E-Book Overview
<em>Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 is a practical, step-by-step guide to getting started with the world’s most widely used spreadsheet application. The book offers a hands-on approach to learning how to create and edit spreadsheets, use various calculation formulas, employ charts/graphs, and get work done efficiently.
Microsoft is rolling out several new features with Excel 2010—perhaps the most notable is the ability to use Excel 2010 online and this collaborate on a project in real time. <em>Beginning Microsoft Office 2010 keeps you up-to-date with all of these new features and more.
What you’ll learn
- What distinguishes 2010 from its immediate predecessor
- What distinguishes 2010 from Excel 2003
- Get started with data entry and formatting
- How to get started with formula writing skills
- Get started with database capabilities, including pivot tables
- How to get started with charting
Who this book is for
This book is for those new to Excel and for those who have used Excel in the past but are new to Excel 2010.
E-Book Content
CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK PANTONE 123 C BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS BY PROFESSIONALS ® THE EXPERT’S VOICE ® IN MICROSOFT OFFICE Companion Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 Tell me if you identify with this question: “What’s a spreadsheet?” Truth be told, this question is a very good one, and because spreadsheets are so vast, and their capabilities so broad, the answer doesn’t come easily. People apply Excel spreadsheets to countless tasks, but merely knowing how to do carry out those tasks isn’t always good enough. If the user isn’t quite sure about what’s going on in the spreadsheet – and why – it makes it that much harder to carry out the tasks a second time, let alone the first – particularly if there’s no one around to ask. I’ve written Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 with that agenda in mind. All too many introductory books slip into the click-here-click-there approach, even as they omit the answers to the “what’s going on?” questions which often lurk in the background. I’ve tried here to cover many of Excel’s capabilities but at the same time tried to anticipate the kinds of questions about them you might ask of an instructor, since you probably won’t pay for house calls. The book covers all aspects of using Excel 2010 from the day-to-day moving around a spreadsheet and performing calculations on your data, to the more complex areas of charting and using pivot tables. All of those areas are covered in an easy to understand manner so you can quickly get up to speed with the core features of Excel 2010, whether you’re arriving from a previous version of Excel or you’re tackling spreadsheets for the first time. Abbott Katz Companion eBook RELATED TITLES Abbott Katz, Ph.D. See last page for details on $10 eBook version ISBN 978-1-4302-2955-1 5 34 9 9 US $34.99 Katz www.apress.com Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 Dear Reader, eBook Available Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 All you needed to get started with Microsoft Excel 2010 Abbott Katz Shelve in: Applications / MS Excel User level: Beginner 9 781430 229551 this print for content only—size & color not accurate 7.5 x 9.25 spine = 0.75" 408 page count Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 ■■■ Abbott Katz i Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 Copyright © 2010 by Abbott Katz All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the prior written