This new book edition will go beyond the current version to reach a rapidly growing audience offering the latest comprehensive reference to Microsoft Excel 97. The mission of this book is to offer quick solutions with up-to-date content. New approaches to deliver this material include: Real world solutions and techniques from the pros to increase productivity Index and table of content enhancements i.e. separate tip and toolbar indexes Electronic index online download to hard drive and search offline i.e. want to know to use a pivot table search for pivot tables; index will provide summary and reference pages in book Lycos web mini-directory content as part of value-added commitment Bottomless Book promise of additional content delivered/available every month (until next edition pubs) Added value templates/wizards for placement on the Online Resource Center Vertical content (electronic) for placement on the Online Resource Center

• Microsoft Excel is the #1 selling Windows spreadsheet with a user base of over 30 million (Microsoft Web Site, April 20, 1997)
• Sales of Microsoft Office 97 application licenses are selling at three times the rate of any previous version of Office for a comparable time period (Microsoft Press Release, April 17, 1997)
• This sales trend is expected to continue, if not increase, for the duration of 1997 (Wall Street Journal, Friday, April 18, 1997, pp. A3)