Fast-paced and easy to use, this new book teaches you the basics of Excel 2007 so you can start using the program right away. This concise guide shows readers how to work with Excel's most useful features and its completely redesigned interface. With clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, lots of illustrations, and plenty of timesaving advice, Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual will quickly teach you to:

• Build spreadsheets

• Add and format information

• Print reports

• Create charts and graphics

• Use basic formulas and functions, and more.

The new Excel is radically different from previous versions. Over the years, Excel has grown in power, sophistication and capability, but its once-simple toolbar has been packed with so many features that not even the pros could find them all. For Excel 2007, Microsoft redesigned the user interface completely, adding a tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate.

The goal of this book is to provide programmers, power users, and system administrators who have a previous programming background with a project-oriented approach to learning the VBScript (Visual Basic Scripting) language. VBScript is a member of the Visual Basic family of programming languages that includes both Visual Basic and VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).

VBScript is a scripting language that acts as a tool for rapid application development in a host of different operating environments. VBScript provides the ability to automate tasks on Windows operating systems using the WSH (Windows Script Host). The WSH provides VBScripts with access to Windows resources, such as the Windows file system, the desktop, the registry, and network resources. In addition, when combined with HTML and executed within Internet Explorer, VBScript allows the user to create interactive client-side Web content.

You probably have your favorite blogs to visit each day, but there are countless other blogs that you could never find on your own and that could potentially be added to the top of your favorites! Blogosphere: Best of Blogs is a collection of the blogs you've heard about and the ones still waiting to be discovered. Organized into sections based on interests and moods, you'll find a listing of the best blogs out there, along with the reasons why they've made the list. Complete with searching tips and strategies, Blogosphere will help you find the greatest voices in the blogging universe.

This book is designed to help you explore the world of blogs with ease and speed. We've designed this book to help you find the blogs that interest you the most, not necessarily the blogs that are the best written, most influential, or most widely read. That doesn't matter because the strength of blogs is information delivery, not topicality, popularity, or even writing style.

Finally, my first Flash training title is ready for download! This is 9 hours of the hottest Flash training. in 59 lessons, learn the basics and then take-off with Video, creating interactive content, animation, sound, creating special effects like you see on entertainment sites, creating CD and DVD content, galleries, websites and much more! 

With this completely up-to-date tutorial and reference, you'll quickly learn how to develop Visual Basic (VB) programs that leverage the latest features of Vista and .NET 3.0. The tutorial section walks you through VB.NET from scratch, providing you with in-depth descriptions of the development environment, basic program syntax, and standard controls. You'll also explore the fundamental concepts in object-oriented programming with VB.

In the comprehensive reference section, you'll find out how to take advantage of specific VB features. Expert Rod Stephens shows you how to draw images, use GDI+ routines, and generate printed output. You'll also discover how to build an application that interacts with its environment, save and load data in external sources, and use standard dialog controls. This approach makes it easier than ever to learn this powerful language and create your own dynamic programs.

Software Engineering with Micro$oft Visual Studio Team System is written for any software team that is considering running a software project using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), or evaluating modern software development practices for its use.

It is about the value-up paradigm of software development, which forms the basis of VSTS: its guiding ideas, why they are presented in certain ways, and how they fit into the process of managing the software lifecycle. This book is the next best thing to having an onsite coach who can lead the team through a consistent set of processes.

Sam Guckenheimer has been the chief customer advocate for VSTS, responsible for its end-to-end external design. He has written this book as a framework for thinking about software projects in a way that can be directly tooled by VSTS. It presents essential theory and practical examples to describe a realistic process for IT projects.

Sams Teach Yourself Flash ActionScript in 24 Hours offers a clearly written, well organized introduction to programming Flash with ActionScript. The reader will be taught basic programming techniques while creating their own interactive Flash movies. Most Flash users are illustrators and animators who have embraced Flash as a way to create animations for the Web. They have little or no experience with programming, but know that ActionScript is a powerful skill and want to learn it.

Many experienced users may initially find Excel 2007 rather disorientating. But Excel 2007: Beyond the Manual will introduce those who are already familiar with Excel basics to more advanced features, like consolidation, what-if analysis, PivotTables, sorting and filtering, and some commonly used functions.

You'll learn how to maximize your efficiency at producing professional-looking spreadsheets and charts and become competent at analyzing data using a variety of tools. The book includes practical examples to illustrate advanced features. It also covers new features of Excel 2007 along with ways to access old features. You'll even gain timesaving tips and shortcuts.

Providing you with the ultimate guide to the C# language, this book will help you quickly write your own programs while also getting you up to speed on how the .NET architecture works. It not only covers the fundamentals of C# but presents numerous examples of applications that use a variety of related technologies, including database access, advanced graphics, and directory access.

You'll first find a comprehensive tutorial that takes you through C# 2005 and the .NET 3.0 Framework, enabling you to begin writing managed code. Next you'll explore the vast .NET class library and discover how to use C# to solve various tasks. You'll then see how to utilize Visual Studio® 2005 to create applications based on .NET. And you'll gain the skills needed to build Windows Forms, Windows Services, web pages, and more.