Why this book? Why even book about a computer program?
Short answer: because every other Excel book I've come across is either boring, or too basic, or both. And because saying you wrote a book seems more interesting than saying you made some YouTube videos or a class.
Here's my experience with other Excel books: the beginner ones are way too basic and slow; the specialist ones are too boring or too in-depth; and none seem to focus on what's essential to improving your day-to-day work. The best resources I've found for learning Excel are: (1) constant practice and (2) Google. My goal is more to open your eyes to what's possible, and show you best practices to make you as productive as possible in Excel. If you have any other unanswered questions, you can always Google them!
Excited? Good. Please buy my book.
Here's my experience with other Excel books: the beginner ones are way too basic and slow; the specialist ones are too boring or too in-depth; and none seem to focus on what's essential to improving your day-to-day work. The best resources I've found for learning Excel are: (1) constant practice and (2) Google. My goal is more to open your eyes to what's possible, and show you best practices to make you as productive as possible in Excel. If you have any other unanswered questions, you can always Google them!
Excited? Good. Please buy my book.
About me & Excel:
I started using Excel for basic math and organizing numbers in high school, and used it for data analysis and statistics in college. The real revelation came during my investment banking internship at Credit Suisse. It's the first time I saw real power users of Excel, building financial models and beautiful spreadsheets amazingly fast, without ever touching the mouse. I'm eager to teach you the essentials and spread the gospel of the keyboard. I've use Excel for various types of analysis and modeling at a hedge fund, running a startup company, and most recently as an executive at the best auto finance company in the world, Westlake Financial. Along the way I've seen cool spreadsheets, and some terrible ones. I've seen massive and complex models, animated charts, decision trees, pivot tables, vlookups, company reports, embedded SQL, Monte Carlo simulation, and macros that automate all of the above. |
What you will get out of this book:
If you stick with it, and apply what I show you, you will be a true master of Excel. You'll add Advanced Excel to your resume with confidence knowing anything that could come up in an interview or work situation, you've seen it before (and I'm not just talking Vlookups and Pivot Tables).
Bottom line, you will gain a sought after and impressive skill. You will be more productive at your current job, and more desirable for your next one.
If you stick with it, and apply what I show you, you will be a true master of Excel. You'll add Advanced Excel to your resume with confidence knowing anything that could come up in an interview or work situation, you've seen it before (and I'm not just talking Vlookups and Pivot Tables).
Bottom line, you will gain a sought after and impressive skill. You will be more productive at your current job, and more desirable for your next one.