Michael Milton - Head First Excel

Head First Excel

Michael Milton

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Advance Praise for Head First Excel

Head First Excel is awesome! Like other Head First books, its a very approachable mix of knowledge, business situations, and humor. Not only do you learn all you need to know about Excel, but you also get to learn some real business lingo and smarts as well. Need to create formulas? Need to make reports, charts, or pivot tables? This is the book for you. Head First Excel gives you the goods and will help you excel at Excel!

Ken Bluttman, www.kenbluttman.com

Head First Excel shows how to fully utilize some of the best features Excel has to offer to improve productivity and data analysis skills. If Ive been using Excel for over 10 years and still found many useful topics, so can you, regardless of your experience level.

Anthony Rose, President, Support Analytics

Do you use Excel to keep lists and calculate the occasional budget? Would you like to dive deeper and learn how Excel can give you an edge in your daily workflow? Unlock your Excel superpowers with Michael Miltons Head First Excel . Youll learn to create data visualizations and design spreadsheets that make your point and get you noticed. Discover how to easily audit complex formulas written by others, so you can quickly validate (or call B.S. on) their calculations. Build models that optimize your business and/or finances based on all possible scenarios. Excels many features can seem intimidating; Michael cuts through the complexity and teaches you to bend Excel to your will.

Bill Mietelski, software engineer

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Warren Keuffel, Software Development Magazine

Beyond the engaging style that drags you forward from know-nothing into exalted Java warrior status, Head First Java covers a huge amount of practical matters that other texts leave as the dreaded exercise for the reader. Its clever, wry, hip and practicalthere arent a lot of textbooks that can make that claim and live up to it while also teaching you about object serialization and network launch protocols.

Dr. Dan Russell, Director of User Sciences and Experience Research IBM Almaden Research Center (and teaches Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University)

Its fast, irreverent, fun, and engaging. Be carefulyou might actually learn something!

Ken Arnold, former senior engineer at Sun Microsystems Coauthor (with James Gosling, creator of Java), The Java Programming Language

I feel like a thousand pounds of books have just been lifted off of my head.

Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki and founder of the Hillside Group

Just the right tone for the geeked-out, casual-cool guru coder in all of us. The right reference for practical development strategiesgets my brain going without having to slog through a bunch of tired, stale professor--speak.

Travis Kalanick, founder of Scour and Red Swoosh Member of the MIT TR100

There are books you buy, books you keep, books you keep on your desk, and thanks to OReilly and the Head First crew, there is the penultimate category, Head First books. Theyre the ones that are dog-eared, mangled, and carried everywhere. Head First SQL is at the top of my stack. Heck, even the PDF I have for review is tattered and torn.

Bill Sawyer, ATG Curriculum Manager, Oracle

This books admirable clarity, humor, and substantial doses of clever make it the sort of book that helps even nonprogrammers think well about problem solving.

Cory Doctorow, co-editor of Boing Boing Author, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

I received the book yesterday and started to read it...and I couldnt stop. This is definitely trs cool. It is fun, but they cover a lot of ground and they are right to the point. Im really impressed.

Erich Gamma, IBM Distinguished Engineer Coauthor, Design Patterns

One of the funniest and smartest books on software design Ive ever read.

Aaron LaBerge, VP Technology, ESPN.com

What used to be a long, trial-and-error learning process has now been reduced neatly into an engaging paperback.

Mike Davidson, CEO, Newsvine, Inc.

Elegant design is at the core of every chapter here, each concept conveyed with equal doses of pragmatism and wit.

Ken Goldstein, Executive Vice President, Disney Online

I Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML it teaches you everything you need to learn in a fun coated format.

Sally Applin, UI designer and artist

Usually when reading through a book or article on design patterns, Id have to occasionally stick myself in the eye with something just to make sure I was paying attention. Not with this book. Odd as it may sound, this book makes learning about design patterns fun.

While other books on design patterns are saying, Bueller... Bueller... Bueller, this book is on the float belting out Shake it up, baby!

Eric Wuehler

I literally love this book. In fact, I kissed this book in front of my wife.

Satish Kumar

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