Troubleshooting Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets

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Summary: EXCEL-lent breakdown.
Review: I work with spreadsheets in my job everyday. I understand the basics and understand what they are supposed to do but sometime I have trouble making them work right. Since my technical expertise lies in other places I need a helping hand and being on the phone for hours is the answer.

Laurie Ann Ulrich has put together a 350 page-troubleshooting guide that takes the mystery out of the spreadsheet world. Ulrich's book covers both the Excel 97 and Excel 2000 applications and Ulrich may have saved me countless hours of frustration.

Tackling areas like charts, formatting of data, dates, shapes and lines, exporting and importing of data, filtering text and formatting numbers, formulas, maps, macros, printing and sorting have given the ability to provide better support to the user community.

The book includes screenshots and a whole host of ideas in a flow chart style of troubleshooting. Ulrich's compilation of methods are certainly some of the best ways to fix problems and this book is for the beginner to intermediate user, however even the most experienced user may be able to benefit.

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Summary: Solve your Excel problems with this one book.
Review: This is a really practical book. It covers all the things that could go wrong for just about anyone who's using Excel. I work in an office where its only me and two other people who use spreadsheets, and nobody is really an expert. When things go wrong, therefore, there isn't anyone to call and ask - BUT now I have this book! The book makes it really easy to identify your problem and find its solution, and you can learn a lot just by reading through the book even if you don't have a problem. I've uncovered new ways to do things we thought we were doing right, and I found out about features I didn't even know the software had. The author really knows how REAL people use Excel and the examples show it. You can instantly apply what you've read to your own work. I recommend this book to Excel users, both new and experienced. Nobody who uses Excel should be without it!