Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures


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Discover timesaving features, accessibility and internal control approaches, data integrity improvements, and spreadsheet automation techniques by exploring Excel shortcuts and nuances in Microsoft 365, Excel versions till 2021 Key Features Get hands-on experience by carrying out techniques in detailed example workbooks Reclaim portions of your day by immediately implementing data integrity and automation features Incorporate spreadsheet disaster recovery techniques into your daily work Book Description David Ringstrom coined the phrase “Either you work Excel, or it works you!” after observing how many users carry out tasks inefficiently. In this book, you'll learn how to get more done with less effort. This book will enable you to create resilient spreadsheets that are easy for others to use as well, while incorporating spreadsheet disaster preparedness techniques. The time-saving techniques covered in the book include creating custom shortcuts and icons to streamline repetitive tasks, as well as automating them with features such as Tables and Custom Views. You'll see how Conditional Formatting enables you to apply colors, Cell icons, and other formatting on-demand as your data changes. You'll be empowered to protect the integrity of spreadsheets and increase usability by implementing internal controls, and understand how to solve problems with What-If Analysis features. In addition, you'll master new features and functions such as XLOOKUP, Dynamic Array functions, LET and LAMBDA, and Power Query, while learning how to leverage shortcuts and nuances in Excel. By the end of this book, you'll have a broader awareness of how to avoid pitfalls in Excel. You'll be empowered to work more effectively in Excel, having gained a deeper understanding of the frustrating oddities that can arise daily in Excel. What you will learn Explore hidden and overlooked features that will save your time Implement disaster prevention and recovery techniques Improve spreadsheet accessibility for all users Bolster data integrity and spreadsheet resilience Craft code-free custom worksheet functions with LAMBDA Create code-free report automation with Power Query Integrate spreadsheet automation techniques with ease Who this book is for This book is for intermediate to advanced excel users working in diverse roles such as business users, accountants, project managers and business analysts among others. The more time that you spend in excel the more time this book will save you. You will be able to maximize your productivity by learning spreadsheet interactivity, accessibility and automation. This clear step-by-step explanation and detailed example workbook will help you to try out new techniques firsthand and leverage them for your business's advantage in no time.




QuickBooks Online For Dummies


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Learn the world’s most popular cloud accounting platform QuickBooks Online For Dummies, 2024 Edition, helps you benefit from fast and easy mobile accounting. This beginner-friendly guide covers the key features of QuickBooks Online, including selecting the subscription version that’s right for you and your business -- Simple Start, Plus, or Advanced. From there, you’ll find everything you need to get started creating invoices and credit memos, recording and paying bills, setting up inventory items, processing payroll and preparing payroll tax returns, balancing accounts, and beyond. You’ll discover how to access your accounts from any device, anywhere—and how to keep your data safe and backed up. For a world on the go, QuickBooks Online makes it easy to keep solid books and be prepared at tax time. With the clear how-tos in this book, you’ll be up and running in no time. Get started with QuickBooks Online and set up your accounts Manage customers, inventory, purchases, payroll, and billing—from anywhere Generate financial reports and simplify your taxes Discover new features and tips in the latest version of the cloud software For small business owners, managers, and employees responsible for business accounting, QuickBooks Online For Dummies helps you make the most of the go-to platform for fluid accounting access.




QuickBooks Online For Dummies, 2025 Edition


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Discover all the ways you can use cloud-based accounting for your business with this top guide QuickBooks Online For Dummies, 2025 Edition helps you understand one of the most widely-used cloud accounting platforms worldwide. Choose the best subscription for your business, create invoices and credit memos, record sales receipts, pay bills, set up inventory items, track business checkbook and credit cards, print checks, process payroll and prepare payroll tax returns, simplify tax preparation, build a budget, balance accounts, back up your data and access it on any device—the list goes on and this beginner-friendly book teaches you how to do it all. Chock full of useful tips and tricks, this golden guide makes small business accounting through QuickBooks Online a breeze—saving you time and money. Plus, this edition covers the latest features and shows you how QuickBooks uses AI to make accounting even easier for you and your needs. Subscribe to QuickBooks Online, import your business data, and utilize cloud-based accounting Get clear and visual instructions on how to perform basic and advanced accounting tasks Discover new features such as QuickBooks Ledger and find tools that suit business needs Analyze your accounting data to make better business decisions For business owners, managers, and employees, this essential Dummies resource helps you make the most of QuickBooks Online.




