Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Step by Step (Step by Step (Microsoft)) [Paperback]

Curtis Frye (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 31, 2007 | ISBN-10: 073562304X | ISBN-13: 978-0735623040

Experience learning made easy—and quickly teach yourself how to organize, analyze, and present data with Excel 2007. With Step By Step, you set the pace—building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!

• Create formulas, calculate values, and analyze data
• Present information visually with graphics, charts, and diagrams
• Build PivotTable dynamic views—even easier with new data tables
• Reuse information from databases and other documents
• Share spreadsheets for review and manage changes
• Create macros to automate repetitive tasks and simplify your work

Your all-in-one learning experience includes:

• Files for building skills and practicing the book’s lessons
• Fully searchable eBook
• Bonus quick reference to the Ribbon, the new Microsoft Office interface
• Windows Vista® Product Guide eReference—plus other resources on CD

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Key Book Benefits:

-Learn how to use Office Excel 2007 by taking just the lessons you need or by working from cover to cover--you set the pace
-Includes coverage of all the fundamentals, including sorting and filtering information, working with workbooks and PivotTable® views, and using collaboration features
-Features easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on skill-building exercises
-Includes a companion CD with practice files and other resources

About the Author

Curtis Frye is the author of numerous books on Excel and other Office products, most recently Microsoft Excel 2010 Step by Step. He graduated from Syracuse in 1990 with a degree in political science, and then moved to Washington, DC, where he worked as a defense trade analyst for four years and as the director of sales and marketing for an ISP for one year. He moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1995 to launch his freelance writing career. When Curt's not writing, and often while he is writing, he is a keynote speaker, mentalist, and professional improvisational comedian.

Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Microsoft Press (January 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 073562304X
• ISBN-13: 978-0735623040
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,056 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #51 in Books > Computers & Technology > Databases

More About the Author

Curtis Frye is the author of numerous books on Excel, Access, and privacy-enhancing technologies. Microsoft Excel 2010 Step By Step is consistently among the best-selling Excel books. Before beginning his writing career in 1995, Curt spent four years with The MITRE Corporation as a defense trade analyst and one year as Director of Sales and Marketing for Digital Gateway Systems, an Internet Service Provider. When not writing, Curt is a popular conference speaker, corporate entertainer, and professional improvisational comedian with ComedySportz Portland.

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor quality control. The errors and other problems make this a frustrating book to learn from, January 2, 2008

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Hank K (Central Coast, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))

I have to agree with another reviewer. This book is full of errors including example files that range from already completed or missing pieces. The book is hard to follow because some of the commands are not what is in the actual Excel product. The book lacks symbols or pointers for the keystroke instructions. The book has you making permanent changes and additions to Excel and not removing them. Need I go on.

Yes, I am learning some things the hard and slow way. Maybe this book was printed before the product was released but that is still no excuse for the lack of review before it was printed.

I had purchased the Step-by-Step Powerpoint 2007 book and it was excellent -- great directions, in the left margins small icons for the keys to press, and every example on the CD was correct. And believe it or not the instructions matched the Microsoft product.

I should have read the reviews before I purchased this book. This is my opinion.

62 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Still counting the errors!, September 19, 2007

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Bobby W. (USA) - See all my reviews
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Being new to Excel 2007, I figured this book would be the best place to start, given that it's published by Microsoft Press.

I'm about halfway through, and though I have garnered some useful information, I found the book to be so full of errors(and bonehead moments) that it has become a form of entertainment just anticipating the next one.

The first little omen was on page xxiv, where under the Creating and Managing Presentations header, the bullet item "Creating Effective Presentations" appears twice. OK, nobody is perfect.

The very first exercise instructs you to open an existing workbook file, "Exception Summary". The very next instruction is to close the file. This wasn't an error, but it was pretty funny.

There are files and folders missing from the companion CD, missing instructions, instructions that lead you down rabbit holes...

To their credit, Microsoft does maintain an error log on their website, but at least one of the listed "fixes" is still wrong, as far as I can tell.

I wonder if Microsoft Press is hiring proofers...

32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Step By Step Office Excel 2007, September 29, 2007

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William F. Newbern "Bill" (Bill) - See all my reviews
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This book looks good on the surface; However, The descriptions do not match the screens that I have on my version of Excel 2007. It is very difficult to follow and I would not recommend it to anyone new to this software.