Guide to using the latest edition of the popular Excel spreadsheet program for Office XP from tips on using basic features to easy to understand explanations of advanced functions. By inputting or importing data, analyses for financial, statistical, engineering, or, other professional functions can be made.

Microsoft Excel sets the standard for spreadsheet programs. Its versatility and functionality have made it the most popular spreadsheet program for Windows. It boasts an impressive set of tools to create, analyze, and share spreadsheets. With Excel 2002, Microsoft has added new features such as context-sensitive smart tags, new task panes, and Document Recovery to this popular product. Excel's compatibility with other Office 2002 products and its improved collaboration and Web integration features, including the ability to add data from Web sources, make it the perfect tool for sharing information on the Internet or intranets. Excel 2002 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide offers a friendly, gentle tour through all the features of Excel 2002. Starting with worksheet basics, readers will learn to edit, use functions, format cells, and add graphic objects. Then this Visual QuickStart Guide moves on to charts, printing, databases, Web publishing, and advanced techniques in Excel. This visual guide can be used as a task-based reference or as a tutorial.

Learn how to use Excel without having to decipher technical jargon or wade through a giant manual. By providing straightforward, easy-to-follow explanations and numbered steps, this compact guide shows how to use Excel in the shortest time possible.

Master the basics of Microsoft Office quickly and easily with this Visual QuickStart Guide. Previous editions of this book have sold over 50,000 copies worldwide Organized and presented specifically for busy professionals who need to get right to work A reasonably priced, easy-to-reference guide to the essentials of Microsoft Office The standard suite of business applications, now up20010803d for the new Windows XP platform, Microsoft Office XP for Windows is a full-featured word-processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and information management package. Office XP for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide guides users right to the most frequently-used tasks in Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook, using clear, step-by-step instructions and illustrated with hundreds of helpful screen shots. For users who don't have the time or resources to wade through long passages of text and just want a quick reference to the essentials of each Office application, this is the ideal guide. Steve Sagman has written or co-written over 17 books on computing, including Microsoft Office 2000 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. His books have sold well over a million copies, and have been translated into 12 languages. He has written for PC Computing, Computer Shopper, PC Week, PC World, and PC Magazine.

Office 2002 is the next version (after Office 2000) of Microsoft's program suite that includes Word, Access, Outlook and Excel. The aim of 2002 is to take advantage of Office's core position within most business systems and make it the interface to business processes and web services. One of the most significant advances is the XML capability that has been added to Access and Excel, with the latter becoming the key to future Web Service integration and an essential part of any Office developer's skill set. -- Written by two active and popular members of the Excel community -- Includes coverage of all the new features including smart tags, pivot tables, and web components -- Examines all the new XML capabilities that 2002 brings to the Excel world

This book is a single reference that’s indispensable for Excel beginners, intermediate users, power users, and would-be power users everywhere Fully updated for the new release, this latest edition provides comprehensive, soup-to-nuts coverage, delivering over 900 pages of Excel tips, tricks, and techniques readers won’t find anywhere else John Walkenbach, aka "Mr. Spreadsheet," is one of the world’s leading authorities on Excel Thoroughly updated to cover the revamped Excel interface, new file formats, enhanced interactivity with other Office applications, and upgraded collaboration features Includes a valuable CD-ROM with templates and worksheets from the book Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.