(Ebook) Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 by Bill Jelen ISBN 9780789736116, 078973611X

(Ebook) Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 by Bill Jelen ISBN 9780789736116, 078973611X

This book unfortunately leaves a lot to be desired in order to leave up to its proclaimed sub-title as "the only Excel book you'll ever need". For an Excel book, this one has a few key shortcomings: - no data to practice the examples with: any serious Excel book should make available to the reader the data that the examples in the book are based on - many readers would be interested in actually practicing the examples - way too many errors, even for a first edition - one of the most annoying type of errors are the ones that point to figures that don't exist or the wrong figures altogether - too many pages in a row filled with endless lists of functions or other attributes - instead of focusing on the most popular ones in the narrative and provide the whole list in an appendix This book has some positives as well, such as a comprehensive treatment of topics in general and perhaps the most comprehensive treatment of Excel functions I have come across. However, these positive aspects are far outweighed by the negative aspects I mentioned above.