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Full-color, step-by-step guide to the new release of the world's most popular spreadsheet application Get up and running with Excel 2013 right away--the QuickSteps way. Full-color screenshots on every page with clear instructions make it easy to use the latest release of Microsoft's powerful spreads[...]

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