Excel Basics In 30 Minutes: The beginner's guide to Microsoft Excel, Excel Online, and Google Sheets

Revised third edition for Excel 2019! Here's your chance to finally learn how to use Microsoft Excel! In a single sitting, this quick and easy user guide will help you learn MS Excel basics, from navigating the home screen to working with formulas and charts. It's a great Excel tutorial that will help you in the office, at school, or even at home. Excel Basics In 30 Minutes, 3rd Edition is written in plain English, with lots of step-by-step instructions and screenshots that demonstrate exactly what to do. This MS Excel tutorial references Excel 2019, but most of the step-by-step instructions apply to earlier versions of MS Excel released as part of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 suites, including Excel 2016. If you don't own Excel, the book explains how to use two free online spreadsheets programs: Excel Online and Google Sheets (part of the Google Drive online office suite). The book also explains how to use the Excel mobile apps for Android and iOS.

Topics covered

  • Excel screen layout, cells, and terminology
  • Excel 2019 vs. Excel Online vs. Google Sheets
  • Excel for iOS and Excel for Android
  • Basic Excel formatting
  • AutoFill
  • Excel formulas and functions
  • How to make charts in Excel
  • Sorting and filtering
  • Collaboration and sharing
  • Exporting PDF, CSV, and other forms
  • Printing tips
  • Excel import and export formats (PDF, .CSV, .TSV, text, etc.)

This is not an Excel bible, but rather a basic Excel tutorial and reference that answers the core questions that any new Excel user will have:

  • What is a spreadsheet?
  • What are cells?
  • What is the button with the Greek letter for?
  • How can Excel spreadsheets create basic financial projections?
  • How can certain data in a worksheet be highlighted?
  • How can data be alphabetized or ranked?
  • How to edit a chart in Excel
  • How to print an Excel spreadsheet without cutting off columns

The third edition is up-to-date with new instructions and high-resolution screenshots of Excel 2019, Excel Online, and the new Google Sheets. It includes new sections about collaboration, OneDrive, and other features.

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Excel Basics In 30 Minutes: The beginner's guide to Microsoft Excel, Excel Online, and Google Sheets

Revised third edition for Excel 2019! Here's your chance to finally learn how to use Microsoft Excel! In a single sitting, this quick and easy user guide will help you learn MS Excel basics, from navigating the home screen to working with formulas and charts. It's a great Excel tutorial that will help you in the office, at school, or even at home. Excel Basics In 30 Minutes, 3rd Edition is written in plain English, with lots of step-by-step instructions and screenshots that demonstrate exactly what to do. This MS Excel tutorial references Excel 2019, but most of the step-by-step instructions apply to earlier versions of MS Excel released as part of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 suites, including Excel 2016. If you don't own Excel, the book explains how to use two free online spreadsheets programs: Excel Online and Google Sheets (part of the Google Drive online office suite). The book also explains how to use the Excel mobile apps for Android and iOS.

Topics covered

  • Excel screen layout, cells, and terminology
  • Excel 2019 vs. Excel Online vs. Google Sheets
  • Excel for iOS and Excel for Android
  • Basic Excel formatting
  • AutoFill
  • Excel formulas and functions
  • How to make charts in Excel
  • Sorting and filtering
  • Collaboration and sharing
  • Exporting PDF, CSV, and other forms
  • Printing tips
  • Excel import and export formats (PDF, .CSV, .TSV, text, etc.)

This is not an Excel bible, but rather a basic Excel tutorial and reference that answers the core questions that any new Excel user will have:

  • What is a spreadsheet?
  • What are cells?
  • What is the button with the Greek letter for?
  • How can Excel spreadsheets create basic financial projections?
  • How can certain data in a worksheet be highlighted?
  • How can data be alphabetized or ranked?
  • How to edit a chart in Excel
  • How to print an Excel spreadsheet without cutting off columns

The third edition is up-to-date with new instructions and high-resolution screenshots of Excel 2019, Excel Online, and the new Google Sheets. It includes new sections about collaboration, OneDrive, and other features.

