Unlock the power of Excel with a step-by-step roadmap to its formulas and functions There's a Swiss Army knife in your digital toolbox that can multiply your productivity and make you the smartest guy or gal in almost any room. It's called Microsoft Excel.
If you're like most people, you've barely scratched the surface of what this powerful tool's hundreds of built-in functions can do. But with a little help from Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies, you'll soon be organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data like a pro.
For those who don't know the difference between a spreadsheet and a bedsheet, the book gets you up to speed with formula and function basics first. But you can also skip ahead to the fancy stuff and learn about working with probabilities, significance tests, and lookup functions.
This easy-to-use Excel formulas and functions survival guide shows you how to:
Work with financial functions like PMT, PPMT, NPER, RATE, and PV Calculate mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and many more statistical functions Troubleshoot formulas for common errors and validate your data to avoid mistakes Work with dates, times, logic operators, conditions, and basic and advanced mathematical functions
You don't need a degree in data science or advanced mathematics to take advantage of the full functionality and flexibility of Microsoft Excel. Let Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies show you how to transform this unassuming program into the most useful tool in your toolbox.
By:
Ken Bluttman
Imprint: For Dummies
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 6th edition
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 188mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781119839118
ISBN 10: 1119839114
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 03 December 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction 1 About This Book 1 Foolish Assumptions 2 Icons Used in This Book 2 Beyond the Book 3 Where to Go from Here 3 Part 1: Getting Started with Excel Formulas and Functions 5 Chapter 1: Tapping Into Formula and Function Fundamentals 7 Chapter 2: Saving Time with Function Tools 39 Chapter 3: Saying “Array!” for Formulas and Functions 55 Chapter 4: Fixing Formula Boo-Boos 65 Part 2: Doing the Math 83 Chapter 5: Calculating Loan Payments and Interest Rates 85 Chapter 6: Appreciating What You’ll Get, Depreciating What You’ve Got 105 Chapter 7: Using Basic Math Functions 121 Chapter 8: Advancing Your Math 139 Part 3: Solving with Statistics 161 Chapter 9: Throwing Statistics a Curve 163 Chapter 10: Using Significance Tests 203 Chapter 11: Rolling the Dice on Predictions and Probability 213 Part 4: Dancing with Data 231 Chapter 12: Dressing Up for Date Functions 233 Chapter 13: Keeping Well-Timed Functions 251 Chapter 14: Using Lookup, Logical, and Reference Functions 261 Chapter 15: Digging Up the Facts 297 Chapter 16: Writing Home about Text Functions 311 Chapter 17: Playing Records with Database Functions 337 Part 5: The Part of Tens 353 Chapter 18: Ten Tips for Working with Formulas 355 Chapter 19: Ten Ways to Get Fancy with Excel 369 Chapter 20: Ten Really Cool Functions 375 Work with Hexadecimal, Octal, Decimal, and Binary Numbers 376 Convert Units of Measurement 377 Find the Greatest Common Divisor and the Least Common Multiple 378 Easily Generate a Random Number 379 Convert to Roman Numerals 379 Factor in a Factorial 379 Determine Part of a Year with YEARFRAC 380 Find the Data TYPE 380 Find the LENgth of Your Text 381 Just in CASE 381 Index 383
Ken Bluttman is a veteran software and web developer specializing in Excel/VBA and database-centric web applications. He has written articles and books on topics like Office/VBA development, XML, SQL Server, and InfoPath. Ken is the author of Excel Charts For Dummies and all previous editions of Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies.
