Excel 2003 for Dummies

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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.

Customer Reviews:

Excel for the beginner.......2007-08-14

My son-in-law owns two gas stations and all of his records are on Excel spread sheets. I wanted to help him so I needed to learn how to operate the Excel sheets. He is running the older computers which have the 2003 version on them. I had to get a book about the 2003 version. I did buy this book and I read it from cover to cover. I was surprised at how much Excel could do. Once you learn the basics of Excel you can perform most of the functions in simple steps. You can do almost anything on a spread sheet. I kept going back to the book to look up procedures as I got into more complicated procedures. The book has a good table of contents. I even look up some of the words so I could better understand what the program required me to do to get the right results. Later I looked at the Microsoft manual for Excel. The manual has the same information but it seems more technical and it has a minimal table of contents. The Dummies book was more user friendly and it was easier to use as a reference to answer a simple question.

Excel 2003 for Dummies.......2007-03-13

I found this book to be very helpful. I had taken Excel classes before but this book helped me to reinforce my understanding and showed me some new techniques I did not know. I recommend this book for beginners as well as advanced users of Excel.

Excel For Dummies.......2007-02-20

This book is truly helping me to understand using formulas. That was the sole reason of purchasing it.

I can be a dummy at a lot of things..........2007-01-05

...but this is step-by-step and easy enough to folllow along, I'm glad I bought it to help teach myself Excel.....

dazed and confused.......2007-01-04

The layout of this book is very confusing, in every way
possible, although
the writer tries to make it look like it is good.

Excel VBA Programming For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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Excel VBA for Dummies Review - Excellent!
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Excel VBA Programming For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
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ASIN: 0764574124

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Having Excel and just using it for standard spreadsheets is a little like getting the ultimate cable system and a 50” flat panel plasma HDTV and using it exclusively to watch Lawrence Welk reruns. With Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming, you can take advantage of numerous Excel options such as: creating new worksheet functions; automating tasks and operations; creating new appearances, toolbars, and menus; designing custom dialog boxes and add-ins; and much more.

This guide is not for rank Excel amateurs. It’s for intermediate to advanced Excel users who want to learn VBA programming (or whose bosses want them to learn VBA programming). You need to know your way around Excel before you start creating customized short cuts or systems for speeding through Excel functions. If you’re an intermediate or advanced Excel user, Excel VBA For Dummies helps you take your skills (and your spreadsheets) to the next level. It includes:

An introduction to the VBA language
A hands-on, guided, step-by-step walk through developing a useful VBA macro, including recording, testing, and changing it, and testing it
The essential foundation, including the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) and its components, modules, Excel object model, subroutines and functions, and the Excel macro recorder
The essential VBA language elements, including comments, variables and constants, and labels
Working with Range objects and discovering useful Range objective properties and methods
Using VBA and worksheet functions, including a list and examples
Programming constructions, including the GoTo statement, the If-Then structure, Select Case, For-Next loop, Do-While loop, and Do-Until loop
Automatic procedures and Workbook events, including a table and event-handler procedures
Error-handling and bug extermination techniques, and using the Excel debugging tools
Creating custom dialog boxes, also known as UserForms, with a table of the toolbox controls and their capabilities, how-to for the dialog box controls, and UserForm techniques and tricks
Customizing the Excel toolbars
Using VBA code to modify the Excel menu system
Creating worksheet functions and working with various types of arguments
Creating Excel add-ins such as new worksheet functions you can use in formulas or new commands or utilities

Author John Walkenbach is a leading authority on spreadsheet software and the author of more than 40 spreadsheet books including Excel 2003 Bible and Excel 2003 Power Programming with VBA. While this guide includes tons of examples and screenshots, Walkenbach knows there’s no substitute for hands-on learning. The book is complete with:

A dedicated companion Web site that includes bonus chapters plus all sample programs to save you a lot of typing and let you play around and experiment with various changes
Information to help you make the most of Excel’s built-in Help system so you can find out other stuff you may need to know

What are you waiting for? Sure, learning to do VBA programming takes a little effort, but it’s a Very Big Accomplishment.

