Excel 2013 Bible

I have become a very accomplished Excel office guru due mostly in part to John Walkenbach's Excel Books. I started off With Excel 95 and moved on to Excel Formulas, Excel VBA, Excel Bible etc. As a matter of fact I have been able to use my Excel knowledge that I learned from Reading Walkenbach books to make around 5K in the last 10 years, and that's not even trying. When people see my Excel work they asked me where I went to school, and I tell them I didn't. Then they ask how did you learn this, and I tell them I read a book. They then look at me and ask "What book? I want to get that one." That's when I tell them about John's books.Looking at my library I have 10 Walkenbach books (Even a Chinese one). Though I no longer need the book I ordered it for my son's whom are just now learning Excel, and what better way to learn from the best. Looking over the book it's clearly written with many valuable examples. What I find is when you are learning it's not enough to just explain how to do something, but to show you a picture and an example give you 10x the learning experience. This book doesn't disappoint in this area for it has many examples.Earlier I said I had become the Office guru and didn't need this book, and bought it for my Son's. Well guess what? I learned something! Yes even a person who has been using Excel for years should find something in this book that they didn't know, or a better way to do something.The one thing that I miss in this book is there is no attached CD with example files. These files are invaluable in saving time when learning, but the examples are in the book, one would just need to type them in, and it's certainly not a deal breaker.So bottom line if you want to learn Excel this book is for you. If you want to learn it better, this book is for you. If you want to just brush up on areas of Excel you don't use much, this book is for you. If you would like a gift for a college student learning Excel, this book is for you.With the many areas of Excel training on the market you have to choose wisely which ones to spend your dollars on. When it comes to Excel books the choice is easy - John Walkenbach, no other name is needed. I couldn't recommend his books more highly.Ken

Excel 2013 Bible I got this for a VBA coding class a couple years ago and let me tell you that both this and the Excel 2013 Power Programming with VBA, link below, saved my grade that semester. It really helped me understand how to use VBA for various applications and went through step by step on how to code. I am not a coder and by the end of the semester I was writing hundreds of lines of code for not only the class but for my own personal use. Would absolutely recommend for any novice in excel VBA.Excel Power Programming Excel 2013 Power Programming with VBA I am part of the Amazon Associates Program

A great reference tool

Perhaps not recommended for rote beginners but I imagine any beginner would be put off by the 900+ pages of lessons. I'm grateful for having worked through the Learn Excel 2013 series first. Those books do start at ground level and cautiously proceed.When I got to p. 939, I think I felt like I had a tiny glimpse the kind of pride of achievement that some successful mountain climbers experience.However, that pride was nothing compared to what I felt when my brother praised my Excel skills for a summary page I added to a complicated spread sheet he had shared with me.

If you've never read an Excel book by John Walkenbach, then you don't know how to really use Excel. This is the second Excel Bible of his I've read, first was the 2007 version, and I've also read his 2013 Power Programming in VBA and his Formulas book. By the time you get to Chapter 3 in this book, you'll be better at Excel that 90% of the people around you. Excel is a powerful tool, and this book shows you how to get the most out of Excel. It's more than just a great application to make todo lists.

This book is excellent. It is written for a beginner or an advanced user in easy to understand language! I am an advanced user and bought this to sharpen my skills and it is well worth the purchase. I am skimming through the basics and learning some new techniques that will save me time at my job as well reading about more complicated features that will greatly reduce my workload. Everything that I want to know is included in the book. I have several Excel books from different authors and this is the book that I will keep handy for quick reference as well as reading in detail. I highly recommend this book!

When I bought this Excel "Bible", I expected to find all Excel features exhaustively discussed. In particular, I hoped to find something about the "Advanced Filter" which I had been having trouble using. However it's not even listed in the index and as far as I know never mentioned in the text. Apparently the author either doesn't think it's important or for some other reason. He omitted it, not only from this book but also his "Power Programming with VBA" as well. (I did find an excellent extensive discussion of the Advanced Filter feature in Jelen and Syrstad's "VBA and Macros"). I was also frustrated by Walkenbach's extensive list of VBA functions that only list function names and terse descriptions, but nothing about the arguments of these functions. Lacking further details, just the function names by themselves seems worthless. The material that the author does cover, he does go into in great detail in a very clear and authoritative manner. Maybe I just expected too much from a big book with "Bible" in the title

I purchased this volume because I acquired a new computer with a new operating system and had not used Excel extensively for a couple of years. The book is excellent for an update or for someone with challenging computations. In my opinion it well written and great as a refence. I highly recommend this work, especially if one runs into someone who has a lot of questions about Excel. Just refer to this book and save a lot of frustration.

En general, el libro es bastante útil. Pero saque mayor provecho de la sección que trata el análisis de datos.

As the name suggests, it is literally a bible for excel user. It makes you master from learner. Very informative having much explanations and practice sheets also. No matter how much you pay. Its the best book I have come across for excel.

Atendeu totalmente as minhas expectativas.Cobre os principais pontos de maneira objetiva.A organização do conteúdo, é, na minha opinião outro ponto a ser destacado.Marcus

Best reference for those of us who still use books to learn the ins and outs of a new software version.

Ce livre est arrivé dans les délais impartis en parfait état conformément à ce qui avait été annoncé par le vendeur. Je connaissais l'auteur pour avoir acheté une édition antérieure à laquelle était jointe un CD Rom qui a disparu dans la version actuelle, mais on peut semble-t-il télécharger les fichiers d'exemples sur le site de l'éditeur.