Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Complete Concepts and Techniques (Shelly Cashman Series)

In Microsoft Excel 2007: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques you’ll find features that are specifically designed to improve retention, and prepare readers for future success. Our trademark step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach now encourages readers to expand their understanding of the Access 2007 software through experimentation, exploration, and planning ahead.

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• Student version intended for student and educational use only
• Features a new, results-oriented user interface to make powerful productivity tools easily accessible; offers an increased spreadsheet row and column capacity of one million rows by 16,000 columns
• Gives you the option of displaying a spreadsheet dynamically as HTML for easier online access; Excel Services users can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views — all within a Web browser
• Resizable formula bar and context-based Formula AutoComplete help streamline the formula authoring process; keep track of assignments, grades, research notes and citations by creating personalized spreadsheets in minutes
• Dramatic visual effects in just a few clicks, quick table formatting and a completely redesigned charting engine help you better communicate your analysis

Excel Home and Student 2007Analyze, share, and manage information more effectively with Microsoft Office Excel Home and Student 2007, the latest version of the most widely-used spreadsheet tool. Featuring new spreadsheets that hold more data than ever before, allowing you to import, organize, and explore massive data sets quickly and easily, and the advanced analysis tools help you make the right decisions for any situation. Whether you need to create a table or write a formula, Excel 2007’s new user interface keeps things simple and straightforward.

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Licensing Restrictions
The Home and Student version of Excel 2007 has all the same great features of original Excel 2007, but is intended for student and educational use. Please note the following licensing restrictions: this product is for non-commercial, non-commercial location, and educational use only. This is a personal learning license for qualified educational users only. (Example: In a household, only the students are eligible to use the software, however parents can use the software when assisting students). You can install this edition on up to three PCs in your home, and this product does not qualify for future upgrade pricing or installations). You may not transfer your usage rights to another individual or allow them to install the program at another location. You are only eligible to use this product while you are a qualified educational user. Microsoft provides only installation support for this product.

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Office Excel 2007 helps you analyze information by improving PivotTable view creation and conditional formatting and providing full support for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. View larger.

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Helpful Tools For Students
Students don’t have time to waste learning new software, which is why Excel 2007 features menus and commands that present the right tools at the right time. The improved Help system provides tooltips and links to relevant information in Microsoft Office system programs or on the Internet when connected. Get started easily by taking advantage of online tutorials with step-by-step instructions or by using some of the new out-of-the-box templates. Keep your documents and sensitive information safe and secure by detecting and removing unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information in your class notes or papers by using the Document Inspector. You can also keep track of assignments, grades, research notes and citations, and other important information by creating personalized spreadsheets in minutes. Or develop stunning graphs and charts to liven up presentations. Finally, integration with Excel Services opens up a whole world of options for creating and managing study groups, group projects, and computer-integrated courses.

Create Better Spreadsheets
Excel 2007 takes advantage of a new, results-oriented user interface to make powerful productivity tools easily accessible. It also offers more room for you to work in and delivers faster performance. Based on the job you need to accomplish, whether it is creating a table or writing a formula, Office Excel 2007 presents the appropriate commands to you in a clear cut manner.

The Tools You Need For the Results You Want
Excel 2007 gives you the option of displaying a spreadsheet dynamically as HTML for easier online access, and Excel Services Users can also navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views–all within a Web browser. You can also publish spreadsheets to Office SharePoint Server 2007 and set controls over which users can view and modify spreadsheets on the server. Need to share research data? Build a custom report from an online analytical processing (OLAP) database and connect to external sources of data more easily using the Data Connection Library.

Increased Spreadsheet Row and Column Capacity
Excel 2007 offers an increased spreadsheet row and column capacity of one million rows by 16,000 columns that enables you to import and work with massive amounts of data and achieve faster calculation performance with support for dual or multicore processors. Quickly format cells and tables exactly as you want them by using Cell Styles and Table Styles galleries. Tables also include AutoFilters while column headers stay in view when you scroll through the data, so you can keep better manage data. For added convenience, AutoFilters populate and expand any table automatically.

Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services provide the means to share and interact with spreadsheets in a Web browser. View larger.

Formula Authoring Options
To help streamline the formula authoring process, Excel 2007 offers a resizable formula bar and context-based Formula AutoComplete. You can also refer to named ranges and tables within formulas and functions.

