Expert Paul McFedries helps you master key Excel 2019 and Office 365 tools for building more powerful spreadsheets. Use Excel 2019 and Office 365 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 the latest improvements to arrays, formula error handling, and statistics. 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 * Radically simplify complex calculations with Office 365's new dynamic arrays * 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 net present value and internal rate of return * Sort, filter, and analyze tabular data, from customers to inventory * Easily analyze huge data sets with PivotTable calculations 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
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Part I-Mastering Excel formulas Chapter 1-Building basic formulas Chapter 2-Creating advanced formulas Chapter 3-Troubleshooting formulas Part II-Harnessing the power of functions Chapter 4-Understanding functions Chapter 5-Working with text functions Chapter 6-Working with logical and information functions Chapter 7-Working with lookup functions Chapter 8-Working with date and time functions Chapter 9-Working with math functions Part III-Building business formulas Chapter 10-Implementing basic business formulas Chapter 11-Building descriptive statistical formulas Chapter 12-Building inferential statistical formulas Chapter 13-Applying regression to track trends and make forecasts Chapter 14-Building loan formulas Chapter 15-Working with investment formulas Chapter 16-Building discount formulas Part IV-Building business models Chapter 17-Analyzing data with tables Chapter 18-Analyzing data with PivotTables Chapter 19-Using Excel's business modeling tools Chapter 20-Solving complex problems with Solver
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ISBN
9781509307166
Publisert
2019-02-19
Utgiver
Microsoft Press,U.S.
Aldersnivå
06, P
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Paul McFedries is an Excel expert and full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 95 books to his credit, which combined have sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. His titles include the Que Publishing books My Office 2016, Windows 10 In Depth (with coauthor Brian Knittel), and PCs for Grownups, as well as the Sams Publishing book Windows 7 Unleashed. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases that have entered the English language. Please drop by Paul's personal website at mcfedries.com or follow Paul on Twitter, at twitter.com/ paulmcf and twitter.com/wordspy.