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Two Excerpts from Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide. Want to see some sample pages from my Excel Visual QuickProject? Here are a few links. Front Matter (including complete Table of Contents) Excerpt from Chapter Continue reading Excel 2007 QuickProject Excerpts June 28th, 2007
A quick little project. I just happened to visit a Web site that used another Web site to generate random numbers for contest giveaways. To me, an Excel user, that seemed like a silly place to go to get a random number when you could easily generate one on the fly within Excel. Continue reading Random Number Generator for Excel May 16th, 2007
Oh. Gee. Thanks. I got an e-mail message from my editor, Cliff, today. He wanted me to send him a Word 2007 file to test a converter on his Mac. I don’t use Word 2007 regularly. That’s a Windows program. I’m primarily a Mac user. I still use Word 2004 on my Mac. But Continue reading Microsoft Releases a Word 2007 Conversion Tool for Mac Users May 11th, 2007
“Working with Excel Files” goes online. Just a quick note to let Excel 2007 users out there know that Informit has published an excerpt from my Excel 2007 Visual QuickStart Guide on its Web site. The piece is titled “Working with Excel Files.” Access to the site is free. I’m pretty sure the Continue reading Informit Publishes Excel 2007 Book Excerpt April 3rd, 2007
That’s book number 68. I put the finishing touches on Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Visual QuickStart Guide. It’s my 68th book (I just counted) and right now, I feel as if I wrote them all yesterday. Okay, so not that tired. I had some trouble with this book. First, there was the beta Continue reading Excel Book Done March 28th, 2007
A how-to for Excel users. My Visual QuickStart Guide books for Excel — from the edition for Excel 95 for Windows through the edition for Excel X for Macintosh — have always included an Excel function reference. In an effort to make pages available for other content, however, we’ve cut that appendix from Continue reading Printing an Excel Function Reference Sheet March 16th, 2007
Informit releases a chapter of my Peachpit Press book on its Web site. Every once in a while, Informit.com, the online publishing arm of Pearson Education (parent company of Peachpit Press) releases a sample chapter of a book on its Web site. It apparently has done that with a chapter of my Excel Continue reading Excel 2007 Visual QuickProject Sample Chapter Now Online February 23rd, 2007
For perfectionists. One of the things that always bothered me about Excel was the way it handled right alignment in cells with certain types of number formatting applied. The Problem For example, in the following illustration you’ll see that some cells containing values have currency formatting and other cells containing values have comma formatting Continue reading Excel Alignment Tips February 19th, 2007
Why I don’t Genius Bar hop and other comments regarding my recent hard disk problem. One of my jobs as a blogger is to produce at least one blog entry a week. As you may have noticed if you follow this blog, it looks like I’ve been slacking off lately. Well, I just Continue reading On Geniuses January 25th, 2007
Sample Files from the Book. Continue reading Excel 2007 Visual QuickStart Guide Sample Files January 15th, 2007
Getting back some screen real estate. One of the things that you might find bothersome about Excel 2007′s Ribbon is the amount of space it takes up at the top of the workbook window. Fortunately, you can get it out of the way and recover that space. Here’s how. Right click on any button Continue reading Minimize the Ribbon January 12th, 2007
Another very minor correction to my Excel 2003 VQS for Windows book. As I continue to revise the book for Excel 2007 on Windows Vista, I continue to find tiny errors in the existing book. Today’s error is on page 118, in the caption for Figure 38. The caption states that gridlines have been Continue reading Excel 2003 VQS Correction of the Day December 30th, 2006
Sample Files from the Book. Continue reading Excel 2007 QuickProject Sample Files December 19th, 2006
I add two excerpts from my upcoming Excel 2007 Visual QuickProject Guide to the book’s companion Web site. I just added the following two excerpts for my Excel 2007 Visual QuickProject Guide to the list of book excerpts available for download. These files are in PDF format and are roughly 1 MB each: Front Continue reading Excel 2007 Book Excerpts Now Online December 13th, 2006
(I just write ‘em — I don’t name ‘em.) The revision to my Excel 2007 Visual QuickStart Guide was shipped to the printer this week. My editor expects the book to be in stores by year-end. The book is a raw beginners guide to Excel. This version covers Excel 2007, which will be widely Continue reading Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide is Off to the Printer December 5th, 2006
Stuck? This might help. I’ve been working with Vista on my new PC for a few months now. I’d originally done an install over Windows XP, but the other day I did a clean install of the Vista Gold Master, wiping the computer clean so there was no old stuff on there. (When the Continue reading File Sharing: Tiger & Vista December 4th, 2006
Office 2007 has gone Gold Master, meaning it’s being prepared for distribution. It’s available for corporate users now and will be available for everyone else on January 30, 2007. Why wait? You can download a trial version of Office from the Microsoft Web site at www.trymicrosoftoffice.com. It’ll give you 100% functionality for 60 days. Continue reading Office 2007 for Windows Now Available September 20th, 2006
After two months off from writing, I begin work on an Excel book revision. I dove into a revision of my Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Excel: Visual QuickProject Guide book today. I actually got the first chapter — all 16 pages of it — done. If you’re not familiar with the VQJ (as Continue reading New Excel Book in Progress |
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