Microsoft Excel Formulas and Functions

Expert Paul McFedries helps you master key Excel tools for building more powerful spreadsheets.

Use Excel core features to build spreadsheets that solve business problems and deliver reliable answers. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience, Paul McFedries helps you make the most of formulas and functions, including the latest improvements to arrays, formula error handling, and statistics. McFedries' step-by-step projects walk you through handling key tasks, from building timesheets to projecting cash flow and aging receivables. His practical examples and clear instructions demystify intermediate- to advanced-level formula construction, and help you leverage Excel's most useful functions in your everyday work. Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier!

By reading this book, you will:

Improve business analyses by adding intelligence and knowledge to your models
Replace cumbersome formulas with convenient predefined functions
Radically simplify complex calculations with Office 365's new dynamic arrays
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 net present value and internal rate of return
Sort, filter, and analyze tabular data, from customers to inventory
Easily analyze huge data sets with PivotTable calculations
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