Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies

795 Pages·2010·17.28 MB·English

by  Greg Harvey

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Greg Harvey, PhD, is president of Mind Over Media, Inc. He is the ISBN 978-0-470-48959-8 (cid:129) Excel and VBA
author of all editions of Excel For Dummies, Excel All-in-One For
Dummies, Excel Workbook For Dummies, and Windows For Dummies
Greg Harvey, PhD
Quick Reference. He’s also an experienced educator.
Author of all editions of Windows
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Excel® 2010
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by Greg Harvey
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About the Author
Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being
Excel 2010 For Dummies, Windows 7 For Dummies Quick Reference, and Excel
2010 Workbook For Dummies. He started out training business users on how
to use IBM personal computers and their attendant computer software in the
rough-and-tumble days of DOS, WordStar, and Lotus 1-2-3 in the mid-eighties
of the last century. After working for a number of independent training fi rms,
he went on to teaching semester-long courses in spreadsheet and database
management software at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
His love of teaching has translated into an equal love of writing. For Dummies
books are, of course, his all-time favorites to write because they enable him
to write to his favorite audience, the beginner. They also enable him to use
humor (a key element to success in the training room) and, most delightful of
all, to express an opinion or two about the subject matter at hand.
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Dedication
To all the students in my different computer classes who taught so much
about what’s really important and what’s not when it comes to using com-
puter software.
Author’s Acknowledgments
I am always so grateful to the many people who work so hard to bring my
book projects into being, and this one is no exception. If anything, I am even
more thankful for their talents, given the size and complexity of an All-in-One.
This time, special thanks are in order to Andy Cummings and Katie Feltman
for giving me this opportunity to write and write and write about Excel in this
great All-in-One format. Next, I want to express great thanks to my project
editor, Linda Morris. Thanks also go to Mike Talley for the great technical
edit, to Sheree Montgomery for coordinating the book’s production, and to
everybody at Wiley Publishing.
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