It’s Friday and I just have a few notes.
Done with my book projects!
Another Excel upgrade cycle is over and another round of writing is done. I’d like to tell you I had a cigar after all that work, but I hate cigars. They taste like I dumped a pound of coffee grounds into my mouth. Anyway, here are the projects I’ve completed:
Easy Excel 2010
This is my one and only step-by-step learn with pictures book for beginners. I suggested a pop-up book for Excel, but the publisher didn’t like this idea. The original author for this book went AWOL so I agreed to take it over. It was harder than I thought it would be. Not the content of course (I’m Mike Alexander for God sake). The difficulty came in the screenshot formatting and all that. Anyway, if you know that special someone who is brand-spanking new to Excel, this book will make a nice gift.
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Excel Analyst’s Guide to Access
This was definitely my favorite project this year. This book is written for all you Excel users who know that expanding your skill-set to include Access can make you more productive. I guide you through analytical and reporting benefits of Access, and show you how you can integrate Excel and Access to make your life easier.
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Excel Dashboards and Reports
This is a collaboration between John Walkenbach and me. Oh yeah…we go back a long time – Walkenbach knew me when I was still a woman. Ok…so I’m kidding (Walkenbach didn’t know me when I was a woman).
Two years ago, I did a book called Excel Dashboards and Reports For Dummies. I put a lot of stuff in that book was a little advanced for the Dummies series. So the publisher thought it would do better to move it to the Mr. Spreadsheets series. I said ok – John said he would add a bunch of new chapters – then we all sat back and had a good hearty laugh. I’m very happy with the way this project turned out.
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Pivot Table Data Crunching: Excel 2010
This collaboration between Bill Jelen and me is the Excel 2010 update to our best-selling Pivot Table book. If you’re new to pivot tables, this book will take you from the basics to advanced techniques you can leverage to create meaningful analyses using pivot tables.
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Upcoming training for you Northerners
If you have been begging for expert-level Excel training and you live in the Northeast then you’re in luck.
Jon Peltier (Peltier Technical Services) and Alex Kerin (Data Driven Consulting) have put together an intensive one-day Excel Charting and Dashboarding session.
You have just a few more days to sign up so hurry. Click here to check out the details.
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I’m a bachelor this weekend
Mrs. Pig took the kids to Buffalo New York to visit family. I have the house to myself. I’d like to say that I’m going to do something wild and crazy, but my age and weight has banished me from wild-and-crazy land a long time ago. No…this weekend, I’ll order three large bacon pizzas, and try to eat them like I’m in a contest. Then I’ll put my moo-moo on and go see Iron Man 2.
After reading the description of your weekend I thought this was Derek Jeter’s site. Only after I read the post again did I realize it was the Pig’s weekend plans.
Mike…Couple of questions:
How does your latest Excel Analyst’s Guide to Access book compare to your previous Excel and Access integration book?
Is the new dashboarding book at a more advanced level than the old (I imagine so)?
How much did you pay Amazon to put up just your Author profile and ignore Johns?
Yeah, Mike , is the new dashboard book much different from the Dummies book ?
Jeff and Russ:
Just got back to the blog to find this astute qestion.
My portion of the book is not much different. A few new tidbits here and there, but mostly the same.
John added new content for Sparklines and Slicers, along with a robust section on charting.
Hello Mike — Congrats on the new book!
I had a similar enquiry to Jeff above. If i was going to buy one of your books Excel analysts guide to access or Microsoft Excel and Access Integration which should it be?
Sayth…I’m guessing Mike’s answer is the most expensive one. Bacon doesn’t come cheap, you know…
Mike…can you pretty please with triple cholesterol on top enable some kind of comments notification on this thing for commentators (like Jon Peltier does on his blog?? We have no way of tracking your witty replies to our inane comments other than visiting each post we’ve commented on periodically. Or is that part of your evil plan?
Jeff: Here you go…
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForBaconBits
Thanks Mike. Any suggestions re Sayth and my question re your access books? I’m just about to give up and buy both off Amazon. Or is that also part of your evil plan?