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Shows ordinary users how to harness the power of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and create custom Excel applications

This book introduces people to a wide array of new Excel options, including creating new worksheet functions, automating tasks and operations, creating new toolbars and menus, designing custom dialog boxes and add-ins, and much more

Begins with the most important tools and operations for the Visual Basic Editor, then provides an overview of the essential elements and concepts for programming with Excel

John Walkenbach, a.k.a. "Mr. Spreadsheet," runs a popular Web site (www.j-walk.com) on Excel techniques and is the author of many bestselling books on Excel

Customer Reviews:

Excel VBA for Dummies Review - Excellent!.......2007-08-23

The book is very well written and has useful examples as well as many screen shots (pictures) to help you along the way. This book is exactly what it says it is - meant for the intermediate user, but written for a dummy! A+++

Great Book!.......2007-06-14

I found this book to be an excellent introduction to using VBA in Excel. The author provides clear and usable examples to illustrate what he's talking about and demonstrate good programming practices. Clearly written for beginners who have never really used VBA, this book will get you writing VBA in no time, and best of all, it's not some boring technical manual that threatens to put you to sleep.

Fast delivery, excellent quality.......2007-01-10

The book arrived sooner than I expected and was in perfect condition.

Thanks again!

Great for beginners.......2007-01-05

This is not the book for building complex applications within Excel but that's not what I got it for. I wanted something that would get me started on understanding how to manuver within VBA and do some basic coding and this book fits the bill perfectly. It's amazing how many books there are on this subject that don't fill the need for a beginner.

good enough.......2006-11-03

the book doesn't tell you everything, but it tells you what you need to know to get started and get some things done. It is great resource to take you from zero knowledge to proficiency with the most commonly used VBA tasks. However, a VBA beginner will quickly outgrow this book and need to move on to John's more advanced VBA books.

Office 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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All in One Desk Reference for Dummies-Office 2007
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Peter Weverka
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Revised and updated to cover changes to all of Office's applications and productivity tools
Offers beyond-the-basics coverage of Office word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, e-mail, databases, and desktop publishing
Covers Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, productivity tools such as Microsoft OneNote, and SharePoint
Thoroughly updated to cover the new Office interface as well as new features in each application

Customer Reviews:

Great Reference Book!.......2007-08-13

Being new to any Microsoft Office product, when I purchased Office 2007, I was pretty lost. Microsoft's on-line tutorials were useless, so I purchased Office 2007 for Dummies, thinking I would use it mostly as a reference. It was so well written and easy to understand, I actually read the entire book, and am looking forward to using Publisher and Power Point (I initially purchased Office for Word and Excel). I found working with Office 2007 easy after reading this book, and have had to utilize the book as a reference very minimally. Utilizing the table of contents and index, I can quickly locate what I am looking for. I am sure this book saved me hours of frustration by laying out the concept behind the Office 2007 design, and showing me how to quickly hunt for commands that I know are there (from reading about them in the book). I am sure my learning time was greatly reduced. Great job Peter Werverka!

All in One Desk Reference for Dummies-Office 2007.......2007-07-29

Excellent reference guide for the new Microsoft Office 2007. Without it I would have been stumbling around trying to figure out some of the functions as this new edition is very different.

Great Product!.......2007-07-10

Mail delivery was faster than I thought - and the reference book is being used every day. The manual we got with the program did not explain half of what I needed and this reference is easy and fast!

Extremely Helpful Book!.......2007-06-26

The Office 2007 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies is very helpful for someone trying to weather the transition from previous versions of Microsoft Office to the new Microsoft Office 2007. This book not only covers common office applications, but gets into more detail for each program (Word, Outlook, Excel, Access, etc.) I would highly recommend this book to anyone who needs an easy-to-follow guide to the new software.

good reference for Office 2007.......2007-06-02

I don't consider myself a "dummie" but this was the 1st book of the dummies series that I have purchased. I purchased it to get acquainted with the new features in Office 2007.

I like the fact that the book has so much information on all the programs in Office 2007; tips, reminders, and warnings.

I won't sit and read the entire book but see using it as I take on projects using the new programs. I did not purchase the on-line version but I am considering that option so I can access the information even when I am at school/work.

Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies

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Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies
Not for beginners and not for reference
There's tons of useful information in this book.

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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!

