04-08-2009, 12:39 PM
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.
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.