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Learn to use Excel for practical, day-to-day calculations
Excel is a powerful program with more than 300 built-in functions that can be used to perform an almost infinite number of calculations. This friendly book shows you how to use the 150 most valuable ones in real-world situations: to compare the cost of buying vs. leasing a car, calculate classroom grades, or evaluate investment performance, for example. Another 85 specialized functions are also described. Detailed, step-by-step instructions help you understand how functions work within formulas and how you can use them to solve everyday problems.* Excel is a complex tool, making it a perfect subject for the straightforward, plain-English approach of this book * Formulas and functions are explained in classic For Dummies fashion, with examples of how to apply the 150 most commonly used functions in real-world situations * Discover how to use Excel to compare the cost of 15 and 30-year mortgages, decide whether to buy or lease a car, calculate the actual cost of credit card purchases, forecast college expenses, design a database for your own use, and much more * Serves as an excellent resource for all versions of Excel, including the latest version 2013
Excel Formulas and Functions For Dummies, 3rd Edition helps you put the power of Excel to work in your daily life.
Contents
Introduction 1
Part ITapping into Formula and Function Fundamentals 7
Chapter 2: Saving Time with Function Tools 39
Chapter 3: Saying Array! for Formulas and Functions 57
Chapter 4: Fixing Formula Boo-Boos 69
Part II: Doing the Math 87
Chapter 5: Calculating Loan Payments and Interest Rates 89
Chapter 6: Appreciating What You ll Get, Depreciating What You ve Got 109
Chapter 7: Using Basic Math Functions 125
Chapter 8: Advancing Your Math 143
Part III: Solving with Statistics 165
Chapter 9: Throwing Statistics a Curve 167
Chapter 10: Using Signifi cance Tests 205
Chapter 11: Rolling the Dice on Predictions and Probability 215
Part IV: Working with Data 233
Chapter 12: Dressing Up for Date Functions 235
Chapter 13: Keeping Well-Timed Functions 255
Chapter 14: Using Lookup, Logical, and Reference Functions 265
Chapter 15: Digging Up the Facts 297
Chapter 16: Writing Home about Text Functions 311
Chapter 17: Playing Records with Database Functions 337
Part V: The Part of Tens 351
Chapter 18: Ten Tips for Working with Formulas 353
Chapter 19: Ten Functions You Really Should Know 365
Chapter 20: Some Really Cool Functions 371
Index 377
