About the Book
ISBN-10: 1502434040
ISBN-13: 9781502434043
163 pages
Price: $9.95
In Seducing Excel I provide ironclad proof that Microsoft Excel®, the standard in spreadsheet software, is FEMALE, and that she is better than any other woman the reader may have ever met!
This easy-to-read and FUN book is a compilation of the best TIPS, TRICKS, and TIME-SAVING TECHNIQUES (a.k.a. QUICKIES or SHORTCUTS) that will impress even the most advanced users. The author's 20+ years experience as an advanced Excel trainer and Microsoft Certified Expert are reflected in this fully illustrated step-by-step book. Who said learning Excel had to be boring?
This book will teach you:
Some of the sexiest features Excel® 2013 has that men wish women had too
How to make Excel speak... Most importantly, how to have her shut up when you want her to!
How to navigate the sheets like a top banana
How to invite Word® for a ménage-à-trois
The secrets of Control Mustache
Unusual hot spots you'll enjoy double-clicking
The WOW things you can do with "The Thingy" (Is it bigger and better in 2013?)
Excel's multiple OMGs (yes, multiple, you read it right!)
How to create spin buttons, form controls, and drop-down lists
Where to find the Control G Spot. Explore it and your life will never be the same
Custom styles, date math, sparklines, charting best practices, flash fill, the quick analysis tool... And a lot more!
Seducing Excel includes extensive examples, and is thoroughly illustrated. It is a must for Excel® users who’ve learned on their own and are still doing things the long way, wishing they could learn better ways without dying of boredom in the process.
About the Author
* Sofia Santiago, The Sheet Whisperer(TM), has been teaching people like you the best spreadsheet secrets, and the easiest and fastest time-saving-techniques, since dinosaurs roamed the earth (like in the 80s.)
* Sofia is Microsoft Certified as an Advanced Excel 2010 Expert (Microsoft Office Specialist).
* She's been told 1,372,029 times that she can turn any dull topic into a fun one (until she asked her mom to stop.)
* Her degree is in Computer Science and Cybernetics Engineering, her MBA is in Marketing, and for the past 10 years she's been seriously considering getting a Ph.D. in Mouse Right Clicking.
* Sofia is currently working on her Masters in Intercultural Relations, on her Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology (yeah, she's a nerd,) and on hearing her teen daughter practice electric guitar daily without pulling her hair (her own hair, of course).
* As an international bilingual speaker and trainer Sofia is passionate about helping others develop their business skills, career skills, and life skills. She also loves delivering culturally-sensitive training to U.S. Latinos, and eating cheese cake. She lives with her family in Lee's Summit, Missouri (yes, there is such a city).
* To learn more about Sofia and her work, and to book her for an on-site workshop at your organization, go to http://www.seducingexcel.com/about-sofia.html
Seducing Excel’s website is (not surprisingly) SeducingExcel.com.
My Thoughts
Need I say what a fun book this was? Yes I do!! Seducing Excel, Volume 1: Ooh la la, Quickies is a book simplified to understand the basics of Excel. I used Excel spreadsheets a lot when I was working. Even took a college class to help me understand it a bit. This class was very dry, I did ok in it, I think an A but I felt like I left not really knowing what the heck I was doing. Now I never thought that spreadsheets were sexy at all. Apparently they are, at least to Sofia Santiago. With this book you will learn shortcuts and time saving tips and tricks that you can use to make your understanding of Excel easier.
Part 1 is the Foreplay part of the book where you get into an introduction of what the book can do for you in your daily work, what are quickies and how to use the book. Part 2 gets into the Quickies part of the book, the meat of the book if you will. A few of the Quickies are: How to put your favorite stuff in a handy place, how to incorporate Word into the documents, and how to find and extract unique values for starters. You will learn how to enter your info into cells and how to use separate sheets.The last part of the book is of course the Happy Ending, by the time you reach this part of the book you will have learned that Excel is definitely female.
I found this book to be unique in that it not only has a touch of humor to it but great explanations and detailed pictures to help you better understand what you are doing. I loved this little book and wish I had had it when I struggled to understand what the heck I was doing. Of course if I had realized that Excel was female, well, you just have to get this book if you spend a lot of frustating hours trying to figure out just what you are doing, once you have this little gem, then you can impress your co workers with what you have learned.
I received the book for review from the author and was not monetarily compensated for my review.
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