Manage, analyze, and visualize data with Microsoft Excel 2013 to transform raw data into ready to use information About This Book * Create formulas to help you analyze and explain findings * Develop interactive spreadsheets that will impress your audience and give them the ability to slice and dice data * A step-by-step guide to learn various ways to model data for businesses with the help of Excel 2013 Who This Book Is For If you want to start using Excel 2013 for data analysis and business modeling and enhance your skills in the data analysis life cycle then this book is for you, whether you're new to Excel or experienced. What You Will Learn * Discover what Excel formulas are all about and how to use them in your spreadsheet development * Identify bad data and learn cleaning strategies * Create interactive spreadsheets that engage and appeal to your audience * Leverage Excel's powerful built-in tools to get the median, maximum, and minimum values of your data * Build impressive tables and combine datasets using Excel's built-in functionality * Learn the powerful scripting language VBA, allowing you to implement your own custom solutions with ease In Detail Excel 2013 is one of the easiest to use data analysis tools you will ever come across. Its simplicity and powerful features has made it the go to tool for all your data needs. Complex operations with Excel, such as creating charts and graphs, visualization, and analyzing data make it a great tool for managers, data scientists, financial data analysts, and those who work closely with data. Learning data analysis and will help you bring your data skills to the next level. This book starts by walking you through creating your own data and bringing data into Excel from various sources. You'll learn the basics of SQL syntax and how to connect it to a Microsoft SQL Server Database using Excel's data connection tools. You will discover how to spot bad data and strategies to clean that data to make it useful to you. Next, you'll learn to create custom columns, identify key metrics, and make decisions based on business rules. You'll create macros using VBA and use Excel 2013's shiny new macros. Finally, at the end of the book, you'll be provided with useful shortcuts and tips, enabling you to do efficient data analysis and business modeling with Excel 2013. Style and approach This is a step-by-step guide to performing data analysis and business modelling with Excel 2013, complete with examples and tips.

Designed to increase the productivity of MS Excel users, Excel 2013: The Basics course will give you a firm grasp of the essentials. Productivity in Automation workbooks are designed to help you "learn by doing." After completing the lessons you can continue to use this book as a reference. In this course you will learn: Creating and Saving Workbooks Create and Edit Formulas Copy and move data and formulas Format and Print Workbooks Create and Enhance Charts

This book reviews advanced functions in Excel 2016. Also Macro's are covered along with the creation of Forms. Many examples are supplied to help the software user to understand and use these functions. Areas that are covered are Accounting, Financial, Look Up, Logical, Math, Pivot tables, Statistical and Text functions.

I wrote this book in a few hours with the intention of being a quick starter guide and a general introduction to PowerPoint. This book has been used as a study guide for a class I teach at Forest Academy called "PowerPoint Essentials." It follows my first book on an element of Microsoft Office called "Excel Essentials" You will have enough information that serves as a strong platform to learn more. To use the expression, you will learn in a few short pages enough to be "dangerous." This book is a simple direct to the point presentation of how to use PowerPoint to make impressive looking presentation with animation and narration. You'll get to know all the fancy techniques in a few pages. With what you learn in this book, you will have the ability to intuitively learn other topics on your own that is not covered in this book. You'll have enough understanding to become a PowerPoint expert. David K. Ewen, M.Ed. Forest Academy April 2014