An accessible guide to Excel 4 for Windows brings the software down to earth and provides PC users with everything they will need to ``excel'' in the Windows environment. Original.

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The authors provide users with a quick start on the Windows version of the popular accounting package for IBM PCs and compatibles. After an overview of the basics, readers learn how to manage payrolls, keep track of taxes, and make single-entry bookkeeping an easy, manageable task. The book covers the software's new features and provides advice for maintaining finances under control.

The book provides an introduction to Works 2000 for new users, with the assumption that the new Works user probably has little prior experience of computers. It starts with the basics of screen control and file management, then looks at each of the main components in turn. The focus is on what is being processed - text, numbers, etc - rather than the application being used, as the same techniques recur in different applications.