Reviewed by Angel Escalona, Adjunct Professor, Middlesex Community College on 11/21/22 It would be better to have more practice and assessment problems in each chapter to for instructors to assign them as homework or self-practice activities. This is a good book for Excel beginners, particularly suitable for teaching Excel in a general elective course or business major. I didn't find anything relevant to this topic.
In the pdf version, font sizes of some figures are too small and the figure styles are not very consistent. The subheadings "Printing" and "Preparing to Print" are not self-explanatory before reading the content. Even though your current logic of splitting them makes sense, it makes the "Print" and "Cell reference" topics less easier to be used as independent subunits. I would also suggest covering all the Print topic together instead of splitting into different chapters.
I would suggest covering absolute reference and relative reference together instead of splitting them. Sometimes the font sizes and spacing are not consistent or appealing for readers. The online version is easy to ready, but the pdf version can be improved. I suggest a consistent subheading and maybe a more self-explanatory subheading for the assessment activities. The assessment activities are called "scored assessment" in some chapters and "chapter scored" in other chapters. But there is an inconsistency in the headings. I suggest the author clarify the relationship between Excel 2019 and Excel 365 to avoid confusion for beginners since Excel 365 also appear in the texts. The title indicates the book for Excel 2019. But few figures missed the captions and some figures used very small font sizes thus difficult to verify the information. This book doesn't have any science or engineering examples nor topics used frequently in scientific data analysis via Excel such as x-y scatter chart, logical functions (AND, OR, NOT), nested IF statement, functions like SUMPRODUCT, IFS, MATCH, INDEX, etc. The examples and practice problems are largely related to financial and career decision making. It also includes instructions for Mac user, which is very useful for students using Mac. This book is comprehensive for Excel beginners from non-STEM major. Reviewed by Xinyu Zhang, Teaching Assistant Professor, West Virginia University on 5/5/23
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