The IT Girl's Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva

Apply Excel daily and smooth out life's wrinkles

Who knew a spreadsheet could do as much for you as your favorite moisturizer? Become a Microsoft Excel Diva with this sassy guide and discover what hip IT Girls already know: smart is beautiful. Impress the heck out of everyone at work with your stylish reports. Do a budget and see exactly what you can spend on shoes. Get better organized. Who has time for dull technical manuals? Learn all of Microsoft Excel's secrets in this girl-talk guide.

Welcome to the party!

Relax, refresh, and reward yourself at the end of each chapter with fun, stress-reducing chats, like why soy Chai lattes are better than regular lattes. Don't miss these gems!
* Meet Microsoft(r) Excel(r) 2007, the Louis Vuitton of spreadsheets
* Join the conversation with these basic Excel terms
* Learn the fine art of Excel formulas and functions
* Dress up Excel data with SmartArt, WordArt, and other chic accessories
* Build a shopping spree budget from scratch
* Show off by adding Excel data into Word and PowerPoint(r)

User review
Look I'm Just a Guy, But This Is A Really Good Excel Guide
Forget the girlish stuff,,.this is a really good Excel book. It is well written in an easy to understand style. There's lots of information and screen prints so you know exactly where to click or type. Just shows that tech books do not have to be techie. I have very strong PC skills, but I am very busy. I like this book for the same reason non-techies will appreciate it - the book skips the jargon and just plain shows me how to get things done step-by-step. Very refreshing.

User review
Pure Genius
If you can imagine an instructional book about a technology product that you would actually enjoy as a read at the beach on a tropical island vacation . . .this is exactly what has been accomplished. Absolutely delightful, PLEASURABLE regardless of whether you think you need to learn Excel or not, I can't think of a single person that couldn't learn something productive from this book.

User review
A nice little gem of a book.
Being a professional software developer I've long been a fan of the `for Dummies` series of books. They have saved me many countless hours of trying to explain computer concepts to family, friends, girlfriends and other more distant relations. IT Girls Guide to Becoming an Excel Diva is everything the dummies series has and more. Not only does this book cover all of the necessary basics of using Excel 2007, but it combines them with some of the most intelligent and witty commentary I have yet to read in a software guide. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn to use spreadsheets in a hurry and doesn't want to die of boredom in the process.

User review
Great book!
I'm very happy with this book -- Ani takes a great approach to an app that is not as intuitive as the rest of the applications I tinker with. Her explanations are easy to understand and thorough and you certainly can use her guide to become an Excel Diva! The cover doesn't lie!

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Guy's viewpoint
As a guy, I am super impressed with Ani's translucent writing style. Not only did I learn a ton of Excel tips but also enjoyed the many tidbits, scenarios and the 'Relax, Refresh and Reward' tips Ani has intelligently woven into the content. It was a uniquely fun way of learning geeky content and hope to see more writing styles like Ani's. Kudos to her!!!!