Excel 2003 for Dummies
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Every time you turn around, you run into Excel. It’s on your PC at work. It’s on your PC at home. You get Excel files from your boss. Wouldn’t you like to understand this powerful Microsoft Office spreadsheet program, once and for all? Now, you can crunch financial data, add sparkle to presentations, convert static lists of numbers into impressive charts, and discover what all the shouting’s about regarding databases, formulas, and cells. You may even decide that getting organized with a good spreadsheet is downright useful and fun!
Flip open Excel 2003 For Dummies, and you’ll quickly start getting the basics of Excel in plain English. Written for the rest of us, this down-to-earth book gently shows you how to:
In a clear and easy-to-understand style, veteran software trainer and technology writer Greg Harvey explains the basics of worksheets and workbooks, how to enter data and work with formulas, and how to print your masterpieces. When you’re feeling very bold, he’ll have you adding comments and pictures, saving files with security protection, and learning to zip between multiple worksheets in a workbook with ease. And there’s much more:
You’ll finally be able to stop pestering the Excel experts in your office. Become your own expert with the friendly and down-to-earth practical instruction you’ll find in Excel 2003 For Dummies. |
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| 06-22-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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It was just what I was looking for, and just as I expected. He assumes you know NOTHING and goes from there. Another good book in the Dummies series.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-08-20 06:52:37 EST)
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| 03-14-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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I have found this book to be very helpful, with easy to find answers to my questions.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-06-23 01:15:06 EST)
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| 02-17-08 | 2 | (NA) |
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I am an accountant. I was extremely disappointed in this book. Not well structured at all. It doesnt seem to know if it wants to be a reference book, a book for beginners or a book for those that have Excel knowledge and want to figure out the different features.
In the end the book is a help to no one. (Review Data Last Updated: 2008-03-15 06:37:24 EST)
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| 02-06-08 | 3 | (NA) |
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I was disappointed. Although it is good for very basic beginners, I was hoping it would help with functions that are more difficult. The Dummies Books are so good at explaining things in friendly terms. I was looking for the friendly terms to help me understand complicated functions. I was out of luck. I would only recomment this product for the very basic beginner.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-18 06:46:27 EST)
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| 01-23-08 | 5 | (NA) |
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I was very happy with my purchase. It was very easy to order. The item arrived on time and it was in exactly the condition as stated. I would purchase from this buyer again.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-02-07 06:57:34 EST)
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| 01-02-08 | 4 | (NA) |
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Helps when you get stuck, but I actually learned more on using Excel from MS site. The book is easy to read and would be great for a beginner.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-01-24 07:09:25 EST)
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| 11-28-07 | 5 | (NA) |
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Read it over the weekend, for a test and I passed. It was for a new job, it helped immensely. It was easy to read, and learn from.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2008-01-03 07:02:37 EST)
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| 08-14-07 | 5 | 3\3 |
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My son-in-law owns two gas stations and all of his records are on Excel spread sheets. I wanted to help him so I needed to learn how to operate the Excel sheets. He is running the older computers which have the 2003 version on them. I had to get a book about the 2003 version. I did buy this book and I read it from cover to cover. I was surprised at how much Excel could do. Once you learn the basics of Excel you can perform most of the functions in simple steps. You can do almost anything on a spread sheet. I kept going back to the book to look up procedures as I got into more complicated procedures. The book has a good table of contents. I even look up some of the words so I could better understand what the program required me to do to get the right results. Later I looked at the Microsoft manual for Excel. The manual has the same information but it seems more technical and it has a minimal table of contents. The Dummies book was more user friendly and it was easier to use as a reference to answer a simple question.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-11-29 04:27:35 EST)
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| 03-13-07 | 5 | 2\2 |
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I found this book to be very helpful. I had taken Excel classes before but this book helped me to reinforce my understanding and showed me some new techniques I did not know. I recommend this book for beginners as well as advanced users of Excel.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-08-15 07:03:08 EST)
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| 03-12-07 | 5 | (NA) |
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I found this book to be very helpful. I had taken Excel classes before but this book helped me to reinforce my understanding and showed me some new techniques I did not know. I recommend this book for beginners as well as advanced users of Excel.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-04-11 07:40:49 EST)
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| 02-20-07 | 5 | 1\1 |
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This book is truly helping me to understand using formulas. That was the sole reason of purchasing it.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-06-28 06:56:57 EST)
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| 02-19-07 | 5 | (NA) |
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This book is truly helping me to understand using formulas. That was the sole reason of purchasing it.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-03-13 07:40:37 EST)
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| 01-05-07 | 5 | 1\1 |
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...but this is step-by-step and easy enough to folllow along, I'm glad I bought it to help teach myself Excel.....
