edition also includes an extensive reference on commonly used formulas, which reveal at a glance the many possibilities Excel 2007 provides for easy calculation. Tasks in the book are presented as answers to "How do I..." questions -- such as "How do I change the formatting of part of a cell's contents?" -- followed by concise instructions for performing the task. You'll learn ways to customize Excel to fit your needs, and how to share workbooks and collaborate with others. And much more.

Don't let Excel 2007 baffle you. Pick up this convenient pocket guide and learn to navigate this redesigned application with ease.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596514522
• ISBN13: 9780596514525
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.4" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

It's a definite Guide

When I first received the book I started reading it, but I quickly stopped. It is a great book, I can recommend it, but it is not one of those books you can read without having access to the program it writes about. You want to get your hands dirty. let me explain: I read the first chapter explaining the ribbon interface and it does a great job doing this. It is well written and it gave a good first overview of the new working method. It does this by a good writing style accompanied with illustrations. Then I got on the second chapter explaining the capabilities of Excel. Because this is great for beginners I give it a thumbs up. More experienced users like myself will not read and use all the practice tests in the book but I have caught myself taking the book from the shelf from time to time for "a quick reference in how to get things quickly done". The book is called Excel 2007 a pocket guide with the tagline: a quick reference to common tasks. And the book delivers what it promises!