Excel 2016 Formulas and Functions (includes Content Update Program)

by McFedries, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780789755643
• ISBN10: 0789755645
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781509306190
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-10-01
• Publisher: Que Pub
• More Book Details
• Purchase Benefits

Summary

Book + Content Update Program

Master core Excel 2016 tools for building powerful, reliable spreadsheets with Excel 2016 Formulas and Functions. Excel expert Paul McFedries shows how to use Excel 2016’s core features to solve problems and get the answers you need. Using real-world examples, McFedries helps you get the absolute most out of features and improvements ranging from AutoFill to Excel’s newest functions. Along the way, you discover the fastest, best ways to handle essential day-to-day tasks ranging from generating account numbers to projecting the impact of inflation.

Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! You’ll find crystal-clear instructions; insider insights; even complete step-by-step projects for building timesheets, projecting cash flow, aging receivables, analyzing defects, and more.

• Quickly create powerful spreadsheets with range names and array formulas
• Use conditional formatting to instantly reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities
• Analyze your data with standard tables and PivotTables
• Use complex criteria to filter data in lists
• Understand correlations between data
• Perform sophisticated what-if analyses
• Use regression to track trends and make forecasts
• Build loan, investment, and discount formulas
• Validate data, troubleshoot problems, and build more accurate, trustworthy spreadsheets

In addition, this book is part of Que’s exciting Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Excel 2016, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. The updates will be delivered to you via a FREE Web Edition of this book, which can be accessed with any Internet connection. To learn more, visit  www.quepublishing.com/CUP.

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Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will
• Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year or more
• Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems
• Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have
• Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

Author Biography

Paul McFedries is an Excel expert and full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 85 books to his credit, which combined have sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. His titles include the Que Publishing books My Office 2016, Windows 10 In Depth (with coauthor Brian Knittel), and PCs for Grownups, as well as the Sams Publishing book Windows 7 Unleashed. Paul is also the proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases that have entered the English language. Please drop by Paul’s personal website at www.mcfedries.com or follow Paul on Twitter, at twitter.com/wordspy.

Table of Contents

Part 1—Mastering Excel Ranges and Formulas
Chapter 1—Getting the Most Out of Ranges

Chapter 2—Using Range Names

Chapter 3—Building Basic Formulas

Chapter 4—Creating Advanced Formulas

Chapter 5—Troubleshooting Formulas

Part 2—Harnessing the Power of Functions
Chapter 6—Using Functions

Chapter 7—Working with Text Functions

Chapter 8—Working with Logical and Information Functions

Chapter 9—Working with Lookup Functions

Chapter 10—Working with Date and Time Functions

Chapter 11—Working with Math Functions

Chapter 12—Working with Statistical Functions

Part 3—Building Business Models
Chapter 13—Analyzing Data with Tables

Chapter 14—Analyzing Data with PivotTables

Chapter 15—Using Excel's Business Modeling Tools

Chapter 16—Using Regression to Track Trends and Make Forecasts

Chapter 17—Solving Complex Problems with Solver

Part 4—Building Financial Formulas
Chapter 18—Building Loan Formulas
Chapter 19—Building Investment Formulas

Chapter 20—Building Discount Formulas