Synopses & Reviews
Here's everything you need to know about using Excel — in one handy package!Excel is such a powerhouse, it takes eight self-contained minibooks to cover all its features! Open this All-in-One and find just what you need to know, from how to use the Ribbon interface and Backstage View and how to set up your first spreadsheet to collaborating on a worksheet, presenting results with cool charts and graphs, and understanding formulas and functions.
Welcome to 2010 — explore the new user experience, learn where to get help, and customize your Excel
Workin' with worksheets — learn to build, format, edit, proof, manage, and print them
Formula for success — find out what formulas and functions do and how to use them
Share and collaborate — discover how to send workbooks out for review and incorporate input from multiple users
Results that are pretty — find out which type of chart shows off your data to best advantage
Keeping data in line — learn to maintain, sort, and filter data lists using Excel
Analyze this — use Excel's computational ability to predict possible outcomes
Making macros — use Visual Basic® for Applications, record macros, edit VBA code, and make Excel do your bidding
Open the book and find:
How to navigate the Ribbon and Backstage View
Shortcuts for switching from older versions
Tricks for eliminating Text to Speech errors
All about functions and how they work in formulas
How to secure data and still enable user edits
How to use line charts, pie charts, and scatter charts
Tips for creating macros and custom functions
How to perform what-if analysis
Synopsis
A comprehensive, up-to-date, user-friendly guide to Excel 2010
Excel is the standard for spreadsheet applications and is used worldwide, but it's not always user-friendly. That makes it a perfect For Dummies topic, and this handy all-in-one guide covers all the essentials, the new features, how to analyze data with Excel, and much more.
Eight minibooks address Excel basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration and review, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and Excel and VBA. *
Synopsis
A comprehensive, up-to-date, user-friendly guide to Excel 2010Excel is the standard for spreadsheet applications and is used worldwide, but it's not always user-friendly. That makes it a perfect For Dummies topic, and this handy all-in-one guide covers all the essentials, the new features, how to analyze data with Excel, and much more.
Eight minibooks address Excel basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration and review, charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and Excel and VBA.
- Excel is the leading spreadsheet/data analysis software and is used throughout the world; the newest revision includes upgraded tools and a redesigned interface
- For Dummies books are the bestselling guides to Excel, with more than three million copies sold
- Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies covers the changes in the newest version as well as familiar tasks, such as creating and editing worksheets, setting up formulas, and performing statistical functions
- Eight self-contained minibooks cover the basics, worksheet design, formulas and functions, worksheet collaboration, presenting data in charts and graphics, data management, data analysis, and creating macros with VBA.
Newcomers to Excel as well as veterans who just want to learn the latest version will find Excel 2010 All-in-One For Dummies has everything they need to know.
About the Author
Greg Harvey is president of Mind Over Media, Inc. He is the author of all editions of Excel For Dummies, Excel All-in-One For Dummies, Excel Workbook For Dummies, and Windows For Dummies Quick Reference. He's also an experienced educator.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Book I: Excel Basics.
Chapter 1: The Excel 2010 User Experience.
Chapter 2: Getting Help, Tips, and Updates.
Chapter 3: Customizing Excel.
Book II: Worksheet Design.
Chapter 1: Building Worksheets.
Chapter 2: Formatting Worksheets.
Chapter 3: Editing and Proofi ng Worksheets.
Chapter 4: Managing Worksheets.
Chapter 5: Printing Worksheets.
Book III: Formulas and Functions.
Chapter 1: Building Basic Formulas.
Chapter 2: Logical Functions and Error Trapping.
Chapter 3: Date and Time Formulas.
Chapter 4: Financial Formulas.
Chapter 5: Math and Statistical Formulas.
Chapter 6: Lookup, Information, and Text Formulas.
Book IV: Worksheet Collaboration and Review.
Chapter 1: Protecting Workbooks and Worksheet Data.
Chapter 2: Linking Workbooks with Hyperlinks.
Chapter 3: Sending Workbooks Out for Review.
Chapter 4: Sharing Worksheets and Worksheet Data.
Book V: Charts and Graphics.
Chapter 1: Charting Worksheet Data.
Chapter 2: Adding Graphic Objects.
Book VI: Data Management.
Chapter 1: Building and Maintaining Data Lists.
Chapter 2: Filtering and Querying a Data List.
Book VII: Data Analysis.
Chapter 1: Performing What-If Scenarios.
Chapter 2: Generating Pivot Tables.
Book VIII: Excel and VBA.
Chapter 1: Building and Running Macros.
Chapter 2: VBA Programming.
Appendix: Using XML File Formats.
Index.