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Microsoft Excel continues to grow in power, sophistication, and
capability, but one thing that has changed very little since the
early '90s is its user interface. The once-simple toolbar has been
packed with so many features over the years that few users know
where to find them all. Microsoft has addressed this problem in
Excel 2007 by radically redesigning the user interface with a
tabbed toolbar that makes every feature easy to locate and use.
Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation is as scant as ever, so
even if users can find advanced features, they probably won't know
what to do with them. Excel 2007: The Missing Manual covers the
entire gamut of how to build spreadsheets, add and format
information, print reports, create charts and graphics, and use
basic formulas and functions. Like its siblings in the Missing
Manual series, this book crackles with a fine sense of humor and
refreshing objectivity about its subject, guiding readers through
the new Excel with clear explanations, step-by-step instructions,
lots of illustrations, and friendly, time-saving advice. It's a
perfect primer for small businesses with no techie to turn to, as
well as those who want to organize household and office
information.
Time is the one thing no manager has enough of. Through goal
setting, prioritizing, delegation, and other proven techniques,
this guide helps managers maximize their personal productivity
within and their impact on their organizations. The Harvard
Business Essentials series provides comprehensive advice, personal
coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant
topics in business. Whether you are a new manager seeking to expand
your skills or a seasoned professional looking to broaden your
knowledge base, these solution-oriented books put reliable answers
at your fingertips.
Expert Paul McFedries helps you master key Excel 2019 and Office 365
tools for building more powerful spreadsheets.Use Excel 2019 and Office
365 core features to build spreadsheets that solve business problems
and deliver reliable answers. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience,
Paul McFedries helps you make the most of formulas and functions,
including the latest improvements to arrays, formula error handling,
and statistics. McFedries’ step-by-step projects walk you through
handling key tasks, from building timesheets to projecting cash flow
and aging receivables. His practical examples and clear instructions
demystify intermediate-to advanced-level formula construction, and help
you leverage Excel’s most useful functions in your everyday work.
Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier!
By reading this book, you will:
•Improve business analyses by adding intelligence and knowledge to your
models
• Replace cumbersome formulas with convenient predefined functions
• Radically simplify complex calculations with Office 365’s new dynamic
arrays
• Use conditional formatting to reveal anomalies, problems, or
opportunities
• Calculate loan payments, interest costs, terms, and amortization
schedules
• Project the future value of investments, and plan to achieve
investment goals
• Master essential discounting and cash-flow analysis tools, including
net present value and internal rate of return
• Sort, filter, and analyze tabular data, from customers to inventory
•Easily analyze huge data sets with PivotTable calculations
Use Microsoft 365 Excel and Excel 2021 pivot tables and pivot
charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes: take
control of your data and your business! Even if you've never
created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all
their flexibility and analytical power- including important recent
improvements in Microsoft 365 Excel. Drawing on more than 30 years
of cutting-edge Excel experience, MVP Bill Jelen ("MrExcel") shares
practical "recipes" for solving real business problems, expert
insights for avoiding mistakes, and advanced tips and tricks you'll
find nowhere else. By reading this book, you will: Master easy,
powerful ways to create, customize, change, and control pivot
tables Transform huge datasets into clear summary reports Instantly
highlight your most profitable customers, products, or regions Use
the data model and Power Query to quickly analyze disparate data
sources Create powerful crosstab reports with new dynamic arrays
and Power Query Build geographical pivot tables with 3D Maps
Construct and share state-of-the-art dynamic dashboards Revamp
analyses on the fly by dragging and dropping fi elds Build dynamic
self-service reporting systems Share your pivot tables with
colleagues Create data mashups using the full Power Pivot
capabilities in modern Excel versions Generate pivot tables using
either VBA on the Desktop or Typescript in Excel Online Save time
and avoid formatting problems by adapting reports with GetPivotData
Unpivot source data so it's easier to work with Use new Analyze
Data artificial intelligence to create pivot tables
Discover timesaving features, accessibility and internal control
approaches, data integrity improvements, and spreadsheet automation
techniques by exploring Excel shortcuts and nuances in Microsoft
365, Excel versions till 2021 Key Features Get hands-on experience
by carrying out techniques in detailed example workbooks Reclaim
portions of your day by immediately implementing data integrity and
automation features Incorporate spreadsheet disaster recovery
techniques into your daily work Book DescriptionDavid Ringstrom
coined the phrase "Either you work Excel, or it works you!" after
observing how many users carry out tasks inefficiently. In this
book, you'll learn how to get more done with less effort. This book
will enable you to create resilient spreadsheets that are easy for
others to use as well, while incorporating spreadsheet disaster
preparedness techniques. The time-saving techniques covered in the
book include creating custom shortcuts and icons to streamline
repetitive tasks, as well as automating them with features such as
Tables and Custom Views. You'll see how Conditional Formatting
enables you to apply colors, Cell icons, and other formatting
on-demand as your data changes. You'll be empowered to protect the
integrity of spreadsheets and increase usability by implementing
internal controls, and understand how to solve problems with
What-If Analysis features. In addition, you'll master new features
and functions such as XLOOKUP, Dynamic Array functions, LET and
LAMBDA, and Power Query, while learning how to leverage shortcuts
and nuances in Excel. By the end of this book, you'll have a
broader awareness of how to avoid pitfalls in Excel. You'll be
empowered to work more effectively in Excel, having gained a deeper
understanding of the frustrating oddities that can arise daily in
Excel. What you will learn Explore hidden and overlooked features
that will save your time Implement disaster prevention and recovery
techniques Improve spreadsheet accessibility for all users Bolster
data integrity and spreadsheet resilience Craft code-free custom
worksheet functions with LAMBDA Create code-free report automation
with Power Query Integrate spreadsheet automation techniques with
ease Who this book is forThis book is for intermediate to advanced
excel users working in diverse roles such as business users,
accountants, project managers and business analysts among others.
