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Wish there was one in the "middle." I chose this book because the other one I have is too intensive. Nice book, good illustrations. I'm a new Excel user and was able to hone some skills with this book, however, there were a few things I couldn't find in the book that I really needed to know.
All in all, I'd probably give this book a 4.5, but since that's not an option, I'll have to stick with 4 stars. All in all, it's a great reference book, and let's face it, sometimes it's just easier to review a chapter a few times to digest material rather than stare at a computer screen until you become cross-eyed. This particular series of instructional books (meaning the "QuickSteps" series) has always been one of my favorites -- they're concisely written in short paragraphs with decent descriptive pictures to help anyone learn just about any type of software application.While I found this book to be fairly complete, I'd still only recommend it as a desk-side reference manual to use along with Microsoft tutorials themselves. While it is a cleverly written book that is not as cumbersome to use as other reference books on the market, it does not address all of the finer points of Excel.
The text is readable and well organized. I don't use Excel all the time. This is a great tool for all levels of expertise. The visuals are clean and fully support the instructions.I found that you can start from the beginning and teach yourself EXCEL with simple step by step instructions or you can flip straight to your topic of interest and further build your skills. But when I do I don't have time to troubleshoot problems. This hands-on, user friendly book has helped me conquer Excel.
However, with this book alone, she was able to complete the Excel portion of there thesis without any additional help. The American Ethnic Studies major has no background in science, so was in the position of having absolutely zero knowledge of Excel. I also lent this book to a friend who works in American Ethnic Studies and used Excel to organize and make tables of data for her thesis.
Although my intro. I actually used Excel the most to analyze the significance of data from an experiment that I had designed and to graph the results. I'm a soon-to-be-graduating Psychology student at the University of Washington and I am writing this review from the perspective of some one using excel in Social Sciences.I found this book extremely suited to my needs.each step was very clear and precise and it was easy to find the chapter or section that was most applicable to what I was working on.It covered all of the functions of Excel that I have used in my classes thus far.
This required quite a few steps and it was helpful to have a guide to look at as I went as opposed to trying to guess what came after the basic skills I had previously learned. From a student's point of view, this is a great resource if your field involves any use of Excel. classes had a very brief introduction to the functions I needed, as I progressed into higher level classes and used more and more Excel I found that I needed additional specific instructions for my work.
This book was very helpful in that way, and saved me the bother of forever emailing questions to my professor, as I had done before I received the book.
It's very well illustrated and contains a lot of great tips. It's easy to find what I need when I want it. The author does an excellent job of explaining the material. I am an infrequent Excel user, so I needed a good reference book that is well indexed. That's exactly what I got with Excel 2003 QuickSteps.
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