Discover Excel 97 Book

Whether you're new to Microsoft Excel or just new to the latest and greatest version, Excel 97, Discover Excel 97 is the perfect guidebook to help you explore all the exciting things you can do with this richly featured spreadsheet program. Discover Excel 97 -- like all the titles in our new Discover series -- is designed so that the kind of information you need is always right at hand. Rather than simply explain the nuts and bolts of Excel 97's features, Discover Excel 97 shows you how to use them in the same kind of real-world situations you face every day. Turn here to discover how to?

• Create, open, and save your Excel workbook
• Take advantage of the built-in Office Assistant feature for on-screen solutions to whatever problem comes up (and find out how to customize Office Assistant so that it's always helpful without getting on your nerves)
• Enter, format, protect, and edit data and formulas in worksheet cells
• Add, delete, move, copy, and protect worksheets within your Excel workbooks
• Get Excel to do much of your work for you -- automatically -- with IntelliSense? features such as AutoCalculate, AutoFill, AutoComplete, and AutoSum
• Transform raw, dull data into colorful, meaningful charts
• Print worksheets and workbooks so that they show just the information you want others to see -- and so that they look professionally produced
• Make the most of Excel's built-in styles, templates, and macros -- and discover how to create your own
• Use Excel worksheets as effective, functional databases -- with data-entry forms, too
• Manage others' access to your Excel files for successful, workgroup-style collaboration
• Publish Excel spreadsheets on the World Wide Web -- it's easier than you thought possible -- and even build-in hypertext links and specialized queries that others can use to get to exactly the information they want
• Customize the way Excel 97 looks and functions to suit your needs

Plus, as all of the titles in our Discover series, Discover Excel 97 features the 6-Point Advantage?

• Color Tear-Out Card -- Key information and shortcuts that get you up to speed fast
• Discovery Center -- Quick summaries of the chapters' major points collected at the back of the book
• Real-Life Vignettes -- Winning stories on how real people use technology to improve their lives
• Visual Index -- Convenient picture maps direct you to the features you're looking for
• Web Path -- Handy references to feature- or topic-related Web sites
• Bonus Section -- Added-value tips and timesaving techniques at the end of each chapter