Great book for both beginner and advanced MS-Excel users
921410
Great book for both beginner and advanced MS-Excel users, and is up-to-date with enhanced functionality. Dummies books are the best and can easily take the place of a class. I keep this in my office to refer to, as I work with Excel on a pretty regular basis. Very detailed and easy to follow I recommend it to all excel users who need to advance their skills in their business and workplace.
2511533
This is a really nice book for any owner of a Surface.  It covers all the basics for beginners and gets into some things that are a little more advanced for the experienced user. It also has a nice section on using MS Office, for people like me that have not used it yet. Also, there a lot of little hints and short cuts to make use of.
3808789
I've been working with Excel for years...

This is by far the BEST EXCEL DEVELOPMENT BOOK I've ever seen.  It paid for itself many, many times over in the theory, and code tricks I've learned from it.

BEWARE BEGINNERS....if you're unfamiliar with Excel or VBA development, this isn't the book for you...start with Excel 2003 Power Programming by John Walkenbach.

If you're looking to take your spreadsheets to the next level, BUY THIS BOOK...IT RULES
982421
Although I have not completed the full book, I found it very good especially for beginners.  I was not conversant at all with Excel and found that I needed it for my employment as my employer had changed my job and I needed the basics.

I found the illustrations very good and easy to follow, and anything I needed to know found easy to find in the book.

I would recommend this book, especially to anyone with little or no knowledge of Excel.
1769811
I will freely admit being overwhelmed by the idea of using EXCEL. The downside is friends & co-workers are using it with excellent results. I hate asking them to keep showing me things because is makes me sound like an Ludite. EXCEL:Boost Your Productivity is a huge hep for me. Since I already have a Kindle reader on my computer, I can refer back to this handy guide anytime I'm unsure of something. This brief, well-written guide help me handle my personal bogeyman, the formula. EXCEL sheets are great for accounting, records, historical dates, organizing information chronologically, and the list goes on. If the only thing between you and EXCEL is lack of knowledge, then you need this book.
2732993
Excel 2010: The Missing Manual is indeed the manula that should have been included in the box.  It is the best Excel book that I've ever used.  The narrative in the book is very easy to read and to understand.  The examples are real life examples and add to the explanation of each topic.  This book also shows aspects of Excel that are not even in the Excel Help files.  The step by step instructions are very useful and this book has taught me many things that I did not know after using Excel for 20 years. It was definitely worth every cent.
990322
Excel is of course first and foremost a spreadsheet. They were designed to allow you to play what if senarios. You can change this part of the budget to see what the effect is over there.

But beyond the spread sheet functionality Excel has numerous functions and capabilities to do all kinds of analysis capabilities.

This book is on using these functions to perform a whole range of statistical functions. Not only does this book cover the functions themselves, but gives the background and description of what this particular kind of function is doing. Both numerical analysis and charting functions are included and in detail.

Don't skip the part in this book called the Part of Tens. This section in the For Dummies books often has some interesting points, but here the summation of statistical limitations is just great.
4475321
This book was a great help in learning Microsoft Excel. The Chapters were explained so that you could understand and following. The end of chapter exercise will help you improve your skills. I would recommend this book to everyone.
1284666
This book is perfect for those who are proficient in Excel, but want to expand their skills to become more efficient and utilize Excel's advanced features.  I knew there were better ways to accomplish the work I did in Excel and was frustrated by my limitations.  Completing this program has not only allowed me to do a better job in less time, but also to do things I never dreamed possible.  My skills are now in such demand that I'm able to have a sense of job security even in a struggling job market.  I strongly recommend this book for anyone in an office position.
4700634
A very helpful book for those of us who aren't the biggest Excel gurus out there. Great for anyone willing to take the time to learn how to use Excel properly.
2252948
I have been trying to learn how to program Access for a few years and this is the only book that I am confident will help me master programming Access 2007.  I purchased the Access 2003 version last year and then the 2007 Access a couple months ago.  To my surprise, Ms. Korol had added more than 200 pages to ensure that folks understand how to use Access 2007's new features, including the Multi-value Data Type, Attachment Data Type, Append Only Memo Field, Rich Text Memo Field, and PDF/XPS files. Although I have not studied it yet, there's an entire chapter on customizing the Ribbon.

The very best aspect of the book is that it contains code samples for just about everything that you'll need to build a robust Access application.  Most code samples are given as both DAO and ADO.

