Business solutions formulas and functions with microsoft® office excel 2007
Paul McFedries · Que Corp. eBooks · 2007
“If you've never quite grasped formulas and functions, Paul McFedries will radically expand your understanding and use of Excel. And if you're already an expert and you're moving up to Excel 2007, this book will quickly show you features you've only dreamed of until now...”-Thomas 'Duffbert' Duff, Duffbert's Random Musings, http://www.twduff.comDevelop your Microsoft Excel expertise instantly with proven techniques Master Excel Ranges Create Powerful Arrays Troubleshoot Formula Problems Validate Worksheet Data Perform What-If Analysis Model Your Business Track Trends and Make Forecasts Analyze Data Find Optimal Solutions Build Dynamic Loan Schedulesi¾ Most Microsoft® Excel users learn only a small percentage of the program's features. They know they could get more out of Excel if they could just get a leg up on building formulas and using functions. Unfortunately, this side of Excel appears complex and intimidating to the uninitiated-shrouded in the mysteries of mathematics, finance, and impenetrable spreadsheet jargon.Sound familiar? If you're a businessperson who needs to use Excel as an everyday part of your job, then you've come to the right book.i¾ Formulas and Functions with Microsoft® Office Excel 2007 demystifies worksheet formulas and presents the most useful Excel functions in an accessible,i¾ jargon-free way.i¾ This book not only takes you through Excel's intermediate and advanced formula-building features, it also tells you why these features are useful to you and shows you how to use them in everyday situations. Throughout the book you'll find no-nonsense, step-by-step tutorials and lots of practical examples aimed directly at business users.i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ ·i¾ i¾ i¾ Focuses like a laser on the four technologies that you must master to get the most out of Excel: ranges, formulas, functions, and data analysis tools.i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ ·i¾ i¾ i¾ Shuns spreadsheet theory in favor of practical know-how that you can put to use right away.i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ ·i¾ i¾ i¾ Provides numerous real-world examples and techniques to help you learn and understand the importance of each section.Introduction1i¾ i¾ i¾ Getting the Most Out of Ranges2i¾ i¾ i¾ Using Range Names3i¾ i¾ i¾ Building Basic Formulas4i¾ i¾ i¾ Creating Advanced Formulas6i¾ i¾ i¾ Understanding Functions7i¾ i¾ i¾ Working with Text Functions8i¾ i¾ i¾ Working with Logical and Information Functions9i¾ i¾ i¾ Working with Lookup Functions12i¾ Working with Statistical FunctionsIIIi¾ i¾ i¾ Building Business Modelsi¾ i¾ i¾ 13i¾ Analyzing Data with Tables14i¾ Analyzing Data with PivotTables15i¾ Using Excel's Business-Modeling Tools16i¾ Using Regression to Track Trends and Make Forecasts17i¾ Solving Complex Problems with SolverIV i¾ i¾ i¾ Building Financial Formulasi¾ i¾ i¾ 18i¾ i¾ Building Loan Formulas19i¾ i¾ Building Investment Formulas20i¾ i¾ Building Discount FormulasPaul McFedries is well-known as a teacher of Windows and Office, particularly Excel, and is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. Paul has been working with spreadsheets for more than 20 years and has been developing Excel solutions since the late 1980s. Now primarily a writer, Paul has written more than 50 books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide. These books include Microsoft Office Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries; Tricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus (all from Que); and Microsoft Windows Vista Unleashed (Sams).Categoryi¾ Office Productivity SuiteCoversi¾ i¾ i¾ Microsoft Office Excel 2007User Leveli¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ i¾ Intermediate - Advanced