Excel Comprehensive Resource with Formulas, Functions, Examples, Secrets, Illustrations, Practical Tips

This comprehensive guide to Microsoft Excel covers everything from the basics to advanced functions and tools. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced user, you'll find valuable tips and recommendations to enhance your efficiency and master the powerful tools in Excel. Contents ?️ Introduction to Excel and its interface ? Formatting data and worksheets ? Working with formulas and functions ? Creating visualizations ? Managing and analyzing data ? Protecting data ?️ Advanced features and tools ? Working with big data and business intelligence ? Collaboration and integration with other systems ? Excel Glossary ⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts in Excel for Windows ? Keyboard Shortcuts in Excel for macOS Content INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................... 3 PART I GETTING STARTED WITH EXCEL ................................................... 9 CHAPTER 1: BASICS OF MICROSOFT EXCEL ..................................................... 10 1.1. WHAT IS MICROSOFT EXCEL? .................................................................... 10 1.2. WHY LEARN MICROSOFT EXCEL? ............................................................... 10 1.3. OPENING AND CLOSING EXCEL .................................................................. 11 1.4. SAVING AND OPENING DOCUMENTS .......................................................... 12 1.5. EXCEL INTERFACE .................................................................................... 14 1.6. EXCEL TERMINOLOGY ............................................................................... 17 CHAPTER 2: ENTERING AND EDITING DATA .................................................... 18 2.1. UNDERSTANDING CELLS ........................................................................... 18 2.2. ENTERING DATA INTO A CELL .................................................................... 18 2.3. EDITING DATA ........................................................................................ 19 2.4. COPYING AND PASTING DATA ................................................................... 19 2.5. USING THE CLIPBOARD ............................................................................. 20 2.6. PASTE SPECIAL ........................................................................................ 20 CHAPTER 3: BASIC OPERATIONS ON THE WORKSHEET ...................................... 22 3.1. CREATING AND MANAGING WORKSHEETS ................................................... 22 3.2. ROWS AND COLUMNS: ADDING, DELETING, MOVING ................................... 23 3.3. HIDING AND UNHIDING ROWS AND COLUMNS ............................................. 25 3.4. GROUPING AND UNGROUPING DATA ......................................................... 26 3.5. PRINTING WORKSHEETS AND PRINT SETUP .................................................. 27 PART II FORMATTING DATA AND WORKSHEETS ................................... 28 CHAPTER 4: FORMATTING CELLS .................................................................. 29 4.1. CHANGING FONT AND TEXT SIZE ................................................................ 29 4.2. ADJUSTING TEXT AND CELL FILL COLORS ..................................................... 29 4.3. ALIGNING TEXT ....................................................................................... 30 4.4. ADDING CELL BORDERS ............................................................................ 31 4.5. FORMATTING NUMBERS AND DATES .......................................................... 31 CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH RANGES AND TABLES .......................................... 32 5.1. UNDERSTANDING RANGES ........................................................................ 32 5.2. CREATING AND FORMATTING TABLES ......................................................... 33 5.3. BENEFITS OF USING TABLES ...................................................................... 34 5.4. STRUCTURED REFERENCES IN TABLES .......................................................... 35 PART III WORKING WITH FORMULAS AND FUNCTIONS ........................ 36 CHAPTER 6: INTRODUCTION TO FORMULAS AND FUNCTIONS ............................. 37 6.1. INTRODUCTION TO FORMULAS AND FUNCTIONS ........................................... 37 6.2. BASIC FORMULAS (SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN) ...................................... 38 CHAPTER 7: ADVANCED FORMULAS AND FUNCTIONS ....................................... 49 7.1. LOGICAL FUNCTIONS (AND, OR) ............................................................... 49 7.2. MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS (SUMIF, RANDBETWEEN) ............................ 52 7.3. STATISTICAL FUNCTIONS (COUNTIF, MODE, VAR) ..................................... 53 7.4. TEXT FUNCTIONS (TRANSPOSE, TRIM, TEXTJOIN) ................................... 57 7.5. FINANCIAL FUNCTIONS (PV, FV, NPV, SYD) ............................................... 59 CHAPTER 8: WORKING WITH DATES AND TIMES ............................................. 65 8.1. DATE AND TIME FORMATS ........................................................................ 65 8.2. DATE FUNCTIONS (TODAY, NOW, DATE, YEAR, MONTH, DAY) ................ 65 8.3. TIME FUNCTIONS (HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND) ......................................... 66 PART IV CREATING VISUALIZATIONS .................................................... 68 CHAPTER 9: CREATING CHARTS ................................................................... 