Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) - Softcover

Bluttman, Ken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1119839114 ISBN 13: 9781119839118

Publisher: For Dummies, 2022

Synopsis

Unlock the power of Excel with a step-by-step roadmap to its formulas and functions

There's a Swiss Army knife in your digital toolbox that can multiply your productivity and make you the smartest guy or gal in almost any room. It's called Microsoft Excel.

If you're like most people, you've barely scratched the surface of what this powerful tool's hundreds of built-in functions can do. But with a little help from Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies, you'll soon be organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data like a pro.

For those who don't know the difference between a spreadsheet and a bedsheet, the book gets you up to speed with formula and function basics first. But you can also skip ahead to the fancy stuff and learn about working with probabilities, significance tests, and lookup functions.

This easy-to-use Excel formulas and functions survival guide shows you how to:

• Work with financial functions like PMT, PPMT, NPER, RATE, and PV
• Calculate mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and many more statistical functions
• Troubleshoot formulas for common errors and validate your data to avoid mistakes
• Work with dates, times, logic operators, conditions, and basic and advanced mathematical functions

You don't need a degree in data science or advanced mathematics to take advantage of the full functionality and flexibility of Microsoft Excel. Let Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies show you how to transform this unassuming program into the most useful tool in your toolbox.

About this title

About the Author

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 topics like Office/VBA development, XML, SQL Server, and InfoPath. Ken is the author of Excel Charts For Dummies and all previous editions of Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies.

From the Back Cover

Become highly “functional” at work or at home

Excel^® spreadsheets let you put stuff in boxes―and then do cool stuff with that stuff! Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies shows you just how cool it can get, introducing the basics of Excel calculations and taking you all the way through statistics, data analysis, and lots more fanciness. Even if you’re already pretty fancy when it comes to spreadsheets, you’ll want to have this book handy so you can find that one function you’re always forgetting. When you’re done crunching the numbers, this book will even help you make it look pretty. Excellent!

Inside…

• Excel’s most powerful tools
• Arrays and money math
• Common financial calculations
• Basic and advanced statistics
• Date and time issues
• Lookups and logic functions
• Analysis of text-based data
• All the latest new features

From the Inside Flap

Become highly “functional” at work or at home

Excel^® spreadsheets let you put stuff in boxes—and then do cool stuff with that stuff! Excel Formulas & Functions For Dummies shows you just how cool it can get, introducing the basics of Excel calculations and taking you all the way through statistics, data analysis, and lots more fanciness. Even if you’re already pretty fancy when it comes to spreadsheets, you’ll want to have this book handy so you can find that one function you’re always forgetting. When you’re done crunching the numbers, this book will even help you make it look pretty. Excellent!

Inside…

• Excel’s most powerful tools
• Arrays and money math
• Common financial calculations
• Basic and advanced statistics
• Date and time issues
• Lookups and logic functions
• Analysis of text-based data
• All the latest new features

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1119839114
• ISBN 13: 9781119839118
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 416