Ebook: Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Office Excel 2007

“If you’ve never quite grasped formulas and functions, Paul McFedries will radically expand your understanding and use of Excel. And if you’re already an expert and you’re moving up to Excel 2007, this book will quickly show you features you’ve only dreamed of until now...”

—Thomas ‘Duffbert’ Duff, Duffbert’s Random Musings, http://www.twduff.com

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Develop your Microsoft Excel expertise instantly with proven techniques

• Master Excel Ranges
• Create Powerful Arrays
• Troubleshoot Formula Problems
• Validate Worksheet Data
• Perform What-If Analysis
• Model Your Business
• Track Trends and Make
• Forecasts
• Analyze Data
• Find Optimal Solutions
• Build Dynamic Loan
• SchedulesВ 

Most Microsoft® Excel users learn only a small percentage of the program’s features. They know they could get more out of Excel if they could just get a leg up on building formulas and using functions. Unfortunately, this side of Excel appears complex and intimidating to the uninitiated—shrouded in the mysteries of mathematics, finance, and impenetrable spreadsheet jargon.

Sound familiar? If you’re a businessperson who needs to use Excel as an everyday part of your job, then you’ve come to the right book.  Formulas and Functions with Microsoft® Office Excel 2007 demystifies worksheet formulas and presents the most useful Excel functions in an accessible,  jargon-free way.  This book not only takes you through Excel’s intermediate and advanced formula-building features, it also tells you why these features are useful to you and shows you how to use them in everyday situations. Throughout the book you’ll find no-nonsense, step-by-step tutorials and lots of practical examples aimed directly at business users.

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     •    Focuses like a laser on the four technologies that you must master to get the most out of Excel: ranges, formulas, functions, and data analysis tools.

     •    Shuns spreadsheet theory in favor of practical know-how that you can put to use right away.

     •    Provides numerous real-world examples and techniques to help you learn and understand the importance of each section.

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Introduction

1В В В  Getting the Most Out of Ranges

2В В В  Using Range Names

3В В В  Building Basic Formulas

4В В В  Creating Advanced Formulas

5В В В  Troubleshooting Formulas IIВ В В  Harnessing the Power of FunctionsВ В В 

6В В В  Understanding Functions

7В В В  Working with Text Functions

8В В В  Working with Logical and Information Functions

9В В В  Working with Lookup Functions

10В  Working with Date and Time Functions 11В  Working with Math Functions

12В  Working with Statistical Functions

IIIВ В В  Building Business ModelsВ В В 

13В  Analyzing Data with Tables

14В  Analyzing Data with PivotTables

15  Using Excel’s Business-Modeling Tools

16В  Using Regression to Track Trends and Make Forecasts

17В  Solving Complex Problems with Solver

IV В В В Building Financial FormulasВ В В 

18В В  Building Loan Formulas

19В В  Building Investment Formulas

20В В  Building Discount Formulas

Paul McFedries is well-known as a teacher of Windows and Office, particularly Excel, and is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. Paul has been working with spreadsheets for more than 20 years and has been developing Excel solutions since the late 1980s. Now primarily a writer, Paul has written more than 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include Microsoft Office Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries; Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus (all from Que); and Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed (Sams).

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CategoryВ  Office Productivity Suite

CoversВ В В  Microsoft Office Excel 2007

User LevelВ В В В В В В В  Intermediate - Advanced

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