The bestselling Excel book – completely updated for Excel 2013!
As the world’s leading spreadsheet application, Excel has an enormous user base. The release of Office 2013 brings major changes to Excel, so Excel For Dummies comes to the rescue once more! Featuring the friendly For Dummies style, this popular guide shows beginners how to get up and running with Excel while also helping more experienced users get comfortable with the newest features.
Walks you through the exciting new features of Excel 2013
Presents everything you need to know to perform basic Excel 2013 tasks
Covers creating and editing worksheets and charts, formatting cells, entering formulas, inserting graphs, designing database forms, and adding database records
Discusses printing, adding hyperlinks to worksheets, saving worksheets as web pages, adding existing worksheet data to an existing web page, and much more
Whether you’re new to Excel or are looking to get up and running with the 2013 version, Excel 2013 For Dummies has everything you need to know!
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From the Inside Flap
What do you need to do with Excel? This book shows you how to do it!
So you don’t plan to devote your life to mastering Excel, but you do need to use some of its features? You’ve come to the right book! This bestselling guide, completely updated for Excel 2013, tells you how to use the program for basic, everyday number-crunching tasks. Create, edit, and print a worksheet, present data in cool ways, and much more.
Moving around the parts get familiar with the Ribbon, Quick Access toolbar, Formula bar, and other elements of the Excel screen
Those feisty formulas and functions learn what they are and how to use them
Editing etiquette discover the different ways to select and format cells, choose number formats, and customize fonts
Worksheets and workbooks understand the difference and learn to organize data within them
Basic maintenance keep your data in line and your workbooks up to date
Doing things with data create data tables and scenarios that let you use what-if analysis to learn from your data
What it means turn your data into professional-looking charts that are easy to interpret
Open the book and find:
Steps for using Flash Fill to extract and copy elements
How to use the Quick Analysis tool
Apps for Office installation tips
How to preview chart formats with the Recommended Charts feature
Help using Recommended PivotTables to summarize data lists
Ways to download and format online graphic images
Methods for getting external data into your spreadsheets
Data analysis advice
Learn to:
Save spreadsheets in the cloud to work on them anywhere
Use Excel 2013 on a Windows desktop, laptop, touchscreen PC, or tablet
Share spreadsheets via SkyDrive, online meetings, and social media sites
Analyze data with PivotTables
From the Back Cover
What do you need to do with Excel? This book shows you how to do it!
So you don’t plan to devote your life to mastering Excel, but you do need to use some of its features? You’ve come to the right book! This bestselling guide, completely updated for Excel 2013, tells you how to use the program for basic, everyday number-crunching tasks. Create, edit, and print a worksheet, present data in cool ways, and much more.
Moving around the parts ? get familiar with the Ribbon, Quick Access toolbar, Formula bar, and other elements of the Excel screen
Those feisty formulas and functions ? learn what they are and how to use them
Editing etiquette ? discover the different ways to select and format cells, choose number formats, and customize fonts
Worksheets and workbooks ? understand the difference and learn to organize data within them
Basic maintenance ? keep your data in line and your workbooks up to date
Doing things with data ? create data tables and scenarios that let you use what-if analysis to learn from your data
What it means ? turn your data into professional-looking charts that are easy to interpret
Open the book and find:
Steps for using Flash Fill to extract and copy elements
How to use the Quick Analysis tool
Apps for Office installation tips
How to preview chart formats with the Recommended Charts feature
Help using Recommended PivotTables to summarize data lists
Ways to download and format online graphic images
Methods for getting external data into your spreadsheets
Data analysis advice
Learn to:
Save spreadsheets in the cloud to work on them anywhere
Use Excel 2013 on a Windows desktop, laptop, touchscreen PC, or tablet
Share spreadsheets via SkyDrive, online meetings, and social media sites
Analyze data with PivotTables
About the Author
Greg Harvey, PhD, is President of Mind Over Media, an online media company. He has written all editions of Excel For Dummies, Excel All-in-One For Dummies, and Excel Workbook For Dummies. Greg is an experienced educator with a wide variety of interests.
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