Formulas and Functions: Microsoft Excel 2010

Description

Managers, entrepreneurs, and business professionals of all kinds need better skills for building more powerful Microsoft Excel spreadsheet models. In this book, Paul McFedries cuts through Excel's complexity, thoroughly demystifying the most valuable features for spreadsheet model-builders: formulas, functions, ranges, and data analysis tools. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience simplifying difficult technologies for mainstream users, McFedries walks through using these features to solve a wide variety of real-world problems. You will learn how to: " Create advanced formulas and troubleshoot formula problems " Work with text, logical, information, lookup, date/time, math, and statistical functions " Analyze data with standard tables and PivotTables " Use Excel's powerful business modeling tools " Utilize Regression to track trends and make forecasts " Build loan, investment, and discount formulas, and more Packed with no-nonsense, step-by-step tutorials and practical examples, Formulas and Functions has been thoroughly updated to reflect Excel 2010's many improvements, from Sparklines to the newest version of Solver. McFedries also illuminates important Excel 2007 enhancements that many users haven't yet mastered, including conditional formatting. This book is part of the new MrExcel Library series, edited by Bill Jelen, world-renowned Excel expert and host of the enormously popular Excel help site, MrExcel.com.

* No-nonsense, step-by-step tutorials and practical examples from a world-renowned expert in demystifying complex technology, Paul McFedries
* Includes specific techniques for analyzing complex data, modeling business problems, tracking trends, making forecasts, and building financial formulas
* Part of the brand-new MrExcel's Library series, edited by Excel legend Bill Jelen

CONTENTS:

Mastering Excel Ranges and Formulas

1. Getting the Most Out of Ranges

2. Using Range Names

3. Building Basic Formulas

4. Creating Advanced Formulas

5. Troubleshooting Formulas

Part II. Harnessing the Power of Functions

6. Using Functions

7. Working with Text Functions

8. Working with Logical and Information Functions

9. Working with Lookup Functions

10. Working with Date and Time Functions

11. Working with Math Functions

12. Working with Statistical Functions

Part III. Building Business Models

13. Analyzing Data with Tables

14. Analyzing Data with PivotTables

15. Using Excel's Business Modeling Tools

16. Using Regression to Track Trends and Make Forecasts

17. Solving Complex Problems with Solver

Part IV. Building Financial Formulas

18. Building Loan Formulas

19. Building Investment Formulas

20. Building Discount Formulas