Excel 2010 Made Simple [electronic resource] /
Katz, Abbott.author.
Made Simple Learning, MSL.author.
Get the most out of Excel 2010 with Excel 2010 Made Simple—learn the key features, understand what’s new, and utilize dozens of time-saving tips and tricks to get your job done. Over 500 screen visuals and clear-cut instructions guide you through the features of Excel 2010, from formulas and charts to navigating around a worksheet and understanding Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and macros. Excel 2010 Made Simple takes a practical and highly effective approach to using Excel 2010, showing you the best way to complete your most common spreadsheet tasks. You'll learn how to input, format, sort, and filter your data to find out what you want to know. You'll see how to place your data in tables and named ranges for easy access, all of which will get you working efficiently and productively. Excel 2010 Made Simple also covers the new features introduced in Excel 2010. For instance, it shows you how to use Sparklines for data comparison and the Backstage view for printing and sharing your spreadsheets, so you can carry out your tasks with minimum fuss. The hands-on focus on tasks means you'll see how to actually use Excel 2010 to suit your needs.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Quick Start Guide; The Excel Worksheet: What You're Looking At; Key Tips: Accessing Buttons with the Keyboard; Contextual Tabs; A Visit Backstage; Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar; Where to Learn More; Excel Keyboard Equivalents; Chapter 1 Introducing Excel 2010; The Advantages of Learning More; Spreadsheets Defined; Excel Can Be Fun; Summary; Chapter 2 Getting Around the Worksheet and Data Entry; The Journey Starts Here; Looking Around
Getting Around a WorksheetSelecting Multiple Cells; Selecting Cells Down and Across the Worksheet; Selecting Cells with the Keyboard; Selecting All the Cells; Still One More Selection Technique-The Name Box; Entering Text and Data; Aligning Your Data-Where It Appears in the Cell; Widening and Narrowing Columns; Altering a column manually; Using the Auto-fit Feature; Entering Numerical Data-How it's Different; Entering Data into a Selected Range; Using Auto Fill to Speed Up Data Entry; Copying a Value with Auto Fill; Auto Filling a Numeric Sequence; Using Auto Fill with Text
Using the Auto Fill Option ButtonCustomizing Auto Fill Lists; Data Validation: Bringing Quality Control to the Worksheet; Making a List-Personalizing a Drop-Down Menu; Explaining Data Validation Errors with Error Alerts; Adding Data Entry Instructions with Input Messages; Summary; Chapter 3 Editing Data; Changing Your Data; Undoing an Edit; Undoing What You've Just Undone with the Redo Button; Deleting Cell Contents; Copying and Moving: Duplicating and Relocating Your Data; Copying Data; Moving Data; The Clipboard: The Storage Area for Copied and Cut Data; Summary
Chapter 4 Number Crunching 101: Functions, Formulas, and RangesAutomatic Calculations with Functions; Adding a Column of Numbers; Selecting the Range You Need; Viewing and Editing Your Formula: Back to the Formula Bar; Calculating an Average; Displaying Values Based on a Certain Condition; Revisiting Function Structure; Locating Functions in the Function Library; Customizing the Worksheet with Formulas; Writing a Basic Formula; Working Out the Order of Operations in a Formula; Copying Formulas: More Than Just Duplication; The Classic Copy-and-Paste Method
Moving Formulas: An Important DifferenceKeeping a Cell Reference Constant with Absolute Addressing; Absolute Addressing: When We Don't Want It to Work; Introducing an Absolute Cell Address; Copying a Formula's Result Only; Clarifying Cell References by Naming a Range; Naming a Range in the Name Box; Naming Ranges from the Data in Your Worksheet; Naming A Range Containing One Cell: Why Bother?; The Name Manager: Where They're All Ar-ranged; Summary; Chapter 5 For Appearance's Sake: Formatting Your Data; What Formatting Does (and Doesn't Do); Basic Formatting; Changing the Font
Changing the Font Size
Includes index.
Get the most out of Excel 2010 with Excel 2010 Made Simple—learn the key features, understand what’s new, and utilize dozens of time-saving tips and tricks to get your job done. Over 500 screen visuals and clear-cut instructions guide you through the features of Excel 2010, from formulas and charts to navigating around a worksheet and understanding Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and macros. Excel 2010 Made Simple takes a practical and highly effective approach to using Excel 2010, showing you the best way to complete your most common spreadsheet tasks. You'll learn how to input, format, sort, and filter your data to find out what you want to know. You'll see how to place your data in tables and named ranges for easy access, all of which will get you working efficiently and productively. Excel 2010 Made Simple also covers the new features introduced in Excel 2010. For instance, it shows you how to use Sparklines for data comparison and the Backstage view for printing and sharing your spreadsheets, so you can carry out your tasks with minimum fuss. The hands-on focus on tasks means you'll see how to actually use Excel 2010 to suit your needs.
Microsoft Excel (Computer file)
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Microsoft .NET Framework.
Computers.
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Information Systems and Communication Service.