This Book s Special Features

This Book's Special Features

Tricks of the Microsoft Office Gurus is designed to give you the information you need without making you wade through ponderous explanations and interminable technical background. To make your life easier, this book includes various features and conventions that help you get the most out of the book and Excel itself.

• Steps Throughout the book, each Office task is summarized in step-by-step procedures.

• Things you type Whenever I suggest that you type something, what you type appears in a bold font.

• Commands I use the following style for Excel menu commands: File, Open. This means that you pull down the File menu and select the Open command.

• Code-continuation characters () When a line of code is too long to fit on a single line of this book, it's broken at a convenient place, and the code-continuation character appears at the beginning of the next line.

This book also uses the following boxes to draw your attention to important (or merely interesting) information.

Headings Let You See What a Sidebar Is About at a Glance

The Note box presents asides that give you more information about the topic under discussion. These tidbits provide extra insights that give you a better understanding of the task at hand.

These cross-reference elements point you to related material elsewhere in the book.