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Good but over-rated
Good but it could be much better. The selection of books on this topic is poor to begin with. But this happens to be one of the best in that underserved category.
A Refreshing Approach to Presentations
I ran across this book while researching a college workshop on perfecting presentation, dealing with public speaking and effective use of PowerPoint. As one who has suffered through numerous electronic slides that did little or nothing to augment the speaker's efforts, I was delighted to see this fresh and innovative approach. I believe this process works best, however, when one's speech is primarily persuasive in nature. Although these ideas helped me set up a strong introduction and conclusion, in a recent lecture I resorted to bullet points for the material I felt the students had to master. Perhaps as I get more used to Atkinson's technique, I'll better about using it in lecture. However, the business applications seem quite worthwhile. My students' workshop presentations that used his techniques were highly engaging. I highly recommend this book and the supporting web site.

Powerpoint Presentations that POP
If you do any kind of powerpoint presentations, this book is a must read.It provides insight into why you don't want to have your audience reading while you are presenting.It also provides you options and resources to make your presentations better, more informative and credible. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business Software - MSOffice    2. Business Software - Powerpoint    3. Business presentations    4. Computer Books: General    5. Computer Graphics    6. Computer Graphics - General    7. Computer programs    8. Computers    9. Computers - Accounting Packages    10. Graphic methods    11. Microcomputer Communication Software    12. Multimedia systems in business presentations    13. Presentation Software    14. Computers / General   

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Yawning Hell
Is this the world's most boring book ?Technically competent but painfully dry. A gift too insomniacs. Good luck on getting past page 1 !

Only Buy if Required for a Class
Very boring reading.Chapters tend to repeat themselves.The class I had for this book was one of the most boring classes I ever had.Instructor lectured from power point slides.I could have taken this class homestudy and done just fine, than to sit in class.

Caution: Will Cause Drowsiness.
This book is simply horrible. It takes the stereotypical accountant and shoves him into the pages. It is so lethargic and monotonous that all the valuable information within the book just stops making sense. This book should be read by anyone who has doubts about becoming an accountant. They'll drop everything and go into premed. Horrible! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting    2. Accounting (General)    3. Accounting - General    4. Business & Economics    5. Business/Economics    6. Computers - Spreadsheets    7. Data Processing - General    8. Data processing    9. Electronic Data Processing    10. Information Storage & Retrieval    11. Information storage and retrie    12. Information storage and retrieval systems    13. Spreadsheets - General    14. Accounting software    15. Business & Economics / Accounting / General   

Reviews (5)

NO DISK FOR CLASS
THIS TEXT BOOK DOES NOT COME WITH THE REQUIRED DISK FOR COMPLETING PROJECTS REQUIRED FOR THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM.

Confusing, and at times inaccurate
I used this book for an online class, books and test are bundled together and each time I took the test I had to challenge at lest one question, because it was simply wrong or inaccurate. Test quiz/test questions are non constructive for the most part.Many examples use non-standard fonts that hard to find, making assignments unnecessarily difficult to complete, in some excercises after following all instuctions the correct result would not match the examples given again creating diffulty not needed. This books suited for online classes because it often gives instructions which are completely irrelevant in such environment. The books gives a good amount of tips and tricks about MS Office, books needs revising and grouping of lessons.

Excellent Reference
This reference book is a must have for anyone learning or needing the support for Windows 2003. ... Read more

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Excellent !!
In order to complete any jigsaw puzzle, you normally need to refer to the picture on the box.
Excellent hands on service development model solutions for SOA!
Excellent hands on service development model solutions for SOA!
Explaining the Basic Concepts
A surprising amount of the spending for information technology in virtually all organizations is spent on supporting, updating, integrating, or otherwise maintaining legacy systems. SOA is an attempt to define a generalized group of services oriented 'objects' (for lack of a better term) that have a well defined interface and output that is oriented to provide a business orjective.
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Great for reference, great for learning BizTalk
This is a piece of the review I wrote on my blog (putting the URL would be against the policies here so I'm leaving it out).
Excellent Book!!!!
This is an excellent book for Biztalk, Only suggestion is read the Biztalk 2006 white paper from the Microsoft website before you read this book. The authors have presented the content in a very easy to understand manner, without beating around the bush.........

