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Grab these Excel formulas and functions to make your life easier! Are you intimidated by major financial choices, like which loan to get or how to grow your savings? Don't worry--we all are! But Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies, 4th Edition can take some of the pain out of the data organization and analysis processes. This step-by-step reference sheds light on Microsoft Excel's 150 most useful functions, and offers detailed instructions on how to implement them. Additionally, each function is illustrated by helpful, real-world examples that show how they are used within a larger formula. To take your knowledge of Excel's functions a step further, 85 specialized functions are described in abbreviated form so you can use Excel to better support your decision-making process when securing a mortgage, buying a car, computing classroom grades, evaluating investment performance, and more. Functions are predefined formulas that you can use to make data analysis a bit easier within the Microsoft Excel framework. Functions use specific values, called arguments, to calculate a variety of things, from simple sums and averages to more complicated loan payments. Explore the 150 most useful functions that help Microsoft Excel make your life easier Access real-world examples of how functions fit into larger formulas Discover 85 specialized functions, which are described in abbreviated form and take your knowledge of Excel to the next level Understand how Microsoft Excel can help you make key decisions, such as whether to go with a 15-year or 30-year mortgage Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies, 4th Edition brings order to chaotic data--and helps you make decisions with confidence!
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Ken Bluttman is a veteran software and web developer specializing in Excel/VBA and database-centric web applications. He has written articles and books on various computer topics including Office/VBA development, XML, SQL Server, JavaScript, HTML5, and PHP. Ken also wrote Excel Charts For Dummies.
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Use Excel to compare rates to make good financial decisions Deciding on a mortgage? Need to track your expenses? Microsoft Excel can helphere's how! Excel is a tool that's equally useful for analyzing your investments and cataloging your recipes. So why not claim all the power it offers? This book shows you how to take advantage of over 150 built-in Excel functions that you can use in formulas to crunch numbers for just about every purpose. Best of all, it explains everything in plain English!
Digging in your data uncover ways to pluck pieces of data from a database and how IF, HLOOKUP, and VLOOKUP can make your life simpler Open the book and find:
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Grab these Excel formulas and functions to make your life easier! Are you intimidated by major financial choices, like which loan to get or how to grow your savings? Don't worrywe all are! But Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies, 4th Edition can take some of the pain out of the data organization and analysis processes. This step-by-step reference sheds light on Microsoft Excel's 150 most useful functions, and offers detailed instructions on how to implement them. Additionally, each function is illustrated by helpful, real-world examples that show how they are used within a larger formula. To take your knowledge of Excel's functions a step further, 85 specialized functions are described in abbreviated form so you can use Excel to better support your decision-making process when securing a mortgage, buying a car, computing classroom grades, evaluating investment performance, and more. Functions are predefined formulas that you can use to make data analysis a bit easier within the Microsoft Excel framework. Functions use specific values, called arguments, to calculate a variety of things, from simple sums and averages to more complicated loan payments.
Leseprobe
Chapter 1
Tapping Into Formula and Function Fundamentals
In This Chapter
Getting the skinny on the Excel basics
Writing formulas
Working with functions in formulas
Excel is to computer programs what a Ferrari is to cars: sleek on the outside and a lot of power under the hood. Excel is also like a truck. It can handle all your data - lots of it. In fact, in Excel 2016, a single worksheet has 17,179,869,184 places to hold data. Yes, that's what I said - more than 17 billion data placeholders. And that's on just one worksheet!
Opening files created in earlier versions of Excel may show just the number of worksheet rows and columns available in the version the workbook was created with.
Excel is used in all types of businesses. And you know how that's possible? By being able to store and work with any kind of data. It doesn't matter whether you're in finance or sales, whether you run an online video store or organize wilderness trips, or whether you're charting party RSVPs or tracking the scores of your favorite sports teams - Excel can handle all of it. Its number-crunching ability is just awesome! And so easy to use!
Just putting a bunch of information on worksheets doesn't crunch the data or give you sums, results, or analyses. If you want to just store your data somewhere, you can use Excel or get a database program instead. In this book, I show you how to build formulas and how to use the dozens of built-in functions that Excel provides. That's where the real power of Excel is - making sense of your data.
Don't fret that this is a challenge and that you may make mistakes. I did when I was ramping up. Besides, Excel is very forgiving. It won't crash on you. Excel usually tells you when you made a mistake, and sometimes it even helps you correct it. How many programs do that? But first, the basics. This first chapter gives you the springboard you need to use the rest of the book. I wish books like this were around when I was introduced to computers. I had to stumble through a lot of this.
Working with Excel Fundamentals
Before you can write any formulas or crunch any numbers, you have to know where the data goes and how to find it again. I wouldn't want your data to get lost! Knowing how wor…