Formulas and Functions Microsoft Excel 2010

Formulas and Functions Microsoft Excel 2010



Formulas and Functions: Microsoft Excel 2010
Paul McFedries | Que | 2011-05-04 | 512 pages | English | PDF


MASTER CORE EXCEL 2010 TOOLS FOR BUILDING POWERFUL, RELIABLE SPREADSHEETS!

Excel expert Paul McFedries shows how to use Excel 2010’s core features to solve problems and get the answers you need! Using real-world examples, McFedries helps you get the absolute most out of breakthrough Excel 2010 improvements–from Sparklines to the brand-new version of Solver. Along the way, you’ll discover the fastest, best ways to handle essential day-to-day tasks ranging from generating account numbers to projecting the impact of inflation.Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! You’ll find crystal-clear instructions… insider insights… even complete step-by-step projects for building timesheets, projecting cash flow, aging receivables, analyzing defects, and more.

• Create more powerful formulas
• Use conditional formatting to instantly reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities
• Analyze your data with standard tables and PivotTables
• Use complex criteria to filter data in lists
• Understand correlations between data
• Perform sophisticated what-if analyses
• Use regression to track trends and make forecasts
• Build loan, investment, and discount formulas
• Troubleshoot problems with formulas, ranges, and functions

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Paul McFedries, president of Logophilia Limited, is a Microsoft Office expert and full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 70 books to his credit, which combined have sold more than three million copies worldwide. His recent titles include Using the Microsoft Office Web Apps, and Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed. He is also proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the English language.

From the Back Cover
Managers, entrepreneurs, and business professionals of all kinds need better skills for building more powerful Microsoft Excel spreadsheet models. In this book, Paul McFedries cuts through Excel’s complexity, thoroughly demystifying the most valuable features for spreadsheet model-builders: formulas, functions, ranges, and data analysis tools. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience simplifying difficult technologies for mainstream users, McFedries walks through using these features to solve a wide variety of real-world problems. You will learn how to: ” Create advanced formulas and troubleshoot formula problems ” Work with text, logical, information, lookup, date/time, math, and statistical functions ” Analyze data with standard tables and PivotTables ” Use Excel’s powerful business modeling tools ” Utilize Regression to track trends and make forecasts ” Build loan, investment, and discount formulas, and more Packed with no-nonsense, step-by-step tutorials and practical examples, Formulas and Functions has been thoroughly updated to reflect Excel 2010′s many improvements, from Sparklines to the newest version of Solver. McFedries also illuminates important Excel 2007 enhancements that many users haven’t yet mastered, including conditional formatting. This book is part of the new MrExcel Library series, edited by Bill Jelen, world-renowned Excel expert and host of the enormously popular Excel help site, MrExcel.com.
No-nonsense, step-by-step tutorials and practical examples from a world-renowned expert in demystifying complex technology, Paul McFedries
Includes specific techniques for analyzing complex data, modeling business problems, tracking trends, making forecasts, and building financial formulas
Part of the brand-new MrExcel’s Library series, edited by Excel legend Bill Jelen

About the Author
Paul McFedries, president of Logophilia Limited, is a full-time technical writer, passionate computer tinkerer, and Windows expert. He has authored 60+ computer books that have sold 3,000,000+ copies. His recent titles include Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed, Microsoft Home Server Unleashed, Tweak It and Freak It: A Killer Guide to Making Windows Run Your Way, Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2007; andTricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus. He is also proprietor of Word Spy