Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies
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Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2000 have become almost as commonplace on today’s personal computers as word processors and games doesn’t mean that they’re either well understood or well used. Excel is a great organizer for all types of data, be they numeric, textual, or otherwise.
Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies covers all the fundamental techniques that you need to know in order to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets. In addition to showing you around the worksheet, this fun and friendly book exposes you to the basics of charting, creating databases, and converting spreadsheets into Web pages. Expect to pick up invaluable tips and tricks on
Keeping things simple, this book cuts to the chase by telling you in plain terms just what it is that you need to do to accomplish a task using Excel. With spreadsheets as the focus, Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies shows you how to
One look at the Excel 2000 screen (with all the boxes, buttons, and tabs), and you realize that there's a whole lot of stuff going on. With this book as your expert companion, you can tame your anxiety over the tech stuff and cell-abrate success with all the computing, text-editing, and formatting potential in this powerhouse program. |
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You may not be a dummy, but that doesn't mean you were born knowing how to use spreadsheets. Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies will bring you up to speed on Microsoft's premillennial package, even if you've never used anything like it before.
A great reference for the beginner and the pressed-for-time, this book is organized as a series of chapters that build from the basics of pointing and clicking and figuring out the different parts of the spreadsheet to more advanced topics like Web-based data entry and macros. Visual learners will find much to love as well--there are screen shots galore and plenty of icons to point you to the most salient items quickly. Written in characteristic Dummies-style--laid-back and humorous--the text is as nonthreatening as can be; even the most diehard computer-phobes will find themselves chuckling as they (gulp) learn how to enter data. The techno-geeks down the hall might snicker at the bright yellow book on your desk, but you can snicker right back because you know you have better weekends. --Rob Lightner |
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| 08-29-03 | 2 | 13\13 |
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This book is fine if all you want to do is basic spreadsheets. If cutting, pasting, basic formatting, or creating VERY simple formulas is all you need to do then this book is fine. However, if you are trying to do anything more complicated forget using this book. For instance, the section on creating Macros wasn't very detailed. In addition, the book is completely missing any explanation of how to use the more complicated formula functions (there is no mention of how to do any of the statistical functions). Probably 80% of what an average user needs is in this book. But for anything beyond the basics, forget it; you'll need another reference.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-11-30 07:37:18 EST)
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| 12-18-02 | 1 | 2\19 |
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I foudn the book compleely useless and a waste of money. It explains nothing. After studying this book for two hours I was unable to do anything whatsoever in Excel. Look elsewhere.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-15 08:21:53 EST)
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| 12-17-02 | 1 | 2\19 |
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I foudn the book compleely useless and a waste of money. It explains nothing. After studying this book for two hours I was unable to do anything whatsoever in Excel. Look elsewhere.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 06:20:11 EST)
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| 08-13-02 | 3 | 1\1 |
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This is a good book for a non stressfull introduction, but there are few good hands on examples. I've found that by doing complex detailed step by step examples you can learn more faster. The learnkey.com website has a good excel class
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 06:20:11 EST)
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| 03-20-02 | 5 | 18\20 |
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I used this book in lieu of sending a large group of our people to training classes. After doing so, the "help" requests for Excel went to absolute zero. Heck, I'm VP of IT and been working in spreadsheets since VisiCalc, and I picked up a couple of things.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-15 08:21:53 EST)
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| 12-31-01 | 5 | 10\10 |
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This book not only took the mystery out of spreadsheets, but made me a spreadsheet junkie. I keep it by my desk for reference. A definite for people who want a quick start into the world of spreadsheets.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-04 08:34:53 EST)
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| 12-30-01 | 5 | 10\10 |
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This book not only took the mystery out of spreadsheets, but made me a spreadsheet junkie. I keep it by my desk for reference. A definite for people who want a quick start into the world of spreadsheets.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 06:20:11 EST)
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| 07-12-01 | 5 | 29\29 |
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Although I was into Mainframes twenty years ago, I entered the PC world only two years back. I find that most software makers do not give us "How to" information on their product by a step-by-step method. After installing Microsoft Office I could use very little of its potential by muddling thru and making many mistakes. Having graduated from "Idiot's Guide to Windows 98" I surfed the 'net and found EXACTLY what I was looking for--Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies. It is written in clear, unambiguous, step-by-step format and I was off-and-running within hours after I received the book. Keep up the good work and you will keep hearing from this Dummy over and over again because Windows Me has got me hooked!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-15 08:21:53 EST)
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| 07-11-01 | 5 | 29\29 |
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Although I was into Mainframes twenty years ago, I entered the PC world only two years back. I find that most software makers do not give us "How to" information on their product by a step-by-step method. After installing Microsoft Office I could use very little of its potential by muddling thru and making many mistakes. Having graduated from "Idiot's Guide to Windows 98" I surfed the 'net and found EXACTLY what I was looking for--Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies. It is written in clear, unambiguous, step-by-step format and I was off-and-running within hours after I received the book. Keep up the good work and you will keep hearing from this Dummy over and over again because Windows Me has got me hooked!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 06:20:11 EST)
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| 06-22-01 | 2 | 6\17 |
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Helpful with the very basics, but I was lost by page 100.
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| 05-28-01 | 4 | 5\16 |
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The author knows what the reading public wants -- hands on experience from the get go. The theory and constructs are covered in the context of real-life needs. I withheld one "star" from the rating due to things that should have been explained and a couple (unforgiveable) typos.
In contrast, the bk: "VBA For Dummies" (auth: Steve Cummings)doesn't seem to know where it is going. It flounders in "too much information" (details) that is not what I wanted or needed. You've heard of people who like to hear themselves talk, well this guy just like to see how many pages he can write and still leave his audience wondering what they just read. Incidently, both books are the same number of textual pagers: 370. The diffence is, I learned more in the first 10 pages of Walkenbach's book than I did in the first 200 pages of the latter. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 06:20:11 EST)
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| 03-29-00 | 5 | 109\115 |
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This is my first for dummies book, and I'm very impressed by the step-by-step straightfoward instructions. There is very little in the way of fluff here. It explains all the items on the tool bars,and takes the mystery out of all those dialog boxes. I'm negotiating my spread sheets with ease now. Cutting or copying and pasting, using windows to work on multiple worksheets at the same time, and printing just the way I want using headers and footers, and page breaks where I want them. I am amazed by the depth of this program. I'm only half way through the book, and can't wait to finish. Every chapter is helping to make my work easier.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-06-24 06:20:11 EST)
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