Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies [Paperback]

Greg Harvey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 21, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0764504460 | ISBN-13: 978-0764504464 | Edition: 1

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

• Creating a spreadsheet from the get-go
• Dressing up the look of your cells
• Printing your spreadsheet masterpiece
• Facing a database
• Making sense of multiple worksheets
• Editing your worksheet Web pages

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

• Launch Excel from a toolbar or browser
• Mess around with the menu bar
• Fabricate fabulous formulas
• Tamper with how text wraps
• Add hyperlinks to a worksheet
• Work with WordArt
• Customize and design your own toolbars
• Explore top features of Excel 2000

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.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

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

From the Back Cover

Get time-saving tips on data entry, formatting, and more

Find out how to save worksheets as interactive Web pages

Start crunching numbers today ? even if you don't know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet Excel 2000 can help you keep records, track trends, and analyze results ? once you get up to speed. That's where this friendly guide comes in. Packed with expert tips and tricks, it walks you step-by-step through Excel fundamentals ? and shows you how to take advantage of the enhanced Internet and workgroup tools as well as other cool features.

Discover how to:

• Create worksheets and enter data
• Use formulas and functions
• Make your spreadsheets look terrific
• Organize multiple worksheets
• Work with charts, databases, and hyperlinks
• Customize Excel

The Dummies Way

• Explanations in plain English
• "Get in, get out" information
• Icons and other navigational aids
• Tear-out cheat sheet
• Top ten lists
• A dash of humor and fun

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (May 21, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764504460
• ISBN-13: 978-0764504464
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #646,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #21 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Spreadsheets
  • #24 in Books > Computers & Technology > Microsoft > Applications > Office 2000

More About the Author

Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being Excel Timesaving Techniques For Dummies and Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies, and the most popular being Excel 2003 For Dummies and Excel 2003 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies. He started out training business users on how to use IBM personal computers and their attendant computer software in the rough and tumble days of DOS, WordStar, and Lotus 1-2-3 in the mid-80s of the last century. After working for a number of independent training firms, he went on to teach semester-long courses in spreadsheet and database management software at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
His love of teaching has translated into an equal love of writing. For Dummies books are, of course, his all-time favorites to write because they enable him to write to his favorite audience, the beginner. They also enable him to use humor (a key element to success in the training room) and, most delightful of all, to express an opinion or two about the subject matter at hand.
Greg received his doctorate degree in Humanities in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion last May. Everyone is glad that Greg was finally able to get out of school before he retired.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

112 of 118 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reader from Pennsyvania, March 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies (Paperback)

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.

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An honest review by a real Dummy!, July 11, 2001

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Bala K. Srinivas (San Francisco,, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies (Paperback)

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!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Gentle intro but no depth, August 13, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies (Paperback)

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