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Excel 2010 For Dummies, Mini Edition
by Greg Harvey, PhD
Excel 2010 For Dummies, Mini Edition
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I m very proud to present you with Excel 2010 For Dummies, Mini Edition. This book covers such fundamentals as how to start the program, identify the parts of the screen, enter information in the worksheet, save a document, and so on.
Each discussion of a topic briefly addresses the question of what a particular feature is good for before launching into how to use it. In Excel, as with most other sophisticated programs, you usually have more than one way to do a task. For the sake of your sanity, I have purposely limited the choices by usually giving you only the most efficient ways to do a particular task. Later, if youre so tempted, you can experiment with alternative ways of doing a task. For now, just concentrate on performing the task as I describe.