Formulas needed

excel help pages used to be decent.

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Miller products are to be boycotted, as Miller supports the illegal alien protest. Sorry. I drink Sam Adams

keep an eye on alt.binaries.ebooks.technical and Excel for Dummies will float by in a few days. Or you can request it.

The built-in help may be what you want and if there is a link to the Microsoft web site, follow it and you may see a tutorial.

Steve,

Try this google search. It seemed like it turned up some possibly useful hits.

Wes S

Had me scared for a minute, thought you were talking about Miller welders.

Doesn't your town have a library?

GWE

Steve B wrote:

No.

As others have said, Excel help is pretty good. Press the "fx" button right above the worksheet and a list with descriptions will come up. It's a bit of a wizard for all the formulas.

Once you understand how Excel "thinks" it's usually pretty obvious. I'd recommend spending some time going through the list of Excel formulas.

You can also just post specific questions here. While not metalworking specifically, Excel is certainly an excellent tool for the precision machinist and I'm sure your questions would benefit many here.

Regards,

Robin

If I would be you, I would start with Usenet for dummies!

With your argument, anything would be ontopic here. You already got the charter for this group. So go read it. Thanks.

Nick

I typed "excel formula" (without the quotes) into google and got

7,800,000 hits. Obviously, you have to sort through the hits that are selling something, but at least 2 or 3 on the first page seemed helpful, if you can't make use of Excel help. Here was a hit that seemed quite useful: Pete Stanaitis

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Steve B wrote:

I bought an earler version at a thrift shop for $3 - it came with 3.5 inch dusks. Not that much variation to the newer versions - and it came with HEAPS of printed reference books, including one of formulas.......(Mr Paperclip hadnt been invented then, they still gave you printed manuals for your hundreds of dollars...)

Andrew VK3BFA.

As usual google is your best friend. I tried "excel tutorials" and got a bunch of hits. You could try the "Video Professor" who is on TV

24/7 but this one looked interesting.

and some more...

You should be able to find something that meets your skill level (current or desired).

If you have an unusual problem there is an excel newsgroup and the participants are very helpful.

A Google search for just about any program with "tutorial" usually brings up some useful stuff.

Or what?

With net Nazi, you cerainly mean someone who:

- ignores every rule (charter of this group)

- thinks that he is superior (thanks god, just a few OT-posters)

- doesn't respect others (calling names)

- is convinced he is the boss (trying to chase out others)

You are _ABSOLUTELY_ right! Thanks for supporting me.

Nick

Steve - I have an old EXCEL user manual - ver 5 that I kept just for stuff like this... :-) The help inside Excel is not bad for most stuff - but power stuff is the book!

The chapter is over 50 pages so it isn't easy to scan or such.

If you have a 'Dummies' question - ask away - I'll look it up or we here can figure it out!

Martin

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Steve B wrote:

Thanks, Martin. Mostly, I just want a document that has the basics of the formulas. I am pretty good in math, having taken many courses in high school and college. Yet, the language of Excel is entirely different than mathematical formulas. During the time I worked with Excel, (a short time), I caught on quickly, but didn't retain much.

I think what I really need to do is find a person locally who can teach me and my wife one on one. We are doing Home Owner Association studies and audits, and spreadsheets are a core part of the study and five year financial projections.

Sheesh, it's like the older I get, my hard drive is getting full, and to put something new in there, I have to delete something else.

Steve

I rest my case. Into the round file with you.

Steve