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Online Excel Tutorials
Getting
Started With Excel
This is a well-written tutorial on how to get started
with Excel by Dr. Sharon Garrison, a finance professor.
Although it references an older version of Excel, the
basic concepts highlighted in Getting Started provide
a useful introduction. (University of Arizona)
Excel
Tutorial
This is a great intro to Excel. The tutorial offers fairly
complete coverage of essential topics and uses visual
displays and short pages for each topic. It is a little
weak on graphing. The tutorial ends with a very basic,
multiple choice, online quiz. (University of South Dakota)
MS
Excel Knowdule
Very good. Uses small pop-up windows for lessons so that
most of the screen is available for Excel. Uses
silent QuickTime movies as a "show me" feature.
Nice for a reference... (Louisiana State University)
Business & Economics News 
Asia Week
Barron's Online
Business Week
CNBC
Business
CNN fn
The Economist
The Financial Times
Forbes
Fortune Magazine
The Times (London)
(must register)
The
Wall Street Journal (Economic headlines only)
General News
ABC News
The Chicago Tribune
(must register)
The Christian Science
Monitor
CNN Interactive
S-SPAN
The Houston Chronicle
The Los Angeles Times
MSNBC
National Public Radio
(Requires a free RealAudio RealPlayerG2)
The New Republic
The New York Times
(must register)
San Jose Mercury News
The Sydney Morning Herald
USA Today
The Washington Post
Business, Economic, and Financial
Data
Economic
Report of the President
This is a search engine set up by the Council of Economic
Advisors. It is a great way to search for data in the
Economic Report of the President. Although the data is
current and can be viewed in text or Acrobat format, it
cannot be downloaded in a form that a spreadsheet can
parse out directly.
The
White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room
This site provides easy access to current Federal economic
indicators. It provides links to information produced
by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information
included in the Economic Statistics Briefing Room is maintained
and updated by the statistical units of those agencies.
The Dismal Scientist
This is a good site for two types of data series. Daily
reports of economic variables, and regional economic data.
The latter data series contains time-series information
on demographics, personal income, housing statistics,
etc., for 257 metro areas and all 50 states.
Economagic
Economagic has over 100,000 data series, all available
in text format. The series come from governmental or semi-governmental
agencies, and are revised whenever the original source
is updated. An Excel file exists for each series, or is
made on-the-fly when requested. Charts, in either GIF
or PDF format, can be made for each series.
EconLinks
This site is an excellent general reference source for
economists and students of economics. ECONlinks provides
easy access to basic economic and financial information
on the World Wide Web. The list of links is purposely
not encyclopedic, but contains a variety of resources
that are useful in many economics courses.
Occupational
Outlook for Economists
A page published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that
gives extensive information on the employment prospects
for students majoring in economics. A lot of space is
devoted to advanced degrees but if you read through the
document carefully you will find good information on job
prospects for undergraduate economics majors.
Search Engines
Although the Web is growing at a dizzying rate, there
are many search engines (also called databases, spiders,
robots, etc.) and subject guides to help you find the
information you need. This guide lists some of the best
resources for searching the Web. (Brought to you by the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville.)
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Online Excel Tutorials