There is a list of Excel books on my Contextures website, and it hasn’t been updated recently. Today, I checked Amazon, to see what new and exciting Excel books had been released, so I could start adding them to the list.
New Excel Book
There’s a book – Excel 2010 Made Simple, by Abbott Katz — with a release date of May 31, 2011, from Apress, the publisher of my pivot table books.
Amazon lists the book as “not yet released”, but they show the cover, which you can see below.
Excel Charts Chapter
One of the chapters is on Excel charts, and the book blurb promises that you’ll learn “How to create colorful, meaningful charts”.
I hope the cover chart was selected by someone in the Apress marketing department, and not the author!
Missing Books
I’ll be updating the list of Excel books over the next few weeks, so if you know of any recent books that are missing from the list, please let me know, so I can include them. Thanks!
Make a Simple Pie Chart
And if you do need to make a pie chart in Excel, for a business report, or for the cover of your next book, keep it simple!
This video shows how to make a basic pie chart in Excel, then add formatting, labels, and other features. Use your Excel charting powers for good, not evil!
Excel Chart Links
If you want to learn more about Excel chart, but not the 3-D rainbow-coloured kind, check out the tutorials at the following links:
Box Plot Chart (Box and Whisker)
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@Jeff, that’s anyone after a day of working with stepped pie charts!
@AdamV, glad it worked out for you, despite the “help” from that printer!
Debra I have not seen so many comments on a subject in a long time that is in reference not to Excel, but to a book on Excel and even then on the cover no less. This author must right now be OMG!
Note it reads – Excel 2010 Made Simple is for newcomers to Excel.
Then again it was noted that the author – “has a doctorate in sociology and wide-ranging writing experience as well. Abbott has composed, and continue to compose, numerous complex spreadsheets, twinning technical fluency with the imagination to realize Excel’s potential in a diverse array of settings.”
I think the last couple of words set the stage – “the imagination to realize Excel’s potential in a diverse array of settings.”
Do we have a word from the author on the subject matter – hello out there you can come out now.