Excel 2013 For Dummies

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
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Excel 2013 For Dummies

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
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Excel 2013 For Dummies

Excel 2013 For Dummies

by Greg Harvey
Excel 2013 For Dummies

Excel 2013 For Dummies

by Greg Harvey

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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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781118550007
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 01/16/2013
Sold by: JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format: eBook
Pages: 416
File size: 12 MB
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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.

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Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with Excel 2013 9

Chapter 1: The Excel 2013 User Experience 11

Chapter 2: Creating a Spreadsheet from Scratch 41

Part II: Editing without Tears 95

Chapter 3: Making It All Look Pretty 97

Chapter 4: Going Through Changes 143

Chapter 5: Printing the Masterpiece 175

Part III: Getting Organized and Staying That Way 201

Chapter 6: Maintaining the Worksheet 203

Chapter 7: Maintaining Multiple Worksheets 229

Part IV: Digging Data Analysis 251

Chapter 8: Doing What-If Analysis 253

Chapter 9: Playing with Pivot Tables 267

Part V: Life beyond the Spreadsheet 289

Chapter 10: Charming Charts and Gorgeous Graphics 291

Chapter 11: Getting on the Data List 327

Chapter 12: Linking, Automating, and Sharing Spreadsheets 351

Part VI: The Part of Tens 375

Chapter 13: Top Ten Beginner Basics 377

Chapter 14: The Ten Commandments of Excel 2013 379

Index 381

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