Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies
Roll up your sleeves and start working with functions from ABS to ZTESTGet your hands dirty and dig for the nuggets in your data! This book shows you how, walking you through over 150 built-in functions in Excel 2010. Want to calculate a loan payment? How about finding a trend in your data? It's all covered with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, so you can put the power of Excel functions to work.Put the fun in functions — from using the Insert Function dialog box and array functions to correcting formulas, you'll brush up on ExcelDo the math — create worksheets to track costs and revenueSimple to sophisticated — take advantage of finance-related functions and learn how to sum and round numbers to get just the answers you needStatistically speaking — test for central tendencies, analyze deviation, and count items in a data sampleDive into forecasting — apply statistical functions to develop sound predictionsMake the data work for you — work with dates, times, and strings of text and pluck out pieces of data from a databaseWhat's your function? — get the most from several cool functions, such as the amazing IF and the workhorses HLOOKUP and VLOOKUPOpen the book and find:Tips for tapping into formula and function fundamentalsHow to catch errors and audit formulasSteps for moving from basic to advanced math functionsHow to solve problems with statisticsBest practices for working with dataHow to compare, find, and measure textWays to use lookup, logical, and reference functionsHow to put data into a database structureLearn to:Use Excel's built-in formulas to make everyday calculationsDetermine what functions to use in your formulasCreate amortization tables, calculate classroom grades, or evaluate investmentsDesign a database