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0764508229 978-0764508226 June 15, 2001 1
Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2002 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. If you're one of the many folks who has Office XP on your computer but doesn't know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet, this means that Excel 2002 is just sitting there taking up a lot of space. Well, it's high time to change all that.

One look at the Excel 2002 screen (with all its boxes, buttons, and tabs), and you realize how much stuff is going on there. Excel 2002 For Dummies will help you make some sense out of the rash of icons, buttons, and boxes that you're going to be facing day after day. And when you ready to go beyond spreadsheet basics, this guide will also introduce you to

  • Conjuring up charts
  • Inserting graphics
  • Designing a database
  • Converting spreadsheets into Web pages

Most of all, Excel 2002 For Dummies covers the fundamental techniques that you need to know in order to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets. In this book, you'll find all the information that you need to keep your head above water as you accomplish the everyday tasks that people do with Excel. This down-to-earth guide covers all these topics and more:

  • Creating a spreadsheet from scratch
  • Document recovery
  • Formatting fundamentals
  • Making corrections (and how to undo them)
  • Retrieving data from your spreadsheets
  • Protecting your documents
  • Demystifying formulas

Now, even if your job doesn't involve creating worksheets with a lot of fancy financial calculations or lah-dee-dah charts, you probably have plenty of things for which you could and should be using Excel. For instance, you may have to keep lists of information or maybe even put together tables of information for your job. Excel is a great list keeper and one heck of a table maker. You can use Excel anytime you need to keep track of products that you sell, clients who you service, employees who you oversee, or you name it.


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Your fun and easy road map to sensational spreadsheets

Get timesaving tips on the new fill and formatting features!

Find out how to save worksheets as interactive Web pages

Start crunching numbers today—even if you don't knowa spreadsheet from a bedsheet
Excel 2002 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, it walk you through Excel fundamentals — including the new Task Pane interface — and shows you how to take advantage of voice recognition, handwriting recognition, and 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

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Explanation 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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About the Author

Greg Harvey is a veteran software trainer and the author of more than thirty compuer books.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (June 15, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764508229
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764508226
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #820,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars plain talking explanations, February 28, 2005
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Harvey hopes to offer you an easy acquaintance with the many features of Excel. As with other books in this series, little prior knowledge of this subject is assumed. Instead, he describes in plain terms what many common capabilities exist. Some of these may indeed be used with formidable complexity, like having a cell be an intricate function of many other cells. But by offering simple examples, you can see how to utilise these features.

By the way, this example of a cell being a function of one or more other cells is of course the key idea of a spreadsheet. It dates back to when they only existed in hardcopy form. While Excel now offers a large portfolio of features, this is still the most important and fundamental one. If you study this book, ensure that you have this knowledge well understood.
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I DON'T USE EXCEL 2002 THAT MUCH BUT NEED SOME TYPE OF QUICK REFERENCE WHEN I DO. THIS BOOK IS EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVEN WITH MY LIMITED KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF THE PROGRAM. IF YOU HAVE EXCEL 2002 AND NEED A LITTLE HELP, THIS IS A GREAT BOOK, GREAT PRICE AND QUICK DELIVERY FROM AMAZON.
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