Discovering Hidden Gems in Foreign Languages


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This book offers a practical approach to conducting research in foreign languages on topics with a global nexus. It introduces the problem researchers face when getting started with a research problem, such as setting up the research environment and establishing goals for the research. The researcher then needs to prepares and to conduct foreign-language research by generating key terms and searching the right places where the information they seek is most likely to be stored. Using the appropriate advanced search operators, the researcher narrows down the search results to the desired sources, thereby eliminating the irrelevant sources. Specialized knowledge of country-specific domains advances the specificity and relevance of the researcher’s efforts. The methods and tools demonstrated in this book are applicable to a variety of academic and practical fields. A doctor may ask “what are other experts in my field saying about ABC disease?” A sommelier may ask “where else in the world are XYZ grape varietals grown?” A businessman may ask “who are my global competitors in my market?” A doctoral student may ask “have any other students at universities abroad ever written a dissertation about my topic, too?” With the tools and techniques demonstrated in this book, all of these questions are answerable. This book concludes with chapters on translation and citation methods, and includes three case studies that demonstrate the practical use of the methods discussed above. This book targets academic researchers as well as students and faculty. This book will also be a good fit as an assigned reading for a college course on thesis/dissertation research.




Mastering Microsoft Excel a Comprehensive Guide


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Mastering Microsoft Excel : a Comprehensive Guide is a comprehensive and user-friendly book that aims to help readers become proficient in using Microsoft Excel 2022. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced user, this book provides step-by-step instructions and practical examples to enhance your Excel skills. From basic functions to advanced formulas, data analysis, and automation, this guide covers all the essential features and techniques of Excel 2022. With a clear and concise writing style, this book offers a structured approach to learning Excel 2022. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic, providing explanations, examples, and exercises to reinforce your understanding. You will learn how to create and format spreadsheets, use formulas and functions effectively, analyze data using charts and pivot tables, and automate tasks with macros and VBA programming. Additionally, this guide covers the latest features and updates in Excel 2022, ensuring that you stay up-to-date with the software's capabilities. Whether you are a student, professional, or business owner, mastering Microsoft Excel 2022 is essential for improving productivity and making informed decisions. This comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate Excel with confidence. By the end of this book, you will have a solid foundation in Excel 2022 and be able to leverage its powerful features to streamline your work and achieve your goals.




Introductory Accounting


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Accurate accounting is the key to a successful business. But when you’re dealing with assets and liabilities, profit and loss, and debits and credits, juggling all the numbers can quickly get confusing. Introductory Accounting gives you everything you need to know about basic financial accounting to manage your dollars and cents and keep your accounts in order. Ideal for small businesses, as well as any large company bookkeeper, this book covers: • Structuring your business and choosing an accounting method. • Setting up an accounting system and basic operating procedures (tracking sales, determining costs, managing cash, etc.). • Creating employee records, maintaining a payroll system, and accounting for benefits. • Keeping tax and benefit records. • Reporting costs. • Closing out cash journals and employee accounts at month-end and balancing ledgers. • Preparing month-end and year-end statements and reports. • Producing a balance sheet and monthly profit-and-loss (P&L) statements. • Using accounting software.




