From simple calculations and lists to critical business management systems, Excel is not just the dominant spreadsheet application, it's one of the most widely used software applications in the world. Chances are good that you use Excel. And no matter what your level of expertise, you'll want a copy of the Excel Pocket Guide close by.
Packed with information, the Excel Pocket Guide is a compact reference that covers such basics as creating workbooks, entering data, printing, cell formatting, and spell checking. For more advanced users, the book provides handy information on formulas, pivot tables, collaboration, and customization. This helpful guide is easy to use anywhere -- it's the perfect quick reference for all users who want to complete tasks faster without having to wade through a five hundred-page tutorial.
If you're new to Excel, this book will get you up to speed quickly. If you consider yourself an advanced user, you'll be surprised and pleased with some of the new Excel tricks this book will teach you. The Excel Pocket Guide will help users at all levels of expertise become Excel experts.
Curt Frye is a freelance writer from Portland, Oregon. Before embarking on his writing career in June 1995, Curt spent four years with The MITRE Corporation as a defense trade analyst and one year as director of Sales and Marketing for Digital Gateway Systems, a Vienna, Virgina, Internet Service Provicer. He has an honors degree in political science from Syracuse University and is working on a masters in individualized itudies from George Mason University.
This is an excellent little book -- small yet very useful. My students found it of great use during the past school year.
One surprising omission (I thought) -- the lack of any entry on Absolute, Mixed and Relative Cell References and their uses, especially when copying functions using the fill handle. These are extremely valuable and useful tools, yet there's absolutely no mention anywhere in the book.
