The book is highly consistent in terms of how the Excel terminology is used. For example, a small icon is used throughout the book to indicate special steps for Mac users. Microsoft Excel 2019 Lessons The Excel screenshots are presented in a consistent manner which makes it easier to complete the labs. This textbook describes how to use Excel in a very readable style.
Probably, chapter practices or assessments can be updated after few years or some alternative ones included. The text is easy to read, clear and concise, and uses screen captures to illustrate the skills being introduced. The combination of text and illustration allow for easy searching for specific commands or functions. The only reason to give this book a 4 rating in relevance has nothing to do with the content but more with the changes that occur as programs are updated.
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The textbook cab be easily broken down into smaller topics that can be incorporated into an introductory Excel course or a Statistics Course. It is clearly labeled with the text flowing easily. The Instructor can reorganize the units to fit into their course and subject. The book covers the different topics accurately and concisely.
It can be made culturally more inclusive by tuning the examples. Version adaptability is always expected from readers. Some feedback comments in the clarity section might also help with increasing Modularity. I will employ some of the content in my course content but because some BI are missing I will have to combine this material with another. In the pdf version, font sizes of some figures are too small and the figure styles are not very consistent. But few figures missed the captions and some figures used very small font sizes thus difficult to verify the information.
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Some of my comments are probably pretty nit-picky, but I tried to do this as a student without much Excel experience. I’ve been the frustrated student trying to self-study before, so I empathize! I plan to incorporate this content into my classes. This text will likely need to be continually updated as new versions of Excel are released. However, it appears the authors are doing a great job of continually updating.
- All of this information is structured such that a new user could conceivably be making conditionally-formatted charts with ease and confidence by the time they are done with the book.
- I have used MS Excel and taught MS Excel for over 20 years.
- There is no culturally insensitive or offensive material in this book.
- It starts with an introductory overview chapter, then covers formulas, functions, charts, and tables in subsequent chapters.
- The video and data file links did not work in the current copy of the book in This would need to be fixed in order for the book to be useable in our classes.