Learn Excel 365 Essential Skills with The Smart Method: Sixth Edition: fully updated for the new January 2022 version

Many other buyers have have already written glowing reviews about this book. I have to agree with them. This is the best book by far to learn Excel 365, and in a short period of time too. I bought this book to brush up on my Excel skills and I'm having fun going through the lessons. Each lesson is neatly contained in 2 pages so it is easy to learn in short 30-minute bursts.Unlike many other computer books out there with pages and pages of boring text, this book won't put you to sleep - There are lots of hands-on exercises. Have fun!

Absolutely brilliant. I have been using Excel since it took over from Lotus 1-2-3 in the 1990s and considered myself to be fairly proficient. I've invested some time in going through all of this book and have found so much that I wish I'd known about before - it would have saved me sooooo much time and effort over the years.Very highly recommended. Comprehensive and easy to use. The sample files available from the author's website superbly show how specific functions and capabilities work.If you are a user of Excel, for business or personal use, I think you'd find this book an absolute god-send.

Catching up with changes and new features. Easy to read layout with each feature described with exercises in a two page spread.

User friendly, I buy this book at every iteration. So easy to use for new Excel techniques or as a reference for those things learnt and forgotten. Excellent resource for beginner & intermediate Excel user

im still at the bigging but so far it was really easy to follow the book. Im not complete beginner but decided to improve the skills I already have and master them on expert level so I orderd the following part for expert skills too. As I mentioned I have some skills already but the way it is written it would be clear to anybody who just starting with excel from scratch.

It's so easy to use and get lessons to practise. Screen shots are great so you know if your going in the right direction. Step by step worth its weight I gold

I was pleasantly surprised to see that an Office 365 subscription was available for Mac users but I now know that it is very different beast from the Windows version. I purchased both books in this series expecting them to apply to Windows and the Mac. Although I admit in retrospect that I did not look in detail at the cover thumbnails which do state in small letters 'for Windows'. I ordered the books in the mistaken belief that they would help me use Excel 365 on a Mac. They did not. At first I kept discovering what I believed to be errors in the lessons but then realised that actually the Mac Version has less functionality than the Windows version to the point where this series of books are totally unsuitable for mac users. I feel this could have been made more obvious in the listing.

Brilliant book, explains everything you need to know about excel.

I absolutely love this book! I wish this author covered other subjects. The layout style of teaching is what makes this book the best. The author builds upon one exercise from the previous which helps you retain the knowledge. If you are a hands on learner this is 1000% going to work for you.The files you download do not require mych space and are easy to work with. If you mess up you can go back to the original file you were working on. That also allows you the opportunity to redo the lessons over and over.

PRO TIP: As soon as my book arrived, I took it to a local printer and got it spiral bound. It makes a huge difference in following along with the book without that pesky problem of the book closing or flipping pages on me.I have been using Excel since version 2 and thought I had a very good understanding of how the program works. Instead, I discovered that Excel has changed a lot over the years and I was ignoring many of the newer features. This book made updating my skills rather simple. The lessons are bite-sized and are self-contained so as long as you complete them in the order presented you will learn Excel! The format of the book makes it is very easy to devote a couple of minutes a day to do just that. The small size of the lessons helps tackle some of the more complex features of Excel by breaking them down into manageable chunks.Even though I knew a good percentage of the skills presented in the book, I completed the exercises as a valuable skill refresher. I would humbly suggest everyone do this as well.I have also used the book a couple of times as a reference guide when I am tasked with creating a spreadsheet and I can't quite remember how to do something.I have also purchased the Expert level and the Construction Kit and will be working through those shortly. I will post a review when I am done working through them but I have already looked through both and they seem to follow the same format so I am confident I will be just as pleased with them.The bottom line is this. I am sure Amazon is full of excellent books to help you learn Excel but if you want a sure-fire method to update your existing skills or to learn Excel for the first time, this is the best book to start that journey.

To very very beginner, it explains from zero; but I also advice for the advanced to refresh.

Manual muito bem elaborado e fácil de seguir, mostrando muitas opções que desconhecia.Se fosse agora talvez comprasse a versão “expert”…

This book and its follow up (“Expert”) are without a doubt the best training resources for MS Excel 365 that exist. I’ve spent hundreds of hours taking and passed every top online course, studied dozens of beginner to advanced to specialized books; I own them all. I spend every waking hour until 2-2:30 am studying Excel (I’ve been doing this since April 2011), and this is this best training there is. I defy anyone to find or challenge me to discover a better course. If there is please send it my way because I’ve taken all of them and this is the one I’ve been able to get 20 plus people to attend voluntarily everyday for weeks. Mike Smart’s books are the best. I just wish he would published more specialized books because his two books are or should be considered the gold standard.