Teach Yourself VISUALLY Excel 2007 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) | 
 enlarge | Author: Nancy C. Muir
Publisher: Visual
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 31865
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 292
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 0470045957
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.54
EAN: 9780470045954
ASIN: 0470045957
Publication Date: December 6, 2006
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Product Description
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something - and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Excel 2007 tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including:
* Using the Ribbon and galleries
* Entering data and resizing columns
* Applying formulas and functions
* Formatting worksheets
* Adding clip art and 3D effects
* Interpreting data with charts
* Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
* Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
* Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
* Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
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| Customer Reviews:
Visually is the ONLY way April 12, 2008
BAW Ferret (Waukegan, IL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is more than the five star rating. Visually Excel learning the only right way to go. The book is excellently done too.
Excel 2007 March 6, 2008
J. Vaught (San Francisco, CA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I use this book everyday, easy to understand, easy to use. My spread sheets look just as good if not better than those in my work place that do this everyday. I am just slower, but who would know.
Teach Yourself Visually Excel 2007 January 28, 2008
Ann Stephens (Ashland, Oregon USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
For those of us who lack computer savvy, a book like this is an essential. Personally I learn much better if I can read text AND look at a picture. Never really having done a spread sheet before, I learned in no time at all. I keep the book right by my computer. I have found all the 'Visually' books to be helpful
 Colorful, user friendly, helpful! October 2, 2007
Rizzo (Denver, CO)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
One of the newest and brightest features of Microsoft 2007 which includes Excel 2007, is the addition of The Ribbon, which replaces toolbars and menus in previous editions. This is quite complex and not very user friendly, but when you learn it, it can be great! If you struggled with old menu bars, you will definitely struggle with the New Ribbon.
The series of Visual Books has been quite popular, mainly because anything as dry as instructional material is greatly enhanced by pictures. The colorful graphics that define the category of work you want are bright, amusing, informative and large. An example is for the section: protect a password shows a big yellow book with a key lock; or change data color shows paint cans and one color spills onto a worksheet. The computer illiterate can "get the picture" even if you don't know what the book refers to.
However, my grief comes with too many big pictures and not enough pictures of the screen. A most important element is viewing the screen, but each pic of the computer screen is way too small. But you do have explicit instructions in the sidebars.
My question remains, why couldn't the writer incorporate larger-size views of the computer screen. This is so needed, because of the elaborate menu bar...or ribbon as it is called in Excel 2007.
Other than that, one point is the Database section has been advanced from the 2003. This element of the software eliminates the need for ACCESS 2007, which is much more advanced. So, if you don't want to explore the challenging ACCESS, you can simply use the Database function on Excel. This works great for smaller projects.
Overall, this is one of the best books for learning excel. Graphic and text are well spread out, it is user friendly, colorful and includes a ton of help.......Rizzo
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