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Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures: Turbocharge your Excel proficiency with expert tips, automation techniques, and overlooked features
Discover timesaving features, accessibility and internal control approaches, data integrity improvements, and spreadsheet automation techniques by exploring Excel shortcuts and nuances in Microsoft 365, Excel versions till 2021 David Ringstrom coined the phrase "Either you work Excel, or it works you!" after observing how many users carry out tasks inefficiently. In this book, you'll learn how to get more done with less effort. This book will enable you to create resilient spreadsheets that are easy for others to use as well, while incorporating spreadsheet disaster preparedness techniques. The time-saving techniques covered in the book include creating custom shortcuts and icons to streamline repetitive tasks, as well as automating them with features such as Tables and Custom Views. You'll see how Conditional Formatting enables you to apply colors, Cell icons, and other formatting on-demand as your data changes. You'll be empowered to protect the integrity of spreadsheets and increase usability by implementing internal controls, and understand how to solve problems with What-If Analysis features. In addition, you'll master new features and functions such as XLOOKUP, Dynamic Array functions, LET and LAMBDA, and Power Query, while learning how to leverage shortcuts and nuances in Excel. By the end of this book, you'll have a broader awareness of how to avoid pitfalls in Excel. You'll be empowered to work more effectively in Excel, having gained a deeper understanding of the frustrating oddities that can arise daily in Excel. This book is for intermediate to advanced excel users working in diverse roles such as business users, accountants, project managers and business analysts among others. The more time that you spend in excel the more time this book will save you. You will be able to maximize your productivity by learning spreadsheet interactivity, accessibility and automation. This clear step-by-step explanation and detailed example workbook will help you to try out new techniques firsthand and leverage them for your business's advantage in no time.
444 pages, Paperback
Published September 16, 2022
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November 10, 2022
My Amazon review:
This book is dense! I learn something on almost every page and I've been using Excel for 25 years and PowerQuery since it was PowerPivot 10 years ago. Here's one example: "F6 to select the current worksheet tab and then use the left or right arrow keys to navigate to a new sheet, and then press Enter." And here I've been using Control + Page Up or Page Down instead this whole time.
There's a fun conversational and entertaining writing style too; this is not some dusty tome that will cure your insomnia. Here's an example: "If there’s ever a reality TV series where we get to vote features out of Excel, Merge Cells is first on my list."
My suggestion is to keep a reference copy by your desk to flip through when PowerQuery takes its time refreshing. It's not just a book - there are sample workbooks you can download from GitHub and follow along with.
Another bonus is it's not just the same timeworn tips that have been working since Excel 97. There's a chapter on the newfangled Dynamic Arrays. Now I know the best ways to use #, AKA the Spilled Range Operator.
This book is dense! I learn something on almost every page and I've been using Excel for 25 years and PowerQuery since it was PowerPivot 10 years ago. Here's one example: "F6 to select the current worksheet tab and then use the left or right arrow keys to navigate to a new sheet, and then press Enter." And here I've been using Control + Page Up or Page Down instead this whole time.
There's a fun conversational and entertaining writing style too; this is not some dusty tome that will cure your insomnia. Here's an example: "If there’s ever a reality TV series where we get to vote features out of Excel, Merge Cells is first on my list."
My suggestion is to keep a reference copy by your desk to flip through when PowerQuery takes its time refreshing. It's not just a book - there are sample workbooks you can download from GitHub and follow along with.
Another bonus is it's not just the same timeworn tips that have been working since Excel 97. There's a chapter on the newfangled Dynamic Arrays. Now I know the best ways to use #, AKA the Spilled Range Operator.
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