New Perspectives on Microsoft Excel 2010: Introductory

by June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, Roy Ageloff

With the New Perspectives' critical-thinking, problem-solving approach, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of MICROSOFT OFFICE EXCEL 2010 and will learn how to take advantage of the flexibility it offers. Case-based tutorials challenge students to apply what they are learning to real-life tasks, preparing them to easily transfer skills to new situations. With New Perspectives, students understand why they're learning what they're learning and are better situated to retain skills beyond the classroom.

552 pages, Paperback

First published August 16, 2010

About the author

June Parsons purchased her first computer, an Apple II+, in 1981 and quickly became fluent in BASIC, dBASE II, Lotus 123, WordStar, and a variety of accounting programs. The next year, they opened a successful small computer retail store that also offered software instruction to children and adults.
June taught at the university level for more than 20 years, has a doctorate in Educational Technology, and was certified by the ICCP in 1995. June began writing and creating educational software with her husband, Dan Oja, for Course Technology in 1992. They contributed to the Windows for Business and Illustrated Series and developed the New Perspectives, e-Course, and Practical series. They work via the Internet with a team of highly skilled media specialists and desktop publishers located in various states and provinces.

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had 8 chapters and my classes covered chapters 1-4 for the Intro to Excel and 5-8 for the Intermediate Excel course.

For the most part I thought this was a really good book, but a little more explanation would have helped on some of the concepts. Can you use the IFERROR on multiple VLOOKUPs? The book couldn't tell me, but my instructor thought I should answer this on my homework. (Doh!)

Overall I thought the steps were fairly well explained. I liked that there were additional exercises in the back of every chapter, although having a key available to know if you did these correctly or not would have been useful too. I fear on some of those I did them incorrectly and just reinforced bad knowledge without having any way to correct it.

I also liked that I could go to Cengage and get the data files from the site as well as the Key terms for each chapter. That was a huge factor in me keeping this book rather than selling it when my class was over. (The exercises are pretty pointless without the data files.)

Overall a good study tool.

[Jill · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am such a geek.