Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies

By Greg Harvey

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764504460
• ISBN13: 9780764504464
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding "jump" start for those new or familari w/ Excel

I used this book in lieu of sending a large group of our people to training classes. After doing so, the "help" requests for Excel went to absolute zero. Heck, I'm VP of IT and been working in spreadsheets since VisiCalc, and I picked up a couple of things.

Excel made easy...

This book not only took the mystery out of spreadsheets, but made me a spreadsheet junkie. I keep it by my desk for reference. A definite for people who want a quick start into the world of spreadsheets.

An honest review by a real Dummy!

Although I was into Mainframes twenty years ago, I entered the PC world only two years back. I find that most software makers do not give us "How to" information on their product by a step-by-step method. After installing Microsoft Office I could use very little of its potential by muddling thru and making many mistakes. Having graduated from "Idiot's Guide to Windows 98" I surfed the 'net and found EXACTLY what I was looking for--Excel 2000 for Windows for Dummies. It is written in clear, unambiguous, step-by-step format and I was off-and-running within hours after I received the book. Keep up the good work and you will keep hearing from this Dummy over and over again because Windows Me has got me hooked!

Get it! Got it? Good.

The author knows what the reading public wants -- hands on experience from the get go. The theory and constructs are covered in the context of real-life needs. I withheld one "star" from the rating due to things that should have been explained and a couple (unforgiveable) typos.In contrast, the bk: "VBA For Dummies" (auth: Steve Cummings)doesn't seem to know where it is going. It flounders in "too much information" (details) that is not what I wanted or needed. You've heard of people who like to hear themselves talk, well this guy just like to see how many pages he can write and still leave his audience wondering what they just read.Incidently, both books are the same number of textual pagers: 370. The diffence is, I learned more in the first 10 pages of Walkenbach's book than I did in the first 200 pages of the latter.

Reader from Pennsyvania

This is my first for dummies book, and I'm very impressed by the step-by-step straightfoward instructions. There is very little in the way of fluff here. It explains all the items on the tool bars,and takes the mystery out of all those dialog boxes. I'm negotiating my spread sheets with ease now. Cutting or copying and pasting, using windows to work on multiple worksheets at the same time, and printing just the way I want using headers and footers, and page breaks where I want them. I am amazed by the depth of this program. I'm only half way through the book, and can't wait to finish. Every chapter is helping to make my work easier.