Overview
- Takes a unique project-based approach, encourages creative thinking in Excel, and teaches formulas/functions
- Emphasizes the value of automation and automating procedures
- Provides step-by-step guidance covering all versions of Excel, with tips provided for each unique project
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About this book
Master Excel in less than two weeks with this unique project-based book! Let’s face it, we all master skills in our own way, but building a soup-to-nuts project is one of the best ways to make learning stick and get up to speed quickly. Whether you are just getting started with Excel or are an experienced user, this book will elevate your knowledge and skills. For a beginner, the micro examples in each chapter will warm you up before you dive into the projects. For experienced users, the projects, especially those with table setup considerations, will help you become more creative in your interactions with Excel.
Readers will benefit from building eight unique projects, each covering a different topic, including a word game, a food nutrition ranking, a payroll (tax withholding) calculation, an encryption, a two-way table, a Kaplan-Meier analysis, a data analysis via a pivot table and the K-means Clustering data mining method. Through these projects, you will experience firsthand how Excel skills are organized together to accomplish tasks that sound complex and daunting when first described.
Get started with a word game which asks users to find English words that amount to exactly 100 points, with each letter of the alphabet assigned a point 1, 2, 3, … 26, respectively. You will disassemble a word into letters and then sum up their points, and then take it one step further, contemplating how to make the completed Excel worksheet more user friendly and completely automated. Increasingly challenging tasks like this example build on what you have learned and increase your confidence along the way, ensuring your mastery of Excel.What You Will Learn
- Gain confidence to tackle a challenging Excel-related mission, even those that seem impossible
- Become skilled in the creative uses of Excel formulas and functions and other built-in features
- Appreciate the art of refining worksheets to maximize automation
- Understand the value of treating each worksheet as a unique product
Who This Book Is For
People who are interested in learning Excel as quickly and efficiently as possible. While Excel beginners and intermediate users are the primary audience, experienced Excel users might also discover new skills and ways of working with Excel.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mastering Excel Through Projects
Book Subtitle: A Learn-by-Doing Approach from Payroll to Crypto to Data Analysis
Authors: Hong Zhou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7842-0
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Hong Zhou 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-7841-3Published: 28 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-7842-0Published: 27 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 240
Number of Illustrations: 225 b/w illustrations
Topics: Microsoft and .NET