Best Microsoft Excel Books to Learn Spreadsheets Completely
This is learning made easy. Get more done quickly with Excel 2016. Jump in wherever you need answers--brisk lessons and full-color screenshots show you exactly what to do, step by step.
What You Will Learn
- Quickly set up workbooks, enter data, and format it for easier viewing
- Perform calculations and find and correct errors
- Filter, sort, summarize and combine data
- Analyze data by using PivotTables, PivotCharts, scenarios, data tables, and Solver
- Visualize data with charts and graphs, including new sunbursts, waterfalls, and treemaps
- Build data models and use them in business intelligence analyses
- Create timelines, forecasts, and visualizations, including KPIs and PowerMap data maps
- Look up just the tasks and lessons you need.
Whether you are just starting out or an Excel novice, the Excel 2016 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for all your Excel 2016 needs. Whether you use Excel at work or at home, you will be guided through the powerful new features and capabilities by expert author and Excel Guru John Walkenbach to take full advantage of what the updated version offers. Learn to incorporate templates, implement formulas, create pivot tables, analyze data, and much more.
Navigate this powerful tool for business, home management, technical work, and much more with the only resource you need, Excel 2016 Bible.
What You Will Learn
- Create functional spreadsheets that work
- Master formulas, formatting, pivot tables, and more
- Get acquainted with Excel 2016's new features and tools
- Customize downloadable templates and worksheets.
If the thought of looking at spreadsheet makes your head swell, you've come to the right place. Whether you've used older versions of this popular program or have never gotten a headache from looking at all those grids, this hands-on guide will get you up and running with the latest installment of the software, Microsoft Excel 2016. In no time, you'll begin creating and editing worksheets, formatting cells, entering formulas, creating and editing charts, inserting graphs, designing database forms, and more. Plus, you'll get easy-to-follow guidance on mastering more advanced skills, like adding hyperlinks to worksheets, saving worksheets as web pages, adding worksheet data to an existing web page, and so much more.
What You Will Learn
- Save spreadsheets in the Cloud to work on them anywhere
- Use Excel 2016 on a desktop, laptop, or tablet
- Share spreadsheets via email, online meetings, and social media sites
- Analyze data with PivotTables.
Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2016, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands on, scenario-focused guide helps you use Excel’s newest tools to ask the right questions and get accurate, actionable answers. This edition adds 150+ new problems with solutions, plus a chapter of basic spreadsheet models to make sure you’re fully up to speed.
What You Will Learn
- Quickly transition from Excel basics to sophisticated analytics
- Summarize data by using PivotTables and Descriptive Statistics
- Use Excel trend curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing
- Master advanced functions such as OFFSET and INDIRECT
- Delve into key financial, statistical, and time functions
- Leverage the new charts in Excel 2016 (including box and whisker and waterfall charts)
- Make charts more effective by using Power View
- Tame complex optimizations by using Excel Solver
- Run Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding models
- Work with the AGGREGATE function and table slicers
- Create PivotTables from data in different worksheets or workbooks
- Learn about basic probability and Bayes’ Theorem
- Automate repetitive tasks by using macros.
What You Will Learn
- Entering and Editing Data
- Picking from a Drop-Down List
- Selecting Cells
- Resizing Column Width and Row Height
- Inserting and Deleting Rows, Columns, and Cells
- Clearing Cells, Clearing Formatting
- Borders, Shading, Text Color
- Formatting Number Cells
- Aligning and Merging Cell Contents
- Entering Dates, entering a Sequence of Numbers and entering Formulas & Functions
- Entering SUM and Other Functions Quickly
- Absolute vs. Relative Cell References
- Copying and Moving Data: Copying to Adjacent Cells; Cut, Copy, Paste; Drag & Drop
- Sheet Features: Renaming, Moving, Copying, Selecting, Inserting, Deleting Sheets; Editing Multiple Worksheets.
