A teensy excerpt from the awesome Excel book I mentioned earlier

[Greg]

Elliot Bendoly wrote:
Cells in spreadsheets can contain:

• Fixed data: Data you’ve entered, numerical or otherwise.
  
• Formatting: Background color, border thickness, font type, and so on.
  
• Labels: References other than the standard ColumnRow reference.
  
• Comments: Notes regarding the contents.
  
• Formulae: Can be mathematical/statistical, text based, or a range of other types
  such as logic based or search oriented.
  
• Live data links: Data that are drawn from an externally linked source, such as a
  database or the Internet.
  

-- from Excel Basics to Blackbelt, by Elliot Bendoly. Page 8 (!!)

Unlike the normal approaches to teaching Excel, which invariably involves chapters on putting things into cells and making them look pretty, this author begins with a overview of how cells can be used to store or reflect information.

ISBN: 9780521889056

[deckeda]

Thanks, I'll check it out. I've always wanted to learn Excel. I just don't know why. But if it causes me to want to use spreadsheets as "databases" or create monthly calendars I'm comin' after you. Fair warning.

[Greg]

Enjoy, deckeda!

[Don C]

The sample pages are not easy reading!

OTOH there is SO much to know that a reference to a good book is to be appreciated. I might hit a book store and see if I can find a copy to look over more than the few pages online.

[Jimmypoo]

Here's a much better deal than most places....

http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?bid=9740336589&siteID=hi3Lv4qpBig-RRPXqMs6DIZvypi4C0hBzA


...If you don't already have the PDF. BWAHAHAHAHA!

[Greg]

Good heavens...$84!?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

I almost literally couldn't live without Excel. Discovered it in 1990 and have used it almost daily ever since.