This is by far the most authoritative book on Excel development from Add-ins to APIs. A word of caution though, it is not for the beginners.

Ever wondered on using Excel as a report development tool? This might be an answer to it; however, my problem with this book is that it focuses too much on pivottables, and because of that it doesn?t do justification to the name of the book. At any rate, this is very good book to exploit pivottable to its limits.

You thought you knew formulas? Just read this book and you?ll realize, which I do almost every day, that there just so much about Excel that we don?t know. John uses simple language, and introduces the readers from basic to advanced formulas. How advance you might ask, well, here is an example, which uses a formula similar to this:

I borrowed this book from the library. It is a very good for beginners.

This is my first book I read on Excel, which is written by Bill Jelen aka Mr. Excel. Fantastic book. If you have begun knowing Excel just now, obtain a copy of this book right away. This is the right start for beginners. It uses very simple and clear language, and Bill provides great examples to make the learning useful.

I had an e-version of this book, but for some reason it’s not working anymore. I had chewed on this book a lot. It?s a great book for starters, especially, in data crunching.