Excel Essentials

1 The Excel Environment • Modeling Uncertainty in Excel

• Excel Financial Functions
• Opening a Workbook
• COUNT, COUNTA, and COUNTBLANK
• The Excel Ribbon
• Excel Statistical Functions
• The Quick Access Toolbar
• Conditional Counts
• Worksheets
• Conditional Sums
• Moving Around a Worksheet and Workbook
• Removing Duplicates
• Printing a Worksheet
• Sorting in Excel
• Saving a Workbook File
• Filtering Data
2 Working with Data: Basic Techniques • Subtotals
• Pivot Tables
• Cells and Ranges
• Pivot Charts
• Selecting Ranges
• Conditional Formatting: The Formula Option
• Selecting All Cells in a Dataset
• Selecting All Cells in a Worksheet 6 Charts
• Selecting Noncontiguous Ranges
• Creating Charts
• Selecting Cells and Named Ranges
• Moving and Resizing Charts
• Using “Go to Special”
• Basic Formatting of Charts
• Filling Series
• Formatting Axes and Data Series
• Copying and Moving Entries
• Customizing Charts
• The Undo Command
7 Importing Data into Excel
3 Increasing Spreadsheet Readability
• Importing from a Text or Word file
• Working with Rows and Columns
• Import Data from the Web
• Making Good Use of Screen Space
• Basic Cell Formatting 8 The Art of Spreadsheet Modeling
• Basic Number Formatting
• Model Building Blocks
• Conditional Formatting
• Model Terminology
• Paste Special
• The Spreadsheet Model Building Process
• Setting Up a Worksheet for Printing
• Rules to Guide Intelligent Modeling
4 Excel Formulas • Constructing a Model
• Designing the Spreadsheet Model
• Copying Formulas
• One-Way Data Tables
• The Autocomplete Formula Option
• Two-Way Data Tables
• Entering Formulas by Pointing
• Goal Seek
• Alternate Ways to Copy Formulas
• Auditing Spreadsheets
• “Absolute” Addressing
• Flexibility
• Using the “F4” Key
• Using Comments and Text Boxes
• Hierarchy of Mathematical Operations
• Error Trapping
• Summation Icon
• Using F9 and Evaluate-Formula Feature
• Editing or Correcting Formulas
• Generating Scenarios
• Showing Actual Formulas in Cells
• Model Limitations
5 Useful Excel Functions
9 Using the Excel Solver
• IF Statements
• Solving Optimization Problems
• Text Functions
• Developing a Solver Model
• Basic Date and Time Functions
• Configuring Solver to Find Solutions
• Range Names
• Lookup Functions 10 3-D Formulas and the Table Feature
• Other Lookup and Reference Functions
• Three-Dimensional Formulas
• Error Trapping
• Using the Excel Table Feature
• Rounding Functions
• The SUMPRODUCT Function

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