Excel Formulas & Functions for Dummies

Put the power of Excel functions to work in your formulas There are more than 400 built-in functions in Excel 2019, from AGGREGATE to Z.TEST. The question is which ones will make your work easier? How and why should you use a particular function in your formulas? Excel Formulas and Functions For Dum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons c2019.
Hoboken, New Jersey : 2019.
Edición:Fifth edition
Colección:--For dummies.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009630532106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • How to Use This Book
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Where to Go from Here
  • Part 1 Getting Started with Formulas and Functions
  • Chapter 1 Tapping Into Formula and Function Fundamentals
  • Working with Excel Fundamentals
  • Understanding workbooks and worksheets
  • Introducing the Formulas Tab
  • Working with rows, column, cells, ranges, and tables
  • Formatting your data
  • Getting help
  • Gaining the Upper Hand on Formulas
  • Entering your first formula
  • Understanding references
  • Copying formulas with the fill handle
  • Assembling formulas the right way
  • Using Functions in Formulas
  • Looking at what goes into a function
  • Arguing with a function
  • Nesting functions
  • Chapter 2 Saving Time with Function Tools
  • Getting Familiar with the Insert Function Dialog Box
  • Finding the Correct Function
  • Entering Functions Using the Insert Function Dialog Box
  • Selecting a function that takes no arguments
  • Selecting a function that uses arguments
  • Entering cells, ranges, named areas, and tables as function arguments
  • Getting help in the Insert Function dialog box
  • Using the Function Arguments dialog box to edit functions
  • Directly Entering Formulas and Functions
  • Entering formulas and functions in the Formula Bar
  • Entering formulas and functions directly in worksheet cells
  • Chapter 3 Saying "Array!" for Formulas and Functions
  • Discovering Arrays
  • Using Arrays in Formulas
  • Working with Functions That Return Arrays
  • Chapter 4 Fixing Formula Boo-Boos
  • Catching Errors As You Enter Them
  • Getting parentheses to match
  • Avoiding circular references
  • Mending broken links
  • Using the Formula Error Checker
  • Auditing Formulas
  • Watching the Watch Window
  • Evaluating and Checking Errors.
  • Making an Error Behave the Way You Want
  • Part 2 Doing the Math
  • Chapter 5 Calculating Loan Payments and Interest Rates
  • Understanding How Excel Handles Money
  • Going with the cash flow
  • Formatting for currency
  • Choosing separators
  • Figuring Loan Calculations
  • Calculating the payment amount
  • Calculating interest payments
  • Calculating payments toward principal
  • Calculating the number of payments
  • Calculating the number of payments with PDURATION
  • Calculating the interest rate
  • Calculating the principal
  • Chapter 6 Appreciating What You'll Get, Depreciating What You've Got
  • Looking into the Future
  • Depreciating the Finer Things in Life
  • Calculating straight-line depreciation
  • Creating an accelerated depreciation schedule
  • Creating an even faster accelerated depreciation schedule
  • Calculating a midyear depreciation schedule
  • Measuring Your Internals
  • Chapter 7 Using Basic Math Functions
  • Adding It All Together with the SUM Function
  • Rounding Out Your Knowledge
  • Just plain old rounding
  • Rounding in one direction
  • Leaving All Decimals Behind with INT
  • Leaving Some Decimals Behind with TRUNC
  • Looking for a Sign
  • Ignoring Signs
  • Chapter 8 Advancing Your Math
  • Using PI to Calculate Circumference and Diameter
  • Generating and Using Random Numbers
  • The all-purpose RAND function
  • Precise randomness with RANDBETWEEN
  • Ordering Items
  • Combining
  • Raising Numbers to New Heights
  • Multiplying Multiple Numbers
  • Using What Remains with the MOD Function
  • Summing Things Up
  • Using SUBTOTAL
  • Using SUMPRODUCT
  • Using SUMIF and SUMIFS
  • Getting an Angle on Trigonometry
  • Three basic trigonometry functions
  • Degrees and radians
  • Part 3 Solving with Statistics
  • Chapter 9 Throwing Statistics a Curve
  • Getting Stuck in the Middle with AVERAGE, MEDIAN, and MODE
  • Deviating from the Middle.
