Learn Excel 2016 Expert Skills with the Smart Method


Book Description

This book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel. You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Both IT professionals and absolute beginners will love this book because it avoids needless technical jargon and concisely explains everything you need in a simple and no-nonsense way. Amongst other things you'll learn how to: ¿Use Excel 2016¿s new 3D maps feature to create interactive video tours ¿Use Excel 2016¿s new Get & Transform tool to clean and combine data ¿Perform What-If analysis to model and compare business scenarios ¿Use advanced functions to solve real-world business problems ¿Create intuitive user interfaces using form controls and recorded macros ¿Master dynamic tables and structured table references ¿Use Excel 2016¿s new Append and Merge queries to de-normalize data ¿Master Excel¿s data modeling features to define table relationships ¿Completely understand Excel¿s ability to create OLAP cubes ¿Use OLAP pivot tables and 3D Maps to present OLAP cube data. ¿Use OLAP features to gain total control over PivotTable formatting ¿Break the million row limit with Excels 2016¿s new Big Data features




Learn Excel 2013 Expert Skills with the Smart Method


Book Description

This book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel. You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Both IT professionals and absolute beginners will love this book because it avoids needless technical jargon and concisely explains everything you need in a simple and no-nonsense way. Amongst other things you'll learn how to: ¿Use Excel 2013¿s new data model feature to create table relationships ¿Master dynamic tables and structured table references ¿Completely understand Excel 2013¿s new ability to create OLAP cubes ¿Use Excel 2013¿s new OLAP Pivot Tables to present OLAP cube data ¿Perform What-If analysis to model and compare business scenarios ¿Record macros and then execute them from button controls ¿Create intuitive user interfaces using form controls ¿Enforce complex business rules using function-driven custom validations ¿Use advanced functions to solve real-world business problems ¿Understand and use all of Excel¿s security features ¿Use Excel 2013¿s new timeline slicers to quickly filter date ranges ¿Create and use dynamic and table-based range names




Learn Excel 2016 Essential Skills for Mac OS X with the Smart Method


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At long last there is now a professional Excel course available for Mac users This book is only for the Apple Mac version of Excel 2016. (There's also an Excel for Windows version available (ISBN: 978-1-909253-08-7). This Excel 2016 for Mac book is very, very different to any other computer book you have ever read. The Smart Method provides an entirely new and better way to learn Excel 2016 for Mac. Here are just five of the many ways in which this book is unique: The book will equip you with excellent Excel 2016 for Mac skills, good enough to impress any employer, but it doesn't confuse by attempting to teach skills that are not common in the workplace. Only users who have advanced requirements need progress to the Excel 2016 for Mac Expert Skills book. Instruction is logically structured into sessions and lessons. While this makes the book ideal for self-instruction, you can also use it to run your own, highly effective, Excel 2016 for Mac adult training courses. Every lesson is presented on two facing sheets of A4 paper (the pages are much bigger than in any other Excel book).Each lesson has a sample file that models a real-world business problem. You'll immediately appreciate the value and relevance of each skill as it is taught. Both IT professionals and absolute beginners will love this book because it avoids needless technical jargon and concisely explains everything you need in a simple and no-nonsense way. From the Back Cover Amongst other things you'll learn how to: Create stunning, professional, presentation-quality chartsUse the new Excel 2016 for Mac Cloud Computing features to share dataUnderstand absolute, relative and mixed cell referencesCreate stunning, professional, presentation-quality chartsUse the Themes feature to create visually excellent worksheets Use Sparklines to visually represent large data setsBring your data alive with VisualizationsCreate custom conditional formatting rules with the Rules ManagerCreate your own formulas with the Formula AutoComplete featureMaster Excel 2016 for Mac's Fluent User Interface and RibbonUnderstand the different Excel 2016 for Mac file formatsAdd a professional sheen to your work with 3-D ElementsUnderstand and work with three-dimensional worksheet groups Companies who have taken Smart Method courses include: AOL Time Warner, The United States Army, Daimler Chrysler, Motorola, HSBC, Barclays, American Express, Allied Irish Banks, Imperial Tobacco, Volvo, The BBC, British Petroleum, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Unilever, The Institute of Chartered Accountants, The Ministry of Defence, Keele University, Deutsche Bank, HBOS, Transport For London, The Performing Rights Society, Scottish Power, The Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman, BAE Systems, RBS, Marks & Spencer, Virgin, O2, BMW... and many, many others.




