Excel for Dummies is a book in the "Dummies" series. The "Dummies" series are yellow and black books that explain difficult topics in a manner that the average person can easily understand. "Excel for Dummies" specifically covers how to use the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Excel is a program contained in the Microsoft Office software package. Microsoft Office may be
. purchased for either a PC (for instance, Dell, HP, Sony, etcetera) or for a Mac/Apple computer. "Excel for Dummies" teaches users of Microsoft Excel how to enter data into spreadsheets. Once data is entered into the spreadsheet, the user can create graphs, charts, and tables. A sophisticated user can change the colors on the graphs and charts to make them multicolored, shadowed, etcetera. "Excel for Dummies" also teaches users how to create formulas to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and so on the data that is entered into the Excel spreadsheet.
