Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition at a Glance (At a Glance (Microsoft))

Rating:
Summary: Good on formatting, fair on operations
Review: I bought this book mostly because I wanted to learn Excel quickly. The book covers formatting extensively but there is very little on how to make your spreadsheet work, on how to actually get the program to make calculations. I wanted to do crosstablulatons, which is handled differently than in earlier versions of Excel. The term wasn't even mentioned in the book. Now they use pivot tables, which were not described adequately. There are few books out there about the new version. This one was frustrating.

Rating:
Summary: Good on formatting, fair on operations
Review: I bought this book mostly because I wanted to learn Excel quickly. The book covers formatting extensively but there is very little on how to make your spreadsheet work, on how to actually get the program to make calculations. I wanted to do crosstablulatons, which is handled differently than in earlier versions of Excel. The term wasn't even mentioned in the book. Now they use pivot tables, which were not described adequately. There are few books out there about the new version. This one was frustrating.

Rating:
Summary: Procedures and advice are vague.
Review: If you need a quick answer to a specific question, this is not the book for you.For example, I wanted to have the new Excel save my work automatically as my prior Excel did. But how? I asked myself with this upgrade. A search of the menues gave no answer, nor did the little guy in the corner of my screen or the Office 98 web-sight. So I purchased this book. The index offered no help. And a detailed search did not hint at the need to save periodically, much less does it indicate the trick to the solution-use the "add-ins" comand under "TOOLS". [In Word you can set auto-save in the preferences comand area.]

I found the book confusing. Looking to try-out the organization chart feature, I found page 44 directing that I " click the insert menue, point to Picture, and then click Organization Chaart."

I was flumixed, which program should I be in?, or is the org chart feature part of the central Office control commands?? Surprise! It's available in all the program parts of Office. Wow, that should be highlighted in this guide.

I awaite the Bible.