Business Books

Business And Legal Forms For Authors And Self-Publishers
by Tad Crawford

Updated and expanded, twenty ready-to-use forms for authors and self-publishers are accompanied by step-by-step instructions, advice on standard contractual provisions, and unique negotiation checklists. Included are: estimate, confirmation, permission, and nondisclosure forms; contracts with agents, publishers, designers, printers, sales reps, and distributors; as well as a licensing form for electronic rights. "Revised edition of a reference we've referred to often to assist with Hotline questions (Freelance Writer's Report). Provides important details not to be found elsewhere. An important success kit of practical examples (Reviewer's Bookwatch).--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Computer Ease
By Helen Gallagher

Computer Ease is a state of mind - one you can't reach when you're frustrated. It's hard to feel like a success when your mouse won't move, you're stuck on hold with tech support, and you can't format a page margin. There isn't one magical manual for all computer problems because computing is both so broad and so specific to a user's unique needs. But there is a way to understand why computers work the way they do, and how you can gain the upper hand.

Computer Ease shares a positive strategy and philosophy that has already helped hundreds of the author's clients. The book includes real world solutions, actual user profiles, and Helen Gallagher's unique perspective from her years of consulting with Computer Clarity. With this book, you can finally understand how to manage your files, deal with error messages, learn keyboard shortcuts, protect your computer from spyware, and realize the power of the web.

So You Need to Make a Spreadsheet
by Yvonne Hayden

This book is a quick start to Microsoft Excel written by an administrative assistant who has spent nearly a decade answering Excel questions in a typical office-real office, real life. It's a practical guide that includes tips for handling common problems when working in other people's spreadsheets.

IT Service Management Foundations: ITIL Study Guide
by Alex Hernandez,Christine Belaire Ron Palmer

If you are a technical manager looking to better leverage your organization's use of IT, a technical manager looking to master the growing complexity of delivering IT services, a technical person looking to understand unstoppable trend towards IT service management, or a student looking to pass the ITIL Foundations exam , this book is for you.

Learn Excel from Mr. Excel
By Bill Jelen

Containing 275 business case studies that illustrate nearly every aspect of Excel, this book presents real-life business problems and works them through to their solutions. In addition to exemplary solutions, each case analysis considers alternate approaches and gotchas, and includes a summary of the necessary commands and functions. Excel files that can be downloaded and worked through step-by-step are included for each case.

The Spreadsheet at 25 : 25 Amazing Excel Examples that Evolved from the Invention that Changed the World
by Bill Jelen

From the 1979 invention by two MIT students of the visible calculator to the war between Lotus and Microsoft for dominance in the spreadsheet market, this book is a fascinating look at the software application that helped spur the entire computer industry. This loving look back at the early computer and technology evolution will teach anyone interested in computer history about the MIT students, Bricklin and Frankston, and their unique vision; how Mitch Kapor and Lotus 1-2-3 trumped VisiCalc; how the spreadsheet gave businesses a reason to buy PCs; and how Microsoft came to dominate the market.

The book also contains descriptions of 25 amazing spreadsheets that users can download from the book's web site.

Leaving Campus and Going to Work
By T. Jason Smith

Leaving Campus and Going to Work addresses topics ranging from managing your own development to dating your co-workers to the complexity of balancing your time. The author utilizes real-world examples readers can connect with which makes the messages he conveys even clearer.

For a college graduate still basking in the glow of a newly-minted diploma, the transition from campus life to full-time work can be an enlightening, if not a downright shocking, experience.

Leaving Campus and Going to Work is an excellent resource which can help ease the transition of college graduates starting their new career in the world of work.

Excel for Teachers
by Adrienne Soucy, Bill Jelen

Addressing a classroom teacher's need to simultaneous manage a classroom full of students, meet state mandated assessment standards for students, and track students' performance against a rubric, this overview of Excel shows how to put its features to use immediately in a classroom. Tracking attendance, grades, and books in the school library, creating reports to share with parents at parent-teacher conference time, and teaching basic charting concepts in a mathematics class are among the possible uses of Excel covered in this guide.

Office VBA Macros You Can Use Today: Over 100 Amazing Ways to Automate Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access
by Anne Troy, Juan Pablo Gonzalez

For any Microsoft Office user familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, or Outlook, this book provides tutorials on the tools and tricks that automate these programs for increased productivity. Each lesson includes instructions and a downloadable file on which to test the VBA macros and procedures provided. Tasks covered include how to run several mail merges at once, removing duplicates from data, and saving email attachments.