Excel can be complicated, but this Visual guide shows you exactly how to tackle every essential task with full-color screen shots and step-by-step instructions. You’ll see exactly what each step should look like as you learn to use all the new tools in this latest release of the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. In easy two-page lessons, author Paul McFedries shows you how to organize, present, analyze, and chart data, over the web or on a network.
The Visual learning system is perfect for teaching Excel; previous editions of this book have sold more than 230,000 copies
Covers common Excel 2013 tasks such as creating spreadsheets and charts, filtering and sorting data, and working with PivotTables
Provides step-by-step instructions for each task
Each step is illustrated with full-color screenshots
Teach Yourself VISUALLY Excel 2013 offers visual learners the ideal way to master this popular but complex spreadsheet program.
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From the Inside Flap
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you’ll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 160 Excel 2013 tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on Excel 2013 in no time.
You’ll learn to:
Enter text or numbers into a cell
Work with ranges and range names
Build formulas and add functions
Format and print workbooks
Visualize data with charts
Designed for visual learners
Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
From the Back Cover
Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you’ll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 160 Excel 2013 tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on Excel 2013 in no time.
You’ll learn to:
Enter text or numbers into a cell
Work with ranges and range names
Build formulas and add functions
Format and print workbooks
Visualize data with charts
Designed for visual learners
Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
About the Author
Paul McFedries (Toronto, Ontario) is the president of Logophilia Limited, a technical writing company. He has been programming since he was a teenager in the mid-1970s and has programmed everything from mainframes to desktops to bar code scanners. He has worked with many different languages, including Fortran, assembly language, C++, and, JavaScript. Paul has written more than three dozen books that have sold more than three million copies worldwide, including: Windows Vista Simplified, Teach Yourself Visually Windows Vista, Macs Portable Genius, Office 2007 Visual Quick Tips, and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Macs. Paul encourages all readers to drop by his Web site, www.mcfedries.com.
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