Amazon.com description: Product Description: At long last there is now a professional Excel course available for Mac users

Please note that this book is only suitable for the Apple Mac version of Excel 2016. (There's also an Excel for Windows book available (ISBN: 978-1-909253-08-7).

This Excel 2016 for Mac book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel 2016 for Mac. Here are just five of the many ways in which this book is unique:

• The book will equip you with excellent Excel 2016 for Mac skills, good enough to impress any employer, but it doesn't confuse by attempting to teach skills that are not common in the workplace. Only users who have advanced requirements need progress to the Excel 2016 for Mac Expert Skills book.
• Every lesson is presented on two facing sheets of A4 paper (the pages are much bigger than in any other Excel book).  You can complete each self-contained lesson in a few minutes.
• Each lesson has a sample file that models a real-world business problem.
• The teaching method used in the book was developed and refined using over ten years of experience teaching real students Excel skills in classroom courses. The teaching method is fun, absorbing and virtually 100% effective.
• Instruction is logically structured into sessions and lessons. While this makes the book ideal for self-instruction, you can also use it to run your own, highly effective, adult training courses.  This has made Smart Method books a popular choice for schools, colleges and universities all over the world.
• Every Smart Method book is registered in Amazon's Kindle MatchBook program. This enables American book purchasers to also download an electronic copy of the book for 99 cents when purchased with (or after) the printed book. Look for the MatchBook logo on this page.

You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Both IT professionals and absolute beginners will love this book because it avoids needless technical jargon and concisely explains everything you need in a simple and no-nonsense way.

Amongst other things you'll learn how to:

• Create stunning, professional, presentation-quality charts
• Use the new Excel 2016 for Mac Cloud Computing features to share data
• Understand absolute, relative and mixed cell references
• Create stunning, professional, presentation-quality charts
• Use the Themes feature to create visually excellent worksheets
• Use Sparklines to visually represent large data sets
• Bring your data alive with Visualizations
• Create custom conditional formatting rules with the Rules Manager
• Create your own formulas with the Formula AutoComplete feature
• Master Excel 2016 for Mac's Fluent User Interface and Ribbon
• Understand the different Excel 2016 for Mac file formats
• Add a professional sheen to your work with 3-D Elements
• Understand and work with three-dimensional worksheet groups

Companies who have taken Smart Method courses include:

AOL Time Warner, The United States Army, Daimler Chrysler, Motorola, HSBC, Barclays, American Express, Allied Irish Banks, Imperial Tobacco, Volvo, The BBC, British Petroleum, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Unilever, The Institute of Chartered Accountants, The Ministry of Defence, Keele University, Deutsche Bank, HBOS, Transport For London, The Performing Rights Society, Scottish Power, The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, BAE Systems, RBS, Marks & Spencer, Virgin, O2, BMW... and many, many others