Microsoft Excel Functions and Formulas with Excel 2019/Office 365


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In this completely updated edition covering Excel 2019, previous versions, and Office 365, Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas 5/E demonstrates the secrets of Excel through the use of practical and useful examples in a quick reference format. Easy to use and equipped with a variety of functions, Microsoft Excel is the tool of choice when it comes to crunching numbers, building charts, and analyzing tables. The book’s extensive examples and added video tutorials make it an excellent resource for all Excel users who want to understand, create, and apply formulas. Experienced users will also find Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas 5/E an excellent reference for many of the program’s advanced formulas and functions. The text is easy to understand with numerous step-by-step instructions and the actual, ready to use, Excel screenshots of the input and output from the formulas. The book includes companion files with video tutorials, over 250 worksheet files of examples for numerous functions, formulas, and all the figures from the text. FEATURES Includes companion files with video tutorials, over 250 Excel worksheet examples, and all of the figures from the text (including 4-color) Completely updated to cover Microsoft Excel 2019, previous versions, and Office 365 Saves hundreds of hours with the latest Excel tips, worksheets, and shortcuts Written by a proven author with Microsoft Valued Professional(MVP) status The Companion Files are also available for downloading from the publisher by emailing proof of purchase to [email protected].




Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies


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Put the power of Excel formulas and functions to work for you! 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. See how to use 150 of Excel's most useful functions, with real-world examples showing how each function is used within a formula Learn to calculate the costs of leasing versus buying a car, compute classroom grades, create an amortization table, or evaluate investment performance Fully updated for Excel 2010, but the principles will work with earlier versions of Excel as well Includes essential coverage of an additional 85 functions In the ever-popular, non-threatening For Dummies style, Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes Excel's power accessible to you.




Microsoft Excel Formulas and Functions (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)


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Use Excel 365 and Excel 2021 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 recent improvements ranging from dynamic arrays to XLOOKUP and LET. 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 Use modern lookups to make your formulas more powerful and flexible Simplify complex calculations with dynamic arrays in Excel 365 and Excel 2021 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 NPV and IRR Sort, filter, and analyze any tabular data, from customers to inventory Easily analyze huge datasets with PivotTable calculations Perform sophisticated what-if analyses, scenario planning, and forecasting Optimize profit, cost, or operational efficiency with Solver 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




Microsoft Excel 2010 Formulas and Functions Inside Out


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Conquer Microsoft Excel formulas and functions—from the inside out! You’re beyond the basics, so dive right in and really put Excel formulas and functions to work! This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, troubleshooting tips, and workarounds. It’s all muscle and no fluff. Discover how the experts increase their data analysis capabilities using Excel 2003, 2007, or 2010—and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. Customize Excel formulas using 350+ built-in functions Create reusable formulas for common calculations Learn smarter ways to calculate date and time values Systematically search worksheets with lookup and reference functions Perform advanced calculations using mathematical, statistical, and financial functions Build complex formulas by nesting one function inside of another Analyze profit margins and more with new functions in Excel 2010 Develop your own functions with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) NOTE: The sample Excel files that accompany the book were updated on 12/4/2012. Click the Companion Content link to download the files.




Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas


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Easy to use and equipped with a variety of functions, Microsoft Excel is the tool of choice when it comes to crunching numbers, building charts, and analyzing tables. But most users only scratch the surface of the program's functionality, especially the built-in formulas designed to make everyday operations and real-world tasks more efficient. Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas demonstrates the secrets of Excel functions through the use of practical and useful examples in a quick reference format. Topics include logical, text, date and time, basic statistical, mathematical, financial, database, and lookup and reference functions as well as conditional formatting with formulas, array formulas, and user-defined functions. This book's extensive examples make it an excellent tutorial for all Excel users who want to understand, create, and apply formulas. Intermediate and advanced users will find Microsoft Excel Functions & Formulas an excellent reference to many of the program's advanced formulas and functions.




Microsoft Excel 2019 Formulas and Functions


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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




101 Most Popular Excel Formulas


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Learn the Most Popular Excel Formulas Ever: VLOOKUP, IF, SUMIF, INDEX/MATCH, COUNT, plus Many More! You'll learn to apply the Top Excel Formulas to make your data analysis easier.




