Microsoft Excel 365 Bible

YOUR PERSONAL, HANDS-ON GUIDE TO THE LATEST AND MOST USEFUL FEATURES IN MICROSOFT EXCEL 365

Excel 365 is Microsoft’s latest cloud-based version of its world-famous spreadsheet app. Powerful and user-friendly, it’s an ideal solution for businesses and people looking to make sense of—and draw intelligence from—their data.

The Excel 365 Bible carries over the best content from the best-selling Excel 2019 Bible while reflecting how a new generation uses Excel in Excel 365. The authoring team with their decades of Excel and business intelligence experience and recognition from the Excel community as Excel MVPs delivers an accessible and authoritative roadmap to Excel 365. Interested in the basics? You’ll learn to create spreadsheets and workbooks and navigate the user interface. If you’re ready for more advanced topics you can skip right to the material on creating visualizations, crafting custom functions, and using Visual Basic for Applications to script automations.

You’ll also get:

* Over 900 pages of powerful tips, tricks, and strategies to unlock the full potential of Microsoft Excel 365
* Guidance on how to import, manage, and analyze large amounts of data
* Advice on how to craft predictions and "What-If Analyses" based on data you already have

Perfect for anyone new to Excel, as well as experts and advanced users, the Excel 365 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for everything you need to know about the world’s most popular, easy-to-use spreadsheet software.

MICHAEL ALEXANDER is a senior consultant at Slalom Consulting with more than 15 year’s experience in data management and reporting. He is the author of more than a dozen books on business analysis using Microsoft Excel, and has been named Microsoft Excel MVP for his contributions to the Excel community.

DICK KUSLEIKA has been working with Microsoft Office for more than 20 years. He was formerly a Microsoft MVP, having been awarded 12 consecutive years. Dick has written several books about Excel and Access. Introduction xxxix

PART I: GETTING STARTED WITH EXCEL 1

Chapter 1: Introducing Excel 3

Chapter 2: Entering and Editing Worksheet Data 27

Chapter 3: Performing Basic Worksheet Operations 53

Chapter 4: Working with Excel Ranges and Tables 73

Chapter 5: Formatting Worksheets 121

Chapter 6: Understanding Excel Files and Templates 157

Chapter 7: Printing Your Work 177

Chapter 8: Customizing the Excel User Interface 199

PART II: WORKING WITH FORMULAS AND FUNCTIONS 209

Chapter 9: Introducing Formulas and Functions 211

Chapter 10: Understanding and Using Array Formulas 247

Chapter 11: Using Formulas for Common Mathematical Operations 271

Chapter 12: Using Formulas to Manipulate Text 285

Chapter 13: Using Formulas with Dates and Times 301

Chapter 14: Using Formulas for Conditional Analysis 329

Chapter 15: Using Formulas for Matching and Lookups 347

Chapter 16: Using Formulas with Tables and Conditional Formatting 365

Chapter 17: Making Your Formulas Error-Free 379

PART III: CREATING CHARTS AND OTHER VISUALIZATIONS 399

Chapter 18: Getting Started with Excel Charts 401

Chapter 19: Using Advanced Charting Techniques 441

Chapter 20: Creating Sparkline Graphics 475

Chapter 21: Visualizing with Custom Number Formats and Shapes 489

PART IV: MANAGING AND ANALYZING DATA 519

Chapter 22: Importing and Cleaning Data 521

Chapter 23: Using Data Validation 553

Chapter 24: Creating and Using Worksheet Outlines 567

Chapter 25: Linking and Consolidating Worksheets 577

Chapter 26: Introducing PivotTables 595

Chapter 27: Analyzing Data with PivotTables 617

Chapter 28: Performing Spreadsheet What-If Analysis 651

Chapter 29: Analyzing Data Using Goal Seeking and Solver 675

Chapter 30: Analyzing Data with the Analysis ToolPak 697

Chapter 31: Protecting Your Work 709

PART V: UNDERSTANDING POWER PIVOT AND POWER QUERY 721

Chapter 32: Introducing Power Pivot 723

Chapter 33: Working Directly with the Internal Data Model 747

Chapter 34: Adding Formulas to Power Pivot 757

Chapter 35: Introducing Power Query 777

Chapter 36: Transforming Data with Power Query 805

Chapter 37: Making Queries Work Together 837

Chapter 38: Enhancing Power Query Productivity 855

PART VI: AUTOMATING EXCEL 867

Chapter 39: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications 869

Chapter 40: Creating Custom Worksheet Functions 899

Chapter 41: Creating UserForms 913

Chapter 42: Using UserForm Controls in a Worksheet 935

Chapter 43: Working with Excel Events 949

Chapter 44: Seeing Some VBA Examples 963

Chapter 45: Creating Custom Excel Add-Ins 979

Index 989