This is one of the more wonderful Excel books I've come across

[Greg]

I've not read it, but I flipped through it last night; I was teaching an Excel class as the local library, and one of my students brought it to the class with her.

http://www.amazon.com/Excel-Basics-Black...0521889057

It's not "for dummies"; it's a textbook. Make it through this text, and I think you'll be in the way-upper percentiles of folks who use this program.

For example, conditional formatting is one of those topics that, for whatever reason, is usually broached at the intermediate or advanced levels in Excel classes. In this book, conditional formatting shows up on page 15.

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I occasionally have to use Excel at work and would like to get a better grasp of it.

"Product Description
There's nothing else out there that covers the full potential of Excel in the way that this text does. It's easy to read even if you're a novice to graphical decision support tool development, but it has gems that I doubt some of the most advanced developers are even aware of. The presentation of various approaches to leveraging Excel with other applications such as MS MapPoint, XLStat and RISKOptimizer is particularly valuable. Similarly eye-opening are the unique tactics Bendoly presents for capitalizing on many of the built-in but underutilized capabilities of Excel. The application examples provided serve as the building blocks for a whole universe of DSS development now made accessible to readers at all levels."

I might give this book a try, but, man, after reading that review one hemisphere of my brain fell asleep and I think I pulled a muscle in the other. I'm heading over to the "Do you lick envelopes?" thread for recovery.

[davester]

Sounds like its worth looking at, though even after reading a jargon-paciked article on DSS I still don't really know what it is.

[josntme]

Thanks for the info.

My wife teaches excel so if I get stuck she pulls my bacon out of the fire.

I do think I'll get the book just to see if I can get any of my grey cells moving again.:oldfogey:

[AlphaDog]

"It's easy to read even if you're a novice to graphical decision support tool development"

Oh, yes, I can tell I'd love the simplicity!

[OWC Jamie]

ooh, a Greg's posts translator.

[Greg]

AlphaDog wrote:
"It's easy to read even if you're a novice to graphical decision support tool development"

Oh, yes, I can tell I'd love the simplicity!

Not simple..."wonderful." :-)

[RAMd®d]

...when I read "...more wonderful Excel books..."

That really cracked me up!