Conquer Microsoft Excel 2019–from the inside out!
Dive into Microsoft Excel 2019–and really put your spreadsheet expertise to work. This supremely organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workarounds–all you need to make the most of Excel’s most powerful tools for analyzing data and making better decisions. Renowned Excel expert Bill Jelen offers a complete tour of Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365, from efficient interface customizations to advanced analysis, visualizations, and dashboards. Discover how experts tackle today’s key tasks–and challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.
- Enter formulas more efficiently, and fully control operators and dates
- Master the most widely-used functions in Excel
- Integrate external data from the web and other sources
- Easily transform complex datasets with Power Query
- Quickly summarize millions of records with Pivot Tables
- Perform ad hoc analyses with slicers and other filters
- Create advanced data mashups with Power Pivot
- Solve complex problems with What-If, Scenario Manager, Goal Seek, and Solver
- Automate repetitive tasks by editing recorded VBA code
- Demystify data with conditional formatting and other visualization techniques
- Use the newest maps, charts, and data types in Excel
- Show geographical changes over time with animated 3D maps
- Use dynamic array functions: SORT, FILTER, UNIQUE, SORTBY and SEQUENCE
- Find insights using Excel’s new artificial intelligence
- Collaborate via Excel 2019’s breakthrough CoAuthoring tools
- Publish Power BI Desktop dashboards based on Excel data
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. He loves performing his live Power Excel seminars around the United States. He 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 Jelen spent 12 years in the trenches, working as a financial analyst for finance, marketing, accounting, and operations departments of a $500 million public company. He lives in Merritt Island, Florida, with his wife, Mary Ellen.
Previous Edition Table of Contents
Introduction
Examining the Excel environment
- Chapter 1: What's new in Microsoft Excel 2013
- Chapter 2: Exploring Excel fundamentals
- Chapter 3: Custom-tailoring the Excel workspace
- Chapter 4: Security and privacy
Building worksheets
- Chapter 5: Planning your worksheet design
- Chapter 6: How to work a worksheet
- Chapter 7: How to work a workbook
Formatting and editing worksheets
- Chapter 8: Worksheet editing techniques
- Chapter 9: Worksheet formatting techniques
Adding graphics and printing
- Chapter 10: Creating and formatting graphics
- Chapter 11: Printing and presenting
Creating formulas and performing data analysis
- Chapter 12: Building formulas
- Chapter 13: Using functions
- Chapter 14: Everyday functions
- Chapter 15: Formatting and calculating date and time
- Chapter 16: Functions for financial analysis
- Chapter 17: Functions for analyzing statistics
- Chapter 18: Performing a what-if analysis
Creating charts
- Chapter 19: Designing charts
- Chapter 20: Formatting charts
- Chapter 21: Using sparklines
Managing databases and tables
- Chapter 22: Managing information in tables
- Chapter 23: Analyzing data with PivotTable reports
- Chapter 24: An introduction to PowerPivot
- Chapter 25: Working with external data
Using Excel collaboratively
- Chapter 26: Collaborating on a network or by email
- Chapter 27: Working in the cloud
Automating Excel
- Chapter 28: Recording macros
- Chapter 29: Creating custom functions
- Chapter 30: Debugging macros and custom functions
Integrating and extending Excel
- Chapter 31: Linking, hyperlinking, and embedding
- Chapter 32: Using Excel data in Word documents
Appendixes
- Menu-to-ribbon command reference
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Function reference
Index to troubleshooting topics
About the authors