Microsofta Office Excel 2003 Inside Out [With CDROM]

As with all Inside Out books from Microsoft Press, Excel 2003 was fantastic. The thing I love most about these books is (1) the comprehensiveness of the book while (2) not forgetting to cover the fundamentals of the product. Thus, anything you want to do with Excel is covered, from simple formatting to working with external data all the way up to creating highly complex spreadsheets with macros and programming. This book is perfect for all Excel (or spreadsheet) creators.

This book could not be more comprehensive. If you need to go deep and want to have a paper-based book to do it with (versus online help/tutorals), this is the one to have on your desk. A chapter each week will help you me much more productive.

Don't guess, don't waste time with the MS Help's Office Assistant, and don't Google it. Buy an Excel reference book and learn to do it right. I own this one, The Excel Bible, and Excel Formulas 2003. Any one of them will do, but owning multiple is overkill. The book comes with a searchable .pdf version that I keep on my laptop and use regularly. By picking up the hardcopy from my bookshelf once a week, I've really streamlined my spreadsheet building process. Were you once an Arts & Crafts type of person and are trying to morph into a quant guru? I was. I am...... still working on it. Buy the book. -Sly

Are you sure you were on the correct Web page when you wrote this review? Seems you were looking at a different book. I checked both the 2002 and 2003 versions of this book and I could not find any of the things you mentioned as being incorrect. The code sample you mention on page 173 does not exist, and I didn't find the problems you mention about screen shots. You sure you weren't looking at Using Excel ...? LOL

This book can not only be used an instructional guide, but also makes a great desk reference. It teaches you how to use a lot of the key shortcuts that all the super geeks know, while also giving very good advice on how to start your spreadsheet. To me starting is the most difficult part. You have a boat load of data and just can't figure out how to put it in a spread sheet that makes sense to everyone else. This will help you in that area plus a thousand others. I love it. I already knew the Excel extreme basics, this put me on the level I needed to be on.