It’s a great Excel tutorial that will help you in the office, at school, or even at home. Excel Basics In 30 Minutes, 2nd Edition is written in plain English, with lots of step-by-step instructions and screenshots that demonstrate exactly what to do. This MS Excel tutorial references Excel 2016, but most of the step-by-step instructions apply to earlier versions of MS Excel released as part of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 suites, including Excel 2013 and Excel 2010. If you don't own Excel, the book explains how to use two free online spreadsheets programs: Excel Online and Google Sheets (part of the Google Drive online office suite).
What You Will Learn
- What is a spreadsheet?
- What are cells?
- What is the button with the Greek letter for?
- How can Excel spreadsheets create basic financial projections?
- How can certain data in a worksheet be highlighted?
- How can data be alphabetized or ranked?
- How to edit a chart in Excel
- How to print an Excel spreadsheet without cutting off the column.
What You Will Learn
- Create a PivotTable using the new Recommended PivotTable capability.
- Enter a line break into a cell’s contents by press Alt+Enter.
- Extract and combine data from other cells using the new Flash Fill capability
- Use Excel tables to manage data and automatically update charts when the data is modified.
- Work with charts using the new, intuitive formatting interface introduced in Excel 2013.
SUCCEEDING IN BUSINESS WITH MICROSOFT OFFICE EXCEL 2013 prepares your students to solve business problems by moving beyond the basic "point and click" skills to think critically about realistic business situations.
When students combine software analysis with their own decision making abilities, they are more likely meet any business challenge with success.
The Succeeding in Business Series emphasizes problem-solving, critical thinking, and analysis - challenging students to find efficient and effective solutions.
What You Will Learn
- Entering and Editing Data
- Picking from a Drop-Down List
- Selecting Cells
- Resizing Column Width and Row Height
- Inserting and Deleting Rows, Columns and Cells
- Clearing Cells, Clearing Formatting
- Borders, Shading, Text Color
- Formatting Number Cells
- Aligning and Merging Cell Contents
- Entering Dates
- Entering a Sequence of Numbers
- Entering Formulas & Functions
- Entering SUM and Other Functions Quickly
- Absolute vs. Relative Cell References
- Copying and Moving Data: Copying to Adjacent Cells; Cut, Copy, Paste; Drag & Drop
- Sheet Features: Renaming, Moving, Copying, Selecting, Inserting, Deleting Sheets; Editing Multiple Worksheets Simultaneously
- Previewing, Printing and Page Setup
- Scaling to Print
- Printing a Specific Area
- Using Page Break Preview to Adjust Page Breaks
- Repeating Rows/Columns on Every Page.
Master business modeling and analysis techniques with Microsoft Excel 2013, and transform data into bottom-line results. Written by award-winning educator Wayne Winston, this hands-on, scenario-focused guide shows you how to use the latest Excel tools to integrate data from multiple tables—and how to effectively build a relational data source inside an Excel workbook.
What You Will Learn
- Summarize data with PivotTables and Descriptive Statistics
- Explore new trends in predictive and prescriptive analytics
- Use Excel Trend Curves, multiple regression, and exponential smoothing
- Master advanced Excel functions such as OFFSET and INDIRECT
- Delve into key financial, statistical, and time functions
- Make your charts more effective with the Power View tool
- Tame complex optimization problems with Excel Solver
- Run Monte Carlo simulations on stock prices and bidding models
- Apply important modeling tools such as the Inquire add-in.
With the New Perspectives' critical-thinking, problem-solving approach, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of MICROSOFT OFFICE EXCEL 2010 and will learn how to take advantage of the flexibility it offers.
Case-based tutorials challenge students to apply what they are learning to real-life tasks, preparing them to easily transfer skills to new situations. With New Perspectives, students understand why they're learning what they're learning and are better situated to retain skills beyond the classroom.
Experience learning made easy-and quickly teach yourself how to organize, analyze, and present data with Excel 2010. With STEP BY STEP, you set the pace-building and practicing the skills you need, just when you need them!
What You Will Include
- creating formulas
- calculating values
- analyzing data
- presenting information visually with graphics, charts, and diagrams
- building PivotTable dynamic views
- using the new Excel Web App
- reusing information from databases and other documents
- creating macros to automate repetitive tasks and simplify your work and other core topics.
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