Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007

by Bill Jelen (Author)

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  Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Excel 2007 will ease the upgrade path to the lastest version of Microsoft best-selling spreadsheet program. The author, Mr. Excel introduces you to the new interface, allowing you to quickly get back up-to-speed in performing your job, and will then introduce the powerful new features available in Excel 2007. Among other skills, you will learn how to create amazing data visualizations using conditional formatting and in-cell data bars. This is the only book you need on Microsoft Office Excel 2007!

  Excel 2007 is the biggest, most exciting release of Excel ever. This book's straightforward approach explains the most important features of Excel 2007 in a thorough, easy-to-understand format. Further, it clearly compares older versions of Excel with Excel 2007, which makes for a seamless transition to this newest version of the program. It is a must-have desk reference for today's business professional.

  -David Gainer,

  Group Program Manager,

  Microsoft Excel

  THE ONLY EXCEL BOOK YOU NEED

  We crafted this book to grow with you, providing the reference material you need as you move toward Excel proficiency and use of more advanced features. If you buy only one book on Excel, Special Edition Using Microsoft (R) Office Excel (R) 2007 is the book you need.

  Does your life play out in a spreadsheet? Do numbers in columns and rows make or break you in the work world? Tired of having numbers kicked in your face by other Excel power users who make your modest spreadsheets look paltry compared to their fancy charts and pivot tables?

  If you answered yes to any of these questions, Special Edition Using Microsoft (R) Office Excel (R) 2007 is the bookthat will make it all better. Learn quickly and efficientlyfrom a true Excel master using the tried and true SpecialEdition Using formula for success. Here, you'll findinformation that's undocumented elsewhere-even inMicrosoft's own Help systems. You'll learn from finelycrafted, real-life examples built by an author who livesand dies by the integrity of his spreadsheets.

  Excel's backbone is its formulas and functions. Master those and you will master your spreadsheets. Special Edition Using Microsoft Office (R) Excel (R) 2007 provides more down and dirty help with your formulas and functions than you'll find in any other book! See how it's done in real life! Don't settle for lame pivot table and chart examples found in other books... This book provides beautifully detailed examples that not only show you how it should be done, but how to be the local worksheet hero!

  CONTENTS

  Introduction

  I Mastering the New User Interface

  1 Introducing the Ribbon User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

  2 The Quick Access Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

  3 The Mini Toolbar and Other U.I. Improvements . . . 53

  4 Keyboard Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

  5 Galleries, Live Preview, and Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

  6 The Excel Options Dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

  II A Tour of What's New

  7 The Big Grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

  8 Fabulous Table Intelligence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

  9 Visualizing Data in Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

  10 Using Pivot Tables to Analyze Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

  11 Formatting Pivot Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

  12 Pivot Table Data Crunching for Excel 2007 . . . . . . . 237

  13 Removing Duplicates and Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

  14 Sorting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

  15 Using Excel Charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

  16 Using SmartArt, Shapes, WordArt, and Text Boxes . . 327

  17 Using Pictures and Clip Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

  III Working in a Legacy Environment

  18 File Format Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

  19 Working with Prior Versions of Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371

  IV Calculating with Excel

  20 Understanding Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

  21 Controlling Formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409

  22 Understanding Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431

  23 Using Everyday Functions: Math, Date and Time,

  and Text Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451

  24 Using Powerful Functions: Logical, Lookup, and

  Database Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525

  25 Using Financial Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587

  26 Using Statistical Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 631

  27 Using Trig, Matrix, and Engineering Functions . . . . 735

  28 Connecting Worksheets, Workbooks, and

  External Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 797

  29 Using Super Formulas in Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823

  30 Using Names in Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 841

  31 Using What If, Scenario Manager, Goal Seek,

  and Solver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863

  V Formatting and Sharing Information

  32 Formatting Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 891

  33 Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 925

  34 Sharing Workbooks with Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941

  35 More Tips and Tricks for Excel 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949

  VI More Power

  36 Automating Repetitive Functions Using

  VBA Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969

  37 Interacting with Other Office Applications . . . . . . 1005

  38 A Tour of the Best Add-Ins for Excel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019

  Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025