Beginning Pivot Tables in Excel 2007 (Expert's Voice) [Paperback]

Debra Dalgleish (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590598903 | ISBN-13: 978-1590598900 | Publication Date: September 26, 2007 | Edition: 1

This book is for experienced Excel users (there are 65 million of them) who want to learn how to use Excel 2007 Pivot Tables for fast data analysis. The author is an internationally recognized Excel authority. Her web site on Excel, http://contextures.com, has over 175,000 visitors a month.

The book focuses on practical tips and techniques that will help any Excel user quickly analyze large amounts of data. The chapters are problem-focused, each expanding on skills learned in earlier sections.

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"The style of the book is very didactic. The book is best used as a step-by-step guide for performing all the operations needed to present data in a consistent way. Each chapter is full of figures and screen shots that support the topic being explained … which makes it very easy to reproduce them. … This book will be invaluable to any reader who is not an information technology (IT) professional, and could be asked … to present data in consistent way." (Andrea Paramithiotti, Computing Reviews, Vol. 50 (1), January, 2009)

About the Author

Debra Dalgleish is a computer consultant in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, serving local and international clients. Self-employed since 1985, she has extensive experience in designing complex Excel and Access applications, as well as sophisticated Word forms and documents. She has led hundreds of Microsoft Office corporate training sessions, from beginner to advanced level.

In recognition of her technical expertise and contributions to the Excel community, she has received the Microsoft Office Excel MVP award each year since 2001. You can find a wide variety of Excel tips and tutorials, and sample files, on her Contextures website: www.contextures.com/tiptech.html.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (September 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590598903
• ISBN-13: 978-1590598900
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,796 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #93 in Books > Computers & Technology > Computer Science > Systems Analysis & Design

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I'm Debra Dalgleish, the owner and lead consultant at Contextures, a consulting firm located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, specializing in Microsoft Office programming and development, and serving local and international clients.

My website -- www.contextures.com -- is packed with Excel tips, Excel tutorials, and Excel video tutorials, like the one shown here.
My Excel blog -- blog.contextures.com -- features Excel tips and tricks, and a few related topics.
My pivot table blog -- www.pivot-table.com -- has Excel pivot table tips and tutorials.

I've written three books on Excel pivot tables, available here at Amazon:

* Beginning Pivot Tables in Excel 2007
* Excel 2007 Pivot Tables Recipes
* Excel Pivot Tables Recipe Book

Self-employed since 1985, I started by doing word processing on a Macintosh (upgraded to 512K), with an external floppy drive, and no hard drive. The first two programs that I used were MacPaint and MacWrite. Soon I got MultiPlan and Microsoft Word, and was excited by all the new things they could do.

The next big program I got was Excel, and I expanded my business into that area. In the mid 90s, when Windows 3.1 was released, I gradually switched to a PC, because that's what my clients were using. I did computer training, wrote training manuals, continued with word processing, and created spreadsheets.

In 1996 I was asked to teach an introductory course in Access 2.0, so I learned that too. At the end of that year I created my first database for a client. Since then, we've converted the database to newer versions, but it's still going strong!

Currently my work load is about 40% Excel programming, 40% Access development, and 20% other Microsoft Office projects, such as Word and PowerPoint. A few clients still use Office 2000, a few have upgraded to Office 2007, and the rest use Office XP or Office 2003.

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