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Microsoft® Excel® 2013 QuickSteps
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: John Cronan
Format: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 3 edition (2013, Mar 14th).
Pages: 288
Full-color, step-by-step guide to the new release of the world’s most popular spreadsheet application Get up and running with Excel 2013 right away--the QuickSteps way. Full-color screenshots on every page with clear instructions make it easy to use the latest release of Microsoft's powerful spreadsheet application. Follow along and quickly learn how to create workbooks, enter and edit data, use formulas and functions, create charts and tables, analyze data, extend Excel, and more. This practical, fast-paced guide gets you started in no time! Use these handy guideposts: Shortcuts for accomplishing common tasks Need-to-know facts in concise narrative Helpful reminders or alternate ways of doing things Bonus information related to the topic being covered Errors and pitfalls to avoid The unique, landscape-oriented layout of the QuickSteps series mimics your computer screen, displays graphics and explanations side by side, and lays flat so you can easily refer to the book while working on your computer. more
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Easy Office 2013
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Patrice-Anne Rutledge
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Que Publishing; 1 edition (2013, Mar 28th).
Pages: 360
This year, millions of beginner-to-intermediate-level users will be searching for the easiest possible way to master Office 2013's new features. If you're one of them, Easy Office 2013 will give you exactly what you're looking for. This full-color, utterly simple, step-by-step tutorial is carefully crafted to provide instant access to the 100+ tasks you'll find most useful and valuable. Like all Easy series books, it teaches visually: you're never forced to work through lengthy text explanations. Its large typeface makes it even more accessible to all readers - especially senior readers whose needs are disregarded by most computer books. Written by two of the world's most experienced authors of Microsoft Office books for beginners, Easy Office 2013 presents the easiest, fastest, most direct procedures for getting the results you're looking for. more
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The Reinventors: How Extraordinary Companies Pursue Radical Continuous Change
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Jason Jennings
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (2012, May 10th).
Pages: 256
How the world’s most successful companies stay relevant through constant transformationFor most businesses, success is fleeting. There are only two real choices: stick with the status quo until things inevitably decline, or continuously change to stay vital. But how? Bestselling leadership and management guru Jason Jennings and his researchers screened 22,000 companies around the world that had been cited as great examples of reinvention. They selected the best, verified their success, interviewed their leaders, and learned how they pursue never-ending radical change. The fresh insights they discovered became Jennings’s “reinvention rules” for any business. The featured companies include: • Starbucks—which turned itself around by making tons of small bets on new ideas. more
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The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation
Author/Actors/Director/etc.: Adam Rome
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Hill and Wang; First Edition edition (2013, Apr 16th).
Pages: 368
The first Earth Day is the most famous little-known event in modern American history. Because we still pay ritual homage to the planet every April 22, everyone knows something about Earth Day. Some people may also know that Earth Day 1970 made the environmental movement a major force in American political life. But no one has told the whole story before. The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring: it had a power, a freshness, and a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 created an entire green generation. Thousands of Earth Day organizers and participants decided to devote their lives to the environmental cause. Earth Day 1970 helped to build a lasting eco-infrastructure—lobbying organizations, environmental beats at newspapers, environmental-studies programs, ecology sections in bookstores, community ecology centers. more
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