Microsoft Excel Inside Out (Office 2021 and Microsoft 365)

Conquer Microsoft Excel -- from the inside out!

Dive into Microsoft Excel -- and really put your spreadsheet expertise to work. This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds -- all you need to make the most of Excel's most powerful tools for analyzing data and making better decisions.

Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen and Paul McFedries offer a complete tour of Excel in Office 365, from efficient interface customizations to advanced analysis, visualizations, and dashboards. Discover how experts tackle today's key tasks -- and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery. Topics include:

• Customizing the Excel workspace
• Best practices for designing and managing worksheets
• Creating formulas and functions
• Performing statistical, what-if, and other data analysis
• Core to advanced charting techniques
• Using graphics and sparklines
• Managing databases and tables
• Automating Excel with macros and custom functions
• Collaborating in Excel online, in the cloud, and more
• Extending Excel

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Table of Contents

Previous Edition Table of Contents

Part I THE EXCEL INTERFACE
1 What's New in Excel 2019 and Office 365
2 Using the Excel Interface
3 Customizing Excel
4 Keyboard Shortcuts


Part II CALCULATING WITH EXCEL
5 Understanding Formulas
6 Controlling Formulas
7 Understanding Functions
8 Using Everyday Functions: Math, Date and Time, and Text Functions
9 Using Powerful Functions: Logical, Lookup, Web, and Database Functions
10 Other Functions
11 Connecting Worksheets and Workbooks
12 Array Formulas and Names in Excel


Part III DATA ANALYSIS WITH EXCEL
13 Transforming Data with Power Query
14 Summarizing Data Using Subtotals or Filter
15 Using Pivot Tables to Analyze Data
16 Using Slicers and Filtering a Pivot Table
17 Mashing Up Data with Power Pivot
18 Using What-If, Scenario Manager, Goal Seek, and Solver
19 Automating Repetitive Functions Using VBA Macros
20 More Tips and Tricks for Excel 2016


Part IV EXCEL VISUALS
21 Formatting Worksheets
22 Using Data Visualizations and Conditional Formatting
23 Graphing Data Using Excel Charts
24 Using 3D Maps
25 Using Sparklines
26 Formatting Spreadsheets for Presentation
27 Printing
28 Excel Online


APPENDIXES
A DAX Functions
B Power Query M Functions

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