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0764537563 978-0764537561 October 10, 2003 1
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:

  • Create a spreadsheet from scratch
  • Apply the basics of formatting cells
  • Take on database forms—even add records—and prevail
  • Get organized and stay that way
  • Save worksheets as Web pages for your company intranet

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:

  • Clip and save the Top Ten Beginner Basics of Excel 2003
  • Pay heed to the Top Ten Commandments of Excel 2003
  • Impress your colleagues by creating a company org chart
  • Re-open those documents and add or edit new data with aplomb
  • Move between these sheets without trouble
  • Decipher and take charge of helpful tools and commands such as Sort, Filter, Format Cells, and PivotTable

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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From the Back Cover

Format cells, enter formulas, and print your worksheets

You too can excel at organizing information in spreadsheets, charts, graphs, and more

There it sits on your computer – Excel 2003. Now, what do you do with it? Hundreds of things, and this friendly guide gets you started! It gently leads you through the basics, so you can build great ways to organize business data, create cool charts for presentations, or just keep track of what’s in your pantry.

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

About the Author

Greg Harvey is a veteran computer trainer, consultant, and the author of more than 50 books. He also owns and manages a multimedia publishing venture, Mind Over Media.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (October 10, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764537563
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764537561
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,994 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 Excellent Book For Beginners, October 24, 2003
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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!
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53 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars I can't find anything on pivot tables, March 17, 2006
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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.
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84 of 94 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Just a Manual, June 17, 2005
This review is from: Excel 2003 For Dummies (Paperback)
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.
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Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2003 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. Read the first page
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print area, operating income, clip art, fill color, chart type, chart objects, data labels, first quarter sales, insert diagram, worksheet data table, current cell selection, tab split bar, cell pointer, select this radio button, first occupied cell, workbook window, cell shortcut menu, spinner buttons, tab scrolling buttons, sizing buttons, own chart sheet, arguments dialog box, recovered version, secondary mouse button, vertical scroll box
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Mother Goose Enterprises, Jack Sprat Diet Centers, Page Setup, Speech Recognition, Print Preview, Dock Clock Repair, Mother Hubbard Dog Goodies, Format Cells, Chart Wizard, Editing Without Tears, Projected Income, Making It All Look Pretty, Ground Floor, Insert Function, Little Bo Peep Pet Detectives, Total Income, Microsoft Excel, Tangled Worksheet We Weave, Going Through Changes, Elie Edit, Georgie Porgie Pudding Pies, Data Window, Format Painter, Jack Be Nimble Candlesticks, Total Due
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