Title: Microsoft Office 2010 QuickStepsAuthors: Carole Matthews, Marty Matthews, and John Cronan
Publisher: McGraw Hill
ISBN: 9780071741606

The book is organized into 14 chapters.

1. Stepping into Office
2. Working with Documents
3. Formatting a Document
4. Customizing A Document
5. Entering and Editing Data
6. Formatting a Worksheet
7. Using Formulas and Functions
8. Creating the Presentation
9. Working with Slides
10. Working with Notes, Masters, and Slide Text
11. Using Outlook and Receiving E-mail
12. Creating and Sending E-mail
13. Scheduling and the Calendar
14. Printing, Using Mail Merge, and Graphics

These chapters cover the basics of using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and the Office Web Apps. As the book's name implies, the method of accomplishing the tasks covered in each chapter are presented as a numerical list of ‘QuickSteps’. The 300+ page book is written in an easy style with many screen shots. The book also includes numerous Notes, Tips, and Need-to-know Facts sprinkled throughout.

While this book may not make you an Office 2010 guru, it will let you, as the back cover states, “get up to speed on Office 2010 in no time”.

You may purchase this book from Barnes & Noble

Title: Excel 2010 Workbook For Dummies
Author: Greg Harvey
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 9780470489604

The title of this book gives you an indication that this is not the typical Dummies book. This book is setup like a workbook in grade school. It contains detailed step-by-step instructions on how to accomplish specific tasks in Microsoft Excel using practical exercises. In addition to the instructions, the accompanying CD contains completed worksheets for the exercises, allowing you to check your results. The exercises are organized into the following 24 chapters.

1. Getting Familiar with the Excel 2010 Interface
2. Entering the Spreadsheet Data
3. Formatting the Spreadsheet
4. Printing Spreadsheet Reports
5. Modifying the Spreadsheet
6. Building Formulas
7. Copying and Correcting Formulas
8. Creating Date and Time Formulas
9. Financial Formulas and Functions
10. Using Math Functions
11. Using Common Statistical Functions
12. Using Lookup Functions
13. Using Logical Functions
14. Text Formulas and Functions
15. Charting Spreadsheet Data
16. Adding Graphics to Spreadsheets
17. Building and Maintaining Data Lists
18. Protecting the Spreadsheet
19. Performing What-If Analysis
20. Generating Pivot Tables
21. Using Macros
22. Using the Visual Basic Editor
23. Top Ten Features in Excel 2010
24. Top Ten Tips for Using Excel Like a Pro

Although the author assumes that the reader is a new user of Excel 2010, you can tell from the list of chapters that some of the topics are beyond what is normally covered in a beginning book. Also, this book has almost no screen shots. It assumes that you are reading the book while at your computer with Excel open. If you need pictures to learn, you should check out the Visual series.

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