69 9.1. INTRODUCTION TO EXCEL CHARTS .............................................................. 69 9.2. TYPES OF CHARTS .................................................................................... 69 9.3. CREATING AND CUSTOMIZING CHARTS ........................................................ 70 9.4. SWITCHING ROWS AND COLUMNS IN A CHART ............................................. 72 9.5. RESIZING CHARTS AND FORMATTING ELEMENTS ........................................... 73 CHAPTER 10: USING CONDITIONAL FORMATTING ........................................... 74 10.1. INTRODUCTION TO CONDITIONAL FORMATTING ......................................... 74 10.2. CREATING CONDITIONAL FORMATTING RULES ............................................ 74 10.3. EXAMPLES OF USING CONDITIONAL FORMATTING ...................................... 75 PART V MANAGING AND ANALYZING DATA ......................................... 80 CHAPTER 11: SORTING AND FILTERING DATA ................................................. 81 11.1. SORTING DATA ON A WORKSHEET ........................................................... 81 11.2. FILTERING DATA ................................................................................... 81 11.3. USING ADVANCED FILTERS ...................................................................... 83 11.4. SORTING AND FILTERING WITH CONDITIONAL FORMATTING ......................... 84 CHAPTER 12: DATA VALIDATION ................................................................. 85 12.1. INTRODUCTION TO DATA VALIDATION ...................................................... 85 12.3. DATA VALIDATION LISTS (DROP-DOWN MENUS) ....................................... 87 12.4. COPYING AND DELETING DATA VALIDATION RULES ..................................... 88 PART VI PROTECTING DATA .................................................................. 89 CHAPTER 13: DATA PROTECTION ................................................................. 90 13.1. PROTECTING A WORKSHEET AND WORKBOOK ........................................... 90 13.2. RESTRICTING ACCESS TO DATA ................................................................ 91 PART VII ADVANCED FEATURES AND TOOLS ......................................... 93 CHAPTER 14: USING MACROS AND VBA ....................................................... 94 14.1. INTRODUCTION TO MACROS AND VBA ..................................................... 94 14.2. RECORDING AND RUNNING MACROS ........................................................ 94 14.3. BASICS OF VBA PROGRAMMING .............................................................. 96 CHAPTER 15: INTRODUCTION TO POWER QUERY .......................................... 101 15.1. WHAT IS POWER QUERY? .................................................................... 101 15.2. IMPORTING DATA WITH POWER QUERY .................................................. 102 15.3. TRANSFORMING AND CLEANING DATA .................................................... 102 15.4. EXAMPLES OF USING POWER QUERY ...................................................... 104 CHAPTER 16: INTRODUCTION TO POWER PIVOT ............................................ 108 16.1. WHAT IS POWER PIVOT? ...................................................................... 108 16.2. IMPORTING DATA INTO POWER PIVOT .................................................... 108 16.3. CREATING RELATIONSHIPS AND WORKING WITH DATA MODELS ................. 110 16.4. EXAMPLES OF USING POWER PIVOT FOR DATA ANALYSIS ........................... 114 PART VIII WORKING WITH BIG DATA AND BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ... 119 CHAPTER 17: DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS IN EXCEL ............................................. 120 17.1. USING THE SOLVER TOOL ..................................................................... 120 17.2. USING WHAT-IF ANALYSIS .................................................................... 123 17.3. CREATING FORECASTS AND TRENDS ....................................................... 124 17.4. EXAMPLES OF USING DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS ........................................... 125 CHAPTER 18: DATA VISUALIZATION WITH POWER BI ..................................... 126 18.1. INTRODUCTION TO POWER BI ............................................................... 126 18.2. IMPORTING DATA FROM EXCEL TO POWER BI .......................................... 127 18.3. CREATING REPORTS AND DASHBOARDS ................................................... 129 18.4. EXAMPLES OF USING POWER BI FOR DATA VISUALIZATION ........................ 130 CHAPTER 19: COLLABORATION IN EXCEL ..................................................... 133 19.1. CO-AUTHORING FILES .......................................................................... 133 19.2. USING COMMENTS AND NOTES ............................................................. 134 19.3. TRACKING CHANGES AND REVIEWING ..................................................... 134 CHAPTER 20: INTEGRATING EXCEL WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS ........................ 135 20.1. IMPORTING/EXPORTING DATA WITH EXCEL ............................................. 135 20.2. USING EXCEL WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND SHAREPOINT ......................... 136 20.3. AUTOMATING TASKS WITH MICROSOFT POWER AUTOMATE ...................... 136 CHAPTER 21: DATA PROTECTION AND SECURITY IN EXCEL ............................... 137 21.1. DATA PROTECTION WITH MICROSOFT 365 TOOLS .................................... 137 20.2. BEST PRACTICES FOR DATA SECURITY IN EXCEL ......................................... 