Microsoft Excel Version 2002 Inside Out [With CD]

I have read multiple books for the Microsoft Office products, and the "Inside Out" books are clearly the best. I purchased this book to help the members of my team brush up on their Excel knowledge, so they did not need to ask me how to do certain things. This book provides much greater depth than most Excel books. It is a great book for the frequent Excel user who is interested in learning additional functions to improve work quality and efficiency. However, this book is probably too advanced for the casual user or someone who spends more time reviewing spreadsheets than creating them. Although they have not read as much of this book as I would have like, the portions my associates have read has improved their Excel skills significantly. Oftentimes, if they ask me a question now, I will send them to the book first, and then assist them with any additional questions.

As an Excel programmer, I needed a "base-text" for setting up VBA. I gave it a 5 star because it has the main material I need to setup the next step to make Excel do the max. This is an intro Excel text that covers many areas essential to my work. I noticed the rather weak reviews of this text an I am surprised. I wonder if they really read the book! For VBA work, I use MS Excel 2002 Power Programming with VBA by John Walkenbach. The combination of these two books makes working in Excel very easy.