Excel 2003 All-In-One Desk Reference for Dummies

by Greg Harvey

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 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 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!

Genres: Textbooks

840 pages, Paperback

First published December 3, 2002

Reviews

[Shira · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe I would do better if I read it start to finish, but it's supposed to be a "desk reference." I have tried to look up several issues in the index, which suffers from a frustrating lack of cross-referencing, and failed. The index is not for "dummies," it's for people who already know exactly what to do.

But then, if I do happen to get lucky and find a relevant topic, the topic itself is "for dummies." It tells me what I already know and pretty much no more. In case you are curious as to the type of things I have been looking up, I have looked up such things as changing labels on bar graphs, changing the size of graphs, sorting when Excel doesn't recognize the correct header row, and conditional formulas.

I regret buying this book. I have been far more successful on google *after* giving up trying to find anything helpful in the book. It is a waste of time and money.

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is definitely my bible!!!