Sorting Excel Data: The Basics & Beyond


Book Description

Wildly popular as a spreadsheet application, Microsoft Excel includes a robust collection of data management features, making it an excellent tool for working with lists of data. The ability to sort this data remains one of Excel's strongest and most-used features. But exactly how do you use Excel's sorting features to organize data the way you need to? Ribbon and toolbar buttons, menu commands, dialog boxes, and hidden options-in Excel, sorting can be simple and complicated at the same time, often yielding surprising, undesired results. This guide takes the mystery and confusion out of Excel's sorting features. It starts by covering the basics of simple, one-column sorts. It then builds on that information to explain multi-column sorting, setting up and using custom sort orders, sorting based on cell colors or icons, performing case-sensitive sorts, and sorting by rows instead of columns. Step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions make it clear what you need to do. Sample files available on the Maria's Guides website make it easy to repeat exercises so you can see the same results. Although this book concentrates on Microsoft Excel 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Excel 2011 for Mac OS, it also provides useful tips and instructions for previous versions of Excel. Don't waste time trying to decipher cryptic instructions in Excel's onscreen help. Get the information you need, written in a way you can understand by an experienced author who has been using, teaching, and writing about Excel for more than 20 years.




Beyond Basic Statistics


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Features basic statistical concepts as a tool for thinking critically, wading through large quantities of information, and answering practical, everyday questions Written in an engaging and inviting manner, Beyond Basic Statistics: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Data Analyst Should Know presents the more subjective side of statistics—the art of data analytics. Each chapter explores a different question using fun, common sense examples that illustrate the concepts, methods, and applications of statistical techniques. Without going into the specifics of theorems, propositions, or formulas, the book effectively demonstrates statistics as a useful problem-solving tool. In addition, the author demonstrates how statistics is a tool for thinking critically, wading through large volumes of information, and answering life’s important questions. Beyond Basic Statistics: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Every Data Analyst Should Know also features: Plentiful examples throughout aimed to strengthen readers’ understanding of the statistical concepts and methods A step-by-step approach to elementary statistical topics such as sampling, hypothesis tests, outlier detection, normality tests, robust statistics, and multiple regression A case study in each chapter that illustrates the use of the presented techniques Highlights of well-known shortcomings that can lead to false conclusions An introduction to advanced techniques such as validation and bootstrapping Featuring examples that are engaging and non-application specific, the book appeals to a broad audience of students and professionals alike, specifically students of undergraduate statistics, managers, medical professionals, and anyone who has to make decisions based on raw data or compiled results.







Microsoft Office 2000 User Specialist Study Guide


Book Description

Go into the exams confident-and come out MOUS-certified! Earning your Microsoft Office User Specialist (MOUS) certification shows your current or future employer that you have the skills they need. This book helps you get those skills--by reinforcing what you know, teaching you what you don't, and preparing you for all the questions you'll face on the exam. Affordable and comprehensive, the Microsoft Office 2000 User Specialist Study Guide is the clear choice, and the only study resource you need to ready yourself to pass all the MOUS exams. Meet every exam's objectives: Word 2000 * Format characters and paragraphs * Use styles, templates, and macros * Publish documents on the Web * Create tables and forms * Generate a mail merge Excel 2000 * Create, modify, and print workbooks * Format worksheets * Create charts * Audit worksheets * Create and use templates Access 2000 * Create and modify a database * Integrate information from other applications * Publish Access data to the Web * Build forms for other users * Produce reports PowerPoint 2000 * Create and modify presentations * Add textual and visual information * Deliver and distribute presentations Outlook 2000 * Manage a contact list and calendar * Send, receive, and organize e-mail * Identify and filter spam and other unwanted e-mail * Make Outlook work with other Office applications FrontPage 2000 * Build and manage Web sites * Publish Web documents from Word, Excel, and Access * Create hyperlinks to link your site to others * Craft your site's navigational structure using Navigation bars PhotoDraw * Learn the PhotoDraw interface and expansive tool set * Import artwork or create your own graphics * Touch up and enhance photos with designer effects * Design your own professional images for the Web




Using Microsoft Office 2000


Book Description

This edition will focus squarely on the needs of advanced users in the core applications of Office. Key issues will include a strong emphasis on problem solving, troubleshooting, practical applications of advanced features, VBA coverage threaded throughout the chapters, and migration issues such as file format changes and compatibility between different Office and Windows versions.




Excel for Windows 95 Secrets


Book Description

Get expert advice for maximizing the power of Excel for Windows 95 in this hot Secrets title! Let an Excel guru uncover what Microsoft didn't or won't tell you about its spreadsheet program. You'll learn how to supercharge the powerful database and report generating functions, create custom utilities, and master the popular Visual Basic for Applications.




Special Edition Using Microsoft Office 97


Book Description

The mission of this book is to offer quick solutions with up-to-date content. The comprehensive reference contains real world solutions and techniques from the pros to increase productivity and make the best of Microsoft Office 97. An Online Resource Center updates the book's content, with additional information available every month until the next edition.




Excel 97 Secrets


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With Excel firmly established as the most popular and powerful spreadsheet program around, you might expect Microsoft to slack off a bit. Excel 97 Secrets, however, proves that the folks up in Redmond have not been idle. In this in-depth guide to Excel 97's most advanced features—including many not covered in the official documentation—Excel know-it-alls Patrick J. Burns and Alison Barrows reveal tips and techniques to boost you right to the top of the learning curve. With Excel 97 Secrets, you get up to speed quickly no matter which earlier version you've been using. Burns and Barrows orient you and provide clear explanations and practical examples of how to Take advantage of 16 levels of undo (if only life were so easy?) Publish worksheets and workbooks on the World Wide Web, for everyone on the Internet to see or for only your workgroup or organization to see Use enhanced PivotTables (they're not only more powerful now, but also they're easier to use) Enjoy near-WYSIWYG editing Run queries in the background Build formulas using more natural labels rather than abstract cell addresses Share workbooks with your workgroup—and cobble together budgets and proposals more easily than ever before Increase productivity by automating tasks with Visual Basic for Applications Plus, Excel 97 Secrets comes complete with a CD-ROM packed with outstanding shareware, freeware, demos, and VBA programming utilities.




Excel 2002 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies


Book Description

* Combining nine books in one, this thorough desk reference delivers the know-how readers need to take full advantage of Excel * Outlines the most practical and useful applications of Excel for the workplace * Explains how to import data, build and edit worksheets, create formulas, generate pivot tables, and work with financial functions, what-if scenarios, database functions, and Web queries * Explores more advanced topics such as worksheet sharing and auditing, error trapping, building and running macros, charting data, and using Excel in conjunction with Visual Basic and the Web * Author is one of the bestselling technology authors of all time




Microsoft Word Version 2002 Plain & Simple


Book Description

Get the fast facts that make learning Word 2002 plain and simple! Here’s WHAT you’ll learn: Find the simplest ways to get stuff done in Microsoft Word Customize documents—from faxes to business reports Create impact with tables and graphics Add charts and data from Microsoft Excel Make your own letterhead and use mail merge Share documents over e-mail and the Web Here’s HOW you’ll learn it: NUMBERED STEPS show exactly what to do Color SCREEN SHOTS keep you on track Handy TIPS teach easy techniques and shortcuts Quick TRY THIS! exercises put your learning to work CAUTION notes help keep you out of trouble