Excel 2016 In Depth

Book Description

Experienced with Excel? Don’t let Excel 2016 make you feel like a beginner again! This new full-color edition of the bestselling book has been completely overhauled. Gone is unnecessary and rarely used content; emphasis is on the most-used and new aspects of Excel 2016. The result is a focused book where every topic is relevant and worth learning. Excel 2016 In Depth is the fastest, smartest way to master Excel 2016’s full power and updated interface. You’ll discover how to leverage Excel’s new tools for charting, business analysis, data visualization, forecasting, and more.

• Quickly clean your data with Excel 2016’s powerful Get & Transform tools
• Discover Excel 2016’s newest charts: waterfall, histogram, Pareto, sunburst, TreeMap, and Box and Whisker
• Use Forecast Sheets to forecast the future, including seasonal adjustments
• Pivot data on maps with 3D Maps, and animate your maps over time
• Create formulas, charts, subtotals, and pivot tables faster than ever
• Create amazing PowerPivot data mashups that integrate information from anywhere
• Automate repetitive functions using Excel macros
• Solve real-world business intelligence analysis problems
• Use PowerPivot Data Model to create pivot tables from multiple data sets without VLOOKUP
• Share workbooks on the Web and social networks
• Leverage Excel to create highly interactive web pages and online surveys
• Quickly apply attractive, consistent formats

This book is part of Que’s Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Excel, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. See inside for details.

Table of contents

I: The Excel Interface
1. What’s New in Excel 2016 (and 2013)
2. Using the Excel Interface
3. Customizing Excel
4. Keyboard Shortcuts

II: Calculating with Excel
5. Understanding Formulas
6. Controlling Formulas
7. Understanding Functions
8. Using Everyday Functions: Math, Date and Time, and Text Functions
9. Using Powerful Functions: Logical, Lookup, Web, and Database Functions
10. Other Functions
11. Connecting Worksheets and Workbooks
12. Array Formulas and Names in Excel

III: Data Analysis with Excel
13. Transforming Data
14. Summarizing Data Using Subtotals or Filter
15. Using Pivot Tables to Analyze Data
16. Using Slicers and Filtering a Pivot Table
17. Mashing Up Data with PowerPivot
18. Using What-If, Scenario Manager, Goal Seek, and Solver
19. Automating Repetitive Functions Using VBA Macros
20. More Tips and Tricks for Excel 2016

IV: Excel Visuals
21. Formatting Worksheets
22. Using Data Visualizations and Conditional Formatting
23. Graphing Data Using Excel Charts
24. Using 3D Maps
25. Using Sparklines
26. Decorating Spreadsheets
27. Printing
28. Excel Online

About The Author

Bill Jelen

Bill Jelen, Excel MVP and the host of MrExcel.com, has been using spreadsheets since 1985, and he launched the MrExcel.com website in 1998. Bill was a regular guest on Call for Help with Leo Laporte and has produced more than 2,200 episodes of his daily video podcast, Learn Excel from MrExcel. He is the author of 57 books about Microsoft Excel and writes the monthly Excel column for Strategic Finance magazine. Before founding MrExcel.com, Bill spent 12 years in the trenches, working as a financial analyst for the finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company. He lives in Merritt Island, Florida, with his wife, Mary Ellen.