Professional-Looking Charts
Excel 2007 helps you create professional-looking charts with dramatic visual effects in just a few clicks, quick table formatting and a completely redesigned charting engine that will help you better communicate your analysis. By using predefined Chart Layouts and Chart Styles, or manually formatting each component, (such as axes, titles, and other chart labels), you’ll save time and increase productivity. And to make sure your charts really stand out, take advantage of stunning effects such as 3-D, soft shadowing, and anti-aliasing to help identify key data trends and create more compelling graphical summaries. Page Layout View lets you see exactly how your spreadsheet will print and direct visual feedback where the page will truncate gives you the help you need to properly adjust page margins. For seamless interaction between different software applications, the Excel charting engine is consistent in the 2007 versions of Word and PowerPoint 2007.

Improve Spreadsheet Analysis
New data analysis and visualization tools help you analyze information, spot trends, and access your company information more easily. Use conditional formatting with rich data visualization schemes to discover and illustrate important trends and highlight exceptions in your data with colored gradients (heat maps), data bars, and icons. When it comes to sorting and filtering, two of the most important types of basic analysis that you can do with data, Excel 2007 offers new tools, such as multiselect in AutoFilters, sort or filter by color, and quick filters for specific data types. You can also create a PivotTable or PivotChart view more easily by using data fields to reorient data quickly to summarize and find the answers you need–simply drag the fields to where you want them to display. Additionally, full support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services enables you to query your most current business data by using the flexibility of Excel 2007.

New Excel XML Format
Reduce the file sizes of spreadsheets and improve their interoperability with other data sources by using the new Excel XML Format. This option enables a more efficient exchange of information and helps keep your business running smoothly.

Share Spreadsheets
Excel 2007 makes sharing spreadsheets and information easier than ever before, thanks to integration with Excel Services and the new Microsoft Office Excel XML Format. Excel Services renders an Excel spreadsheet as HTML so others can access the information within a Web browser. This option is particularly ideal for study groups or computer-integrated courses where students work together to complete assignments. You can also enjoy the flexibility of saving files as XPS or PDF for easier sharing with the installation of an add-in.

Effectively Manage Sensitive Information
Excel 2007 and Excel Services enable you to manage and control spreadsheets on a server to help protect important personal information. Publish spreadsheets to Office SharePoint Server 2007 to help ensure that you, and everyone in your study group, are working with the most current information. This also helps prevent the spread of multiple versions of the same file. For added peace of mind, you can protect confidential academic information while helping to ensure people can view the data they need with report management features.

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• Upgrade available on these qualifying applications: Microsoft Access 2000-2002; Microsoft Office Access 2003; Microsoft Works 6.0-10; Microsoft Works Suite 2000-2006 or later; any 2000-2007 Microsoft Office suite; and any Microsoft Office XP suite
• Features a new, results-oriented user interface to make powerful productivity tools easily accessible; offers an increased spreadsheet row and column capacity of one million rows by 16,000 columns
• Gives you the option of displaying a spreadsheet dynamically as HTML for easier online access; Excel Services users can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views — all within a Web browser
• Resizable formula bar and context-based Formula AutoComplete help streamline the formula authoring process
• Dramatic visual effects in just a few clicks, quick table formatting and a completely redesigned charting engine help you better communicate your analysis

Excel 2007 Version UpgradeAnalyze, share, and manage information more effectively with Microsoft Office Excel 2007, the latest version of the most widely-used spreadsheet tool. Featuring new spreadsheets that hold more data than ever before, this software gives you the freedom to import, organize, and explore massive data sets quickly and easily, and the advanced analysis tools help you make the right decisions for any situation. Whether you need to create a table or write a formula, Excel 2007’s new user interface keeps things simple and straightforward. This version upgrade of Excel 2007 is available for those who currently run the following applications on their PCs: Microsoft Excel 2000-2002; Microsoft Office Excel 2003; Microsoft Works 6.0-10; Microsoft Works Suite 2000-2006 or later; any 2000-2007 Microsoft Office suite; and any Microsoft Office XP suite.

Quick table formatting and a completely redesigned charting engine that will help you better communicate your analysis in stunning charts. View larger.

User-Friendly Operation
Excel 2007 helps reduce the time and frustration of learning new software with menus and commands that present the right tools when you need them. The improved Help system provides tooltips and links to relevant information in Microsoft Office system programs or on the Internet when connected. Get started easily by using online tutorials with step-by-step instructions or by using some of the new out-of-the-box templates. Keep your documents and sensitive information safe and secure by detecting and remove unwanted comments, hidden text, or personally identifiable information in your documents using the Document Inspector.