Data Smart


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Data Science gets thrown around in the press like it'smagic. Major retailers are predicting everything from when theircustomers are pregnant to when they want a new pair of ChuckTaylors. It's a brave new world where seemingly meaningless datacan be transformed into valuable insight to drive smart businessdecisions. But how does one exactly do data science? Do you have to hireone of these priests of the dark arts, the "data scientist," toextract this gold from your data? Nope. Data science is little more than using straight-forward steps toprocess raw data into actionable insight. And in DataSmart, author and data scientist John Foreman will show you howthat's done within the familiar environment of aspreadsheet. Why a spreadsheet? It's comfortable! You get to look at the dataevery step of the way, building confidence as you learn the tricksof the trade. Plus, spreadsheets are a vendor-neutral place tolearn data science without the hype. But don't let the Excel sheets fool you. This is a book forthose serious about learning the analytic techniques, the math andthe magic, behind big data. Each chapter will cover a different technique in aspreadsheet so you can follow along: Mathematical optimization, including non-linear programming andgenetic algorithms Clustering via k-means, spherical k-means, and graphmodularity Data mining in graphs, such as outlier detection Supervised AI through logistic regression, ensemble models, andbag-of-words models Forecasting, seasonal adjustments, and prediction intervalsthrough monte carlo simulation Moving from spreadsheets into the R programming language You get your hands dirty as you work alongside John through eachtechnique. But never fear, the topics are readily applicable andthe author laces humor throughout. You'll even learnwhat a dead squirrel has to do with optimization modeling, whichyou no doubt are dying to know.




Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants


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The advanced tools accountants need to build automated, reliable, and scalable reports using Excel Learn about the functions that work together to automate many of the processes involved in Management Reporting. See how to take advantage of the many new features of Excel 2007 and 2010. Find out how to build validation structures into your spreadsheet reports. Discover how to identify missing or new codes, either in the creation process or in the day-to-day running of the reports. Do it all with Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants. Explore the structures that simplify the report creation process and make the reports more maintainable Learn techniques to "cleanse" data so that it is ready for use in Pivot Tables and formula-based reports Find out the tips and tricks that can make the creation process quicker and easier Discover all you need to know about Excel's summing functions and how versatile they can be Written in a hands-on style that works towards the completion of two reporting case studies, Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants explains and demonstrates techniques so that Management Accountants can learn how to automate many aspects of the reporting process.




101 Best Excel Tips & Tricks


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Learn the Best Excel Tips & Tricks Ever: FORMULAS, MACROS, PIVOT TABLES, FORMATTING, DATA, MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 plus Many More! With this book, you'll learn to apply the must know Excel features and tricks to make your data analysis & reporting easier and will save time in the process. With this book you get the following: ✔ 101 Best Excel Tips & Tricks To Advance Your Excel Skills & Save You Hours ✔ New Excel Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Office 365 ✔ Easy to Read Step by Step Guide with Screenshots ✔ Downloadable Practice Excel Workbooks for each Tip & Trick ✔ You also get a FREE BONUS downloadable PDF version of this book! This book is a MUST-HAVE for Beginner to Intermediate Excel users who want to learn Microsoft Excel FAST & stand out from the crowd!




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.




Integrating Educational Technology Into Teaching


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Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, 5e, the leading Educational Technology text on the market, serves as THE Technology Integration text by "introducing" the concept of Technology Integration, teaching them how "to plan" for Technology Integration, and offers them the opportunity "to practice" Technology Integration into the curriculum to support and shape learning.Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, 5e incorporates two complementary instructional models to create a comprehensive technology integration framework built on strong research and proven techniques. The Technology Integration Planning Model (TIP Model) shows teachers how to create an environment in which technology can effectively enhance learning. While the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) framework, new for the 5th edition, provides teachers with the knowledge and skills to overcome obstacles when integrating technology into their curriculum instruction. The text balances the "why" and "how" of using technology to support and shape the future of technology in education."







Learn Excel 2007 Essential Skills


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This book provides the fastest possible route to master Excel 2007 by self-study. It is also suitable for use by training organizations, teachers, schools and colleges to provide structured, objective-led, and highly effective classroom courses. Whether you are completely new to Excel 2007 or upgrading from an older version, the unique teaching method will empower you with every skill needed to be productive in the workplace. By the end of the book youll be able to create sophisticated worksheets that incorporate all of Excel 2007s most useful features. Your Excel skills will be significantly better than those of the average office worker. Weve used years of experience from our classroom courses to perfect our teaching method. This book uses the same teaching techniques to enable you to master Excel in a fraction of the time needed when learning from conventional text books.