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Excel 2010: The Missing Manual by MacDonald, Matthew (2010) Paperback
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May 4, 2013
To give some context, I am an experienced excel user, already comfortable with creating spreadsheets and using the math and statistical formulas. I purchased this book to learn to create charts from tables to facilitate data analysis. I settled down to map the data from my table to a chart, only to discover there are no examples in this book!
From Creating Basic Charts chapter: "Just move inside the table, and the make a selection from the ribbon's Insert->Charts section. Click the subtype you want. Excel inserts a new embedded chart alongside your data"
Really? You can't give me a table with two columns of data and walk me through how to select the data I want, get it on the right axes, and get the title and the legend? Which chart might be best to use for a straightforward example?
The book is filled with vague generalities. If you have never used Excel before, the book is fine for creating an Excel file, selecting, copying, and formatting cells (lots of details on "styling" the look of your page). If you need something more advanced, this is not the book for you. The book has three chapters on charting, so my expectations were that they would have good detail and examples. It doesn't.
From Creating Basic Charts chapter: "Just move inside the table, and the make a selection from the ribbon's Insert->Charts section. Click the subtype you want. Excel inserts a new embedded chart alongside your data"
Really? You can't give me a table with two columns of data and walk me through how to select the data I want, get it on the right axes, and get the title and the legend? Which chart might be best to use for a straightforward example?
The book is filled with vague generalities. If you have never used Excel before, the book is fine for creating an Excel file, selecting, copying, and formatting cells (lots of details on "styling" the look of your page). If you need something more advanced, this is not the book for you. The book has three chapters on charting, so my expectations were that they would have good detail and examples. It doesn't.
March 25, 2014
This book is very basic if you are an advanced excel user. The version I downloaded from B&N does not contain a table of contents so unless you want to search 3813 pages for what you are looking for then get the printed version. Very good section on financial functions. I was looking for something to reference statistical functions and did not find it in this manual. This would be very practical for someone looking for financial functions.
June 18, 2013
One of the best Excel how-to books
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