Learn Excel 2013 Essential Skills with The Smart Method: Courseware tutorial for self-instruction to beginner and intermediate level - Couverture souple

Smart, Mike

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ISBN 10 : 1909253065 ISBN 13 : 9781909253063

Editeur : The Smart Method Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Learn Excel 2013 Essential Skills with The Smart Method This Excel 2013 book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel 2013. Here are just four of the many ways in which this book is unique: The book will equip you with excellent Excel 2013 skills, good enough to impress any employer, but it doesn't confuse by attempting to teach skills that are not common in the workplace. Only users who have advanced requirements need progress to the Expert Skills book. Instruction is logically structured into sessions and lessons. While this makes the book ideal for self-instruction, you can also use it to run your own, highly ...

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Is this the right Excel 2013 book for you?

This Excel 2013 book was written for one purpose: to provide a 100% effective way to teach Excel 2013 skills to new learners with little or no past exposure to Excel. Excel 2013 is a huge application with thousands of features. It could take months, or even years of study to master every one of them. But there's some really good news!

The big secret is that office workers who use Excel 2013 every day for a living only use a small part of Excel's huge feature set. The great news is that, in general, they tend to all use the same set of features. This book makes it easy for absolutely anybody to very rapidly learn Excel 2013 to a standard that will greatly impress most employers - because it will focus your time and energy upon learning the right features.

Mike Smart has personally taught classroom courses, all over the world, for many of the world's largest companies. Mike has run courses for bankers, engineers, accountants, teachers, broadcasters, retailers, insurance brokers, telecom workers, offshore oil workers, power companies... and for many other professions. (Click on the back book cover above to see some of the companies Mike has helped). He has a unique insight into exactly which Excel features you need to know to describe yourself as a competent Excel user. This book will teach you all of those skills.

In this Essential Skills book you'll learn to create beautiful and functional Excel workbooks that will really make you stand out above your co-workers. Click on the front book cover above to see an example of an impressive worksheet that would be beyond the ability of most Excel users. After completing this course you'll be able to create worksheets that are just as professional in a matter of moments. Use Amazon's Look Inside feature to examine the book's table of contents. You'll have all of the Excel skills listed there when you have finished this book.

Absolutely anybody can master Excel using this book

By focusing only on the skills that are commonly used in the workplace it becomes possible to teach these carefully selected, most important features in depth, and in a simple way that absolutely anybody can understand.

And you'll learn all of those skills in less than 400 pages without overwhelming you with hundreds of pages of information about Excel's less used features.

Mike's Excel 2013 Expert Skills book comprehensively teaches the rarer Excel skills that less than 10% of Excel users typically master (and many office workers will not have a need for). See the Excel 2013 Expert Skills book description here on Amazon for more information about this follow-on book.

Not just a book but a professional course

It isn't possible to write a course in the same way you would write a novel. Pages cannot all flow in an endless jumble of information (though they do in many other Excel books). To teach (and to learn) effectively every teacher knows that it is necessary to carefully plan a series of lessons. Each lesson must teach a single carefully defined objective.

This book was designed from the outset as a learning resource and is the same book that Mike uses to teach his classroom courses. It is also the text book of choice for schools, colleges, universities, corporations and government departments to teach their students and employees excellent Excel skills.

The unique layout of this book makes it perfect for both self-instruction and teaching. The book presents each self-contained lesson on two facing pages. Try Amazon's Look Inside feature above to look at a typical lesson. You'll quickly appreciate the immense value of this approach.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This Excel 2013 book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel 2013. Here are just four of the many ways in which this book is unique:

• The book will equip you with excellent Excel 2013 skills, good enough to impress any employer, but it doesn’t confuse by attempting to teach skills that are not common in the workplace. Only users who have advanced requirements need progress to the Expert Skills book.
• Instruction is logically structured into sessions and lessons. While this makes the book ideal for self-instruction, you can also use it to run your own, highly effective, adult training courses.
• Every lesson is presented on two facing sheets of A4 paper (the pages are much bigger than in any other Excel book).
• Each lesson has a sample file that models a real-world business problem.

You’ll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Both IT professionals and absolute beginners will love this book because it avoids needless technical jargon and concisely explains everything you need in a simple and no-nonsense way.

From the Back Cover

Amongst other things you'll learn how to:

• Use the new Excel 2013 Flash Fill feature to split, concatenate and format text and date values
• Use the new Excel 2013 Apps to add new functionality to worksheets
• Use the new Excel 2013 Cloud Computing features to share data
• Create stunning, professional, presentation-quality charts
• Use the Themes feature to create visually excellent worksheets
• Use the Versions feature to recover lost data
• Use AutoFill to create textual and numeric series
• Hide and show rows, columns and entire worksheets
• Create your own formulas
• Use Excel functions the professional way using Formula AutoComplete
• Understand absolute, relative and mixed cell references
• Create cross-worksheet formulas
• Add trend lines and moving averages to charts to forecast future values
• Use Sparklines to visually represent large data sets
• Bring your data alive with Visualizations
• Create custom conditional formatting rules with the Rules Manager
• Streamline your work by creating your own custom templates
• Create both textual and graphical cell comments

Companies who have taken Smart Method courses include:

AOL Time Warner, The United States Army, Daimler Chrysler, Motorola, HSBC, Barclays, American Express, Allied Irish Banks, Imperial Tobacco, Volvo, The BBC, British Petroleum, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Unilever, The Institute of Chartered Accountants, The Ministry of Defence, Keele University, Deutsche Bank, HBOS, Transport For London, The Performing Rights Society, Scottish Power, The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, BAE Systems, RBS, Marks & Spencer, Virgin, O2, BMW... and many, many others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Smart Method Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1909253065
• ISBN 13: 9781909253063
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 362