Customer Reviews:

No examples.......2007-05-21

I've read quite a few computer how-to books. I prefer to learn by example, which this book offers very little of. Rather than showing you how to do something, this book tells you how to do it in a long drawn out process.
I could not figure out how to use the advanced filter command with this book. I checked out the Excel 2003 Bible from the library and I was able to use this feature within 5 minutes. Do not buy this book!

Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies.......2005-09-26

Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies is a great overall book for Excel 2003. It will get you going on Excel 2003 even if you have a minimal amount of experience in Excel. Introduces you to formulas, charts, pivot tables and other subjects that most people need in order to fully utilizing the power of Excel. Written very well and easy to understand.

Not for beginners and not for reference.......2005-03-26

I rate this book poor. It is badly laid out. Unless you already know how to use Excel, this book would be of no value to you. It's impossible to find anything, and not enough relevent illustrations. The For Dummies series is off my list of reference books. Save your money.

There's tons of useful information in this book........2003-10-25

I use Excel at work all the time and this book is always within an arm's reach. The formulas and functions chapters are especially helpful -- as are the ones on PivotTables, building Macros, and sharing data with other programs. If you're only going to buy one book on Excel, buy this one!

Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies

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Great for learning/or a reference for beginner to intermediate!
good choice
Use this book and forget the F1
Really Helps at Work
A Really Helpful Book

Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies
Ken Bluttman , and Peter G. Aitken
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ASIN: 0764575562

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Targets beginning to intermediate Excel users seeking real-world examples of how they can use Excel's powerful built-in functions
Shows readers how to use Excel functions in formulas to help them decide between buying and leasing a car, calculate mortgage costs, compute grades, evaluate investment performance, figure college expenses, and more
Gives explanations and examples of real-world situations
Provides an abbreviated discussion of an additional 200 functions
Excel commands nearly 90 percent of the market for spreadsheet applications; although this book is written for Excel 2003, the functions described are in earlier versions as well

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Targets beginning to intermediate Excel users seeking real-world examples of how they can use Excel's powerful built-in functions Shows readers how to use Excel functions in formulas to help them decide between buying and leasing a car, calculate mortgage costs, compute grades, evaluate investment performance, figure college expenses, and more Gives explanations and examples of real-world situations Provides an abbreviated discussion of an additional 200 functions Excel commands nearly 90 percent of the market for spreadsheet applications; although this book is written for Excel 2003, the functions described are in earlier versions as well

Customer Reviews:

Great for learning/or a reference for beginner to intermediate!.......2007-05-30

This has been very helpful. If you are a beginner to intermediate at Excel formulas this will be a very good book for you. I got it for work and have been able to get moving rapidly with more complex worksheets.

good choice.......2007-03-15

Good choice for beginners but needs more detail. Explainations much better that microsoft excel help!! I still need more info though.

Use this book and forget the F1 .......2005-08-15

I believe that the help included with Excel, is only good for very simple stuff, as soon as you want to get into more involved subjects the Excel help is plain not useful. That's when you would need books like this. This book covers what the title says it does. for other topics (pivot tables etc...)other books are needed. That's a lot of money? for something you didn't even know you need. I agree! But you been here before! That's the only way! So don't get overwhelmed by your 'green pee' colleagues who really had time to master Excel(mainly because they had nothing better do) Buy this book and go dwarf them as you should ;-). This book shows you that it all would have been very simple if Excel help was written by someone who really cared.

Really Helps at Work.......2005-04-13

I have to create a lot of Excel spreadsheets at work, and was always sort of intimidated by the functions in Excel. Instead of using functions, I spent a lot of time entering numbers and then finding the answer by hand, and just typing the answer in an empty cell. If any of the data changed, I would have to do all of the calculations over again, and hope that I didn't make any mistakes. This book explains each of the Excel functions in a really clear and easy to understand way, and walks you through how to use them step by step. I'm using more and more functions in my spreadsheets now. I don't have as many mistakes as before, because the functions do the calculations automatically, even when you change some of the data. I keep this book in my desk and look at it all the time. The people I work for have noticed the difference in the quality of my spreadsheets, and I'm getting a lot of complements. They're even coming to me to ask for advice! I definitely recommend this book if you use Excel at work.

A Really Helpful Book.......2005-03-31

I always found it hard to understand how functions work. It's one thing to use the autosum button to add some numbers together. It's another thing to use functions and know which one to use. But now this Excel book has come to my rescue. The book is well designed by explaining the basics first. Then the book is organized by categories of functions. I recommend it highly!

Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies

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More Than a Simple Spread Sheet

Statistical Analysis with Excel For Dummies
Joseph Schmuller
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ASIN: 0764575945

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This book makes it easy to crunch numbers and interpret statistics with Excel, even for the math-challenged
Using plain English and real-life examples, the author provides information that will help readers improve their performance on the job or in the classroom
Covers formulas and functions, charts and PivotTables, samples and normal distributions, probabilities and related distributions, trends and correlations, as well as statistical terms like median vs. mean, margin of error, standard deviation, permutations, and correlations-all using Excel

Customer Reviews:

I liked it.......2007-08-23

very helpful for someone who has little previous knowledge of the subject. I needed a simple lead in and this provided.

A good book.......2007-05-04

I bought this book as a reference for Stats analysis , it is good for this , dont buy if you expect to get a deep knowledge in the subject.

Excellent Reference, Not For Beginners........2007-02-09

I bought this book to help me with the statistical analyses involved with my senior dissertation at my university. I am a psychology major and I could use all the help I could get understanding the Results Sections in the literature. This book explains all kinds of statistics, including the very helpful ANOVA and regression analysis amongst many other. However, it doesn't explain very well when or why you use these statistics. They don't provide many examples of research or problems that require such analyses. This book is great for a step by step tutorial using Excel and handwriting statistics problems, and reading your data.... but unless you have an idea of what you're looking for in the first place, don't bother. I am totally ignorant to statistical analyses and coming into this book, I didn't know when to use ANCOVA or even what precisely it was demonstrating in relation to the research I am conducting... and I still only have a vague idea... Hopefully this will all be explained in course. But, this is a valued reference for all Excel users, without a doubt!!

Excellent.......2005-03-17

This book is excellent for seasoned Excel users and people who were taught (but didn't learn) statistics in your average graduate school program. I have never seen statistical concepts so briefly and at the same time well explained. Actually applying the concepts adds another level of learning. I highly recommend this book.

More Than a Simple Spread Sheet.......2005-03-05

Excel is of course first and foremost a spreadsheet. They were designed to allow you to play what if senarios. You can change this part of the budget to see what the effect is over there.

But beyond the spread sheet functionality Excel has numerous functions and capabilities to do all kinds of analysis capabilities.

This book is on using these functions to perform a whole range of statistical functions. Not only does this book cover the functions themselves, but gives the background and description of what this particular kind of function is doing. Both numerical analysis and charting functions are included and in detail.

Don't skip the part in this book called the Part of Tens. This section in the For Dummies books often has some interesting points, but here the summation of statistical limitations is just great.

Excel 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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Great book, but Excel still sucks!
Still trying to get through it...
A Quick Way to Find Out What's New

Excel 2007 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Greg, PhD Harvey
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Great book, but Excel still sucks!.......2007-08-09

I'm a great fan of the Dummies series and use a lot of their material in my presentations. Unfortunately, nothing can turn the pig's ear of Excel into the silk purse of Quattro Pro.

Still trying to get through it..........2007-04-17

Well, I still haven't figured Excel 2007 out yet, but I'm working on it...the book is making it a little easier to realize that I am just a dummie when it comes to computers.

A Quick Way to Find Out What's New.......2006-12-22

I suppose that you'd be inteested in this book for one of two reasons.

First, you're a newcommer to Excel and want to be hand held from the beginning to get started. I suppose that there must be at least a few people out there who don't know Excel - Well, my mother doesn't, but she's not likely to read this book anyway.

Second, and I suspect most of us fit into this category, we've been using Excel for a lot of years, but at a fairly rudimentary level. We do expense accounts, a few formulas to check things out, maybe use it as a calculator, etc. We don't do things like macros or pivot tables.

Now though, there's a new version of Excel - Excel 2007. It is worth spending the bucks on? What does it have that I might find useful? And I don't want to just see the Microsoft hype, I want a bit more than that. So here for twenty bucks or so is not only a description of what's new, but how to use it.

