Excel 2003 For Dummies

Master the Ribbon, powerful graphics capabilities, and more! Your one-stop guide to great-looking spreadsheets that actually mean something Create colorful spreadsheets and charts, use Live Preview, and maximize everything Excel 2007 has to offer! Find just what you need to know about using the new Ribbon, designing spreadsheets that communicate, editing and printing them, working with formulas, protecting your data when you collaborate, turning out cool charts, and much more. The included four-color insert highlights the Ribbon, new graphics features, and more! Discover how to Create dynamic spreadsheets with style galleries Work with more than 40 new cell styles Automate formatting with Live Preview Share Excel data with other programs Use VBA to write custom Excel functions

If you’re using Excel 2003 and you’d rather be working on your projects instead of plodding through everything you could ever need to know (and may never need to know) about Excel, this is the reference for you. In a compact, info-packed, spiral-bound book that puts the facts you need at your fingertips, it covers the basics most Excel users need to know, including: Opening, saving protecting, and recovering workbook files and using workbook templates Adding, copying, and deleting worksheets, e-mailing worksheet data, and publishing worksheet data to the Web Entering and editing data and text and working with cells and ranges Creating formulas and functions Creating and using names Auditing, formatting, and printing your work Charting your data Analyzing data with pivot tables Complete with concise, step-by-step explanations (most of which take less than one page) and lots of screen shots and tables, this no nonsense guide gets you working instead of searching or reading, A detailed index makes it easy to find what you need to know fast. Excel 2003 For Dummies is a practical, at-a-glance reference for any Excel user.

Every time you turn around, you run into Excel. It’s on your PC at work. It’s on your PC at home. You get Excel files from your boss. Wouldn’t you like to understand this powerful Microsoft Office spreadsheet program, once and for all? Now, you can crunch financial data, add sparkle to presentations, convert static lists of numbers into impressive charts, and discover what all the shouting’s about regarding databases, formulas, and cells. You may even decide that getting organized with a good spreadsheet is downright useful and fun! Flip open Excel 2003 For Dummies, and you’ll quickly start getting the basics of Excel in plain English. Written for the rest of us, this down-to-earth book gently shows you how to: Create a spreadsheet from scratch Apply the basics of formatting cells Take on database forms—even add records—and prevail Get organized and stay that way Save worksheets as Web pages for your company intranet In a clear and easy-to-understand style, veteran software trainer and technology writer Greg Harvey explains the basics of worksheets and workbooks, how to enter data and work with formulas, and how to print your masterpieces. When you’re feeling very bold, he’ll have you adding comments and pictures, saving files with security protection, and learning to zip between multiple worksheets in a workbook with ease. And there’s much more: Clip and save the Top Ten Beginner Basics of Excel 2003 Pay heed to the Top Ten Commandments of Excel 2003 Impress your colleagues by creating a company org chart Re-open those documents and add or edit new data with aplomb Move between these sheets without trouble Decipher and take charge of helpful tools and commands such as Sort, Filter, Format Cells, and PivotTable You’ll finally be able to stop pestering the Excel experts in your office. Become your own expert with the friendly and down-to-earth practical instruction you’ll find in Excel 2003 For Dummies.

Excel-erate your productivity with the only guide you'll need to the latest versions of Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel offers unsurpassed functionality and accessibility for data exploration and analysis to millions of users around the world. And learning to unlock its full potential is easier than you can imagine with help from Excel All-in-One For Dummies. Follow along with Excel expert and veteran author Paul McFedries as he walks you through every feature and technique you need to know to get the most out of this powerful software. You'll learn how to design worksheets, use formulas and functions, collaborate with colleagues and review their work, create charts and graphics, manage and analyze data, and create macros. Plus, you'll discover all the capabilities Microsoft has included in the newest versions of Excel, including dark mode and accessibility features. This indispensable reference allows you to: Get a firm grasp of Excel basics with the book's step-by-step guides before moving on to more advanced topics, like data analysis Access up-to-date information on all the new versions of Excel, including the ones bundled with Microsoft 365, Office 2021, and the LTSC/Enterprise Edition Enjoy the convenience of a single, comprehensive resource detailing everything you need to know about Excel Perfect for people coming to Excel for the very first time, Excel All-in-One For Dummies, Office 2021 Edition is also a must-read resource for anyone looking for a refresher on foundational or advanced Excel techniques.

