Excel 2007: The Missing Manual Revised Edition

by Matthew MacDonald (Author)

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Microsoft Excel continues to grow in power, sophistication, and capability, but one thing that has changed very little since the early '90s is its user interface. The once-simple toolbar has been packed with so many features over the years that few users know where to find them all. Microsoft has addressed this problem in Excel 2007 by radically redesigning the user interface with a tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate and use. Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation is as scant as ever, so even if users can find advanced features, they probably won't know what to do with them.

Excel 2007: The Missing Manual covers the entire gamut of how to build spreadsheets, add and format information, print reports, create charts and graphics, and use basic formulas and functions. Like its siblings in the Missing Manual series, this book crackles with a fine sense of humor and refreshing objectivity about its subject, guiding readers through the new Excel with clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, lots of illustrations, and friendly, time-saving advice. It's a perfect primer for small businesses with no techie to turn to, as well as those who want to organize household and office information.

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Matthew MacDonald is a science and technology writer with well over a dozen books to his name. Web novices can tiptoe out onto the Internet with him in Creating a Website: The Missing Manual. HTML fans can learn about the cutting edge of web design in HTML5: The Missing Manual. And human beings of all description can discover just how strange they really are in the quirky handbooks Your Brain: The Missing Manual and Your Body: The Missing Manual.

Series: Missing Manual
Paperback: 860 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; Revised edition (January 6, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596527594
ISBN-13: 978-0596527594
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Great Resource

July 21, 2016

Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase

I purchased Excel 2007: The Missing Manual because my company is too cheap to buy into a LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) software, and they want to track everything in Excel, want everyone in the company to be able to access, but only want a select few to be able to update this. Well, the IT (information technology) department had theier heads far too up their own @sses, and told the the upper echelon of my company that they had no time to make this happen since they were stuck trying to figure out how to keep a software system of the early 2000's compliant, so they won't have to buy into a LIMS. So aggravating! But some one had to do it, and that someone ended up being yours truly. Yet, this book, and the other I purchased, Unlocking the Secrets of Microsoft Excel 2007, QuickClicks: Excel 2007, Microsoft Excel 2007 Charts & Tables Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated Card), Unlocking the Secrets of Microsoft Excel 2007 Shortcuts, Tips, and Tricks, Microsoft Excel 2007 Introduction Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated Card), and Microsoft Excel 2007 Advanced & Macros Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts - Laminated Card), was just what I needed to make this happen for my department. I really can't believe all the things Excel can do, it is quite amazing. I hope Microsoft does not get rid of Excel, or change it too much in it’s upgrades, cuz I feel pretty computer savvy with all the Excel knowledge I learned from this book and the accompanying books and pamphlets I purchased.

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Ricardo

So Simple a Caveman Can Do It

June 13, 2011

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I have to admit that I've been using various versions of Excel for quite a few years. However, like most users, I really hadn't scratched the surface of its capabilities. A lot of what I learned was by trial and error or simply by accident.

Oddly, our company uses Office 2003 but has made Office 2007 available for home use through Microsoft at a ridiculous discount. So ridiculous that I simply couldn't pass it up. Although I had no trouble moving from Word 2003 to 2007, much of what I knew about Excel 2003 simply didn't "translate" to 2007 and I was starting to become frustrated.

I have a "Missing Manual" for Nikon Capture NX2 which I have used to learn about some of the more obscure features of the piece of software. I needed some help with Excel 2007 so decided to try the Missing Manual series again.

Unlike many software manuals, those from "Missing Manuals" are actually kind of enjoyable to read. They won't keep you up nights waiting for a surprise ending, but they won't put you to sleep either.

The writing is quite conversational with a bit of humor thrown in. While that's all well and good, it's the content that's important and there's plenty of that. The authors just about held my hand getting me through "Charts" and I've learned a few new things that even work on the 2003 version.

If you need a kick start as an Excel beginner or are stuck trying to work out complicated formulas, this is the book to get.

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An excellent resource

June 25, 2010

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I've been an Office user for many, many years, but Microsoft keeps adding what they consider to be features and with Office 2007, they changed the User Interface.

The Missing Manuals series are generally excellent, so I bought all of the volumes available covering Office 2007 for use as references when I needed them.

As it happens, with Office 2010 just becoming available, I needed a reference to Excel 2007 immediately - and my volume of Excel 2007:The Missing Manual was at hand.

Lifesaver. I needed a crash course in Pivot Tables and that is precisely what I got. More than enough to carry me through the basics in a flash.

I also had to review the book's treatment of Excel functions. I was trying to do some data manipulation. Normally I would just write a program to do this, but this project was a bit bigger and I wanted to take care of all that needed to be done in a single app.

The first seven chapters deal with the basics and then some of spreadsheets. For beginners, this is must-read material. More experienced users will probably be okay with just skimming it. The next 21 chapters bring the reader deeper and deeper into Excel's very great capabilities. This is not one of those books where the reader is constantly told that the subject at hand is beyond the scope of the book. The author's provide very substantial detail, but their writing style is crisp and clear, free of pedantry, It is actually pleasant to read, despite being a technical manual.

As I said, this book has been sitting on the shelf, having been purchased as a reference for the moment I would need an authoritative education on some aspect of Excel 2007 in a hurry.

Thanks to being well researched, well written and amply supplied with illustrations and examples, the book saved me.

What more can you ask?

Jerry

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Psaro

Not Quite The Missing Manual

July 15, 2012

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If you want a book just to learn how to create nice spreadsheets, then this is one such book. As an intermediate user, I expect more. For an 800-page book that claims to be the missing manual, I expect more in-depth coverage of each topic. For example, in the real world, you will find nested IF()/IFERROR(), but the book doesn't show you how to construct that. In the last chapter, Programming Spreadsheets with VBA, you will learn more about the Visual Basic programming language than you learn how to generate Excel spreadsheet programmatically. I was expecting it to explain Excel internals so that I can generate spreadsheets in any programming language.

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