As best I can tell, the biggest change in Excel 2007 in in its user interface. There's a new look on the screen called the ribbon. This seems to replace all the various toolbars and the like from previous versions with a new layout that puts the bulk of the Excel commands you use only one click away. (The existing File button is replaced by an 'Office' button.) Furthermore, the Ribbon appears to be a dynamic thing. As you are doing something different, for example charting, a different set of frequently used commands appear in the Ribbon. The Ribbon is also easy to customize, so if you're doing a spreadsheet for someone else to use, you can get rid of things that might get them into trouble.

Down inside there are a bunch of other changes. Instead of being limited to a fixed number of columns and rows, how big a sheet you can build is limited only by the memory size. The formatting and fonts area is changed a bunch.

That's just the first chapter of this book. It's a great way to see if the new Excel is for you. And, oh by the way, if you decide that maybe you do want to do a pivot table, it's Chapter 9, and yes, there have been a few changes here as well.

Crystal Xcelsius For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

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Xcelsius for Dummies
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As the fastest growing dashboarding solution on the market, Xcelsius is an intuitive stand-alone Windows application that enables Excel users to transform the contents of an ordinary Excel spreadsheet into an engaging, interactive Flash-based dashboard
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As the fastest growing dashboarding solution on the market, Xcelsius is an intuitive stand-alone Windows application that enables Excel users to transform the contents of an ordinary Excel spreadsheet into an engaging, interactive Flash-based dashboard
Offers step-by-step instruction on the wide array of functionality that Xcelsius has to offer so that readers can complete mini-dashboards of increasing complexity with each chapter
Addresses how to prepare Excel spreadsheets for use with Xcelsius dashboards and then use basic components of Xcelsius (charts, buttons, labels)
Shows ways to add advanced functionality to dashboards (gauges, sliders, maps) and create interactive business calculators with Xcelsius
Discusses integrating Xcelsius reports into PowerPoint slides, Web pages, and e-mail

Customer Reviews:

It's the model, stupid (not the visualization).......2007-08-13

While Xcelsius is a great tool, the model is the substance behind the image. This software makes presentation simple and powerful (and has a bit of the 'wow' factor, especially when sending interactive .pdfs) but the real issue is building the underlying model.

In chapter 15, the 'real world examples,' none of the Excel models are shown. A big omission. It would have been so easy to add the 15 excel files to the 'Bonus material.'

Great book.......2007-01-09

I liked this book a lot. I enjoyed the writing and even tough it was a Dummies book, it contained all the information that I needed to be able to get started mastering Crystal Xcelsius.

Xcelsius for Dummies.......2006-09-08

After being assigned to produce Dashboards for our company, I tried to read and understand the manual. I saw the Crystal Xcelsius for Dummies and thought I would give it a try. This book had me up and running in 2 days and I actually understood "why" things were happening. This is a great book for beginners and has a hands on approach to the learning, which I find extremely helpful. This book is for anyone who wants to learn Crystal Xcelsius in a hurry.

Is good but is the first.......2006-07-17

Is the best option to begin you in this excellent software like Xcelsius...

It is importat that you consider this book your initiation to after be a PRO using more complex dashboards (with the practice I mean!)

Making Fancier Presentations from Excel.......2006-07-12

The 'For Dummies' books have done it again. This is a complete and thourough introduction to using Xcelsius to give you an entirely new set of sophisticated ways to show Excel data in graphical form.

Xcelsius specializes in what they call dashboards. That is, the data is diaplayed in the form of gauges (speedometer, gas gauge, they even have what they call 'alerts' that are close to idiot lights). You can also design inputs in the form of sliders, buttons, again, not unlike an automobile dashboard.

In addition to dashboards there are other features such a maps, enhanced charts, pictures -- all kinds of things to ehnance the visual experience of a presentation.

Technically, Xcelsius compiles your visual model into a Flash (.swf) file and creates an HTML file that calls the .swf file. The HTML file is of course presented using a web browser, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Outlook, or Plumtree.

As in most 'For Dummies' books, this one starts slow, builds on the base, and by the end of the book you have a pretty good idea about the whole thing.

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Wallace Wang , and Roger C. Parker
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You're no dummy if you've got Microsoft Office 2000 on your Windows machine, but you might still need some help learning how to use it. There's nothing to be ashamed of--pick up Microsoft Office 2000 for Dummies and learn the ropes quickly, and you might even have fun while you're at it.

