Customer Reviews:
 mmm, Lovely Excel September 16, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love Excel and it's power for extracting data. It is easy to amaze my colleagues with my knowledge, but since reading this book and putting it into practice I have taken on a God-like status at work. The office is beginning to smell a bit of rotting fatted calves that have been made as offerings at the altar of me. What is more annoying though is that the place is cluttered up with wise men, gold, frankencense and some other stuff. God only knows what it is.
 pretty good and concise June 9, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Basically does what it says on the tin but I did not learn too much that was new to me. If you are a reasonably inquisitive user of Excel, you can work this stuff out for yourself, if not - then you are probably not going to use the book in any case.
I did enjoy the "About the Author" blurb at the beginning, a classic piece of American self-puffery - excellent!
 Excel-lent! April 19, 2005
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This slim volume is aimed at those of us who, in our working lives, use Excel to manipulate and interrogate data extracted from outside the Excel program - for example, from the company's mainframe. This is not a wide-ranging look at Excel and the book is intended for users that already have a reasonable working knowledge of the program.The topics covered are mainly from the options held within the 'data menu'. Sorting, filtering and sub-totalling techniques are dealt with in some depth; and there is also a comprehensive section on pivot tables. Functions that other books often only mention in passing such as INDIRECT, OFFSET, MATCH, INDEX, ISNA and VLOOKUP, are discussed at length with examples to illustrate their use. The book's appendix lists all Excel's functions. Written by Bill Jelen (Mr Excel), this is a very useful addition to the target audience's bookshelves. The topics are discussed without getting bogged down in technical jargon, and there are plenty of screen shots to illustrate each step of the way. Anyone who already owns a copy of 'Mr Excel On Excel' may wonder whether or not they should purchase 'Guerilla Data Analysis', but the topics covered in 'Guerilla' are done so in far more depth. Indeed, the techniques and tips in the book could save a lot of time in your working day.
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