This book utilizes a step-by-step process of creating a worksheet through Microsoft Excel to teach the novice user the basics, as well as some advanced techniques of the program. The book allows the student to become familiar with various key terms, processes, and functions of Excel, and effectively gives them hands-on training by creating an actual spreadsheet through various stages. When finished, the reader will have a general knowledge of Excel, and a foundation for continuance of that knowledge. This is not your typical tutorial, as it is not designed to teach you everything there is to know about Excel. It was written with the idea in mind of showing the student how truly intuitive the program is. You will essentially teach yourself upon completion of my book I will show you the basics of Microsoft Excel, and will detail how to continue learning even after you have finished

When you think of number-crunching and spreadsheets, you think of Excel, right? After Word, it’s the most popular program in the Microsoft Office suite. But if technical jargon isn’t your first language, you may have found Excel just a teeny bit frustrating. It can be really hard to pick your way through the many features and make Excel do what you need for it to do. Once you know how, you can use Excel to Create fill-in-the-blank forms Prepare expense reports and invoices Manage all sorts of data Keep sales and inventory records Analyze financial data and create forecasts Present information in charts and graphs Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies tames the Excel monster. Nine minibooks break things down into manageable, logical sections covering the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, working on the Web, and tweaking Excel with a programming language called Visual Basic for Applications, or VBA. In the friendly, plain-English For Dummies style, this book makes it easy to find what you’re looking for and get instructions for doing what you need to do. You’ll be able to Find your way around Excel’s menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes, and access online help Format a professional-looking spreadsheet that presents data the way you choose Edit an existing spreadsheet without disturbing its design or contents Build Excel formulas and use built-in functions to produce the calculations you want Share spreadsheet data with other people and programs, and collect comments Create great-looking charts and find out how to choose the right format to display your data effectively Use Excel to maintain large amounts of data, then filter the data to extract the information you need Publish spreadsheets and charts on the Web in HTML format Explore ways to customize Excel with VBA Best of all, it’s easy to find what you need in Excel 2003 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies. Before you know it, you’ll discover you’ve developed a friendship with Excel that will make your life easier, boost your business, and impress your friends!

Just because electronic spreadsheets like Excel 2002 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. If you're one of the many folks who has Office XP on your computer but doesn't know a spreadsheet from a bedsheet, this means that Excel 2002 is just sitting there taking up a lot of space. Well, it's high time to change all that. One look at the Excel 2002 screen (with all its boxes, buttons, and tabs), and you realize how much stuff is going on there. Excel 2002 For Dummies will help you make some sense out of the rash of icons, buttons, and boxes that you're going to be facing day after day. And when you ready to go beyond spreadsheet basics, this guide will also introduce you to Conjuring up charts Inserting graphics Designing a database Converting spreadsheets into Web pages Most of all, Excel 2002 For Dummies covers the fundamental techniques that you need to know in order to create, edit, format, and print your own worksheets. In this book, you'll find all the information that you need to keep your head above water as you accomplish the everyday tasks that people do with Excel. This down-to-earth guide covers all these topics and more: Creating a spreadsheet from scratch Document recovery Formatting fundamentals Making corrections (and how to undo them) Retrieving data from your spreadsheets Protecting your documents Demystifying formulas Now, even if your job doesn't involve creating worksheets with a lot of fancy financial calculations or lah-dee-dah charts, you probably have plenty of things for which you could and should be using Excel. For instance, you may have to keep lists of information or maybe even put together tables of information for your job. Excel is a great list keeper and one heck of a table maker. You can use Excel anytime you need to keep track of products that you sell, clients who you service, employees who you oversee, or you name it.