Formulas and Functions: Microsoft Excel 2010 (MrExcel Library)

MASTER CORE EXCEL 2010 TOOLS FOR BUILDING POWERFUL, RELIABLE SPREADSHEETS!

Excel expert Paul McFedries shows how to use Excel 2010’s core features to solve problems and get the answers you need! Using real-world examples, McFedries helps you get the absolute most out of breakthrough Excel 2010 improvements–from Sparklines to the brand-new version of Solver. Along the way, you’ll discover the fastest, best ways to handle essential day-to-day tasks ranging from generating account numbers to projecting the impact of inflation.Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier! You’ll find crystal-clear instructions… insider insights… even complete step-by-step projects for building timesheets, projecting cash flow, aging receivables, analyzing defects, and more.

• Create more powerful formulas

• Use conditional formatting to instantly reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities

• Analyze your data with standard tables and PivotTables

• Use complex criteria to filter data in lists

• Understand correlations between data

• Perform sophisticated what-if analyses

• Use regression to track trends and make forecasts

• Build loan, investment, and discount formulas

• Troubleshoot problems with formulas, ranges, and functions

About MrExcel Library: Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excelskills, and presents focused tasks and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selectedby Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will:

• Dramatically increase your productivity–saving you 50 hours a year, or more

• Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems

• Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have

• Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

Paul McFedries, president of Logophilia Limited, is a Microsoft Office expert and full-time technical writer. Paul has been authoring computer books since 1991 and has more than 70 books to his credit, which combined have sold more than three million copies worldwide. His recent titles include Using the Microsoft Office Web Apps, and Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed. He is also proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com), a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the English language.

Paul McFedries, president of Logophilia Limited, is a full-time technical writer, passionate computer tinkerer, and Windows expert. He has authored 60+ computer books that have sold 3,000,000+ copies. His recent titles include Microsoft Windows 7 Unleashed, Microsoft Home Server Unleashed, Tweak It and Freak It: A Killer Guide to Making Windows Run Your Way, Formulas and Functions with Microsoft Excel 2007; andTricks of the Microsoft Office 2007 Gurus. He is also proprietor of Word Spy (www.wordspy.com) a website that tracks new words and phrases as they enter the English language.

Editor:

Bill Jelen has made more than 75 guest appearances on TechTV with Leo Laporte and was voted guest of the year on the Computer America radio show. He has produced more than 600 episodes of his daily video Learn Excel podcast. Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Jelen spent 12 years “in the trenches” as a financial analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing, and operations departments of a publicly held company. Since then, his company has automated Excel reports for hundreds of clients around the world. The website answers more than 30,000 questions a year–for free–for readers all over the world.