Leverage the power of Excel 365 and Excel 2021 by mastering core features to construct spreadsheets that address real-world business challenges and deliver dependable results. Drawing upon his extensive experience, Paul McFedries guides you through effectively utilizing formulas and functions, highlighting recent enhancements such as dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP, and LET. Through step-by-step projects, you'll learn to manage essential tasks, from creating timesheets to projecting cash flow and aging receivables. Practical examples and clear instructions simplify the creation of intermediate-to-advanced formulas, enabling you to maximize Excel's most valuable functions in your daily workflow.
Becoming proficient in Excel is now more accessible than ever.
By reading this book, you will:
Improve business analyses by adding intelligence and knowledge to your models
Replace cumbersome formulas with convenient predefined functions
Use modern lookups to make your formulas more powerful and flexible
Simplify complex calculations with dynamic arrays in Excel 365 and Excel 2021
Use conditional formatting to reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities
Calculate loan payments, interest costs, terms, and amortization schedules
Project the future value of investments, and plan to achieve investment goals
Master essential discounting and cash-flow analysis tools, including NPV and IRR
Sort, filter, and analyze any tabular data, from customers to inventory
Easily analyze huge datasets with PivotTable calculations
Perform sophisticated what-if analyses, scenario planning, and forecasting
Optimize profit, cost, or operational efficiency with Solver
About This Book
For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time
For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data
About the Author
Paul McFedries is an Excel expert and full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 100 books to his credit, which combined have sold more than 4 million copies worldwide. His titles include the Que Publishing books My Office 2016, Windows 10 In Depth (with coauthor Brian Knittel), and PCs for Grownups, as well as the Sams Publishing book Windows 7 Unleashed. Please drop by Paul's personal website at paulmcfedries.com or follow Paul on Twitter (twitter.com/paulmcf) and Facebook (facebook.com/PaulMcFedries).
