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Title: excel for dummies
Post by: Claw75 on December 02, 2013, 10:40:34 AM
Hoping some of the clever people here can point me in the direction of a good resource for teaching myself (quickly!) how to use excel effectively for producing statistical reports (and creating survey forms etc that look like attractive documents rather than bog-standard spreadsheets). My current level of proficiency pretty much starts and ends with being able to stick in numbers and perform very basic operations. 

Any user-friendly online resources about, or would I be better off just shelling out for a good book that I can refer to as I go along?


Title: Re: excel for dummies
Post by: Nakor on December 02, 2013, 10:45:26 AM
What version of Excel are you using?


Title: Re: excel for dummies
Post by: Claw75 on December 02, 2013, 10:50:35 AM
What version of Excel are you using?


2007 :)


Title: Re: excel for dummies
Post by: Jon MW on December 02, 2013, 10:52:53 AM
the Dummies Guide books are always good - I tended to teach myself the bits of Microsoft Office as and when I needed them, but I think they're a good resource for trying to get a grip of the whole thing from a bit closer to scratch :)


Title: Re: excel for dummies
Post by: Nakor on December 02, 2013, 10:54:48 AM
Some good simple tuturiols here

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/excel2007



Title: Re: excel for dummies
Post by: Claw75 on December 02, 2013, 01:51:07 PM
Great stuff - thanks both


Title: Re: excel for dummies
Post by: doubleup on December 02, 2013, 02:06:42 PM


There is some decent stuff on reports here

http://www.exceluser.com/index.htm



Title: Re: excel for dummies
Post by: kinboshi on December 02, 2013, 03:51:01 PM
As an aside, you can use Google docs to create some very cool survey forms, and the data from the survey drops straight into a spreadsheet.  Have a google for some examples that you can then copy and tailor to your needs.