Millions of users create and share Excel spreadsheets every day, but few go deeply enough to learn the techniques that will make their work much easier. There are many ways to take advantage of Excel's advanced capabilities without spending hours on advanced study. Excel Hacks provides more than 130 hacks -- clever tools, tips and techniques -- that will leapfrog your work beyond the ordinary. Now expanded to include Excel 2007, this resourceful, roll-up-your-sleeves guide gives you little known "backdoor" tricks for several Excel versions using different platforms and external applications. Think of this book as a toolbox. When a need arises or a problem occurs, you can simply use the right tool for the job. Hacks are grouped into chapters so you can find what you need quickly, including ways to:

• Reduce workbook and worksheet frustration -- manage how users interact with worksheets, find and highlight information, and deal with debris and corruption.

• Analyze and manage data -- extend and automate these features, moving beyond the limited tasks they were designed to perform.

• Hack names -- learn not only how to name cells and ranges, but also how to create names that adapt to the data in your spreadsheet.

• Get the most out of PivotTables -- avoid the problems that make them frustrating and learn how to extend them.

• Create customized charts -- tweak and combine Excel's built-in charting capabilities.

• Hack formulas and functions -- subjects range from moving formulas around to dealing with datatype issues to improving recalculation time.

• Make the most of macros -- including ways to manage them and use them to extend other features.

• Use the enhanced capabilities of Microsoft Office 2007 to combine Excel with Word, Access, and Outlook.

You can either browse through the book or read it from cover to cover, studying the procedures and scripts to learn more about Excel. However you use it, Excel Hacks will help you increase productivity and give you hours of "hacking" enjoyment along the way.

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Superior - 2008-04-27
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Excel Hacks is extremely useful for anyone who works with MS Excel frequently. From the moment you open the book, or just page through it, you can pick up on so many useful tips that may not be apparent even in formal classes or after years of use. Having had both formal classes and spent years creating spreadsheets used in production environments, Excel Hacks has helped me improve my spreadsheet knowledge.

Required reading for anyone using Excel 2007... - 2008-03-06
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I've been preparing financial and statistical models in Excel for about 13 years, and I found the Hawley's book to be well written and organized. Unlike 2004's Excel Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools, this book covers how you can use Excel 2007 more effectively.

Disclaimer: I'm not a fan of Excel 2007 and its new layout and shortcuts, but this book is more useful than anything I've come across.

Great resource, easy to use - 2009-04-11
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Just days after receiving this book, a manager came into my office with a sticky Excel challenge. I thought I knew how to solve it but had forgotten. Using this book, in less than a minute we had the solution. Paid for the book plus on first use!

this is my second copy of Excel Hacks 1st didn't include 2007 - 2008-12-29
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I bought Excel Hacks a couple of years ago. Loved it so much that when I saw that this one also included Excel 2007 I had to have it. This book shows you how to do things that you didn't know Excel could do. I have looked through these books about 6 times and every time I find something else I can use. I have even changed the code in some of them to meet my need. This book will also work for beginners as long as you type the code in exactly the way it is in the book.

Excellent for excel tips - 2008-07-02
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I have the version which did not have the new added tips, so do not ask me how the newer edition is.
But the "old" edition is very, very good. It gave me many, many tips for solving problems I had with excel. And it helped me become the excel expert at my previous employer.

Do not use this book as a study guide, because it is not that. It contains hacks for several different types of problems.

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