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-01 01:28:02 EST)
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| 01-04-07 | 2 | 2\6 |
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The layout of this book is very confusing, in every way
possible, although the writer tries to make it look like it is good. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-01 01:28:02 EST)
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| 01-03-07 | 2 | (NA) |
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The layout of this book is very confusing, in every way
possible, although the writer tries to make it look like it is good. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-01-05 00:40:53 EST)
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| 06-30-06 | 4 | 1\8 |
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this is a real good book if you want to get the basic of it.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2007-07-01 01:28:02 EST)
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| 03-18-06 | 2 | 22\24 |
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I already knew almost everything in this book, so I was disappointed when it arrived and I started looking through it. I ordered it hoping it would give me a simple explanation "for dummies" on what pivot tables are and how to create/work with them. They're not even listed in the index!
This book is great at covering all the very basic how-tos for someone who's never worked with Excel before; but it doesn't delve deeply enough into what the program can really do. (Review Data Last Updated: 2007-06-28 06:56:57 EST)
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| 03-17-06 | 2 | 6\6 |
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I already knew almost everything in this book, so I was disappointed when it arrived and I started looking through it. I ordered it hoping it would give me a simple explanation "for dummies" on what pivot tables are and how to create/work with them. They're not even listed in the index!
This book is great at covering all the very basic how-tos for someone who's never worked with Excel before; but it doesn't delve deeply enough into what the program can really do. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 01:05:37 EST)
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| 03-16-06 | 5 | 2\3 |
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This book is well-written, easily understood and met all my expectations.
Charlie (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 01:05:37 EST)
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| 03-11-06 | 5 | 1\3 |
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I enjoyed the layout of the book the best. Just reading in order made the process of learning Excel better.
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 01:05:37 EST)
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| 03-07-06 | 2 | 4\5 |
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Generaly a weak book unless you have never used Excel. I got the book because I needed help with graphical display of data.
If that was your problem this book will not help you much. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 01:05:37 EST)
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| 10-04-05 | 5 | 6\7 |
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Basically all the "...for Dummies" books are easy to understand and they guide you step by step on how to do just anything like teaching a three year old how to write "A". I also bought "Word for Dummies" and I can only say the same. It helped me quite a bit since I really don't know anything about computers. I've studied them back when we used "Cobol".
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 01:05:37 EST)
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| 06-17-05 | 2 | 34\41 |
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This is just a version of the manual without any sample exercises or anything. If that's all you need, its fine. I needed a tutorial with exercises, sample data to play with, etc. I found just what I was looking for in "Excel Personal Trainer 2003" which includes a cd with a lot of sample sheets and step-by-step exercises. In that book, the tutorial loads by itself but you have to manually copy over the sample spreadsheets.
BTW, I am actually using Quattro Pro 10 from Corel/Wordperfect but most things are the same or close enough to figure out. (Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 01:05:37 EST)
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| 10-25-03 | 5 | 77\86 |
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Never used Excel before? Don't worry. This book shows you how to create your own spreadsheets in no time. It covers everything from entering data and using formulas to formatting and printing spreadsheets, working with multiple worksheets, and creating graphs with the chart wizard. Perfect for beginners!
(Review Data Last Updated: 2006-07-07 01:05:37 EST)
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