Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Data Analysis: Your Visual Blueprint...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 304 pages
• Published by: Visual; Pap/Cdr edition July 23, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470132299
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470132296
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Book Description
Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 110 Excel data analysis techniques, including:

* Identifying trends in your data
*

Sorting, filtering, and identifying lists
*

Creating, editing, and checking formulas
*

Calculating interest rates and depreciation
*

Performing simple sorts and filters
*

Hiding rows or columns in a PivotTable
*

Adding and removing chart data
*

Querying an Access database
*

Assigning digital signatures
*

Solving a formula with a data table

"I was stuck on an Excel problem for two days. Finally, I opened one of your books, and there was a macro to accomplish exactly what I needed! You made me look good to the boss."
-Rob L. Meerscheidt(The Woodlands, TX)

* High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
*

Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
*

Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
*

"Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips

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Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover step-by-step screen shots that demonstrate over 110 Excel data analysis techniques, including:

• Identifying trends in your data
• 
  
  Sorting, filtering, and identifying lists
• 
  
  Creating, editing, and checking formulas
• 
  
  Calculating interest rates and depreciation
• 
  
  Performing simple sorts and filters
• 
  
  Hiding rows or columns in a PivotTable
• 
  
  Adding and removing chart data
• 
  
  Querying an Access database
• 
  
  Assigning digital signatures
• 
  
  Solving a formula with a data table

"I was stuck on an Excel problem for two days. Finally, I opened one of your books, and there was a macro to accomplish exactly what I needed! You made me look good to the boss."
-Rob L. Meerscheidt(The Woodlands, TX)

• High-resolution screen shots demonstrate each task
• 
  
  Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
• 
  
  Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
• 
  
  "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips

Reader Reviews
Unlike some other books on various versions of Excel, Etheridge's presentation accentuates a strong visual pedagogy. She has also hewed to a style where every 2 facing pages discusses some operation you can do. Those of you who read the O'Reilly books will recognise this as analogous to the O'Reilly Hacks series. So what Etheridge offers is really a set of bite-sized tasks. Easy to learn and immediately apply. The tasks are diverse. Like doing date computations. Or using the built in future value function. Or the interest rate, compounded over several payment periods. Some tasks relate to the visual display of the tables. As in changing a table's style. Or making a PivotTable. The tasks are not comprehensive. The book should not be considered as such. This is not an official Excel manual, per se. Instead, enough is shown to be useful, of common activities that you are likely to perform. Well suited for an Excel novice. Comment | | (Report this)