Excel? for Chemists: A Comprehensive Guide

By E. Joseph Billo

Book Overview

In one volume, this book offers the reader a complete instructional and reference manual on using Microsoft Excel for chemical applications. The first half of the book is a sourcebook of instructions on Excel using chemical example throughout. The writing style and illustrations are far superior (for scientists) to manuals currently available. The second half of the book shows how to use Excel's built-in worksheet functions to perform advanced calculations, and illustrates these techniques with applications in chemistry. It also offers numerous useful macros and spreadsheets for solving a variety of chemistry problems. The book will be packaged with two diskettes, for Macintosh and Windows environments, respectively, that will include many spreadsheets and macros presented in the text.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471188964
• ISBN13: 9780471188964
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.2" x 0.9" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Nice reference book for data analysis in the chemistry lab

As a member of chemistry department in a University, who teach student the basic skill of use of Excel in the lab, I find this book a very useful tool for myself. Although it is true that the book is a little too complicated for the average user who knows only the basics of spreadsheet and barely graph the data, however for somebody who needs to write macro functions for the students to perform the calculations effortlessly, Excel for Chemist is a very comprehensive book. Exmaples given in this book is fair: after all, this book is not for everybody, and I have a feeling that Billo wrote this book based upon the assumption that most readers know more than the basic of Excel (which is not too surprising, considering the fact that Excel is one of the most heavily used spreadsheet around).