Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft)) | 
| Author: Curtis Frye
Publisher: Microsoft Press
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Sales Rank: 2143
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 432
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7.3 x 1.3
MPN: 9780735623040
ISBN: 073562304X
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.54
EAN: 9780735623040
ASIN: 073562304X
Publication Date: January 31, 2007
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Product Description
Excel provides an easy-to-use, powerful spreadsheet environment that helps you handle calculations and data more effectively - with simple ways to enter and edit data, work with formulas and functions for complex calculations, format worksheets and work with colorful charts, and publish documents to the Web. With MICROSOFT EXCEL 2007 STEP BY STEP, you'll learn all the ins and outs of working with Excel features, including the exciting new interface for this latest version of Office. This information-packed guide provides numbered steps and hands-on examples that show you how to get the most out of Excel. With this book, you'll learn how to work with tools to make worksheet entry faster, make your Excel documents more attractive, present information visually with charts, sorting and filtering data, publish documents on the Web, and lots more. The companion CD provides all exercise source files so that you get hands-on with Excel right away. The smart way to learn Office Excel 2007--one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to master the fundamentals of working with the latest version of Excel, including how to navigate the new user interface. You'll learn how to create a wide-variety of documents, how to present information visually with charts, and how to add graphics to your spreadsheets. You will discover how to work with features to make data entry faster, how sort and filter data, how to create dynamic lists with Pivot Tables, and even how to publish your documents to the Web--plus more! With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction--building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes a companion CD with hands-on practice files.
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 Still counting the errors! September 19, 2007
Bobby W. (USA)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
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...
 Step By Step Office Excel 2007 September 29, 2007
William F. Newbern (Bill)
17 out of 18 found this review helpful
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.
Poor quality control. The errors and other problems make this a frustrating book to learn from January 2, 2008
Hank K (Central Coast, CA USA)
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
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.
 Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Step by Step November 22, 2007
Nita (Atlanta, GA)
2 out of 8 found this review helpful
Great product for the beginner as well as intermediate. A truly great learning tool
 Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Step by Step April 15, 2008
Cynthia K. Dennis (Divide CO USA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I would need this book often for all the changes to Excel 2007. The CD was very valuable and am glad it is included. Would like a better process to remove the CD packet from the book so I don't damage the spine. I have ordered all the other Office 2007 books and will use them often.
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