Advanced Excel Success: A Practical Guide to Mastering Excel - Softcover

Murray, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484264665 ISBN 13: 9781484264669

Publisher: Apress, 2020

Synopsis

Learn the Advanced Excel features and skills that are not taught in classes.
Advanced Excel tricks, XLOOKUP, SUMPRODUCT, Power Query, Power Pivot and much
more.

This book is perfect for anyone who uses Excel regularly and wants to take the
step to the next level.

If you are a Beginner to Intermediate level Excel user, this book is a
must-have. You will learn the advanced Excel features and techniques that others
do not know.

In this book, you will learn:
- Tricks and innovative ways to boost your productivity in Excel.
- The best functions in Excel including XLOOKUP, FILTER, SORTBY, SWITCH and more
with 'real world' examples.
- Advanced formatting techniques to take your formatting to another level.
- Create dynamic, interactive, and effective charts.
- Power Query - possibly the greatest and most-important upgrade in the history
of Excel.
- Power Pivot - no more lookups. Learn to model your data, handle large volumes
with ease and perform powerful DAX calculations.
Downloadable Excel files are available to follow along and practise with all
examples.

This book it a must-have to stay ahead of the crowd and be a success in the
workplace. Take advantage of the power in modern excel.

About this title

About the Author

Alan is a Microsoft MVP, Excel trainer, YouTuber, and freelance writer. He has been helping people in Excel for over 20 years. He loves training and the joy he gets from knowing he is making people's working lives easier.

Alan runs his own blog - Computergaga - and writes for multiple other websites. His YouTube channel has over 500 videos and over 24 million views. He organizes a monthly Excel meetup in London where the Excel community learns, shares, and enjoys each other’s company.

From the Back Cover

Explore advanced skills in Excel and gain an amazing array of tricks and tools to increase your productivity. This book discusses new techniques such as power functions, chart tricks, and many more to master Excel.

Advanced Excel Success starts with a few useful data tools in Excel followed by advanced formulas that will help you increase productivity. Here, you will learn power functions that aggregate, return ranges, and much more. Further, you will look at custom formatting tricks along with advanced charting tricks. These include automatically changing the color of key metrics, dynamically sorting chart data, and building creative labels.

Next, you will understand the role of Power Query which is one of the most important upgrades in Excel. Power Query is the Microsoft Data Connectivity and Data Preparation technology that enables business users to seamlessly access data stored in hundreds of data sources and reshape it to fit their needs, with an easy–to-use, engaging, and no-code user experience. Finally, you will learn Power Pivot which is a distinct feature in Excel that goes beyond spreadsheets. 

After reading this book, you will be well equipped to work on Excel with its advanced features. 

You will:

• Work with the most useful data tools 
• Understand formulas and the ten power functions
• Use advanced chart and formatting tricks and techniques for dynamic and effective visuals
• Work with power tools

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484264665
• ISBN 13: 9781484264669
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 367