Use the Data Connection Library to import external information, and then explore this data with Office Excel 2007 View larger.

Office Excel 2007 helps you analyze information by improving PivotTable view creation and conditional formatting and providing full support for SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. View larger.

With the new user interface, you can immediately view the most important cell-editing, formatting, and navigation tools. View larger.

Powerful Productivity Tools
Excel 2007’s new, results-oriented user interface to make powerful productivity tools easily accessible. It also offers more room for you to work in and delivers faster performance. Based on the job you need to accomplish, whether it is creating a table or writing a formula, Excel 2007 presents the appropriate commands to you within the new user interface.

Versatile Options For Optimum Results
Excel 2007 gives you the option of displaying a spreadsheet dynamically as HTML for easier online access, and Excel Services users can navigate, sort, filter, input parameters, and interact with PivotTable views–all within a Web browser. You can also publish business-critical spreadsheets to Office SharePoint Server 2007 and set controls over which users can view and modify spreadsheets on the server. If you want to build a custom report from an online analytical processing (OLAP) database, the Data Connection Library makes it a snap to connect to external sources of data.

Increased Spreadsheet Row and Column Capacity
Excel 2007 offers an increased spreadsheet row and column capacity of one million rows by 16,000 columns that enables you to import and work with massive amounts of data and achieve faster calculation performance with support for dual or multicore processors. Quickly format cells and tables exactly as you want them by using Cell Styles and Table Styles galleries. Tables also include AutoFilters while column headers stay in view when you scroll through the data, so you can keep better manage data. For added convenience, AutoFilters populate and expand any table automatically.

Formula Authoring Options
To help streamline the formula authoring process, Excel 2007 offers a resizable formula bar and context-based Formula AutoComplete. You can also refer to named ranges and tables within formulas and functions.

Office Excel 2007 and Excel Services provide the means to share and interact with spreadsheets in a Web browser. View larger.

Professional-Looking Charts
Excel 2007 helps you create professional-looking charts with dramatic visual effects in just a few clicks, quick table formatting and a completely redesigned charting engine that will help you better communicate your analysis. By using predefined Chart Layouts and Chart Styles, or manually formatting each component, (such as axes, titles, and other chart labels), you’ll save time and increase productivity. And to make sure your charts really stand out, take advantage of stunning effects such as 3-D, soft shadowing, and anti-aliasing to help identify key data trends and create more compelling graphical summaries. Page Layout View lets you see exactly how your spreadsheet will print and direct visual feedback where the page will truncate gives you the help you need to properly adjust page margins. For seamless interaction between different software applications, the Excel charting engine is consistent in the 2007 versions of Word and PowerPoint.

Improved Spreadsheet Analysis
New data analysis and visualization tools help you analyze information, spot trends, and access your company information more easily. Use conditional formatting with rich data visualization schemes to discover and illustrate important trends, and highlight exceptions in your data with colored gradients (heat maps), data bars, and icons. When it comes to sorting and filtering, two of the most important types of basic analysis that you can do with data, Excel 2007 offers new tools, such as multiselect in AutoFilters, sort or filter by color, and quick filters for specific data types. You can also create a PivotTable or PivotChart view more easily by using data fields to reorient data quickly to summarize and find the answers you need–simply drag the fields to where you want them to display. Additionally, full support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services enables you to query your most current business data.

New Excel XML Format
Reduce the file sizes of spreadsheets and improve their interoperability with other data sources by using the new Excel XML Format. This option enables a more efficient exchange of information and helps keep your business running smoothly.

Share Spreadsheets and Business Information
Excel 2007 makes sharing spreadsheets and business information easier than ever before, thanks to integration with Excel Services and the new Excel XML Format. Excel Services renders an Excel spreadsheet as HTML so others can access the information within a Web browser. Other options include creating business dashboards from spreadsheets to share within a portal, and tracking the key performance indicators of your business using browser-based dashboards that can be created from Excel spreadsheets, Excel Web Access, and Office SharePoint Server 2007. You can also enjoy the flexibility of saving files as XPS or PDF (with the installation of an add-in) for easier sharing.

