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Summary: Book isn't bad, but it needs improvement & it is overpriced
Review: "Mastering Excel" is a pretty good book for Excel users in the Intermediate skill level. Although you can learn a lot from this book if you are a beginner, it looks bland to read and all the pictures & illustrations are in B&W. Check to see if there are other equivalent books in the market and that they are priced inexpensively before ordering this book.
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Summary: You won't learn all of Excel, but you'll learn lots!
Review: BOOK REVIEW:This book was written with Windows 95 (for those of you who use Windows) in mind; however, the concepts can be applied to Excel 2000 (Mr. Gips was probably using Excel 97 at the time) for Windows 98 or 2000. The only thing that might give Excel 2000 users a hard time is on page 76. To attach a note, the book says to click on NOTE from the INSERT menu. There is no NOTE under the INSERT menu in Excel 2000. To do this, you have to click on COMMENT under the INSERT menu; a text box appears, and you type your note in this box. I was required to buy this book for my computer course, and it was one of the easiest book to follow (which is rare). Mr. Gips uses a conversational tone and supplies plenty of illustrations to help you understand the concepts. I thought I knew quite a lot about Excel, but it turns out that I didn't. Logical Functions (chapter 11), Functions Related to If (chapter 12), Dates and Times (chapter 13), and Financial Functions (chapter 14) are simply the best! The book doesn't cover everything there is to know about excel (macros, for example), but you'll learn some neat tricks!
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Summary: A truly Informative Experience
Review: Mastering Excel would never have been easier if it wasn't for this book. After reading it, I am sure you will feel capable of making spreadsheets for every situation. The examples give you an opportunity to see all of the possibilities Excel has to ever. "Ever to Excel"
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