Excel is a complex program. Mastering the use of formulas and functions lets you use Excel to compute useful day-to-day information, such as calculating the true cost of credit card purchases or comparing 15-year and 30-year mortgage costs. This fun and friendly book demystifies Excel's built-in functions so you can put them to work.
You'll find step-by-step instructions on 150 of Excel's most useful functions, how they work within formulas, and how to use them to make your life easier.
In the ever-popular, non-threatening For Dummies style, Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes Excel's power accessible to you.
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Get your hands dirty and dig for the nuggets in your data! This book shows you how, walking you through over 150 built-in functions in Excel 2010. Want to calculate a loan payment? How about finding a trend in your data? It's all covered with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, so you can put the power of Excel functions to work.
Put the fun in functions — from using the Insert Function dialog box and array functions to correcting formulas, you'll brush up on Excel
Do the math — create worksheets to track costs and revenue
Simple to sophisticated — take advantage of finance-related functions and learn how to sum and round numbers to get just the answers you need
Statistically speaking — test for central tendencies, analyze deviation, and count items in a data sample
Dive into forecasting — apply statistical functions to develop sound predictions
Make the data work for you — work with dates, times, and strings of text and pluck out pieces of data from a database
What's your function? — get the most from several cool functions, such as the amazing IF and the workhorses HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP
Open the book and find:
Tips for tapping into formula and function fundamentals
How to catch errors and audit formulas
Steps for moving from basic to advanced math functions
How to solve problems with statistics
Best practices for working with data
How to compare, find, and measure text
Ways to use lookup, logical, and reference functions
How to put data into a database structure
Learn to:
Use Excel's built-in formulas to make everyday calculations
Determine what functions to use in your formulas
Create amortization tables, calculate classroom grades, or evaluate investments
Design a database
Peter Aitken has written about computers and programming for over 10 years and has written more than 35 books, including Excel Programming Weekend Crash Course.
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