This book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel. You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Both IT professionals and absolute beginners will love this book because it avoids needless technical jargon and concisely explains everything you need in a simple and no-nonsense way. Amongst other things you'll learn how to: ¿Use Excel 2016¿s new 3D maps feature to create interactive video tours ¿Use Excel 2016¿s new Get & Transform tool to clean and combine data ¿Perform What-If analysis to model and compare business scenarios ¿Use advanced functions to solve real-world business problems ¿Create intuitive user interfaces using form controls and recorded macros ¿Master dynamic tables and structured table references ¿Use Excel 2016¿s new Append and Merge queries to de-normalize data ¿Master Excel¿s data modeling features to define table relationships ¿Completely understand Excel¿s ability to create OLAP cubes ¿Use OLAP pivot tables and 3D Maps to present OLAP cube data. ¿Use OLAP features to gain total control over PivotTable formatting ¿Break the million row limit with Excels 2016¿s new Big Data features
This book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel. You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Both IT professionals and absolute beginners will love this book because it avoids needless technical jargon and concisely explains everything you need in a simple and no-nonsense way. Amongst other things you'll learn how to: ¿Use Excel 2013¿s new data model feature to create table relationships ¿Master dynamic tables and structured table references ¿Completely understand Excel 2013¿s new ability to create OLAP cubes ¿Use Excel 2013¿s new OLAP Pivot Tables to present OLAP cube data ¿Perform What-If analysis to model and compare business scenarios ¿Record macros and then execute them from button controls ¿Create intuitive user interfaces using form controls ¿Enforce complex business rules using function-driven custom validations ¿Use advanced functions to solve real-world business problems ¿Understand and use all of Excel¿s security features ¿Use Excel 2013¿s new timeline slicers to quickly filter date ranges ¿Create and use dynamic and table-based range names
At long last there is now a professional Excel course available for Mac users This book is only for the Apple Mac version of Excel 2016. (There's also an Excel for Windows version available (ISBN: 978-1-909253-08-7). This Excel 2016 for Mac book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel 2016 for Mac. Here are just five of the many ways in which this book is unique: The book will equip you with excellent Excel 2016 for Mac skills, good enough to impress any employer, but it doesn't confuse by attempting to teach skills that are not common in the workplace. Only users who have advanced requirements need progress to the Excel 2016 for Mac Expert Skills book. Instruction is logically structured into sessions and lessons. While this makes the book ideal for self-instruction, you can also use it to run your own, highly effective, Excel 2016 for Mac adult training courses. Every lesson is presented on two facing sheets of A4 paper (the pages are much bigger than in any other Excel book).Each lesson has a sample file that models a real-world business problem. You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Both IT professionals and absolute beginners will love this book because it avoids needless technical jargon and concisely explains everything you need in a simple and no-nonsense way. From the Back Cover Amongst other things you'll learn how to: Create stunning, professional, presentation-quality chartsUse the new Excel 2016 for Mac Cloud Computing features to share dataUnderstand absolute, relative and mixed cell referencesCreate stunning, professional, presentation-quality chartsUse the Themes feature to create visually excellent worksheets Use Sparklines to visually represent large data setsBring your data alive with VisualizationsCreate custom conditional formatting rules with the Rules ManagerCreate your own formulas with the Formula AutoComplete featureMaster Excel 2016 for Mac's Fluent User Interface and RibbonUnderstand the different Excel 2016 for Mac file formatsAdd a professional sheen to your work with 3-D ElementsUnderstand and work with three-dimensional worksheet groups Companies who have taken Smart Method courses include: AOL Time Warner, The United States Army, Daimler Chrysler, Motorola, HSBC, Barclays, American Express, Allied Irish Banks, Imperial Tobacco, Volvo, The BBC, British Petroleum, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Unilever, The Institute of Chartered Accountants, The Ministry of Defence, Keele University, Deutsche Bank, HBOS, Transport For London, The Performing Rights Society, Scottish Power, The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, BAE Systems, RBS, Marks & Spencer, Virgin, O2, BMW... and many, many others.
Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2019 and Office 365 and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. New coverage ranges from Power Query/Get & Transform to Office 365 Geography and Stock data types. Practice with more than 800 problems, many based on actual challenges faced by working analysts. Solve real business problems with Excel—and build your competitive advantage: Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analytics Use PowerQuery or Get & Transform to connect, combine, and refine data sources Leverage Office 365’s new Geography and Stock data types and six new functions Illuminate insights from geographic and temporal data with 3D Maps Summarize data with pivot tables, descriptive statistics, histograms, and Pareto charts Use Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing Delve into key financial, statistical, and time functions Master all of Excel’s great charts Quickly create forecasts from historical time-based data Use Solver to optimize product mix, logistics, work schedules, and investments—and even rate sports teams Run Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding models Learn about basic probability and Bayes’ Theorem Use the Data Model and Power Pivot to effectively build and use relational data sources inside an Excel workbook Automate repetitive analytics tasks by using macros
100% practical guide to understand and use basic to advance level Excel 2019 Key features What's New in Excel 2019 Office 365 Putting Data into Excel Transforming and Managing the Data Formulas and Functions Data Analysis techniques Data Visualization techniques Multiple ways of Data Extraction Automation in Excel through Macros DescriptionExcel is, by far, the most preferred spreadsheet program on this planet. People love it because of its simplicity and easy user interface. The primary focus of Excel is to perform basic to advanced level numeric calculations. Every industry, department, job role is dependent on Excel to perform day to day duties as well as data analysis and visualization. Microsoft Excel is available in both offline (Excel 2019) and online (Office 365) versions. If you are new to Excel or use this program day in day out, then this book will surely clear your logics and concepts of excel.This book starts with an introduction to Excel program and an overview of its interface and move towards an explanation of new features being introduced in Excel 2019 and Office 365, then an in-depth discussion on entering and transforming data. Understanding different formulas and functions with practical exercises. Afterwards, how to perform data analysis and present it using different data visualization tools. Finally, extracting data and automation of tasks through Macros.After going through this book, you will become conceptually strong in using various features of Excel. You will increase your productivity by understanding and using the right tool for the related data set.What will you learnBy the end of the book, you will come across many case studies to put your knowledge to practice and understand many tools to solve real-life business problems such as importing data into Excel from different sources, data cleaning through various tools including flash fill, bringing data together into one place using lookup functionality, analysing it to get insights through pivot tables & what if analysis, generating forecast based on past trends, exporting final reports, understanding Power features like Power Pivot/Query/Map and automating manual processes through Macros . Remember to practice along with sample data files provided in the exercise files bundle of the book to master these techniques.Who this book is forThis book is for anyone who is either new to Excel or daily Excel user. This book will take you from basic concepts of Excel to Advanced level. Whether you belong to any industry or serving any department, as an Excel user, this book will make you a Pro in Excel.Table of contents1. What's New in Excel 2019/Office 3652. Entering Data in Excel3. Transforming and Managing Data4. Formulas and Functions5. Data Analysis6. Data Visualization7. Data Extraction8. Automation in Excel through MacrosAbout the authorLokesh Lalwani, is a Microsoft Certified Office Expert with over a decade of experience in the field of training. He is a seasoned entrepreneur and Co-founder of a renowned corporate training firm - Nurture Tech Academy. He has conducted 1,000 plus corporate workshops on various technologies like Advanced Excel, Business Presentations, Power BI etc. and trained over 12,000 professionals. He is also sharing his knowledge through 5 pre-recorded courses ,on above mentioned technologies, over world's most popular E-learning platforms with an average rating of 4.5/5 from over 15,000 learners. He believes in "e;life is learning"e;.His Blog links: https://www.nurturetechacademy.in/blog/His LinkedIn Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/lokesh-lalwani-7a6b6b55
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