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Summary: Mac users do well to get Windows Excel books
Review: I'm a long-time (since 1984) Mac user and devotee, so I'm not being heretical when I say that the best books about Excel are written for a Windows audience. The Mac versions of Excel are sufficiently compatible with the Windows versions that almost everything you learn from a Windows book will apply on the Mac. There are so many more Windows users (and especially power users) of Excel that many more books have been written for them. If you want to become a power user, try "Microsoft Excel 2000 Formulas" by John Walkenbach.
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Summary: Great 4 Beginners - Power Users Will Be Disappointed
Review: I've bought several of the Visual Quickstart Guides for other Mac applications so when I decided I wanted to become a real Excel power user, I thought this would be a good book to start with. For those just getting into Excel, this would be the place to start. (In fairness, this is probably their target audience in the first place.) I even found it useful for gaining a better understanding some functions I hadn't attempted in the past. My only complaint is that it just doesn't go deep enough. I wanted some help with formulas in general and more advanced formulas in particular (e.g. HLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, etc. and nested formulas) and the book didn't provide any more information on formulas than the application's help file, which isn't much. To be helpful, it would be nice to see a nice long list of example formulas with descriptions on how or when you would use them. OK, maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but hey, I bought the book and was a little disappointed.
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Summary: Great 4 Beginners - Power Users Will Be Disappointed
Review: I've bought several of the Visual Quickstart Guides for other Mac applications so when I decided I wanted to become a real Excel power user, I thought this would be a good book to start with. For those just getting into Excel, this would be the place to start. (In fairness, this is probably their target audience in the first place.) I even found it useful for gaining a better understanding some functions I hadn't attempted in the past. My only complaint is that it just doesn't go deep enough. I wanted some help with formulas in general and more advanced formulas in particular (e.g. HLOOKUP, VLOOKUP, etc. and nested formulas) and the book didn't provide any more information on formulas than the application's help file, which isn't much. To be helpful, it would be nice to see a nice long list of example formulas with descriptions on how or when you would use them. OK, maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but hey, I bought the book and was a little disappointed.
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