Effectively Manage Sensitive Information
Excel 2007 and Excel Services enable you to manage and control spreadsheets on a server to help protect important business information and ensure that people are working with the most current data. Centrally manage sensitive information by publishing spreadsheets to SharePoint Server 2007. This both helps ensure that the members of your organization are working with the most current business information and prevents the spread of multiple versions of the same file. For added peace of mind, you can protect confidential business information while helping to ensure people can view the data they need with report management features. Using Office SharePoint Server 2007, your organization’s IT staff can set up and manage Data Connection Libraries that enable people to more safely connect to external data sources without assistance. For added flexibility, you can also use the Excel Services Web services application programming interface (API) to integrate server calculation of Excel files into other applications.

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Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft Excel, VBA, and .NET (2nd Edition)

“As Excel applications become more complex and the Windows development platform more powerful, Excel developers need books like this to help them evolve their solutions to the next level of sophistication. Professional Excel Development is a book for developers who want to build powerful, state-of-the-art Excel applications using the latest Microsoft technologies.”

–Gabhan Berry, Program Manager, Excel Programmability, Microsoft

“The first edition of Professional Excel Development is my most-consulted and most-recommended book on Office development. The second edition expands both the depth and range. It shines because it takes every issue one step further than you expect. The book relies on the authors’ current, real-world experience to cover not only how a feature works, but also the practical implications of using it in professional work.”

–Shauna Kelly, Director, Thendara Green

“This book illustrates techniques that will result in well-designed, robust, and maintainable Excel-based applications. The authors’ advice comes from decades of solid experience of designing and building applications. The practicality of the methods is well illustrated by the example timesheet application that is developed step-by-step through the book. Every serious Excel developer should read this and learn from it. I did.”

–Bill Manville, Application Developer, Bill Manville Associates

The Start-to-Finish Guide to Building State-of-the-Art Solutions with Excel 2007

In this book, four world-class Microsoft® Excel developers offer start-to-finish guidance for building powerful, robust, and secure applications with Excel. The authors—three of whom have been honored by Microsoft as Excel Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs)—show how to consistently make the right design decisions and make the most of Excel’s most powerful new features. Using their techniques,you can reduce development costs, time to market, and hassle—and build more effective, successful solutions.

Fully updated for Excel 2007, this book starts where other books on Excel programming leave off. Through a hands-on case study project, you’ll discover best practices for planning, architecting, and building Excel applications that are robust, secure, easy to maintain, and highly usable. If you’re a working developer, no other book on Excel programming offers you this much depth, insight, or value.

•    Design worksheets that will be more useful and reliable

•    Leverage built-in and application-specific add-ins

•    Construct applications that behave like independent Windows programs

•    Make the most of the new Ribbon user interface

•    Create cross-version applications that work with legacy versions of Excel

•    Utilize XML within Excel applications

•    Understand and use Windows API calls

•    Master VBA error handling, debugging, and performance optimization

•    Develop applications based on data stored in Access, SQL Server, and other databases

•    Build powerful visualization solutions with Excel charting engine

•    Learn how to work with VB.NET and leverage its IDE

•    Automate Microsoft Excel with VB.NET

•    Create managed COM add-ins for Microsoft Excel with VB.NET

•    Develop Excel solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)

•    Integrate Excel with Web Services

•    Deploy applications more securely and efficiently

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Master the Ribbon, powerful graphics capabilities, and more!

Your one-stop guide to great-looking spreadsheets that actually mean something

Create colorful spreadsheets and charts, use Live Preview, and maximize everything Excel 2007 has to offer! Find just what you need to know about using the new Ribbon, designing spreadsheets that communicate, editing and printing them, working with formulas, protecting your data when you collaborate, turning out cool charts, and much more. The included four-color insert highlights the Ribbon, new graphics features, and more!

Discover how to

• Create dynamic spreadsheets with style galleries
• Work with more than 40 new cell styles
• Automate formatting with Live Preview
• Share Excel data with other programs
• Use VBA to write custom Excel functions

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Microsoft Excel 2007 Introduction Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheet of Instructions, Tips & Shortcuts – Laminated Card)

Laminated quick reference guide showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for how to use Microsoft Office Excel 2007. The following topics are covered: Creating Workbooks, Entering and Editing Data, Clearing Cells, Undo and Redo, Inserting and Deleting Rows Columns and Cells, Column Width and Row Height, Entering Dates, Entering Sequences, Entering Formulas & Functions, Using AutoSum, Absolute vs. Relative Cell References, Resizing the Formula Bar, Formatting Numbers and Cells, Aligning Cell Contents, Borders and Grids, Previewing, Printing and Page Setup, Repeating Rows/Columns on Every Page, Copying and Moving Data: Fill Handle; Cut, Copy, Paste; Drag & Drop. Sheet Features: Renaming, Moving, Copying, Selecting, Inserting, Deleting, Editing Multiple Worksheets Simultaneously, and Copying Data and Formatting to Multiple Worksheets. Also includes: Lists of Selection and Movement Shortcuts. This guide is suitable as a training handout, or simply an easy to use reference guide, for any type of user.