Hidden Gems


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Do you ever wonder why the Christian church isnt more vibrant? Or is there any point to striving for heaven if you cant enjoy life today? Do you wonder if its possible to enjoy life without lowering your standards? Come and discover Gods character and the hidden gems of Deuteronomy. God gave Moses a promise that would endure for a thousand generations its applicable for all of us who werent there for his last sermon. Its a message of Gods love and His faithfulness. It is written to transform us, to strengthen us and to give us hope. Its a message of relevance that will draw others to our God. As Hidden Gems helps you uncover these forgotten gems, it will bring a whole new perspective on the many promises given us in scripture. Your view of God will expand and youll see sin from a new perspective. Youll want God to show you the sins in your life. This seemingly small shift in your view of God will enable the Holy Spirit to create in your heart a renewed spirit of discovery, compassion and service. Youll want to discover more of Gods promises, to share your own joyful journey of Gods faithfulness, and to experience a new excitement for service.




Excel Insights


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Unlock the full potential of Excel with advanced tips and techniques covering everything from formulas to VBA. Key Features Advanced Excel features, from custom formatting to dynamic arrays Data analysis and visualization with Power Query and charts Detailed explanation of VBA for task automation and efficiency Book DescriptionDive into the world of advanced Excel techniques designed to elevate your data analysis skills. Start with mastering custom number formatting, efficient data entry, and powerful formulas like INDEX MATCH. Explore Excel's evolving features, including dynamic arrays and new data types, ensuring you stay at the forefront of the latest tools. The course then guides you through creating impactful charts for presentations and advanced filtering techniques. You’ll also discover the transformative power of Power Query, allowing you to manipulate and combine data with ease. With chapters on financial modeling and creative Excel model development, you’ll learn to solve complex problems and develop innovative solutions. Finally, the course introduces you to VBA, teaching you how to automate tasks and create custom worksheet functions, equipping you with the skills to enhance your workflows. By the end of the course, you’ll have a robust understanding of Excel's advanced features, empowering you to handle any data challenge with confidence and creativity.What you will learn Master custom number formatting Utilize INDEX MATCH effectively Create dynamic arrays Build advanced charts Automate with Power Query Develop VBA functions Who this book is for Ideal for intermediate to advanced Excel users, data analysts, and financial modelers. Readers should have a basic understanding of Excel. Prior experience with Excel formulas, charts, and data management is recommended.




Knowledge Discovery with Support Vector Machines


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An easy-to-follow introduction to support vector machines This book provides an in-depth, easy-to-follow introduction to support vector machines drawing only from minimal, carefully motivated technical and mathematical background material. It begins with a cohesive discussion of machine learning and goes on to cover: Knowledge discovery environments Describing data mathematically Linear decision surfaces and functions Perceptron learning Maximum margin classifiers Support vector machines Elements of statistical learning theory Multi-class classification Regression with support vector machines Novelty detection Complemented with hands-on exercises, algorithm descriptions, and data sets, Knowledge Discovery with Support Vector Machines is an invaluable textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses. It is also an excellent tutorial on support vector machines for professionals who are pursuing research in machine learning and related areas.




Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders


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Trade more profitably by exploiting Microsoft Excel’s powerful statistical and data mining tools: · Uncover subtle anomalies and distortions that signal profit opportunities · Create powerful new custom indicators, alerts, and trading models · Visualize and analyze huge amounts of trading data with just a few clicks · Powerful techniques for every active investor who can use Excel Now that high-speed traders dominate the market, yesterday’s slower-paced analysis strategies are virtually worthless. To outperform, individual traders must discover fleeting market trends and inefficiencies and act on them before they disappear. Five years ago, this required multimillion-dollar data mining and analytical infrastructures. Today, traders can use Excel with the help of world-class trader Jeff Augen’s Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns. Augen shows how to use Excel 2007 or 2010 to uncover hidden correlations and reliable trade triggers based on subtle anomalies and price distortions, create and test new hypotheses others haven’t considered, and visualize data to reveal insights others can’t see! "Jeff Augen turns things inside out in his remarkable and challenging book Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders." - John A. Sarkett, SFO Magazine, October 2011




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