This text is designed to teach you all the skills that the typical Excel 95 user needs on the job every day. Exercises are included throughout to build your confidence.
Excel Crash Course for Engineers is a reader-friendly introductory guide to the features, functions, and applications of Microsoft Excel in engineering. The book provides readers with real-world examples and exercises that are directly related to engineering, and offers highly illustrated, step-by-step demonstrations of techniques to solve and visualize engineering problems and situations. The book includes an introduction to MS Excel, along with in-depth coverage of graphing and charting, functions and formulae, Excel's Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) programming language, and engineering data analysis. This powerful tutorial is a great resource for students, engineers, and other busy technical professionals who need to quickly acquire a solid understanding of Excel.
Thirty clearly defined lessons take the reader from understanding the parts of an Excel application into building applications to work with data, formulas, charts, and the enhanced XML capabilities of the new Excel "X" Book is designed to teach the core concepts of Excel over a weekend or in just fifteen hours, with each session being thirty minutes Applicable to Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and the latest release, Excel 2003 Helps Excel power users in fields such as accounting, finance, operations management, and market research to begin automating data manipulation in Excel quickly, so they can handle real-world projects A how-to guide to using Excel's programmability to create custom data-processing and analysis solutions Covers security, debugging, and error handling Companion Web site includes sample files, projects, and test enginewith self-assessment exam
An introduction to Windows 95 and NT 4.0; How to work with Windows; How to work with menus and commands; How to work with folders and files; Eleven more Windows skills; When and how to get on-line help.
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The learning curve just got flatter . . . with practical, professional training in less time and with less frustration. Written for programmers, this text teaches all one needs to know to develop client/server applications with a Visual Basic front-end that gets data from an ODBC database (like SQL Server) on the back-end.
Finally, here is an easy-to-understand book on Excel programming that introduces the user to language elements using realistic and practical examples. This reference covers all the commonly used aspects of Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). A Top Ten List gives the top 10 questions and answers.
This easy-to-use primer will empower anyone—even those with no IT background—to face the challenge of adding one or more technologies to library services or maintaining existing technologies. • Offers librarians a one-stop resource for managing basic technology issues in their facilities • Written in a simple, straightforward manner that even the least technologically savvy librarians can easily understand • Includes screenshots that clarify points throughout the book • Addresses challenges unique to libraries, such as working with the public and running information technology operations on a shoestring budget
