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Leverage the full power of Excel formulas
Excel 2016 Formulas is fully updated to cover all of the tips, tricks, and techniques you need to maximize the power of Excel 2016 through the use of formulas. This comprehensive book explains how to create financial formulas, release the power of array formulas, develop custom worksheet functions with VBA, debug formulas, and much more. Whether you´re a beginner, a power user, or somewhere in between this is your essential go-to for the latest on Excel formulas.
When conducting simple math or building highly complicated spreadsheets that require formulas up to the task, leveraging the right formula can heighten the accuracy and efficiency of your work, and can improve the speed with which you compile and analyze data. Understanding which formulas to use and knowing how to create a formula when you need to are essential.
Access tips, tricks, and techniques that have been fully updated to reflect the latest capabilities of Microsoft Excel
Create and use formulas that have the power to transform your Excel experience
Leverage supplemental material online, including sample files, templates, and worksheets from the book
Table of Contents
Introduction xxvii
Part I: Understanding Formula Basics
Chapter 1: The Excel User Interface in a Nutshell 3
The Workings of Workbooks 3
Worksheets 4
Chart sheets 5
Macro sheets and dialog sheets 5
The Excel User Interface 5
The Ribbon 6
Backstage View 7
Shortcut menus and the mini toolbar 7
Dialog boxes 7
Customizing the UI 8
Task panes 9
Customizing onscreen display 9
Numeric formatting 9
Stylistic formatting 9
Protection Options 10
Securing access to the entire workbook 10
Limiting access to specific worksheet ranges 13
Protecting the workbook structure 16
Chapter 2: Basic Facts About Formulas 19
Entering and Editing Formulas 19
Formula elements 20
Entering a formula 20
Pasting names 22
Spaces and line breaks 22
Formula limits 23
Sample formulas 23
Editing formulas 24
Using Operators in Formulas 25
Reference operators 25
Sample formulas that use operators 26
Operator precedence 27
Nested parentheses 29
Calculating Formulas 30
Cell and Range References 30
Creating an absolute or a mixed reference 31
Referencing other sheets or workbooks 33
Copying or Moving Formulas 35
Making an Exact Copy of a Formula 36
Converting Formulas to Values 37
Hiding Formulas 39
Errors in Formulas 40
Dealing with Circular References 41
Goal Seeking 42
A goal seeking example 42
More about goal seeking 43
Chapter 3: Working with Names 45
What's in a Name? 45
A Name's Scope 46
Referencing names 47
Referencing names from another workbook 48
Conflicting names 48
The Name Manager 48
Creating names 49
Editing names 50
Deleting names 50
Shortcuts for Creating Cell and Range Names 50
The New Name dialog box 51
Creating names using the Name box 52
Creating names from text in cells 52
Naming entire rows and columns 54
Names created by Excel 55
Creating Multisheet Names 55
Working with Range and Cell Names 57
Creating a list of names 58
Using names in formulas 59
Using the intersection operators with names 59
Using the range operator with names 61
Referencing a single cell in a multicell named range 61
Applying names to existing formulas 62
Applying names automatically when creating a formula 63
Unapplying names 63
Names with errors 64
Viewing named ranges 64
Using names in charts 64
How Excel Maintains Cell and Range Names 65
Inserting a row or column 65
Deleting a row or a column 65
Cutting and pasting 65
Potential Problems with Names 66
Name problems when copying sheets 66
Name problems when deleting sheets 66
The Secret to Understanding Names 68
Naming constants 68
Naming text constants 69
Using worksheet functions in named formulas 70
Using cell and range references in named formulas 71
Using named formulas with relative references 72
Advanced Techniques That Use Names 75
Using the INDIRECT function with a named range 75
Using arrays in named formulas 77
Creating a dynamic named formula 78
Using an XLM macro in a named formula 80
Part II: Leveraging Excel Functions
Chapter 4: Introducing Worksheet Functions 85
What Is a Function? 85
Simplify your formulas 86
Perform otherwise impossible calculations 86
Speed up editing tasks 86
Provide decision-making capability 87
More about functions 87
Function Argument Types 88
Names as arguments 89
Full-column or full-row as arguments 89
Literal values as arguments 90
Expressions as arguments 90
Other functions as arguments 91
Arrays as arguments 91
Ways to Enter a Function into a Formula 91
Entering a function manually 91
Using the Function Library commands 93
Using the Insert Function dialog box 94
More tips for entering functions 96
Chapter 5: Manipulating Text 99
A Few Words About Text 99
How many characters in a cell? 99
Numbers as text 99
Text Functions 101
Determining whether a cell contains text 101
Working with character codes 102
Determining whether two strings are identical 105
Joining two or more cells 105
Displaying formatted values as text 106
Displaying formatted currency values as text 108
Removing excess spaces and nonprinting characters 108
Counting characters in a string 109
Repeating a character or string 109
Creating a text histogram 110
Padding a number 111
Changing the case of text 112
Extracting characters from a string 113
Replacing text with other text 113
Finding and searching within a string 114
Searching and replacing within a string 115
Advanced Text Formulas 115
Counting specific characters in a cell 116
Counting the occurrences of a substring in a cell 116
Removing trailing minus signs 116
Expressing a number as an ordinal 117
Determining a column letter for a column number 118
Extracting a filename from a path specification 118
Extracting the first word of a string 119
Extracting the last word of a string 119
Extracting all but the first word of a string 120
Extracting first names, middle names, and last names 120
Removing titles from names 122
Counting the number of words in a cell 122
Chapter 6: Working with Dates and Times 125
How Excel Handles Dates and Times 125
Understanding date serial numbers 126
Entering dates 127
Understanding time serial numbers 129
Entering times 130
Formatting dates and times 131
Problems with dates 133
Date-Related Functions 134
Displaying the current date 135
Displaying any date with a function 136
Generating a series of dates 137
Converting a nondate string to a date 138
Calculating the number of days between two dates 139
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