Excel Data Analysis: Your visual blueprint for creating and analyzing data, charts and PivotTables

Crunch and analyze Excel data the way the professionals do with this clean, uncluttered, visual guide to advanced Excel techniques. Using numerous screenshots and easy–to–follow numbered steps, this book clearly shows you how to perform professional–level modeling, charting, data access, data slicing, and other functions. You‘ll find super techniques for getting the most out of Excel‘s statistical and financial functions, Excel PivotTables and PivotCharts, Excel Solver, and more.

• Provides a clear look at power–using Excel, the world‘s leading spreadsheet application from Microsoft, and part of the new Microsoft Office 2010 suite
• Expands your Excel knowledge and helps you use Excel data more efficiently
• Demonstrates how to retrieve data from databases;; cut, slice, and pivot data using PivotTables; model data and chart data; and use advanced formulas
• Explores all features and functions in friendly, two–color pages packed with screenshots, numbered steps, and other visual graphics that clearly show you how to accomplish tasks
• Includes practical examples, tips, and advice to help you get the most out of Excel‘s features and functions

Learn Excel at the highest levels with this practical guide.

From the back cover:

Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional–level computer topics. Open the book and you‘ll discover step–by–step screen shots that demonstrate over 190 key Excel data analysis techniques, including:

• Using Web–based applications in Excel

• Creating formulas and using functions

• Calculating interest rates and depreciation

• Working with statistical functions

• Using database functions

• Creating PivotTables and using Slicer

• Performing "what–if" analysis

• Automating Excel with macros

• Adding illustrations to worksheets

• Customizing the Ribbon

• High–resolution screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two–page lessons break big topics into bite–sized modules

• "Apply It" and "Extra" sidebars highlight useful tips