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Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Creating and Formatting Charts With Lots of Tips and Tricks


H. Albert Napier, Ph.D. and Ollie N. Rivers


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These Excel 2010 lessons are available in PDF format and can be downloaded free. They apply to Microsoft Office 2010 for Windows.

Description

Microsoft® Excel® 2010: Creating and Formatting Charts With Lots of Tips and Tricks is a three-lesson basic level course that guides you through creating and formatting charts in Excel 2010 using step-by-step hands-on activities.

 

The Office Fluent user interface, first introduced with Office 2007, is very different from the Office 2003 (and earlier versions) user interface. Additionally, Office 2010 applications replace the Office 2007 Office Button and menu with the new Office 2010 File tab. Therefore, you must use Excel 2010 to complete this course.

Objectives

  1. create, preview, and print commonly used charts
  2. apply chart quick layouts and quick styles
  3. insert, select, and format individual chart elements


Lessons

  1. Creating and Printing Charts
  2. Relocating and Formatting Charts
  3. Creating and Formatting Other Common Charts

Author Biographies

H. Albert Napier, Ph.D.
Dr. Napier is a successful professor, author and entrepreneur. Currently, he serves as Professor of Management in the Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University, where he teaches graduate level courses on entrepreneurship, information technology and e-business.

He is a co-author of more than 60 books on Microsoft Office application software.  His books have been used as the textbooks for courses in hundreds of universities, colleges, and corporations. Dr. Napier is also co-author of additional computer software training courses that are provided on the Internet.

Dr. Napier is also co-author of Creating a Winning E-Business, E-Business Technologies, Business Planning: 25 Keys to a Successful Business Plan, and Preparing an Entrepreneurial Business Plan. He is currently completing another book on the entrepreneurial process.

He is an owner of the successful e-business town Favorites that provides on-line grocery shopping for candies, condiments and everyday food items that are hard to find where you live. The company is located at www.hometownfavorites.com.

In addition to his duties at Rice, Dr. Napier was a principal for 20 years of Napier & Judd, Inc. The company provided consulting services in IT strategy, planning, and systems development to more than 200 organizations and trained more than 150,000 participants on personal computer software applications. Some of the industries served by Napier & Judd, Inc. included energy, health, education, finance, banking, distribution, and accounting.

He is the author of more than 25 articles related to information technology, human-computer interface, and applications of computer based decision processes in business.

Dr. Napier holds a B.A. degree in Mathematics and Economics, an M.B.A. degree, and a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration, all from the University of Texas at Austin.


Ollie N. Rivers
Ollie N. Rivers has more than 20 years' business experience in financial and administrative management and more than 10 years’ experience as a corporate trainer. She is a co-author of two e-business textbooks and a Web design textbook, and is a contributing author on more than 15 software package and Internet textbooks. Ms. Rivers has also developed and delivered numerous classroom and online continuing education seminars for CPAs. Ms. Rivers holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. in Accounting and Management from Houston Baptist University.



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