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October 10, 2003 076453758X 978-0764537585 1
When you think of number-crunching and spreadsheets, you think of Excel, right? After Word, it’s the most popular program in the Microsoft Office suite. But if technical jargon isn’t your first language, you may have found Excel just a teeny bit frustrating. It can be really hard to pick your way through the many features and make Excel do what you need for it to do.

Once you know how, you can use Excel to

  • Create fill-in-the-blank forms
  • Prepare expense reports and invoices
  • Manage all sorts of data
  • Keep sales and inventory records
  • Analyze financial data and create forecasts
  • Present information in charts and graphs

Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies tames the Excel monster. Nine minibooks break things down into manageable, logical sections covering the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, working on the Web, and tweaking Excel with a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA. In the friendly, plain-English For Dummies style, this book makes it easy to find what you’re looking for and get instructions for doing what you need to do. You’ll be able to

  • Find your way around Excel’s menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes, and access online help
  • Format a professional-looking spreadsheet that presents data the way you choose
  • Edit an existing spreadsheet without disturbing its design or contents
  • Build Excel formulas and use built-in functions to produce the calculations you want
  • Share spreadsheet data with other people and programs, and collect comments
  • Create great-looking charts and find out how to choose the right format to display your data effectively
  • Use Excel to maintain large amounts of data, then filter the data to extract the information you need
  • Publish spreadsheets and charts on the Web in HTML format
  • Explore ways to customize Excel with VBA

Best of all, it’s easy to find what you need in Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. Before you know it, you’ll discover you’ve developed a friendship with Excel that will make your life easier, boost your business, and impress your friends!


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9 books in 1– your key to Excel 2003 success!

Your one-stop guide to building worksheets, creating formulas, managing data, and more

Excel is famous for its incredible range of capabilities – accompanied by incredibly complex explanations that only a devout techie can understand. Jettison the jargon with this perfectly organized reference guide! You’ll discover how to use Excel’s every feature, and best of all, find the answer in a hurry should you still get stuck.

The Dummies Way

  • Coverage of the essentials and beyond
  • Explanations in plain English
  • "Get in, get out" information
  • Thumbtabs and other navigation aids
  • Tear-out cheat sheet
  • A dash of humor and fun

About the Author

Greg Harvey is a veteran computer trainer and consultant who has written more than 50 books. He’s the owner of a multimedia publishing venture called Mind Over Media.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 840 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (October 10, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 076453758X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764537585
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 1.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #108,620 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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5.0 out of 5 stars There's tons of useful information in this book., October 24, 2003
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I use Excel at work all the time and this book is always within an arm's reach. The formulas and functions chapters are especially helpful -- as are the ones on PivotTables, building Macros, and sharing data with other programs. If you're only going to buy one book on Excel, buy this one!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies, September 25, 2005
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Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies is a great overall book for Excel 2003. It will get you going on Excel 2003 even if you have a minimal amount of experience in Excel. Introduces you to formulas, charts, pivot tables and other subjects that most people need in order to fully utilizing the power of Excel. Written very well and easy to understand.
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I've read quite a few computer how-to books. I prefer to learn by example, which this book offers very little of. Rather than showing you how to do something, this book tells you how to do it in a long drawn out process.
I could not figure out how to use the advanced filter command with this book. I checked out the Excel 2003 Bible from the library and I was able to use this feature within 5 minutes. Do not buy this book!
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Before you go off trying to find out how to do things in Excel, you really need to know what the program is capable of doing. Read the first page
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row level button, interactive pivot table, sales invoice template, current cell selection, nonadjacent cell selection, column input cell, cell pointer, range password, particular cell range, own chart sheet, consolidating worksheets, new custom dictionary, shared workbook, new data list, protected worksheet, workbook file, nonadjacent selection, first occupied cell, pointer one cell, three blank worksheets, linking formula, worksheet protection, custom chart type, chart data series, alert dialog box
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Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic Editor, Mission Street, Data Window, Print Preview, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Human Resources, Insert Function, Elie Edit, Chart Wizard, Page Break Preview, Paste Special, Qata Window, Office Assistant, Conditional Sum Wizard, Quick Launch, Change History, Formula Auditing, Lookup Wizard, Personal Macro Workbook, Choice Tools, Elie Edh, File Name, Page Field
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