Product Description

Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2000 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. Excel is a great organizer for all types of data, be they numeric, textual, or otherwise.

Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies covers all the fundamental techniques that you need to know in order to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets. In addition to showing you around the worksheet, this fun and friendly book exposes you to the basics of charting, creating databases, and converting spreadsheets into Web pages. Expect to pick up invaluable tips and tricks on

• Creating a spreadsheet from the get-go
• Dressing up the look of your cells
• Printing your spreadsheet masterpiece
• Facing a database
• Making sense of multiple worksheets
• Editing your worksheet Web pages

Keeping things simple, this book cuts to the chase by telling you in plain terms just what it is that you need to do to accomplish a task using Excel. With spreadsheets as the focus, Excel 2000 For Windows For Dummies shows you how to

• Launch Excel from a toolbar or browser
• Mess around with the menu bar
• Fabricate fabulous formulas
• Tamper with how text wraps
• Add hyperlinks to a worksheet
• Work with WordArt
• Customize and design your own toolbars
• Explore top features of Excel 2000

One look at the Excel 2000 screen (with all the boxes, buttons, and tabs), and you realize that there's a whole lot of stuff going on. With this book as your expert companion, you can tame your anxiety over the tech stuff and cell-abrate success with all the computing, text-editing, and formatting potential in this powerhouse program.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16915 in Books
• Published on: 1999-05-21
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Amazon.com
You may not be a dummy, but that doesn't mean you were born knowing how to use spreadsheets. Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies will bring you up to speed on Microsoft's premillennial package, even if you've never used anything like it before.

A great reference for the beginner and the pressed-for-time, this book is organized as a series of chapters that build from the basics of pointing and clicking and figuring out the different parts of the spreadsheet to more advanced topics like Web-based data entry and macros. Visual learners will find much to love as well--there are screen shots galore and plenty of icons to point you to the most salient items quickly.

Written in characteristic Dummies-style--laid-back and humorous--the text is as nonthreatening as can be; even the most diehard computer-phobes will find themselves chuckling as they (gulp) learn how to enter data. The techno-geeks down the hall might snicker at the bright yellow book on your desk, but you can snicker right back because you know you have better weekends. --Rob Lightner

Book Info
Provides instruction on how to design extraordinary spreadsheets that will help you manage information effectively using Excel 2000. Softcover.

From the Back Cover
Get time-saving tips on data entry, formatting, and more

Find out how to save worksheets as interactive Web pages

Start crunching numbers today even if you don't know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet Excel 2000 can help you keep records, track trends, and analyze results once you get up to speed. That's where this friendly guide comes in. Packed with expert tips and tricks, it walks you step-by-step through Excel fundamentals and shows you how to take advantage of the enhanced Internet and workgroup tools as well as other cool features.

Discover how to:

• Create worksheets and enter data
• Use formulas and functions
• Make your spreadsheets look terrific
• Organize multiple worksheets
• Work with charts, databases, and hyperlinks
• Customize Excel

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

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Customer Reviews

Good for Just Basics
This book is fine if all you want to do is basic spreadsheets. If cutting, pasting, basic formatting, or creating VERY simple formulas is all you need to do then this book is fine. However, if you are trying to do anything more complicated forget using this book. For instance, the section on creating Macros wasn't very detailed. In addition, the book is completely missing any explanation of how to use the more complicated formula functions (there is no mention of how to do any of the statistical functions). Probably 80% of what an average user needs is in this book. But for anything beyond the basics, forget it; you'll need another reference.

Useless
I foudn the book compleely useless and a waste of money. It explains nothing. After studying this book for two hours I was unable to do anything whatsoever in Excel. Look elsewhere.

Gentle intro but no depth
This is a good book for a non stressfull introduction, but there are few good hands on examples. I've found that by doing complex detailed step by step examples you can learn more faster. The learnkey.com website has a good excel class