The Underground Guide
to Excel 5.0 for Windows

"This book can help you get the most out of your spreadsheet - and quickly. There is also a lively discussion of OLE 2.0 and its quirks, a topic I haven't seen explored in any other book."

-- David Methvin, Windows Magazine

"Written for intermediate to advanced users. The Underground Guide to Excel to Excel 5.0 for Windows will help them more efficiently utilize the world's most popular spreadsheet and avoid some headaches in the process."

--Nick Willett, Online Today Magazine

This book was co-authored by Lee Hudspeth and T. J. Lee. This is a "behind-the-scenes" tour of Excel that helps you get real productivity out of your favorite spreadsheet. In their irreverent, off-the-wall style, the authors separate spreadsheet gold from marketing hype and show you how to take advantage of Excel features you won't find covered anywhere else in the known universe (not even in the manual).

Learn how to customize Excel to turn it into a lean mean number-crunching machine.

Recognize and avoid the most common species of Excel bugs and use Excel's amazing on-screen auditing functions to avoid introducing bugs of your own.

Turn your raw data into Excel lists that can be sorted, collated, sliced, analyzed, and charted for all the world to see -- and also let you get that report to the boss by noon...yesterday!

Use OLE 2.0 and Visual Basic for Applications to talk with and control your other Windows applications.

By virtue of all of the above, get more work done more quickly.

Every page has something you can use immediately. This book is packed wall to wall with advice, warnings, tips, bug reports, workarounds, and the kind of nitty-gritty explanations that could only come from people who eat, sleep, and breathe Excel.

Lee Hudspeth and Timothy-James Lee are principals of PRIME Consulting Group, Inc., and the authors of The Underground Guide to to Microsoft Office, OLE, and VBA.

Series Editor Woody Leonhard and Addison-Wesley are proud to bring you the Underground Guides--fun books for serious computer users.