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Learn to use Excel dashboards and reports to better conceptualize data

Updated for all the?latest features and capabilities of Excel 2013, this go-to resource provides you with in-depth coverage of the individual functions and tools that can be used to create?compelling Excel reports. Veteran author Michael Alexander walks you through the most effective ways to present and report data. Featuring a comprehensive review of a wide array of technical and analytical concepts, this essential guide helps you go from reporting data with simple tables full of dull numbers to presenting key information through the use of high-impact, meaningful reports and dashboards that will wow management both visually and substantively.Details how to analyze large amounts of data and report the results in a way that is both visually attractive and effectiveDescribes how to use different perspectives to achieve better visibility into data, as well as how to slice data into various views on the flyShows how to automate redundant reporting and analysis processesWalks you through creating impressive dashboards, eye-catching visualizations, and real-world What-If analyses

"Excel Dashboards and Reports, Second Edition" is part technical manual, part analytical guidebook, and exactly what you need to become your organization's dashboard?dynamo

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• Learn VBA syntax as easy-to-understand English
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• Automatically produce hundreds of Excel reports in seconds
• Understand how changes in Excel 2007 impact your VBA macros

Introduction 1 1 Unleash the Power of Excel with VBA 7 2 This Sounds Like BASIC, So Why Doesn't It Look Familiar? 29 3 Referring to Ranges 61 4 User-Defined Functions 75 5 Looping and Flow Control 101 6 R1C1-Style Formulas 121 7 What's New in Excel 2007 and What's Changed 135 8 Create and Manipulate Names in VBA 143 9 Event Programming 155 10 UserForms--An Introduction 177 11 Creating Charts 197 12 Data Mining with Advanced Filter 249 13 Using VBA to Create Pivot Tables 281 14 Excel Power 337 15 Data Visualizations and Conditional Formatting 373 16 Reading from and Writing to the Web 393 17 XML in Excel 2007 413 18 Automating Word 421 19 Arrays 441 20 Text File Processing 449 21 Using Access as a Back End to Enhance Multi-User Access to Data 461 22 Creating Classes, Records, and Collections 477 23 Advanced UserForm Techniques 493 24 Windows Application Programming Interface (API) 517 25 Handling Errors 529 26 Customizing the Ribbon to Run Macros 543 27 Creating Add-Ins 569 Index 577

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Part 1: First Steps with Excel Making Sense of Pupil Performance Figures How Can We Describe Performance? How Can We Investigate the Relationship between Sets of Marks? Confidence in Sample Estimates Creating an Expectancy Table Part 2A: Scales and their Interpretation Part 2B: Handling Test Data Appendices

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This text presents a wide variety of common types of models found in other mathematical modeling texts, as well as some new types. However, the models are presented in a very unique format. A typical section begins with a general description of the scenario being modeled. The model is then built using the appropriate mathematical tools. Then it is implemented and analyzed in Excel via step-by-step instructions. In the exercises, we ask students to modify or refine the existing model, analyze it further, or adapt it to similar scenarios.

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