Beginning Microsoft Excel 2010 is a practical, step-by-step guide to getting started with the world’s most widely-used spreadsheet application. The book offers a hands-on approach to learning how to create and edit spreadsheets, use various calculation formulas, employ charts/graphs, and get work done efficiently. Microsoft rolled out several new features with Excel 2010—perhaps the most notable was the ability to use Excel 2010 online and collaborate on a project in real time. Beginning Microsoft Office 2010 keeps you up-to-date with all of these features and more.
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You're beyond the basics, so dive in and really put your spreadsheet skills to work! This supremely organized reference is packed with hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It's all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts tackle Excel 2010-and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery! Learn expert techniques for designing powerful spreadsheets Apply built-in functions-or write your own-and carry out complex calculations Use rich charting and graphic capabilities to visualize data Perform sophisticated data analysis: financial, statistical, and "what-if" Design PivotTable reports to dynamically analyze data Share and collaborate with others-while managing sensitive data Link and embed Excel data into other documents Create macros with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications Sample spreadsheets from inside the book Add-ins and other resources to help you extend Microsoft Office programs Links to demos, user communities, and product support
Get going with Excel 2010 quickly and easily with this Simplified guide Excel can be a complex program, and Excel 2010 includes new features and functionalities that require users of older versions to re-learn the application. Whether you're switching from an earlier version or learning Excel for the first time, this easy-to-follow visual guide provides information you can use right away. With an easy-to-read design, numbered steps illustrated with full-color screen shots, concise information, and helpful tips, Excel 2010 Simplified makes learning faster and easier than ever before. Excel is the world's leading spreadsheet and data analysis tool; Excel 2010 includes numerous new features, a redesigned interface, a new focus on collaboration and application servers, and much more Its complexity makes Excel a perfect subject for the step-by-step visual instruction in this guide Numbered steps illustrated with full-color screen shots teach dozens of Excel 2010 tasks Covers Excel basics, workbook fundamentals, formatting worksheets and enhancing them with graphics, analyzing data, communicating results with charts and PivotTables, and much more A quick and easy way to get up to speed on Excel 2010 for both novice users and those upgrading from an earlier version Excel 2010 Simplified tames this complicated application and gives you the skills to start using Excel with confidence.
The most comprehensive guidebook available on the most popular spreadsheet program, fully updated to include all-new "X" features Written by the leading Excel guru known as "Mr. Spreadsheet," John Walkenbach, who has written more than thirty books and 300 articles on related topics and maintains the popular Spreadsheet Page at www.j-walk.com/ss The definitive reference book for beginning to advanced users, featuring expert advice and hundreds of examples, tips, techniques, shortcuts, work-arounds, and more Covers expanded use of XML and Web services to facilitate data reporting, analysis, importing, and exporting information Explores Excel programming for those who want advanced information CD-ROM includes all templates and worksheets used in the book, as well as sample chapters from all Wiley Office "X" related Bibles and useful third party software, including John Walkenbach's Power Utility Pak Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
Conquer Microsoft Excel formulas and functions—from the inside out! You’re beyond the basics, so dive right in and really put Excel formulas and functions to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts increase their data analysis capabilities using Excel 2003, 2007, or 2010—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. Customize Excel formulas using 350+ built-in functions Create reusable formulas for common calculations Learn smarter ways to calculate date and time values Systematically search worksheets with lookup and reference functions Perform advanced calculations using mathematical, statistical, and financial functions Build complex formulas by nesting one function inside of another Analyze profit margins and more with new functions in Excel 2010 Develop your own functions with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) NOTE: The sample Excel files that accompany the book were updated on 12/4/2012. Click the Companion Content link to download the files.
Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to organize, analyze, and present data with Excel 2010. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them! Topics include creating formulas, calculating values, and analyzing data; presenting information visually with graphics, charts, and diagrams; building PivotTable dynamic views; using the new Excel Web App; reusing information from databases and other documents; creating macros to automate repetitive tasks and simplify your work; and other core topics.
Work smarter and faster in Excel 2010 with this quick, practical guide! Want quick answers to your Excel 2010 questions? This handy guide breaks down big tasks into bite-sized how-tos that quickly show you how to accomplish what you want to do. Full-color screenshots and numbered steps clearly explain dozens of features and functions-while shortcuts, tips, and tricks help you save time and boost productivity. There's no fluff-these nuggets are pure gold Excel essentials. And the book's handy 6" x 9" size makes it even easier for you to find what you need. Demystifies the 2010 version of Excel, the world's leading spreadsheet application that is part of Microsoft Office 2010 Walks you through dozens of new features and functions Helps you migrate from older versions of Excel and ramp up to new Excel functionality in no time Uses straightforward descriptions and explanations, full-color screenshots, and easy-to-follow numbered steps to help you glean what you need, fast Boosts your productivity with shortcuts, tips, and tricks that help you work smarter Make Excel 2010 work for you with the invaluable quick tips in Excel 2010 Visual Quick Tips.
Pivot tables are the most powerful feature in Excel. A basic pivot table will allow you to summarize 500,000 rows of transactional data in 30 seconds with just a few mouse clicks. Business productivity would skyrocket if everyone knew how to use pivot tables. However, only 12% of people using Excel can create a basic pivot table. Of this group only a small percentage actually harness all the power that pivot tables afford them. By the end of the book, users will be pivot table gurus automating pivot tables using VBA, creating pivot tables with external data in OLAP cubes, and even creating dynamic reporting systems so that managers can answer their own queries with a few mouse clicks. Throughout the book there are no-nonsense, step-by-step tutorials and lots of practical examples aimed directly at business users.
