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Excel Formulas and Functions: For Complete Beginners, Step-By-Step Illustrated Guide to Master Formulas and Functions
110 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 12, 2019
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March 31, 2019
I read this book via an Amazon KINDLE Unlimited download.
In order to really evaluate and review this book, one needs to have used EXCEL over some period of time. My experience using spreadsheets spans the time period from 1985 until 2010. Back in 1985, the spreadsheet program being used had been LOTUS123 and I go back to Version 1. When beginning to use this program, the first and main lesson I received had been spreadsheets is math driven by the reference location of a number [Column B Line 5] +, -, * [multiply], and / [divide] by another number. All equations used these reference locations regardless of what was being calculated,
When EXCEL took over as being the spreadsheet program of choice nothing really changed in the functionality of the program itself. I eventually started to create increasingly complex spreadsheets such as TEXT to COLUMNS where I would copy a report, paste it into EXCEL and then convert the report to a regular spreadsheet, where I had to do modifications such as deleting nonessential columns and adding columns with contained new calculations; which included complex, imbedded IF/THEN [conditional] statements.
Looking at this book, I believe it gives its readers an overall simplified introduction to spreadsheets and the formulas which get used most often. Some of the sections of this book needs to be expanded upon and written with a bit more clarity. The only way to get proficient in the use of spreadsheets and become an expert in their use is through the repetitive creation of them. Some of the terminology used by the author is different than what I know them as.
As a simplified introductory book to EXCEL, I’ve given this book 4 STARS.
In order to really evaluate and review this book, one needs to have used EXCEL over some period of time. My experience using spreadsheets spans the time period from 1985 until 2010. Back in 1985, the spreadsheet program being used had been LOTUS123 and I go back to Version 1. When beginning to use this program, the first and main lesson I received had been spreadsheets is math driven by the reference location of a number [Column B Line 5] +, -, * [multiply], and / [divide] by another number. All equations used these reference locations regardless of what was being calculated,
When EXCEL took over as being the spreadsheet program of choice nothing really changed in the functionality of the program itself. I eventually started to create increasingly complex spreadsheets such as TEXT to COLUMNS where I would copy a report, paste it into EXCEL and then convert the report to a regular spreadsheet, where I had to do modifications such as deleting nonessential columns and adding columns with contained new calculations; which included complex, imbedded IF/THEN [conditional] statements.
Looking at this book, I believe it gives its readers an overall simplified introduction to spreadsheets and the formulas which get used most often. Some of the sections of this book needs to be expanded upon and written with a bit more clarity. The only way to get proficient in the use of spreadsheets and become an expert in their use is through the repetitive creation of them. Some of the terminology used by the author is different than what I know them as.
As a simplified introductory book to EXCEL, I’ve given this book 4 STARS.
May 5, 2019
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At al! would I recommend this garbage about excel formulas, it just touched the basics not for a advanced user
No one
At al! would I recommend this garbage about excel formulas, it just touched the basics not for a advanced user
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