Your personal, hands-on guide to the latest and most useful features in Microsoft Excel 365 Excel 365 is Microsoft’s latest cloud-based version of its world-famous spreadsheet app. Powerful and user-friendly, it’s an ideal solution for businesses and people looking to make sense of—and draw intelligence from—their data. The Excel 365 Bible carries over the best content from the best-selling Excel 2019 Bible while reflecting how a new generation uses Excel in Excel 365. The authoring team with their decades of Excel and business intelligence experience and recognition from the Excel community as Excel MVPs delivers an accessible and authoritative roadmap to Excel 365. Interested in the basics? You’ll learn to create spreadsheets and workbooks and navigate the user interface. If you’re ready for more advanced topics you can skip right to the material on creating visualizations, crafting custom functions, and using Visual Basic for Applications to script automations. You’ll also get: Over 900 pages of powerful tips, tricks, and strategies to unlock the full potential of Microsoft Excel 365 Guidance on how to import, manage, and analyze large amounts of data Advice on how to craft predictions and "What-If Analyses" based on data you already have Perfect for anyone new to Excel, as well as experts and advanced users, the Excel 365 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for everything you need to know about the world’s most popular, easy-to-use spreadsheet software.
Use Excel 365 and Excel 2021 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 recent improvements ranging from dynamic arrays to XLOOKUP and LET. 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 Use modern lookups to make your formulas more powerful and flexible Simplify complex calculations with dynamic arrays in Excel 365 and Excel 2021 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 NPV and IRR Sort, filter, and analyze any tabular data, from customers to inventory Easily analyze huge datasets with PivotTable calculations Perform sophisticated what-if analyses, scenario planning, and forecasting Optimize profit, cost, or operational efficiency with Solver About This Book For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data
The complete guide to Excel 2019 Whether you are just starting out or an Excel novice, the Excel 2019 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for all your Excel 2019 needs. Whether you use Excel at work or at home, you will be guided through the powerful new features and capabilities to take full advantage of what the updated version offers. Learn to incorporate templates, implement formulas, create pivot tables, analyze data, and much more. Navigate this powerful tool for business, home management, technical work, and much more with the only resource you need, Excel 2019 Bible. Create functional spreadsheets that work Master formulas, formatting, pivot tables, and more Get acquainted with Excel 2019's new features and tools Whether you need a walkthrough tutorial or an easy-to-navigate desk reference, the Excel 2019 Bible has you covered with complete coverage and clear expert guidance.
Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel and transform data into bottom-line results. Award-winning educator Wayne Winston's hands-on, scenario-focused guide helps you use today's Excel to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. More extensively updated than any previous edition, new coverage ranges from one-click data analysis to STOCKHISTORY, dynamic arrays to Power Query, and includes six new chapters. Practice with over 900 problems, many based on real challenges faced by working analysts. Solve real problems with Microsoft Excel—and build your competitive advantage Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analytics Use recent Power Query enhancements to connect, combine, and transform data sources more effectively Use the LAMBDA and LAMBDA helper functions to create Custom Functions without VBA Use New Data Types to import data including stock prices, weather, information on geographic areas, universities, movies, and music Build more sophisticated and compelling charts Use the new XLOOKUP function to revolutionize your lookup formulas Master new Dynamic Array formulas that allow you to sort and filter data with formulas and find all UNIQUE entries Illuminate insights from geographic and temporal data with 3D Maps Improve decision-making with probability, Bayes' theorem, and Monte Carlo simulation and scenarios Use Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing for predictive analytics Use Data Model and Power Pivot to effectively build and use relational data sources inside an Excel workbook
• Explains everything current Excel users need to know about the exam process • Covers the five main categories of the exam • Includes practice exam software, videos and flashcards • Reviews the Excel user interface and terminology Internationally recognized, certification in Microsoft Excel can open up a world of benefits to you, and Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Associate 365/2019 Exam Preparation includes everything you need to prepare for the exam. Designed for those already familiar with Excel, this book provides detailed information about how and where to take the exam and exactly what to expect. Each chapter is built on one of the five exam topics. Ample study material is provided, including practice examsoftware and video tutorials for every outcome in the book. The author will guide you like a personal Excel coach, helping you to boost your knowledge, pinpoint skills you need to work on, and gain the confidence to be able to pass the exam. Why certification is important Microsoft Excel Certification is an easily verifiable way to showcase your willingness to learn new skills and software, and it provides a myriad of other benefits as well. Not only can certification enhance your Excel skills, it can help you get hired, boost academic performance, prepare for the demands of a job, open doors to career opportunities, and be more productive and confident working on projects at school, home, or work. Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Associate certification is the first step to prove your skill level and open doors to career opportunities. Outline of the book This book leads you through the exam process from beginning to end. The first chapter includes the exact steps to take to register for the exam and find an exam center, tips on using your time wisely during the exam, and an overview of Excel’s user interface and important terminology. The next five chapters thoroughly cover the main topics in the Microsoft Office Specialist Excel Associate exam: Manage Worksheets and Workbooks, Manage Data Cells and Ranges, Manage Tables and Table Data, Perform Operations by using Formulas and Functions, and Manage Charts. Short video tutorials are included for every single outcome in the book, 70 in all, for when you need extra help or learn best by observation. Excel practice exam software included Unlike any other Excel exam manual available, this book includes Excel practice exam software. The final chapter focuses on the practice exam, which closely mimics the format of the real exam. Custom-built and specially designed by SDC Publications, the practice exam can be taken multiple times so you are comfortable with the test software, how to mark and return to questions, question format, live in-application steps, and how the results are presented. Study materials for all learning styles • Custom-made Practice Exam Software • 70 short narrated video tutorials for every outcome in the book • 70 Flashcards • Exam Day Study Guide About the author Daniel John Stine AIA, CSI, CDT, is a registered architect with over twenty years of experience in the field of architecture. Throughout these years of professional practice, Stine has leveraged many of the Microsoft Office products to organize and manage complex projects. In addition to Microsoft Office certification study guides, Stine has written multiple books on architectural design software, all written using Microsoft Word and published by SDC Publications.
This is a book about Microsoft 365 Excel, or Excel 365. With a new formula calculations engine and many new built-in functions, creating formula solutions and business models in Excel 365 is dramatically easier than at any time in the history of spreadsheets. In addition, with the new data tools like Power Query, Power Pivot, and Power BI, performing data analysis to make data driven decisions can be easily done on data with different structures, with different sources, and on small and big data alike. With this exciting new Excel 365 version, we will learn three types for formulas: Worksheet, M Code, and DAX, and we will learn three types of Reporting/Dashboarding tools: Standard PivotTables, Data Model PivotTables, and Power BI Visualizations. This means that the New Excel 365 is the only app that matters in our age of analytics and data driven decisions. Who is this book/class for? Everyone. The book starts at the beginning and moves to an advanced level by telling a logical story about how to use Excel to solve calculation-based problems and answer crucial questions.
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
"For over 17 years, instructors have relied upon the GO! series to teach Microsoft Office successfully. The series uses a project-based approach that clusters learning objectives around projects, rather than software features, so students can practice solving real business problems. Gaskin uses easy-to-follow Microsoft Procedural Syntax so students always know where to go on the ribbon; she combines this with a Teachable Moment approach that offers learners tips and instructions at the precise moment they're needed. Updated to Office 365, GO! with Microsoft® Office 365®, Excel 2019 Comprehensive adds tips for Mac users, revised instructional projects, and improved coverage of the what, why, and how of skills application."--Publisher's web page.