Excel Formulas and Functions : the Complete Excel Guide for Beginners


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Excel is one of the most used Microsoft Office packages in the workplace. It is part of our daily lives however, most people do not know its full capabilities. If you truly want to get the most out of Excel then you need to master Excel formulas and functions. There are over 400 in-built functions in Excel but how do you know which ones to use in your worksheets? Well, Excel Formulas and Functions : The Complete Excel Guide For Beginners will explain the best Excel functions to use in your worksheets as well as how to construct the formulas. This definite Excel formulas and functions book includes: - A step by step guide on how to construct a simple Excel formula- Tips on how to create more efficient formulas- How the order of operator precedence in Excel Formulas work- How to check formulas in your worksheets- How to use the Excel Insert Function Formula Builder to make formulas easier to write- How to copy formulas down columns and across rows using the Excel Autofill function- How relative, absolute and mixed cell references are used to construct formulas- How to create summing and counting formulas using Excel functions such as SUMIF, SUMIFS, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, COUNTBLANK- How to create logical formulas using the IF, OR, AND functions- How to create lookup formulas using Excel functions such as VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP and combining the INDEX and MATCH functions together to create powerful lookups- How to create text formulas by using Excel functions such as LEFT, RIGHT, MID, CONCATENATE to manipulate text in your worksheets- Great Excel hints and tips to help you become more efficient and save timeThis book comes with real life examples of why you would create Excel formulas in your worksheets. You will learn: - How to sum values and count cells based on certain criteria- Count only non-blank cells in a range- Count only numbers in a range- Extract the maximum and minimum values from a range of numbers- How to assign bonuses for Sales people if they have hit their sales targets- How to extract product details from a product table- How to assign grades to a list of students- How to manipulate text by extracting certain characters from a text string Have you ever seen the curly brackets in formulas and wondered what they mean? In this book you will learn they are used for array formulas and you will learn how to create one!This is the definite Excel guide book on formulas and functions and a must read for beginners and intermediates who would like to learn more about Excel's powerful functions. To truly better yourself you must invest in yourself. Start now by buying this book!




Excel Formulas and Functions: the Step by Step Excel Guide on How to Create Powerful Formulas


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★Create Powerful and elegant formulas to manipulate and analyse your data★Do you want to master Excel? Do you want to create powerful and elegant Excel formulas to automate your spreadsheets and analyse your data more efficiently? Well, Excel Formulas and Functions: The Step by Step Excel Guide on how to Create Powerful Formulas will teach you how.Excel is one of the most used Microsoft Office applications in the workplace. It is used on a daily basis however, many people only scratch the surface of its capabilities. If you want to get the most out of Excel and know its true power then you MUST buy this book. Not only will it increase your Excel skills and enable you to write powerful formulas to manipulate and analyse data it will also impress your boss and could give you a pay rise!There are over 400 built-in functions in Excel. In this book you will learn all about the Excel functions and formulas that are available to you which will make your work easier increase your productivity. In particular you will learn about some of the more powerful Excel functions and formulas that not many people know about and you will learn how they work with simple step by step instructions.This book is aimed for people who want to advance their Excel skills and learn the true power of Excel with advanced formulas such as array formulas. Beginners will also benefit from this book as it also contains some of the more common Excel formulas and functions that people use and how to write them. This book really caters for all.In this definite Excel formulas and functions book you will learn:*How to create formulas using sum functions such as SUM, SUMIF, SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT*How to create formulas using count functions such as COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, COUNTIF, COUNTIFS*How to create formulas using logical functions such as IF, AND, OR, ISBLANK*How to create formulas using lookup functions such as VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, LOOKUP*How to create formulas using text functions such as LEFT, RIGHT, MID, TRIM, LEN, SUBSTITUTE, REPT, SEARCH and FIND*What the order of operator precedence is and how Excel orders the calculation in formulas*What array formulas are and how to create them as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using them *What an array constant is and how arrays work *How to create awesome and powerful formulas that perform magic such as how to find the first non-blank value, how to extract a unique list, sum all digits in a string and many many more!Excel Formulas and Functions: The Step by Step Excel Guide on how to Create Powerful Formulas also contains some great tips about Excel functions that not many people know about. These are little gems of information you wish you knew before. With this book you will now know and be ahead of the game! Each of the formulas explained in this book is broken down with simple step by step instructions so you understand exactly how the formulas work.This is the definite Excel guide book on formulas and functions and a must read for people who want to advance their Excel skills and learn more about Excel's more powerful functions. There is only a small percentage of people who truly know how to get the best out of worksheet functions. Make sure you are in that small minority. To truly better yourself you must invest in yourself. Start now by buying this book!




