Teach Yourself VISUALLY Excel 2010 1st Edition

I recommend Teach Yourself Visually Excel 2010.I chose it as the text book for a continuing education class that I taught this fall. I believed that it would be a great resource for students during the class and a beneficial reference book after they had completed the class. Now that the classes are over, I feel that this was a good decision. I will use it for future Excel 2010 classes that I teach.The book covered all the topics needed to gain a broad understanding of Microsoft Excel. While I used it for a Beginning Excel class, it covers not only beginner topics, but some more advanced topics as well.Many students in the class were there to gain the computer skills they needed to improve their career opportunities. This book is comprehensives and will help achieve that goal.While I and the students in my class used Teach Yourself Visually Excel 2010 as the course text book, it is also a good choice if a person can't attend a course or prefers not to. It is clearly written with step-by-step instructions and illustrations showing how to perform common and some not-so-common tasks. The only thing needed in addition to this book to become a successful user of Microsoft Excel is to practice the procedures illustrated in the book.I highly recommend Teach Yourself Visually Excel 2010 for anyone wanting to learn how to use Excel 2010. I also recommend it for experienced users who want to have a handy and clear reference book for when they need to review procedures for operations that they haven't used before or don't use often.

I really like the Visually series!!! I'm one of those people who don't always get it by reading the instructions...i look at the pictures. I love the pictures in this book. I can see exactly what I should be looking at on my screen (instead of wondering). I was pleased with my read over with this book. Then I had a problem & found this book just touched on the subject on one page although the Index showed there were 3 pages dedicated to the answer. Those other 2 pages were on something completely unrelated to the problem. YES, I looked several pages in advance & several pages after, but the info just wasn't there!!! A friend loaned me her Simplified series & I found the EXACT instructions right away. So now I depend on the Simplified & the Visually to make sure I have FULL knowledge!!! Maybe some will see it silly to deduct a star for missing information; but it was important information for me at the time!!! Unless something else comes up in the future similar to the missing info, I still would suggest buying this book especially IF you're like me & not very good with written directions. Maybe this situation was a one-time problem!!!

Though my knowledge of Excel is beyond the intermediate level, I was looking for an easy and approachable learning system for the novices in the office who were constantly asking me for Excel help. I don't mind being asked, but they were often reluctant to interrupt me, so I thought it best to provide them with a desk reference.Whether you start from the beginning of the book, one lesson at a time, or dive into a specific topic, the novice learner will find what he's looking for. The page layout, with full color graphics, tips and hints and many examples, will allow a learner to quickly grasp a concept and put it into use immediately. The only problem with the book is that I bought only one copy, so it is constantly being shuffled from one desk to another... I guess I'll have to break down a buy a few more !

I'm a big fan of the "Teach yourself Visually" series, which are a big improvement on the early editions. I would always get annoyed when a book would say, click here, then click there, then do this, then do that, etc. but the screen was not showing what the author was describing, so I would have to guess and then get frustrated because things were not working the way the author described. The Teach your self series leaves you in no doubt as to what you are supposed to do, with numbers, letters colors and pictures giving you very clear instructions on what to do.The Excel book is an excellent guide for managing accounts,using concatenation for setting up tables for databases, using Excel formulas, graphics, charts, etc.This book is very easy to use and a very handy tool to have beside you when using the Excel program.

This reference is used in conjunction with Microsoft Excel 2010 Step by Step. It has large fonts and large color diagrams with references numbered and pointed to; thus I have little problem if any locating anything the author is referencing. If the printer would develop books following the same course and more comprehensive; I would also include them in my library. Thus; I own this book and Microsoft Excel 2010 Step by Step and Microsoft Inside Out ( the two later have black and white illustrations and exercises for each chapter and the publisher provides PDF format at no charge which enables printing of various portions). I feel that all three books are invaluable for my library.

I will always purchase from this company as it makes it easier and fun to follow instructions on how to do something.

I sat down one Saturday and read through this book with my computer at hand. It was easy to understand and I loved the visual guides along with the written directions. I haven't actually "built" a complete spreadsheet with "extras" in it, but I used one of the templates and was able to make my way around and it turned out very nice looking. I look forward to using this program more and having this book handy as a reference guide.

Love these "Visually" how to books. Have been using them for years. Quick info, detailed "screen shots". Have them for Word, Access, Excel, Power Point, Windows 7, Windows Vista, AND Windows 10 is on order as I write. Actually quicker than surfing through the Office community pages, and other sources looking for answers from other users or surfing the entire Microsoft website looking for an answer to your question(s). GREAT tools! I highly recommend them all.

The Teach Yourself Visually series is perfect for learning computers for the novice user and those that know a little bit too!If I need to learn anything to do with my computer then I will always choose this series of books before any others!I can very highly recommend this series of learning books.Take careDave

Very well explained and easy to read with all the pictures.

Easy way to learn. This book, like all others in the same series, is clear, concise and easy to understand.

THE BOOK IS EXCELENT!

I liked the step by step method and the visuals to learn how to use Excel. I have used Excel for years for very basic spreadsheets but needed to learn more and the basic info plus tips really added to my knowledge. By about page four, I learned a very basic step that’s frustrated me for years. That was almost worth the price alone!