Excel 2010 Made Simple

Quick Start Guide

Believe it or not, you're looking at a book about one of the most widely owned—but underused—programs on the planet: Microsoft Excel, the 2010 edition. Underused? Yep, because even though millions of people around the globe apply Excel to a vast range of daily tasks, most users still don't appreciate the even wider range of things Excel can do—once they nail down its basics and begin to glimpse the huge potential that lurks behind all those cells and buttons.

What makes Excel is interesting, and even exciting, is that once you learn those basics you can start to make things happen onscreen. It's true—enter a number here, and something happens over there; change the values contributing to a chart, and the chart changes. Write ...