Conditional formatting is a way to take a data set and apply special formatting to certain results. It makes it much easier to see patterns as well as sort and filter your data. This book will walk you through the various options for applying conditional formatting to your data. * * * This book is part of the Easy Excel 365 Essentials series of titles. These are targeted titles that are excerpted from the main Excel 365 Essentials series and are focused on one specific topic. If you want a more general introduction to Excel, then you should check out the Excel 365 Essentials titles instead. In this case, Intermediate Excel 365 which covers conditional formatting as well as a number of other topics, such as pivot tables and charts.
This is the first edition of a textbook written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel; second edition available: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/beginningexcel19/. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before.
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
Explore advanced skills in Excel and gain an amazing array of tricks and tools to increase your productivity. This book discusses new techniques such as power functions, chart tricks, and many more to master Excel. Advanced Excel Success starts with a few useful data tools in Excel followed by advanced formulas that will help you increase productivity. Here, you will learn power functions that aggregate, return ranges, and much more. Further, you will look at custom formatting tricks along with advanced charting tricks. These include automatically changing the color of key metrics, dynamically sorting chart data, and building creative labels. Next, you will understand the role of Power Query which is one of the most important upgrades in Excel. Power Query is the Microsoft Data Connectivity and Data Preparation technology that enables business users to seamlessly access data stored in hundreds of data sources and reshape it to fit their needs, with an easy–to-use, engaging, and no-code user experience. Finally, you will learn Power Pivot which is a distinct feature in Excel that goes beyond spreadsheets. After reading this book, you will be well equipped to work on Excel with its advanced features. What You Will Learn Work with the most useful data tools Understand formulas and the ten power functions Use advanced chart and formatting tricks and techniques for dynamic and effective visuals Work with power tools Who This Book Is For Excel users looking to take the next step to expert level.
Maximize your Excel 2013 experience using VBA application development The new Excel 2013 boasts updated features, enhanced power, and new capabilities. Naturally, that means John Walkenbach returns with a new edition of his bestselling VBA Programming book and covers all the methods and tools you need to know in order to program with Excel. With this comprehensive guide, "Mr. Spreadsheet" shows you how to maximize your Excel experience using professional spreadsheet application development tips from his own personal bookshelf. Featuring a complete introduction to Visual Basic for Applications and fully updated for the latest features of Excel 2013, this essential reference includes an analysis of Excel application development and is packed with procedures, tips, and ideas for expanding Excel's capabilities with VBA. Offers an analysis of Excel application development and a complete introduction to VBA Features invaluable advice from "Mr. Spreadsheet" himself, bestselling author John Walkenbach, who demonstrates all the techniques you need to create Excel applications, both large and small Covers navigating the Excel interface, formatting worksheets, interacting with other Office applications, working with collaboration tools, and using sample workbooks and John Walkenbach's award-winning Power Utility Pak to help enhance your Excel skills Provides tips, tricks, and techniques for expanding Excel's capabilities with VBA that you wont find anywhere else Excel 2013 Power Programming with VBA is packed with procedures, tips, and ideas for achieving Excel excellence with VBA.
Learn the Best Excel Tips & Tricks Ever: FORMULAS, MACROS, PIVOT TABLES, FORMATTING, DATA, MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 plus Many More! With this book, you'll learn to apply the must know Excel features and tricks to make your data analysis & reporting easier and will save time in the process. With this book you get the following: ✔ 101 Best Excel Tips & Tricks To Advance Your Excel Skills & Save You Hours ✔ New Excel Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Office 365 ✔ Easy to Read Step by Step Guide with Screenshots ✔ Downloadable Practice Excel Workbooks for each Tip & Trick ✔ You also get a FREE BONUS downloadable PDF version of this book! This book is a MUST-HAVE for Beginner to Intermediate Excel users who want to learn Microsoft Excel FAST & stand out from the crowd!