138 EXCEL GLOSSARY ............................................................................... 141 3-D ..................................................................................................... 142 A ........................................................................................................ 142 B ........................................................................................................ 143 C ........................................................................................................ 143 D ........................................................................................................ 145 E ........................................................................................................ 147 F ........................................................................................................ 148 G ........................................................................................................ 149 H ........................................................................................................ 149 I ......................................................................................................... 150 J ......................................................................................................... 150 L ........................................................................................................ 151 M ....................................................................................................... 151 N ....................................................................................................... 152 O ....................................................................................................... 152 P ........................................................................................................ 153 Q ....................................................................................................... 155 R ........................................................................................................ 156 S ........................................................................................................ 157 T ........................................................................................................ 158 U ........................................................................................................ 159 V ........................................................................................................ 159 W ....................................................................................................... 160 X ........................................................................................................ 161 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS IN EXCEL FOR WINDOWS .............................. 162 FREQUENTLY USED SHORTCUTS .................................................................. 163 USE ACCESS KEYS FOR RIBBON TABS .......................................................... 164 WORK IN THE RIBBON WITH THE KEYBOARD ................................................. 165 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR NAVIGATING IN CELLS ......................................... 166 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR FORMATTING CELLS ............................................ 168 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS IN THE PASTE SPECIAL DIALOG BOX IN EXCEL ................ 171 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR MAKING SELECTIONS AND PERFORMING ACTIONS ...... 171 DATA & FORMULA BAR SHORTCUTS ........................................................... 173 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR REFRESHING EXTERNAL DATA ................................ 175 POWER PIVOT KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ......................................................... 176 FUNCTION KEYS ...................................................................................... 178 OTHER USEFUL SHORTCUT KEYS ................................................................. 180 KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS IN EXCEL FOR MACOS ................................... 185 FREQUENTLY USED SHORTCUTS .................................................................. 185 WORK IN WINDOWS AND DIALOG BOXES ..................................................... 189 MOVE AND SCROLL IN A SHEET OR WORKBOOK ............................................. 190 ENTER DATA ON A SHEET .......................................................................... 192 WORK IN CELLS OR THE FORMULA BAR ........................................................ 194 FORMAT AND EDIT DATA .......................................................................... 196 SELECT CELLS, COLUMNS, OR ROWS ............................................................ 199 WORK WITH A SELECTION ......................................................................... 201 USE CHARTS .......................................................................................... 203 SORT, FILTER, AND USE PIVOTTABLE REPORTS ............................................... 203 OUTLINE DATA ....................................................................................... 203 USE FUNCTION KEY SHORTCUTS ................................................................. 204 DRAWING ............................................................................................. 206 BONUSES .............................................................................................. 207