* Thirty clearly lessons to bring readers from understanding the parts of the Excel application into building applications to work with data, formulas, graphs, and enhanced XML capabilities of the new Excel "X" * This book is designed to teach core concepts of Excel over the weekend or in just fifteen hours, with each of the thirty-minute sessions * Applies to Excel 2000, Excel 2002, and the latest release, Excel "X" * Helping Excel power users in fields such as accounting, finance, operations management, and market research to begin automating data manipulation in Excel quickly, so that they can handle real-world projects * A guide on how to use Excel to create custom programabilitas data-processing and analysis solutions * Covers security, debugging, and error handling * Companion Web site includes sample files, projects, and test self-assessment exam enginewith