Advanced Excel Success : A Practical Guide to Mastering Excel

Explore advanced skills in Excel and gain an amazing array of tricks and tools to increase your productivity. This book discusses new techniques such as power functions, chart tricks, and many more to master Excel. __Advanced Excel Success__ starts with a few useful data tools in Excel followed by advanced formulas that will help you increase productivity. Here, you will learn power functions that aggregate, return ranges, and much more. Further, you will look at custom formatting tricks along with advanced charting tricks. These include automatically changing the color of key metrics, dynamically sorting chart data, and building creative labels. Next, you will understand the role of Power Query which is one of the most important upgrades in Excel. Power Query is the Microsoft Data Connectivity and Data Preparation technology that enables business users to seamlessly access data stored in hundreds of data sources and reshape it to fit their needs, with an easy–to-use, engaging, and no-code user experience. Finally, you will learn Power Pivot which is a distinct feature in Excel that goes beyond spreadsheets. After reading this book, you will be well equipped to work on Excel with its advanced features. **What You Will Learn** * Work with the most useful data tools * Understand formulas and the ten power functions * Use advanced chart and formatting tricks and techniques for dynamic and effective visuals * Work with power tools **Who This Book Is For** Excel users looking to take the next step to expert level. Learn the Advanced Excel features and skills that are not taught in classes.Advanced Excel tricks, XLOOKUP, SUMPRODUCT, Power Query, Power Pivot and muchmore.This book is perfect for anyone who uses Excel regularly and wants to take thestep to the next level.If you are a Beginner to Intermediate level Excel user, this book is amust-have. You will learn the advanced Excel features and techniques that othersdo not know.In this book, you will Tricks and innovative ways to boost your productivity in Excel.- The best functions in Excel including XLOOKUP, FILTER, SORTBY, SWITCH and morewith 'real world' examples.- Advanced formatting techniques to take your formatting to another level.- Create dynamic, interactive, and effective charts.- Power Query - possibly the greatest and most-important upgrade in the historyof Excel.- Power Pivot - no more lookups. Learn to model your data, handle large volumeswith ease and perform powerful DAX calculations. Downloadable Excel files are available to follow along and practise with allexamples.This book it a must-have to stay ahead of the crowd and be a success in theworkplace. Take advantage of the power in modern Excel . Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Excel Tricks and Data Tools (Alan Murray)....Pages 1-56 The Ten Power Functions of Excel (Alan Murray)....Pages 57-135 Advanced Formatting Techniques (Alan Murray)....Pages 137-180 Advanced Chart Tricks (Alan Murray)....Pages 181-225 Power Query – You Will Never Work the Same Way Again (Alan Murray)....Pages 227-282 Power Pivot – The Internal Data Model of Excel (Alan Murray)....Pages 283-343 Back Matter ....Pages 345-349