BizTalk 2006 Recipes....Thank you!
Hats off to an excellent Biztalk Server 2006 reference! After many books that seem to rehash documentation, this book offers a fresher approach of giving BizTalk developers and admins a way to complete certain needed tasks without having to pour through mind-numbing chapters and still not find a solution to a needed problem.
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crystal ix review
Great book, am learning on my own crystal reports and this book has met my needs and expectations.

Standard Revision of Solid Reference
The text is one of the first available for Crystal Reports XI, and is largely a revision of the same material which has been presented in previous editions (which covered earlier versions of Crystal Reports). As you would expect, it does a solid job of covering all the basics. It even goes into some intermediate details in a few sections.
Exhaustive and Detailed
Good Book. Covers 99% of all the topics. Found it very useful. I'm a power user now. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Business Software - General    2. Business Software - MSOffice    3. Computer Books: General    4. Computers    5. Computers - Accounting Packages    6. Computers / Business Software / General    7. Microsoft Office   

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basic review of computer applications
This is a great book, very user friendly for the novice computer user.

Excellent Book. Highly Recommended!
I just finished using this book in a self-paced, college course. It's an excellent one.I never had any trouble following the step-by-step instuctions and I rarely had to ask my instructor for any help. The only drawback is if you want to go back and do any of the exercises over again months later as a review, you can't, because you need the data files from the course. I guess I could have saved all of them but that would have taken about 30 floppy disks which is the only option I had. The Access database alone is huge. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Operating Systems - Windows    2. Computers - Accounting Packages    3. Business Software - General    4. Computers / Business Software / General    5. Computer Books: Operating Systems    6. Computers   

Reviews (41)

Develop Advanced Financial Modeling Skills
As a university teacher of strategic corporate finance and optimal investment, I have watched the financial industry analytics transcend hand calculation with financial calculators to financial modeling with spreadsheet software. Depending on whether the financial specialty is in corporate or banking/brokerage, the job skills requirement can range from corporate cost control to optimal portfolio design. Thus, modeling skills services both company research and financial planning.
amazing!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing, these kind of tools are basic for anyone interested in a financial career. Its an excellent book, an it is easy to read and very dynamic and useful
A useful handbook for financial modeling
This is a quite useful handbook for its easy understanding excel sheets and graphs demonstration.The CD-Rom attached is very helpful for practicing financial modeling problems. ... Read more

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Reviews (3)

Non-Working Disk
The disk that came with the book is a data disk only, and does not contain the program that created the data.That is why the data disk is not a workable disk, unless you have The Medical Manager installed on your computer!The book is too geared to be used with the Medical Manager Software Program, and is difficult to read it as a stand alone book.
Medical Manager review
I am an instructor for the Medical Manager class and have been for over 5 years.I have used almost every version possible with the Medical Manager.This is a fairly good book for students to learn from.As long as the person reads the instructions and then looks at the exercises, they should have NO problems.However, if the person just looks at the exercise and does not read the material, they may have difficulty.Some of the exercise/pictures are different then the actual reading part but not too many.Overall this book makes it fairly simple to learn this program.

not very good
Confusing to follow instructions for data entry.
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Good for End User Initial Exposure to CRM
I think this book does a great job of introducing someone to CRM. It lets gives them a basic roadmap of how to get around and also what is possible and drives home the point that they need to work with a qualified professional to get the most bang for thier buck.

Excellent book gets you going quickly with Microsoft CRM 3.0
This book lives up to its promise and more.An easy to read book, but detailed enough to get you up and running with every facet of using Microsoft CRM.Whether you are new to Microsoft CRM or just want a reference that goes beyond the help files included with CRM, this is the book for you.With 29 chapters, things are organized neatly which makes certain subject areas easy to find.
A Note From One of the Authors...
Hi, I'm David Lee and one of the authors of Microsoft CRM for Dummies.This is my second foray into Dummies books (I was technical editor of GoldMine for Dummies).I also developed many of the online Microsoft CRM training modules under contract with Microsoft corporation.
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Useful Book for the new user, no technical stuff
If you are a new SAP user, you should definetely read this book. It highlights the SAP basics, but if you are looking for more advanced and technical explanations you should search for other books.

