Excel Best Practices for Business

Although the cover lists this book as being intended is for intermediate to advanced users of Excel, rest assured that even if you consider yourself a beginner, the book can serve as a wonderful learning tool for you as well. You will probably want to have some additional source of information at your disposal, however. Because this book focuses on spreadsheet construction and best practices within the business setting, there are bound to be gaps on basic spreadsheet concepts that a more seasoned
Excel user could fill in without resorting to supplementary material.
Regardless of your level of Excel expertise, use this book to get you on the road to practicing techniques that will regularly prove useful. Packed within it is valuable information that is otherwise hard to gather in one place. Just make sure you have additional sources of information. There are plenty of books, including Excel 2003 Bible by John Walkenbach, Wiley Publications. You’ll also find many “Take- Aways” and spreadsheet examples included in the book and on the CD-ROM. So,
even if you are not a seasoned Excel user, you can make good use of the material provided.
For those of you who are in the intermediate to advanced range, you should take what you already know and find ways to extend or improve it. To that end, I’ve taken a three-pronged approach by providing the following:
◆ Tidbits, facts, and techniques that are helpful in promoting best practices.
◆ Ways to approach things differently from what might be conventional
wisdom or common practices.
◆ New material that has not generally appeared in published form. Starting with Excel 2003, a whole host of new features have become available, resulting in potential new uses of spreadsheet technology. You will see some of these in action when you come across Part III of this book.

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