Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 | 
 enlarge | Author: Bill Jelen
Publisher: QUE
Category: EBooks
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Edition: Special
Pages: 1080
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Dewey Decimal Number: 005.54
ASIN: B000OZ0NF8
Publication Date: March 19, 2007
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Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 will ease the upgrade path to the lastest version of Microsoft best-selling spreadsheet program. The author, "Mr. Excel "- introduces you to the new interface, allowing--you to quickly get back up-to-speed in performing your job, and will then introduce the powerful new features available in Excel 2007. Among other skills, you will learn how to create amazing data visualizations using conditional formatting and in-cell data bars. This is the only book you need on Microsoft Office Excel 2007! -Excel 2007 is the biggest, most exciting release of Excel ever. This book-s straightforward approach explains the most important features of Excel 2007 in a thorough, easy-to-understand format. Further, it clearly compares older versions of Excel with Excel 2007, which makes for a seamless transition to this newest version of the program. It is a must-have desk reference for today-s business professional.- -David Gainer, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Excel THE ONLY- EXCEL BOOK YOU NEED We crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Excel proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Excel, Special Edition Using Microsoft- Office Excel- 2007 is the book you need. Does your life play out in a spreadsheet? Do numbers in columns and rows make or break you in the work world? Tired of having numbers kicked in your face by other Excel power users who make your modest spreadsheets look paltry compared to their fancy charts and pivot tables? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Special Edition Using Microsoft- Office Excel- 2007 is the bookthat will make it all better. Learn quickly and efficientlyfrom a true Excel master using the tried and true SpecialEdition Using formula for success. Here, you-ll findinformation that-s undocumented elsewhere-even inMicrosoft-s own Help systems. You-ll learn from finelycrafted, real-life examples built by an author who livesand dies by the integrity of his spreadsheets. Excel-s backbone is its formulas and functions. Master those and you will master your spreadsheets. Special Edition Using Microsoft Office- Excel- 2007 provides more down and dirty help with your formulas and functions than you-ll find in any other book! See how it-s done in real life! Don-t settle for lame pivot table and chart examples found in other books- This book provides beautifully detailed examples that not only show you how it should be done, but how to be the local worksheet hero!
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 Inadequate for many features May 7, 2007
Brews (Tucson, AZ)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
This book is only so-so as a guide to features, and definitely isn't aimed at engineers or technical types.
A simple example: suppose you want to change the cursor motion after Enter so the cursor stays put, instead of moving down to the next cell. Look under "Cursor" in the index -"Cursor" is not an entry. Look under the Chapter on Excel Options Dialog (the menu where this is adjusted). Cursor adjustment neither is mentioned nor is the menu to do it shown in any of the screen shots. Another example: suppose you want to find the Document Properties, like who is the author. Help tells you "Click the Office Button, point to Prepare, click on Properties". Jelen tells you nothing explicit, although he has a table p. 32 suggesting erroneously that you use menu View, Show/Hide, Properties. So, use Help, I guess.
There's more: suppose you want to change the label of a single data point on an xy-chart. The procedure, found by trial and error, is to select the chart, select the FORMAT tab under "Chart Tools" on the "ribbon", select the curve on the chart (click it), select the data point (click it), select "Format Selection" in the "Current Selection" window of the "ribbon". That extended process produces the same-old menu choices you used to get by selecting the point and making a right-click. Jelen doesn't tell you anything at all, and the Excel help is useless too.
More examples? If you want to use Goal Seek, the book tells you how to find it, but it does not tell you how to set Maximum Iterations and Maximum Change, two items often changed. To find that info, use Excel Help, a hit-and-miss thing at best. The book tells you how to install Solver, but fails to point out how to call it once installed. As typical of Excel books, there is no assessment of accuracy of Excel functions, nor the hazards of round-off errors.
By and large, guidance is erratic, and there's much blather about "jaw-dropping new Excel features". The Special Edition volume on Word 2007 is better organized, has a comprehensive index, and uses cross-references to advantage. Author Jelen should look at that book to see how much better things are done.
As a postscript, Jelen's five-page discussion of Assigning a Formula to a Name (p. 857-862) has several examples, while the "Inside Out" book has only a paragraph (p. 448). So there are topics that are better in Jelen.
 Everything there is to know about Excel 2007 December 23, 2006
John Matlock (Winnemucca, NV)
14 out of 20 found this review helpful
Excel 2007 is a fairly major rewrite of the old Excel that we all came to know and love. The old Excel, whether it was Excel 97, 2000, XP, or 2003 was pretty much the same program. It had just about the same look and feel. To be sure Microsoft marketing made lots of smoke about the new features in each edition, but in reality there wasn't much fire behind that smoke. With Excel 2007 there are some significant changes - I mean, it's still a spread sheet, but but it's changed and improved in a number of ways. ==There are really two reasons for buying this book. One is that you're a newcommer to Excel. There must be a few people out there who are just starting out on Excel. This book has a fair amount of material aimed at you. It's probably not as basic as some books. It at lease presumes that you have some indication as to what a spreadsheet is nad does. ==The other reason is to be able to come up to date with the 2007 features, perhaps to use as part of your decision making process about upgrading or not. Here the book is excellent. In particular, its description of the new 'ribbon' feature is as good as or better than any I've seen. ==In general the book is organized with each thapter taking on a new subject. The beginning of each chapter is spent talking about the new 2007 features as they pertain to that particular chapter. ==All in all, here's everything there is to know in Excel 2007
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