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Complete classroom training manual for Excel for Microsoft 365. 345 pages and 211 individual topics. Includes practice exercises and keyboard shortcuts. You will learn how to create spreadsheets and advanced formulas, format and manipulate spreadsheet layout, sharing and auditing workbooks, create charts, maps, macros, and much more. Topics Covered: Getting Acquainted with Excel 1. About Excel 2. The Excel Environment 3. The Title Bar 4. The Ribbon 5. The “File” Tab and Backstage View 6. Scroll Bars 7. The Quick Access Toolbar 8. Touch Mode 9. The Formula Bar 10. The Workbook Window 11. The Status Bar 12. The Workbook View Buttons 13. The Zoom Slider 14. The Mini Toolbar 15. Keyboard Shortcuts File Management 1. Creating New Workbooks 2. Saving Workbooks 3. Closing Workbooks 4. Opening Workbooks 5. Recovering Unsaved Workbooks 6. Opening a Workbook in a New Window 7. Arranging Open Workbook Windows 8. Freeze Panes 9. Split Panes 10. Hiding and Unhiding Workbook Windows 11.Comparing Open Workbooks 12. Switching Open Workbooks 13. Switching to Full Screen Mode 14. Working With Excel File Formats 15. AutoSave Online Workbooks Data Entry 1. Selecting Cells 2. Entering Text into Cells 3. Entering Numbers into Cells 4. AutoComplete 5. Pick from Drop-Down List 6. Flash Fill 7. Selecting Ranges 8. Ranged Data Entry 9. Using AutoFill Creating Formulas 1. Ranged Formula Syntax 2. Simple Formula Syntax 3. Writing Formulas 4. Using AutoSum 5. Inserting Functions 6. Editing a Range 7. Formula AutoCorrect 8. AutoCalculate 9. Function Compatibility Copying & Pasting Formulas 1. Relative References and Absolute References 2. Cutting, Copying, and Pasting Data 3. AutoFilling Cells 4. The Undo Button 5. The Redo Button Columns & Rows 1. Selecting Columns & Rows 2. Adjusting Column Width and Row Height 3. Hiding and Unhiding Columns and Rows 4. Inserting and Deleting Columns and Rows Formatting Worksheets 1. Formatting Cells 2. The Format Cells Dialog Box 3. Clearing All Formatting from Cells 4. Copying All Formatting from Cells to Another Area Worksheet Tools 1. Inserting and Deleting Worksheets 2. Selecting Multiple Worksheets 3. Navigating Worksheets 4. Renaming Worksheets 5. Coloring Worksheet Tabs 6. Copying or Moving Worksheets Setting Worksheet Layout 1. Using Page Break Preview 2. Using the Page Layout View 3. Opening The Page Setup Dialog Box 4. Page Settings 5. Setting Margins 6. Creating Headers and Footers 7. Sheet Settings Printing Spreadsheets 1. Previewing and Printing Worksheets Helping Yourself 1. Using Excel Help 2. Microsoft Search in Excel 3. Smart Lookup Creating 3D Formulas 1. Creating 3D Formulas 2. 3D Formula Syntax 3. Creating 3D Range References Named Ranges 1. Naming Ranges 2. Creating Names from Headings 3. Moving to a Named Range 4. Using Named Ranges in Formulas 5. Naming 3D Ranges 6. Deleting Named Ranges Conditional Formatting and Cell Styles 1. Conditional Formatting 2. Finding Cells with Conditional Formatting 3. Clearing Conditional Formatting 4. Using Table and Cell Styles Paste Special 1. Using Paste Special 2. Pasting Links Sharing Workbooks 1. About Co-authoring and Sharing Workbooks 2. Co-authoring Workbooks 3. Adding Shared Workbook Buttons in Excel 4. Traditional Workbook Sharing 5. Highlighting Changes 6. Reviewing Changes 7. Using Comments and Notes 8. Compare and Merge Workbooks Auditing Worksheets 1. Auditing Worksheets 2. Tracing Precedent and Dependent Cells 3. Tracing Errors 4. Error Checking 5. Using the Watch Window 6. Cell Validation Outlining Worksheets 1. Using Outlines 2. Applying and Removing Outlines 3. Applying Subtotals Consolidating