Paul McFedries' step-by-step projects walk students through handling key tasks, from building timesheets to projecting cash flow and aging receivables. His practical examples and clear instructions demystify intermediate- to advanced-level formula construction, and help students leverage Excel's most useful functions in their everyday work. Becoming an Excel expert has never been easier!

By reading this book, students will:

• Improve business analyses by adding intelligence and knowledge to their models
• Replace cumbersome formulas with convenient predefined functions
• Radically simplify complex calculations with Office 365's new dynamic arrays
• Use conditional formatting to reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities
• Calculate loan payments, interest costs, terms, and amortization schedules
• Project the future value of investments, and plan to achieve investment goals
• Master essential discounting and cash-flow analysis tools, including net present value and internal rate of return
• Sort, filter, and analyze tabular data, from customers to inventory
• Easily analyze huge data sets with PivotTable calculations

• Quickly create powerful spreadsheets with FlashFill
• Use conditional formatting to instantly reveal anomalies, problems, or opportunities
• Analyze data with standard tables and PivotTables
• Use complex criteria to filter data in lists
• Understand correlations between data
• Perform sophisticated what-if analyses
• Use regression to track trends and make forecasts
• Build loan, investment, and discount formulas
• Validate data, troubleshoot problems, and build more accurate, trustworthy spreadsheets

Updated for Office 2021 and Microsoft 365