New Perspectives Microsoft Office 365 & Excel 2016: Intermediate

by June Jamrich Parsons, Dan Oja, Patrick Carey, Carol DesJardins

Overview

Develop the Microsoft Excel 2016 skills you need to be successful in college and beyond with the emphasis on critical-thinking, problem-solving, and in-depth coverage found in NEW PERSPECTIVES MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 & EXCEL 2016: INTERMEDIATE. Updated with all-new case scenarios, this edition clearly applies the skills you are learning to real-world situations, making concepts even more relevant. New Productivity Apps provide a visual introduction to Microsoft OneNote, Sway, Office Mix and Edge with fun, hands-on activities for active learning. Companion Sways highlight videos and step-by-step instructions to help you learn how to use each app. NEW PERSPECTIVES MICROSOFT OFFICE 365 & EXCEL 2016: INTERMEDIATE demonstrates the importance of what you’re learning while strengthening your outcomes and helping you transfer your skills to other applications and disciplines for further success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781305880412
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	04/06/2016
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	584
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

June Jamrich Parsons is an educator, digital book pioneer, co-author of Texty and McGuffey award-winning textbooks and a TAA fellow. She co-developed the first commercially successful multimedia, interactive digital textbook that established the standard for platforms now being developed by numerous educational publishers. In addition to authoring textbooks for Course Technology and Cengage, Dr. Parsons' career includes extensive classroom teaching and product design for eCourseware. She also served as a creative strategist for MediaTechnics Corp. and director of content for Veative Virtual Reality Labs. A member of the Association for Computing Machinery, she holds a Ph.D. in instructional technology and Certified Computing Professional certification.

An esteemed professional and respected author, Dan Oja, along with June Parsons, purchased an Apple II+ in 1981 and quickly became fluent in BASIC, dBASE II, Lotus 123, WordStar, and a variety of accounting programs. The next year, he and Dr. Parsons opened a successful small computer retail store that offered software instruction to children and adults. With Dr. Parsons, Mr. Oja began writing and creating educational software for Course Technology in 1992. Together, they contributed to the leading success of the Windows for Business and Illustrated Series. They also developed the New Perspectives, e-Course, and Practical series. Today, Mr. Oja's and Dr. Parson's team of highly skilled media specialists and desktop publishers located in various states and provinces work together via the Internet to deliver exceptional texts.

A leading textbook author, lecturer and instructor, Patrick Carey has authored or co-authored more than 40 popular academic and trade texts for the academic market. He has taught and written about a wide range of topics, including website design, JavaScript programming, Microsoft Office and Excel, statistics, data analysis and mathematics. Mr. Carey received his Master of Science in biostatistics from the University of Wisconsin, where he worked as a researcher designing and analyzing clinical studies. Today, he splits his time between Wisconsin and Colorado, and when he is not writing, he can be found hiking and cycling.

Ms. Carol DesJardins spent 25 years in the private sector as a programmer, systems analyst and eventually Chief Information Officer. During that time, she honed her skills with Excel as an analysis tool. She transitioned her knowledge to the classroom and has taught several applications and programming courses. Ms. DesJardins co-authored her first textbook on Excel. In addition to writing, she continues to teach at St. Clair County Community College.

Table of Contents

Productivity Apps for School and Work. Excel Module 1: Getting Started with Excel. Excel Module 2: Formatting Workbook Text and Data. Excel Module 3: Performing Calculations with Formulas and Functions. Excel Module 4: Analyzing and Charting Financial Data. Excel Module 5: Working with Excel Tables, PivotTables, and PivotCharts. Excel Module 6: Managing Multiple Worksheets and Workbooks. Excel Module 7: Developing an Excel Application. Excel Module 8: Working with Advanced Functions. Appendix A: Working with Text Functions and Creating Custom Formats.