Great collection of everything SAP, if your patient
If your willing to wade through the different focus, you will find this a very useful book. It is by no means complete but nonetheless highlights how SAP has evolbved from R/3 to mySAP ERP and Business Suite, and ties in and explains Netweaver and where ECC fits in. The authors jump around between user, business and technical topics and theres less screen images than the first edition. Overall it's a great buy though. ... Read more

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Absolutely Great!
Advanced Modeling is a fantastic book, and pretty easy to follow with relatively few coding errors.There are some books out there that have errors in the code that they use, which makes it difficult or someone to learn the techniques.Even for those without a solid background in VBA, this book can benefit you to start learning how to code properly.Anyone who is relatively proficient with Excel can definitely gain a new trick or two from reading this book.All you really need to start using this book is a basic understanding of finance concepts (e.g. portolio theory, capital budgeting, binomial options pricing, Black-Scholes, etc.).The techniques that are taught are also useful in other modeling exercises, and not necessarily just for finance-related topics.

A Cookbook for Financial Modellers
Yes, the book won't teach you CAPM, Black-Scholes, or much financial theory.But there is NO shortage of those books.There is a shortage of books with real-world Excel solutions to applying financial theory to data.I've had this book for a couple of years and have probably only used 10% of it, only because I don't have time, real business need, to do the rest.I sometimes take it to bed to read and dream of having the time to try out some of their other models.That's the only thing I can add to the other reviews here, the amount of love and passion for the subject put into this book.There's not one extra padded word or graphic in this book.Yes, if there was one book I'd have to take to a desert island with Excel and some financial data this would be it.

Not really satisfying
One of the main points of programming books is to help the reader understand the models being programmed.On this count, "Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA" fails miserably.There is very little explanation of the financial concepts and models.Anyone hoping to learn finance from this book will be very disappointed.Read more

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Reviews (5)

Great help for the new user.
I purchased several copies of the book for my sales team whose technical proficiency was across the board.While all of the material is covered in the online help available from Salesforce.com, several team members felt much more comfortable with a book that they could hold.It is a great help in getting all of the team members to use the same nomenclature which is the first step in any sales "methodology" becoming effective.
Dumming it down for an admitted dummy
As a new user to the CRM program, Salesforce.com, I was overwhelmed by the amount of information presented on the website.My first thought was, "I wish somebody would writed a "Dummy" book for the program.I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it was being released and ordered my copy immediately.I received my copy shortly and began reading and applying the data presented in the book.
You'd be a dummy not to buy this book!
"Salesforce.com for Dummies" is, hands down, the best reference guide for salesforce.com users and administrators alike.Tom Wong has done an excellent job with this book.It is packed with useful tips that will help even the most experienced users and/or administrators get more from Salesforce.com.If you are ready to maximize your investment in Salesforce.com, pick up "Salesforce.com for Dummies."You'd be a dummy not to buy this book!
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A Good Start
This manuel was an excellent start for some of us "dummies" out there.Though I have signed up for a Project Class to be taken in person, this book as definately helped me to get by with a little help from the Dummy Writers.
a real dummy review
great, worked for me.use this and the on line tutorial

Great place to start
Facing the new year with numerous relatively small projects that I felt were out of control, I resolved to take action. I believed that my planning tasks were unlikely to tax the abilities of Project 2003, and was not really interested in knowing every detail of the software. I picked up this book, and was able to read the sections of interest--about 75% of the content--on a flight from Atlanta to San Jose. I was not disappointed. By the evening of January 10, my three most pressing projects were organized, resources were assigned, and realistic finish dates had been determined. The book gave me the information I needed to get results without false starts. While the attempts at folksy humor can be a tad annoying, the prose is generally clear and understandable. I doubt this is the book for you if you are managing a major project with dozens of people. However, if your projects are jobs like press releases, webinars, and minor software releases, you will likely be well served by it. ... Read more

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Reviews (5)

Great Tool
I don't use Excel all the time. But when I do I don't have time to troubleshoot problems.
Review From A Psychology Student
I'm a soon-to-be-graduating Psychology student at the University of Washington and I am writing this review from the perspective of some one using excel in Social Sciences.
Great quick reference
I am an infrequent Excel user, so I needed a good reference book that is well indexed.That's exactly what I got with Excel 2003 QuickSteps.It's easy to find what I need when I want it.It's very well illustrated and contains a lot of great tips.The author does an excellent job of explaining the material. ... Read more

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Wonderful experience
This is the first time that I bought a used book from Amazon.
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