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This practical, hands-on tutorial expertly builds your skills with Microsoft Office Excel 2003—one step at a time! With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and practice exercises to learn exactly the tools and techniques you need. Master the tools for organizing, processing and presenting data; make data come alive with Microsoft PivotTable® and PivotChart® dynamic views; use data analysis tools for better decision making; tap external data sources; add hyperlinks; create macros; and help keep data secure as you share—and collaborate on—Excel documents over the Web. The book also helps you prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam and makes a great on-the-job desk reference. The companion CD includes practice files you can use as you learn, as well as the Microsoft Office System Reference pack, which contains templates and clip art, an eBook of Step by Step, and four other eBooks: the Microsoft Office System Quick Reference; the Insider’s Guide to Microsoft Office OneNote 2003; the Microsoft Computer Dictionary, Fifth Edition; and Introducing the Tablet PC. Designed for beginning and intermediate level users, STEP BY STEP puts you in charge of developing the skills you need, exactly when you need them!

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Master the techniques that business analysts at leading companies use to transform data into bottom-line results. For more than a decade, well-known consultant and business professor Wayne Winston has been teaching corporate clients and MBA students the most effective ways to use Microsoft Office Excel for data analysis, modeling, and decision making. Now this award-winning educator shares the best of his classroom experience in this practical, business-focused guide–updated and expanded for Excel 2007. Each chapter advances your data analysis and modeling expertise using real-world examples and learn-by-doing exercises. You’ll learn how to create best, worst, and most-likely scenarios for sales, estimate a product’s demand curve, forecast using trend and seasonality, and determine which product mix will yield the greatest profit. You’ll even discover how to interpret the effects of price and advertising on sales and how to assign a dollar value to customer loyalty. You get all the book’s problem-and-solution files on CD–for all the practice you need to solve complex problems and work smarter with Excel.

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This Microsoft Office 2007 Illustrated Series book covers the essential information that you need to know now for Microsoft Excel 2007. Our signature two-page spread design has been updated and refreshed to take full advantage of the new features of the Office 2007 software. This practical, easy to navigate book provides you with the essential knowledge you need to succeed at both work and beyond.

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Excel provides an easy-to-use, powerful spreadsheet environment that helps you handle calculations and data more effectively – with simple ways to enter and edit data, work with formulas and functions for complex calculations, format worksheets and work with colorful charts, and publish documents to the Web. With MICROSOFT EXCEL 2007 STEP BY STEP, you’ll learn all the ins and outs of working with Excel features, including the exciting new interface for this latest version of Office. This information-packed guide provides numbered steps and hands-on examples that show you how to get the most out of Excel. With this book, you’ll learn how to work with tools to make worksheet entry faster, make your Excel documents more attractive, present information visually with charts, sorting and filtering data, publish documents on the Web, and lots more. The companion CD provides all exercise source files so that you get hands-on with Excel right away.

The smart way to learn Office Excel 2007–one step at a time! Work at your own pace through the easy numbered steps, practice files on CD, helpful hints, and troubleshooting help to master the fundamentals of working with the latest version of Excel, including how to navigate the new user interface. You’ll learn how to create a wide-variety of documents, how to present information visually with charts, and how to add graphics to your spreadsheets. You will discover how to work with features to make data entry faster, how sort and filter data, how to create dynamic lists with Pivot Tables, and even how to publish your documents to the Web–plus more! With STEP BY STEP, you can take just the lessons you need or work from cover to cover. Either way, you drive the instruction–building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Includes a companion CD with hands-on practice files.

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For introductory Office Application courses that cover Excel 2007. 

The goal of the Exploring Series has been to move students beyond the point and click, helping them understand the why and how behind each skill. Students go to college now with a different set of skills than they did 5 years ago.  The new edition of Exploring moves students beyond the basics of the software at a faster pace, without sacrificing fundamental skills to ensure that they will be engaged throughout the book.

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