The more time that you spend in excel the more time this book will
save you. You will be able to maximize your productivity by
learning spreadsheet interactivity, accessibility and automation.
This clear step-by-step explanation and detailed example workbook
will help you to try out new techniques firsthand and leverage them
for your business's advantage in no time.
Explore a variety of Excel features, functions, and productivity
tips for various aspects of financial modeling Key Features Explore
Excel's financial functions and pivot tables with this updated
second edition Build an integrated financial model with Excel for
Microsoft 365 from scratch Perform financial analysis with the help
of real-world use cases Book DescriptionFinancial modeling is a
core skill required by anyone who wants to build a career in
finance. Hands-On Financial Modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365
explores financial modeling terminologies with the help of Excel.
Starting with the key concepts of Excel, such as formulas and
functions, this updated second edition will help you to learn all
about referencing frameworks and other advanced components for
building financial models. As you proceed, you'll explore the
advantages of Power Query, learn how to prepare a 3-statement
model, inspect your financial projects, build assumptions, and
analyze historical data to develop data-driven models and
functional growth drivers. Next, you'll learn how to deal with
iterations and provide graphical representations of ratios, before
covering best practices for effective model testing. Later, you'll
discover how to build a model to extract a statement of
comprehensive income and financial position, and understand capital
budgeting with the help of end-to-end case studies. By the end of
this financial modeling Excel book, you'll have examined data from
various use cases and have developed the skills you need to build
financial models to extract the information required to make
informed business decisions. What you will learn Identify the
growth drivers derived from processing historical data in Excel Use
discounted cash flow (DCF) for efficient investment analysis
Prepare detailed asset and debt schedule models in Excel Calculate
profitability ratios using various profit parameters Obtain and
transform data using Power Query Dive into capital budgeting
techniques Apply a Monte Carlo simulation to derive key assumptions
for your financial model Build a financial model by projecting
balance sheets and profit and loss Who this book is forThis book is
for data professionals, analysts, traders, business owners, and
students who want to develop and implement in-demand financial
modeling skills in their finance, analysis, trading, and valuation
work. Even if you don't have any experience in data and statistics,
this book will help you get started with building financial models.
Working knowledge of Excel is a prerequisite.
As one of the most widely used desktop applications ever created,
Excel is familiar to just about everyone with a computer and a
keyboard. Yet most of us don't know the full extent of what Excel
can do, mostly because of its recent growth in power, versatility,
and complexity. The truth is that there are many ways Excel can
help make your job easier-beyond calculating sums and averages in a
standard spreadsheet. "Analyzing Business Data with Excel" shows
you how to solve real-world business problems by taking Excel's
data analysis features to the max. Rather than focusing on
individual Excel functions and features, the book keys directly on
the needs of business users. Most of the chapters start with a
business problem or question, and then show you how to create
pointed spreadsheets that address common data analysis issues.
Aimed primarily at experienced Excel users, the book doesn't spend
much time on the basics. After introducing some necessary general
tools, it quickly moves into more specific problem areas, such as
the following: Statistics; Pivot tables; Workload forecasting;
Modeling; Measuring quality; Monitoring complex systems; Queuing;
Optimizing; and Importing data. If you feel as though you're
getting shortchanged by your overall application of Excel,
"Analyzing Business Data with Excel" is just the antidote. It
addresses the growing Excel data analysis market head on.
Accountants, managers, analysts, engineers, and supervisors-one and
all-will learn how to turn Excel functionality into actual
solutions for the business problems that confront them.
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