You'll still need other books in your Access library but you'll probably want two copies of  Access 2007 Programming by Example -- one for home and one for the office.  This book will save you lots of time on user community boards whether you are a beginner or an advanced developer. And although the first section says no previous programming experience is necessary, I would still recommend a beginning Access VBA course or programming class.
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I found this book to be quite useful in a number of areas - very basic client\server programming, using RDO, Using SQL server 6.0 with VB and also found the last few chapters that deal with VBA very handy.  I am now re-reading the sections on Windows API, and software optimization so that I can attempt to make a client/server app that I am writeing much more efficent.  Overall a very good book for the advanced beginner thru intermediate programmer.
4213231
This book starts at a very basic level and shows you step-by-step how to use Excel.  It teaches you about Excel within an accounting framework.  It is important to understand that this book has the purpose of teaching you about Excel and assumes you understand the accounting terms.  If you want to learn about Excel or build on some basic skills you already have this is quite a helpful book.
After the authors take you through the use of the various tools (and there are lots of examples and do-along projects), there are problems and a Case Study to help you actively use what you have learned.  There are answers to selected problems in the back of the book.
1859276
Wow! I make a good part of my living off of Power Pivot and DAX and it's people like Alberto and Marco that have helped me all along the way - with their blog posts, conference sessions, and books.  This book really stands out though.  It's a very complete treatment of DAX which is the core language of all the "new" analytical tools that Microsoft has released over the past three years.

DAX is a language that, at first glance, looks a lot like Excel and is pretty easy to learn for an advanced Excel user but the language quickly becomes more difficult if you haven't taken the time to understand its foundations - and that's what this book addresses ... in great detail.  I've worked full-time with DAX for over three years now and I had lightbulbs going off constantly as I was reading this book.  Incredible feeling, thank you.

Said another way, there is knowledge in this book that will be hard to appreciate, that you'll miss entirely, unless you've had lots of experience with DAX.  Beginners will get something from the book undoubtedly but it's really a book aimed at taking people from intermediate to expert. I agree with other reviewers who have suggested that DAX beginners start with Albert & Marco's other book "Microsoft Excel 2013 Building Data Models with PowerPivot"
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This is a great Office reference and how-to manual for those needing basic and intermediate information to help them learn to use their Office software.  There are 5 major parts with sub topics covering a wide range of information.  There are lots of full color illustrations and images to help make the information easier to understand.  For those who are looking for a manual that talks about Publisher, you will need to look elsewhere as this book does not address that awesome program at all.

Since the topics aren't included in the listing, I've added the following heading and chapter information:

Part 1 - Microsoft Office 2016
1.  Explore Office 2016
2.  Create and Manage Files

Part 2 - Microsoft Word 2016
3.  Modify the Structure and Appearance of Text
4.  Collaborate on Documents
5.  Merge Data with Documents and Labels

Part 3 - Microsoft Excel 2016
6.  Perform Calculations on Data
7.  Manage Worksheet Data
8.  Reorder and Summarize Data
9.  Analyze Alternative Data Sets

Part 4 - Microsoft Powerpoint 2016
10.  Create and Manage Slides
11.  Insert and Manage Simple Graphics
12.  Add Sound and Movement to Slides

Part 5 - Microsoft Outlook 2016
13.  Send and Receive Email Messages
14.  Organize Your Inbox
15.  Manage Scheduling

This is a great place to start for those just starting to use any of these programs.  The text is easy to read, well formatted and thoroughly explains each topic with color examples.  To make it easy to reference these materials, each section is color coded with an indicator on the leading edge so you can flip to the section you need very easily.
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I have this book for more than two months now and I found it very useful especially on my first VBA project. I have  a weekly report and I used to do this manually and often get errors because I have to cross reference values in one big spreadsheet with multiple tabs. Not until I got this book and read the basics and go to specific chapters where I need help. I felt so accomplished after I finished the whole macro. What took me 30 minutes to do manual referencing and typing now only takes less than two minutes including sending it through email. This book is very easy to understand especially for those who know Excel and would like to expand their skills in VBA. Mr Spreadsheet has provided good example files to help us better understand VBA. His approach is basic enough for those who doesn't have any experience in creating macros. By the way if your CD doesn't have the source files or example file go to [...] and select "All Wiley Products" or call Technical Support. Type your request for the e-source files and they will get back to you really fast with a link of the FTP site for the files. Don't bother to call customer support because they will try to sell you the e-book even though you already have the book. It might be a hassle but its all worth it.
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A terrific book covering key data analytics concepts, and how to execute them in Excel.  What I liked the most was the author's ability to explain what each analytical technique was designed to do, and how it worked - in layman's terms.  This switched more than a few lights on for me...now I'm much more confident at choosing an analytical method, and understanding how it will produce the insights I'm looking for.