Excel 2013 for Dummies, Book - Softcover

Harvey, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118510127 ISBN 13: 9781118510124

Publisher: For Dummies, 2013

Synopsis

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!

About this title

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.

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

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

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118510127
• ISBN 13: 9781118510124
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416