Excelling in Spreadsheets


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Step by Step Spreadsheets


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Third edition of this popular, easy-to-use textbook, updated for the revised Spreadsheet Methods Level 5 module [5N1977], which details fundamental spreadsheet methods and facilitates practical experience in spreadsheet design and implementation. New to this edition: Updated for the revised Spreadsheet Methods module [5N1977] and Excel 2010 (all assignments can be completed using Excel 2007) Includes new interactive assignments allowing students to test their spreadsheets. Details how to create formulas and functions, sort spreadsheet data, present data using a variety of charts, protect spreadsheets from unauthorised access and automate decision-making with IF functions. Presents in-depth explanations of spreadsheet concepts and of the different types of IF functions. Introduces useful Excel keyboard shortcuts in each chapter, with all images reflecting Microsoft's Ribbon system. Comprehensively deals with Excel's charting facility and introduces the use of macros and spreadsheet protection. Worked examples guide the learner through each task, while progress tests and chapter reviews support a 'learning through practice' approach. With no previous experience in spreadsheets required, the learner is brought from the basics to an advanced level. Written for: Spreadsheet Methods Level 5 module [5N1977]




Excel Outside the Box


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Designed with the Excel guru in mind, this handbook introduces advanced and creative solutions, and hacks to the software's most challenging problems. Through a series of more than 50 techniques, tables, formulas, and charts, this guide details processes that may be used in any Excel application, across all disciplines. Creative approaches for building formulas within formulas, pivot tables, conditional formatting, and mastering array formulas are just some of the numerous challenges explained. Other higher level solutions discussed include using VBA macro code to override cell calculations, solve for sums from a text string, and trimming and cleaning all cells on a worksheet. This is the all-encompassing resource for advanced users of Excel wanting to learn more techniques to broaden and empower their use of Excel.




Spreadsheets with Excel


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This fully illustrated book guides the user through the basics of using an electronic spreadsheet and in particular Microsoft Excel.




Beginning Excel, First Edition


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This is the first edition of a textbook written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel; second edition available: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/beginningexcel19/. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before.




Excel Tables


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Creating tables in Excel allows for easier formatting and reporting, but the new syntax that it implies can be intimidating to the uninitiated. In this guide, one of the developers of the official Microsoft Excel 2013 templates—all of which employ tables—helps introduce readers to the multiple benefits of tables. The book begins by explaining what tables are, how to create them, and how they can be used in reporting before moving on to slightly more advanced topics, including slicers and filtering, working with VBA macros, and using tables in the Excel web app. Novice Excel users and experts alike will find relevant, useful, and authoritative information in this one-of-a-kind resource.




Excel 2019 Project Book


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Designed as a project and case-oriented approach to learning Excel, the emphasis of this book is on learning by doing. The book presents a series of progressively reinforcing problem sets, which allow the exploration of real-life business problems. First, the background, theory, formulas, and calculations are discussed, followed by the design of Excel spreadsheets, which support the creation of effective spreadsheets for these applications. Finally, the proper solution and other related aspects are discussed, forming a cohesive set of practical application problems. Some of the topics explored include amortization tables, weighted averages, cash flows, payroll calculations, break even analysis, and spreadsheet databases. Excel techniques include formulas and functions, cell addressing, conditional and lookup functions, graphs, sorting, and filtering. FEATURES: Provides 30 projects, several How-to Guides, and Application Types to learn Excel skills using problems, applications, and case studies featuring practical business problems Explores formulas and functions, financial functions, cell addressing, conditional functions, lookup functions, graphs, sorting, and filtering, amortization tables, future values of an investment, weighted averages, cash flows, payroll calculations, break even analysis, economic order quantity, spreadsheet databases, and more Instructor resources available with four Excel video tutorials and images from the text.




Excel by Example


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The spreadsheet has become a ubiquitous engineering tool, and Microsoft Excel is the standard spreadsheet software package. Over the years, Excel has become such a complex program that most engineers understand and use only a tiny part of its power and features. This book is aimed at electronics engineers and technicians in particular, showing them how to best use Excel's features for computations, circuit modeling, graphing, and data analysis as applied to electronics design. Separate chapters cover lookup tables and file I/O, using macros, graphing, controls, using Analysis Toolpak for statistical analysis, databases, and linking into Excel from other sources, such as data from a serial port. The book is basically an engineering cookbook, with each chapter providing tutorial information along with several Excel "recipes" of interest to electronics engineers. The accompanying CD-ROM features ready-to-run, customizable Excel worksheets derived from the book examples, which will be useful tools to add to any electronics engineer's spreadsheet toolbox. Engineers are looking for any and all means to increase their efficiency and add to their "bag of design tricks." Just about every electronics engineer uses Excel but most feel that the program has many more features to offer, if they only knew what they were! The Excel documentation is voluminous and electronics engineers don't have the time to read it all and sift through looking for those features that are directly applicable to their jobs and figure out how to use them. This book does that task for them-pulls out those features that they need to know about and shows them how to make use of them in specific design examples that they can then tailor to their own design needs. *This is the ONLY book to deal with Excel specifically in the electronics field *Distills voluminous and time-consuming Excel documentation down to nitty-gritty explanations of those features that are directly applicable to the electronics engineer's daily job duties *The accompanying CD-ROM provides ready-to-use, fully-customizable worksheets from the book's examples




Build Business Spreadsheets Using Excel


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Beginner-Intermediate Level. Learn basic Excel for financial modeling with keyboard shortcuts. Author and Wall Street trainer Kathleen Adkins has taught Excel modeling skills to thousands of financial analysts, traders, brokers, and managers. Her problem-based workbook gives you practice in analyzing, building and checking real-life spreadsheets. A practical workbook, not a list of features! Problems cover key financial modeling topics, including percentages, markups, discounts, pricing, growth, date math, financial math, and financial statement projection. You'll learn by doing it the right way from the beginning. Hands-on exercises demonstrate Excel commands in context and show you when to use them. Avoid the worst mistakes in spreadsheet construction. Work efficiently, quickly, and accurately. Learn to set up your speadsheet for easier revision, editing and troubleshooting. Develop "what-if" scenarios into every spreadsheet. Get practical help in presenting your spreadsheet with an in-depth guide to formatting and printing. Interactive format is easy to use, and periodic self-tests show you how you're doing. Answer section shows correct spreadsheet construction as well as the right answers to each problem. Appendices present shortcuts, formulas and functions for easy reference. Published by Wall Street's leading financial trainers, Adkins Matchette & Toy.




Python for Excel


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While Excel remains ubiquitous in the business world, recent Microsoft feedback forums are full of requests to include Python as an Excel scripting language. In fact, it's the top feature requested. What makes this combination so compelling? In this hands-on guide, Felix Zumstein--creator of xlwings, a popular open source package for automating Excel with Python--shows experienced Excel users how to integrate these two worlds efficiently. Excel has added quite a few new capabilities over the past couple of years, but its automation language, VBA, stopped evolving a long time ago. Many Excel power users have already adopted Python for daily automation tasks. This guide gets you started. Use Python without extensive programming knowledge Get started with modern tools, including Jupyter notebooks and Visual Studio code Use pandas to acquire, clean, and analyze data and replace typical Excel calculations Automate tedious tasks like consolidation of Excel workbooks and production of Excel reports Use xlwings to build interactive Excel tools that use Python as a calculation engine Connect Excel to databases and CSV files and fetch data from the internet using Python code Use Python as a single tool to replace VBA, Power Query, and Power Pivot