Product Description

Learn everything you need to know for working with Microsoft Office Excel 2007--from the inside out! This book packs hundreds of time-saving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds for using Office Excel 2007--all in concise, fast-answer format. Whether you are upgrading from Office 97 or Office 2003, you'll be able to dig in to the work-ready resources that help you take your Office Excel 2007 experience to the next level. This information-packed complete reference shows you how to get the most out of Office Excel 2007. You will learn how to navigate the product's new features and capabilities, including the new formatting and editing advances such as Live Preview. You'll explore new graphics capabilities, master the charting interface, and learn how to create dynamic lists with PivotTable® reports. You'll even learn how to automate Office Excel with macros, custom functions, and more. Plus, you'll get tools, eBooks, and more on the companion CD. With INSIDE OUT, you get all muscle and no fluff!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67401 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-14
• Platform: No Operating System
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.07 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 1088 pages

From the Publisher
Key Book Benefits:

-Makes hundreds of tips, tricks, and workarounds easy to find and apply with the award-winning INSIDE OUT format -Drills into the most-used features and functions in Office Excel, delivering comprehensive details--but no fluff--in a single volume -Includes a companion CD with tools, eBooks, and more

About the Author
Craig Stinson has coauthored more than 15 books, including Microsoft Windows® XP Inside Out and Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Inside Out. He is also a contributing editor for PC Magazine. A former senior technical writer for the Microsoft Office User Assistance group, Mark Dodge coauthored Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Inside Out and four editions of Running Microsoft Excel. He has been honored with six awards from the Society for Technical Communication.

Customer Reviews

Good information, poor quality control
The information presented in the book is quite detailed, and generally on the money in showing me what I need to know. I hit a problem with chapter 6 though. At first it looked like half the chapter was missing. On further investigation pages 131-162 are out of order. The pages run from 1 - 130, 163 - 194, 131 - 162, and then 195 and on. I'm returning the book to Amazon for replacement. Otherwise I'm quite happy with the book

If you need to go beyond the Dummies publications
I had the Dummies publication to start me off on Excel 2007. I was familiar with 2003, but 2007 with its "ribbon" threw me off because the commands were in different places. Plus there are some new bells and whistles for 2007. I needed to finish a project for work and figure out ways I could work within the security/systems constraints and this book did it for me. Most of the other books didn't have enough detail to solve my problem. Not a perfect book and Excel and the other Office applications have gotten so sophisticated I don't think any book cover possible cover everything, but if you need to go beyond Dummies, consider this publication as an overall guide to assist you with Excel 2007.

Better than Jelen for Minutae
To parallel my review of "Special Edition: Using Excel 2007", let me consider the same examples.

1. Cursor motion: complete discussion on p. 136 under Data Entry: no reference in the index, however.
2. File properties: not discussed, but correct information given in the "Menu to Ribbon Command Reference, Appendix A" p. 909
3. Single data point label on a chart: Procedure on p. 624
4. Setting Maximum Iterations and Maximum Change for Goal Seek: p. 601
5. How to access Solver once installed: p. 603

So all these annoying omissions in "Special Edition" are corrected here. That leads me to think this book is preferable to "Special Edition" for many minutae.

However, its index is not great, and many topics are given only short discussion. For example, the discussion of "Naming a Formula" (p. 448) is only a paragraph, while Jelen has a five-page discussion with several examples to show its utility (pp. 857-862).