Excel Annoyances: How to Fix the Most ANNOYING Things About Your Favorite Spreadsheet - Brossura

Frye, Curtis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0596007280 ISBN 13: 9780596007287

Casa editrice: Oreilly & Associates Inc, 2004

Riassunto

It's the solution to almost all of your electronic organization needs. Need to present a detailed expense report? Try an Excel spreadsheet. Keeping track of a complicated budget? Excel to the rescue. Want to keep tabs on your office football pool? You guessed it.Thanks to its incredible versatility and power, Excel has emerged as more than just a mainstream program; it's now one of the most used applications on the planet. Everyone from run-of-the-mill PC users to leading financial analysts count on Excel to make sense of overflowing data. And to keep up with the overwhelming user demand, three different versions of Excel have hit the market since the debut of Excel 97: Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. Naturally, each version offers a new slate of next-generation upgrades--and, of course, operating bugs!At last, Excel users have some relief: Excel Annoyances emerged from the suggestions of numerous Excel users who've struggled with these irritating bugs over the years. Written in the popular Annoyances format, this latest O'Reilly helper addresses all of the quirks, bugs, inconsistencies, and hidden features found in each of the four versions. Chances are if someone, somewhere, found a certain step confusing, then it's addressed in Excel Annoyances.Author Curtis D. Frye breaks down the cavalcade of information into several tip-of-the-finger categories such as Entering Data, Formatting, Charting, Printing, and more. If you're one of the millions of people who use Excel, you're sure to find a goldmine of helpful nuggets that you can use to fix the program's most annoying traits. In the end, Excel Annoyances will help you to truly maximize Excel's seemingly limitless potential.

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L'autore:

Curtis Frye is a freelance writer based in Portland, Oregon. The author or co-author of a half dozen books on Microsoft Excel (including O'Reilly's Excel Pocket Guide), he's also written about Microsoft Access, database design, programming languages, home networking solutions, and privacy-enhancing technologies. When he's not writing, Curt is a professional improvisational comedian with ComedySportz Portland.

Contenuti:

Dedication; Introduction; ; Chapter 1: Entering Data Annoyances; 1.1 GENERAL DATA ENTRY ANNOYANCES; 1.2 IMPORTING DATA ANNOYANCES; 1.3 CUT-AND-PASTE ANNOYANCES; 1.4 NAVIGATION AND DISPLAY ANNOYANCES; 1.5 DATA VALIDATION ANNOYANCES; Chapter 2: Format Annoyances; 2.1 CELL FORMATTING ANNOYANCES; 2.2 CONDITIONAL FORMATTING ANNOYANCES; 2.3 TEMPLATE ANNOYANCES; 2.4 COLOR MANAGEMENT ANNOYANCES; 2.5 WORKBOOK FORMATTING ANNOYANCES; 2.6 CUSTOM FORMAT ANNOYANCES; Chapter 3: Formula Annoyances; 3.1 FORMULA ENTRY AND EDITING ANNOYANCES; 3.2 FORMULA ERROR AND AUDITING ANNOYANCES; 3.3 ARRAY FORMULA ANNOYANCES; 3.4 RECALCULATION ANNOYANCES; 3.5 DATE AND TIME ANNOYANCES; 3.6 NAMED RANGE ANNOYANCES; 3.7 TEXT FORMULA ANNOYANCES; 3.8 COUNTING AND CONDITIONAL SUM ANNOYANCES; Chapter 4: Manipulating Data Annoyances; 4.1 SORTING AND FILTERING ANNOYANCES; 4.2 LOOKUP FUNCTION ANNOYANCES; 4.3 WHAT-IF ANALYSIS ANNOYANCES; 4.4 PIVOTTABLE ANNOYANCES; Chapter 5: Chart Annoyances; 5.1 CHART CREATION AND FORMATTING ANNOYANCES; 5.2 CHART MANIPULATION ANNOYANCES; 5.3 PIVOTCHART ANNOYANCES; 5.4 CHART INTERACTION ANNOYANCES; 5.5 CHART ADD-INS AND HELPER APPLICATIONS; 5.6 3D CHART ANNOYANCES; Chapter 6: Exhanging Data Annoyances; 6.1 MS QUERY AND DATABASE ANNOYANCES; 6.2 IMPORT AND EXPORT ANNOYANCES; 6.3 DATA FORMAT ANNOYANCES; Chapter 7: Printing Annoyances; 7.1 BASIC PRINTING ANNOYANCES; 7.2 PRINT LAYOUT ANNOYANCES; 7.3 PRINT CONTENT ANNOYANCES; 7.4 PRINTER MANAGEMENT ANNOYANCES; Chapter 8: Customization, Macro, and VBA Annoyances; 8.1 INTERFACE CUSTOMIZATION ANNOYANCES; 8.2 TOOLBAR AND MENU BAR ANNOYANCES; 8.3 MACRO ANNOYANCES; 8.4 MACRO SECURITY ANNOYANCES; 8.5 VBA ANNOYANCES; 8.6 HANDY VBA PROCEDURES; Chapter 9: Excel 2003 Annoyances; 9.1 EXCEL 2003 LIST ANNOYANCES; 9.2 EXCEL 2003 Excel 2003XMLXML ANNOYANCES; 9.3 EXCEL 2003 MENU AND FUNCTION ANNOYANCES; 9.4 EXCEL 2003 PROGRAM INTERACTION ANNOYANCES; Colophon;

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oreilly & Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0596007280
• ISBN 13: 9780596007287
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 235