Worksheets 1. Consolidating Data Tables 1. Creating a Table 2. Adding an Editing Records 3. Inserting Records and Fields 4. Deleting Records and Fields Sorting Data 1. Sorting Data 2. Custom Sort Orders Filtering Data 1. Using AutoFilters 2. Using the Top 10 AutoFilter 3. Using a Custom AutoFilter 4. Creating Advanced Filters 5. Applying Multiple Criteria 6. Using Complex Criteria 7. Copying Filter Results to a New Location 8. Using Database Functions Using What-If Analysis 1. Using Data Tables 2. Using Scenario Manager 3. Using Goal Seek 4. Forecast Sheets Table-Related Functions 1. The Hlookup and Vlookup Functions 2. Using the IF, AND, and OR Functions 3. The IFS Function Sparklines 1. Inserting and Deleting Sparklines 2. Modifying Sparklines Creating Charts In Excel 1. Creating Charts 2. Selecting Charts and Chart Elements 3. Adding Chart Elements 4. Moving and Resizing Charts 5. Changing the Chart Type 6. Changing the Data Range 7. Switching Column and Row Data 8. Choosing a Chart Layout 9. Choosing a Chart Style 10. Changing Color Schemes 11. Printing Charts 12. Deleting Charts Formatting Charts in Excel 1. Formatting Chart Objects 2. Inserting Objects into a Chart 3. Formatting Axes 4. Formatting Axis Titles 5. Formatting a Chart Title 6. Formatting Data Labels 7. Formatting a Data Table 8. Formatting Error Bars 9. Formatting Gridlines 10. Formatting a Legend 11. Formatting Drop and High-Low Lines 12. Formatting Trendlines 13. Formatting Up/Down Bars 14. Formatting the Chart and Plot Areas 15. Naming Charts 16. Applying Shape Styles 17. Applying WordArt Styles 18. Saving Custom Chart Templates Data Models 1. Creating a Data Model from External Relational Data 2. Creating a Data Model from Excel Tables 3. Enabling Legacy Data Connections 4. Relating Tables in a Data Model 5. Managing a Data Model PivotTables and PivotCharts 1. Creating Recommended PivotTables 2. Manually Creating a PivotTable 3. Creating a PivotChart 4. Manipulating a PivotTable or PivotChart 5. Changing Calculated Value Fields 6. Formatting PivotTables 7. Formatting PivotCharts 8. Setting PivotTable Options 9. Sorting and Filtering Using Field Headers PowerPivot 1. Starting PowerPivot 2. Managing the Data Model 3. Calculated Columns and Fields 4. Measures 5. Creating KPIs 6. Creating and Managing Perspectives 7. PowerPivot PivotTables and PivotCharts 3D Maps 1. Enabling 3D Maps 2. Creating a New 3D Maps Tour 3. Editing a 3D Maps Tour 4. Managing Layers in a 3D Maps Tour 5. Filtering Layers 6. Setting Layer Options 7. Managing Scenes 8. Custom 3D Maps 9. Custom Regions 10. World Map Options 11. Inserting 3D Map Objects 12. Previewing a Scene 13. Playing a 3D Maps Tour 14. Creating a Video of a 3D Maps Tour 15. 3D Maps Options Slicers and Timelines 1. Inserting and Deleting Slicers 2. Modifying Slicers 3. Inserting and Deleting Timelines 4. Modifying Timelines Security Features 1. Unlocking Cells 2. Worksheet Protection 3. Workbook Protection 4. Password Protecting Excel Files Making Macros 1. Recording Macros 2. Running and Deleting Recorded Macros 3. The Personal Macro Workbook
Contains Almost 200 Screenshots. For Excel 365 or Excel 2021 Users. Once you’ve mastered the basics of Microsoft Excel there are a number of additional tools that can take your use of Excel to the next level. In this book we cover three of the biggest ones: conditional formatting, charts, and pivot tables (including pivot charts). In addition we cover a handful of tricks such as removing duplicate values, converting text to columns, and grouping and subtotaling data. So if you’ve mastered the basics of Microsoft Excel and are now ready to take things to the next level, check it out.