Excel Formulas Ninja


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This is the 1st Book in the EXCEL NINJA SERIES! Becoming an Excel Formulas and Functions Ninja is easier and faster with this book! If you don't believe me, continue reading. "A STRAIGHTFORWARD, EXERCISE-BASED AND FAST WAY TO LEARN EXCEL FUNCTIONS" - Employee from a State Department of Education Using excel formulas is an unbelievable advantage because you can get more things done, investing less time in front of the computer. There are a lot of Excel functions like: Vlookup, Xlookup, IF, Sumif, CountIf, Concatenate, Round, Index Match, etc., and with this book it will take no time to master the TOP FORMULAS. DIFFERENTIATION FACTORS OF EXCEL FORMULAS NINJA A Straightforward and No Fluff Excel Guide! Save time, learn more. Entertaining Excel Training Full of screenshots and Formulas and Functions examples Includes for free 40 Practice excel spreadsheets You will learn to use a lot of Formulas on excel in many different ways You will learn quickly and in an easy to understand way. At the end of the book you will become an Excel Formulas Ninja with this practice workbook. Gradually increases your knowledge level THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU IF YOU WANT TO: Understand once and for all How to use the Top Formulas in excel like a Pro Save time at your job and perform better TOPICS ALSO COVERED IN THIS BOOK: Absolute and Relative References Nested Functions Here is the TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: BASIC THINGS ABOUT FUNCTIONS CHAPTER 2: ARITHMETIC FORMULAS SUM FAST AVERAGE EASILY GET THE LOWEST VALUE OF A GROUP GET THE HIGHEST VALUE OF A GROUP COUNT VALUES CREATE A FLEXIBLE ARITHMETIC FORMULA MULTIPLY EASILY MULTIPLY AND SUM FAST AT THE SAME TIME CHAPTER 3: ABSOLUTE REFERENCES, RANKING AND STATISTICS FORMULAS CREATE RANDOM NUMBERS FOR YOUR EXPERIMENT GET THE MIDDLE NUMBER GET THE MOST COMMON NUMBER GET THE TOP X NUMBER GET THE BOTTOM X NUMBER CREATE A RANKING CREATE A SMOOTHER RANKING ROUND NUMBERS THE WAY YOU WANT ROUND NUMBERS UP ROUND NUMBERS DOWN CONVERT DIFFERENT MEASURES CHAPTER 4: SEARCH AND REFERENCE FORMULAS SEARCH IN DATA BASES WITH VLOOKUP SEARCH HORIZONTALLY WITH HLOOKUP LEARN TO USE THE NEW XLOOKUP CHAPTER 5: FINANCIAL FORMULAS CALCULATE REAL VALUE WITH ANNUAL CASHFLOWS DISCOUNTING INFLATION CALCULATE REAL VALUE WITH RANDOM CASHFLOWS DISCOUNTING INFLATION GET THE INTERNAL RATE OF RETURN FOR YOUR INVESTMENTS LEARN HOW MUCH YOU NEED TO PAY FOR A LOAN OR INVEST FOR A GOAL DISCOVER HOW MUCH INTEREST YOU AREPAYING HOW MANY MONTHS DO YOU NEED TO PAY OR INVEST? HOW MUCH ARE YOU GOING TO RECEIVE IF YOU INVEST IN A TREASURY BOND? CHAPTER 6: LOGICAL FORMULAS SET YOUR CUSTOM CRITERIA HIDE ERROS COUNT VALUES IF A CONDITION IS MET SUM VALUES IF A CONDITION IS MET CHAPTER 7: TEXT FORMULAS EXTRACT TEXT FROM THE BEGINNING AND THE END EXTRACT TEXT FROM ANYWHERE ELIMINATE SPACES JOIN TEXT FROM MANY CELLS TO ONE CELL CHAPTER 8: QUICK FINAL TIPS Take action now and GET THIS BOOK. Become better at your job, Become and Excel Ninja How much money is your time/hour worth? $10, $20, $50, $100? Even if this book could save you just 1 hour a week, it would have been a great return of your investment. And believe me, you can save much more time than just 1 hour a week.