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Excel Basics In 30 Minutes: The beginner's guide to Microsoft Excel, Excel Online, and Google Sheets

Excel Basics In 30 Minutes: The beginner's guide to Microsoft Excel, Excel Online, and Google Sheets

by Ian Lamont
Excel Basics In 30 Minutes: The beginner's guide to Microsoft Excel, Excel Online, and Google Sheets

Excel Basics In 30 Minutes: The beginner's guide to Microsoft Excel, Excel Online, and Google Sheets

by Ian Lamont

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Overview

Revised third edition for Excel 2019! Here's your chance to finally learn how to use Microsoft Excel! In a single sitting, this quick and easy user guide will help you learn MS Excel basics, from navigating the home screen to working with formulas and charts. It's a great Excel tutorial that will help you in the office, at school, or even at home. Excel Basics In 30 Minutes, 3rd Edition is written in plain English, with lots of step-by-step instructions and screenshots that demonstrate exactly what to do. This MS Excel tutorial references Excel 2019, but most of the step-by-step instructions apply to earlier versions of MS Excel released as part of the Microsoft Office and Office 365 suites, including Excel 2016. If you don't own Excel, the book explains how to use two free online spreadsheets programs: Excel Online and Google Sheets (part of the Google Drive online office suite). The book also explains how to use the Excel mobile apps for Android and iOS.

Topics covered

  • Excel screen layout, cells, and terminology
  • Excel 2019 vs. Excel Online vs. Google Sheets
  • Excel for iOS and Excel for Android
  • Basic Excel formatting
  • AutoFill
  • Excel formulas and functions
  • How to make charts in Excel
  • Sorting and filtering
  • Collaboration and sharing
  • Exporting PDF, CSV, and other forms
  • Printing tips
  • Excel import and export formats (PDF, .CSV, .TSV, text, etc.)

This is not an Excel bible, but rather a basic Excel tutorial and reference that answers the core questions that any new Excel user will have:

  • What is a spreadsheet?
  • What are cells?
  • What is the button with the Greek letter for?
  • How can Excel spreadsheets create basic financial projections?
  • How can certain data in a worksheet be highlighted?
  • How can data be alphabetized or ranked?
  • How to edit a chart in Excel
  • How to print an Excel spreadsheet without cutting off columns

The third edition is up-to-date with new instructions and high-resolution screenshots of Excel 2019, Excel Online, and the new Google Sheets. It includes new sections about collaboration, OneDrive, and other features.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781641880398
Publisher: I30 Media Corporation
Publication date: 01/30/2020
Edition description: 3rd Revised ed.
Pages: 110
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

Ian Lamont is an award-winning technology journalist, author, and publisher, and the founder of i30 Media Corp. and IN 30 MINUTES Guides. His books include Twitter In 30 Minutes and Lean Media: How to focus creativity, streamline production, and create media that audiences love. A graduate of Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he lives in the Boston area with his family.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION Excel: not just for nerds!

CHAPTER 1 The basics: cells, functions, and formulas. The different flavors of Excel (and Google Sheets) Using this guide with Excel and Google Sheets Firing up Excel and creating a new file What the different tabs do

Working with cells Your first spreadsheet formula Introducing functions with SUM AutoSum and the one Greek letter you need to know Formatting cells and text Using templates and themes Chapter quiz

INTERLUDE Excel Ninja skill #1: AutoFill AutoFill magic Formulas and AutoFill Dragging to extend functions

CHAPTER 2 More basic skills, from pasting to percentages Working with multiple worksheets Copy, paste, and paste special Adding and deleting rows Using percentages Parentheses and PEMDAS Static cell references Referencing other worksheets Calculating the difference between two numbers Chapter quiz

INTERLUDE Excel Ninja skill #2: charts Chart wizards Pie charts Customizing charts Other chart types

Sorting and filtering

Hiding rows and columns Rearranging a list in alphabetical order

Filtering

Chapter quiz

CHAPTER 4 Printing, import/export features, and collaboration

Printing

Exporting PDFs

Importing and exporting

Collaboration and sharing

Chapter quiz

A message from the author

About the author

Glossary

APPENDIX I Registering for Google Sheets

APPENDIX II Quiz answers

Index

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