Each part of the software package--Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, and the rest--gets its own section with tips, tricks, warnings, and the basic info you'll need to work with files, make your documents beautiful, and save yourself a few hours on hold with tech support. The visual style lends itself well to crossing over between page and screen without too much translation, and the writing is sharp, funny, and to the point.

After the advanced chapters, the book closes with the traditional "Part of Tens"--10 keystrokes you'll be using so much they deserve special attention, plus 10 tips to help you achieve Office wizardry. Whether you're an old hand with Office or are new to the game, Microsoft Office 2000 for Dummies will give you the information you need to get your work done. --Rob Lightner

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More than 70 million people have made Microsoft Office the most popular business software package on the planet. Whether you're a newcomer to the power and productivity of the entire Office suite -- with its word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, Web design, desktop publishing, and e-mail software -- or discovering Microsoft Office for the first time, you'll find yourself right at home with the friendly advice and plain-English answers inside Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies.

Get all Office 2000 programs working together -- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage, Outlook, Publisher, PhotoDraw, and Internet Explorer -- and take your computing skills to the next level. Publish professional-looking Web pages from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and FrontPage. Organize your schedule and e-mail with Outlook; create dazzling slide presentations with PowerPoint; create documents quickly with Word; and budget your finances with Excel's cool charts and graphs.

Microsoft Office 2000 For Windows For Dummies covers the Standard, Professional, and Premium editions of Office 2000, so whatever your needs, we've got the answers!

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Very Informative.......2007-05-17

I ordered this book to learn more about MS Office. I received this book within 5 days and it is very helpful and very easy to understand.

Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows for Dummies.......2005-07-01

The book (Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows for Dummies)is like new. I could hardly believe when I open the package and saw the book. The speed at when it reaches me was also excellent. I would encourage anyone to conduct business it them.

Really for "Dummies".......2004-12-03

As others have said, this book is very very basic--perhaps because it attempts to cover all the components of the Office 2000 suite in less than 500 pages. If you have even basic familiarity with the program you're using, it won't be much help. For example, I turned to this book to see if I could discover some of the more sophisticated features of Outlook email, and was disappointed. It's pitched to the "how to send a message" crowd. But, I also am trying Excel for the first time, and it helped a lot just to be able to easily find how to enter a basic formula. Bottom line is, once you start using a program regularly you'll graduate from this manual pretty quickly.

Turned out to be less than useful.......2003-11-27

I got this book when I entered the working world out of university- aside from providing a few very basic tips on how to format printing and what not, there is not much to this book that is practically useful.

I wanted something that would pick up where I left off in college and help me make usable spreadsheets with guides to the various equations and what not- alas, there is very little here.

This book is only for total beginners- you will soon outgrow this book and wish you had something that went a bit farther in depth and was of more use as a reference guide.

Microsoft Office 2000.......2003-09-08

Great source of easy to read information!

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ASIN: 076450830X

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Microsoft Office XP consists of several programs: a word processor (Word 2002), a spreadsheet program (Excel 2002), a presentation graphics program (PowerPoint 2002), a personal information organizer and e-mail client (Outlook 2002), and a database program (Access 2002). And depending on the version of Office XP that you get, you may have bonus programs that include a Web-page design and management application (FrontPage 2002).

Having so many programs at your disposal can be very intimidating, especially for the beginning user. Which program do you use for which task? How can you get information from one program into another? Which programs do you really need, and which ones can you safely ignore? Your questions will abound and confound!

Office XP For Dummies answers all these questions and more – in easy-to-understand terms and without all that computer-geek gibberish. It gently explains the basics for each program so that you can start using them right way. Here are a few of the topics covered in Office XP For Dummies:

Getting acquainted with the Office XP interface
Using Word to create reports and other fancy documents
Setting up spreadsheets in Excel to help you in your business
Creating slideshow presentations in PowerPoint
Managing your e-mail, calendar, and contact information in Outlook
Developing easy-to-use databases
Designing awesome Web pages quickly and hassle-free

For beginners, Office XP For Dummies is the perfect overview of the entire Office XP suite; for more advanced users, it contains many tips and tricks to make using all these different programs a breeze.

Customer Reviews:

You might not be dumb as you think........2003-01-16

For some of the material, I thought the book was o.k., but for others, it seemed a bit overly simplistic and difficult to find solutions for more complicated tasks. Does not include tips on Publisher, which was disappointing.

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