  • Measuring variance
  • Analyzing deviations
  • Looking for normal distribution
  • Skewing from the norm
  • Comparing data sets
  • Analyzing Data with Percentiles and Bins
  • QUARTILE.INC and QUARTILE.EXC
  • PERCENTILE.INC and PERCENTILE.EXC
  • RANK
  • PERCENTRANK
  • FREQUENCY
  • MIN and MAX
  • LARGE and SMALL
  • Going for the Count
  • COUNT and COUNTA
  • COUNTIF
  • Chapter 10 Using Significance Tests
  • Testing to the T
  • Comparing Results with an Estimate
  • Chapter 11 Rolling the Dice on Predictions and Probability
  • Modeling
  • Linear model
  • Exponential model
  • Getting It Straight: Using SLOPE and INTERCEPT to Describe Linear Data
  • What's Ahead: Using FORECAST, TREND, and GROWTH to Make Predictions
  • FORECAST
  • TREND
  • GROWTH
  • Using NORM.DIST and POISSON.DIST to Determine Probabilities
  • NORM.DIST
  • POISSON.DIST
  • Part 4 Dancing with Data
  • Chapter 12 Dressing Up for Date Functions
  • Understanding How Excel Handles Dates
  • Formatting Dates
  • Making a Date with DATE
  • Breaking a Date with DAY, MONTH, and YEAR
  • Isolating the day
  • Isolating the month
  • Isolating the year
  • Converting a Date from Text
  • Finding Out What TODAY Is
  • Counting the days until your birthday
  • Counting your age in days
  • Determining the Day of the Week
  • Working with Workdays
  • Determining workdays in a range of dates
  • Workdays in the future
  • Calculating Time Between Two Dates with the DATEDIF Function
  • Chapter 13 Keeping Well-Timed Functions
  • Understanding How Excel Handles Time
  • Formatting Time
  • Keeping TIME
  • Converting Text to Time with TIMEVALUE
  • Deconstructing Time with HOUR, MINUTE, and SECOND
  • Isolating the hour
  • Isolating the minute
  • Isolating the second
  • Finding the Time NOW
  • Calculating Elapsed Time Over Days
  • Chapter 14 Using Lookup, Logical, and Reference Functions
  • Testing on One Condition.
  • Choosing the Right Value
  • Let's Be Logical
  • NOT
  • AND and OR
  • XOR
  • Finding Where the Data Is
  • ADDRESS
  • ROW, ROWS, COLUMN, and COLUMNS
  • OFFSET
  • Looking It Up
  • HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP
  • MATCH and INDEX
  • FORMULATEXT
  • NUMBERVALUE
  • Chapter 15 Digging Up the Facts
  • Getting Informed with the CELL Function
  • Getting Information About Excel and Your Computer System
  • Finding What IS and What IS Not
  • ISERR, ISNA, and ISERROR
  • ISBLANK, ISNONTEXT, ISTEXT, and ISNUMBER
  • Getting to Know Your Type
  • Chapter 16 Writing Home About Text Functions
  • Breaking Apart Text
  • Bearing to the LEFT
  • Swinging to the RIGHT
  • Staying in the MIDdle
  • Finding the long of it with LEN
  • Putting Text Together with CONCATENATE
  • Changing Text
  • Making money
  • Turning numbers into text
  • Repeating text
  • Swapping text
  • Giving text a trim
  • Making a case
  • Comparing, Finding, and Measuring Text
  • Going for perfection with EXACT
  • Finding and searching
  • Chapter 17 Playing Records with Database Functions
  • Putting Your Data into a Database Structure
  • Working with Database Functions
  • Establishing your database
  • Establishing the criteria area
  • Fine-Tuning Criteria with AND and OR
  • Adding Only What Matters with DSUM
  • Going for the Middle with DAVERAGE
  • Counting Only What Matters with DCOUNT
  • Finding Highest and Lowest with DMIN and DMAX
  • Finding Duplicate Values with DGET
  • Being Productive with DPRODUCT
  • Part 5 The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 18 Ten Tips for Working with Formulas
  • Master Operator Precedence
  • Display Formulas
  • Fix Formulas
  • Use Absolute References
  • Turn Calc On/Turn Calc Off
  • Use Named Areas
  • Use Formula Auditing
  • Use Conditional Formatting
  • Use Data Validation
  • Create Your Own Functions
  • Chapter 19 Ten Functions You Really Should Know
  • SUM
  • AVERAGE
  • COUNT
  • INT and ROUND.
  • INT
  • ROUND
  • IF
  • NOW and TODAY
  • HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP
  • ISNUMBER
  • MIN and MAX
  • SUMIF and COUNTIF
  • Chapter 20 Ten Really Cool Functions
  • Work with Hexadecimal, Octal, Decimal, and Binary Numbers
  • Convert Units of Measurement
  • Find the Greatest Common Divisor and the Least Common Multiple
  • Easily Generate a Random Number
  • Convert to Roman Numerals
  • Factor in a Factorial
  • Determine Part of a Year with YEARFRAC
  • Find the Data TYPE
  • Find the LENgth of Your Text
  • Just in CASE
  • Index
  • EULA.