Alexander Michael - Excel 2016 Formulas

Excel 2016 Formulas

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Michael Alexander is a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD) and author of several books on advanced business analysis with Microsoft Access and Microsoft Excel. He has more than 15 years of experience consulting and developing Microsoft Office solutions. Mike has been named a Microsoft MVP for his ongoing contributions to the Excel community. In his spare time, he runs a free tutorial site, www.datapigtechnologies.com , where he shares Excel and Access tips.

Dick Kusleika has been awarded as a Microsoft MVP for 12 consecutive years and has been working with Microsoft Office for more than 20. Dick develops Access- and Excel-based solutions for his clients and has conducted training seminars on Office products in the United States and Australia. Dick also writes a popular Excel-related blog at www.dailydoseofexcel.com .

Niek Otten lives in the Netherlands. He started in data processing in 1967 in an insurance company. He ran into Visicalc in 1980 and has been addicted to spreadsheets ever since. His first encounter with Excel (version 1!) was in 1985 on a Macintosh. Since 2005, Niek has been self-employedreviewing books, writing articles, and developing Excel-related software, such as a high-performance actuarial add-in.

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Theres no arguing that formulas are the true engines of Excel. Employing various Excel functions, formulas enable Excel analysts to create aggregated reporting, complex calculation engines, clever dashboard models, and much more. Indeed, Excel analysts become more productive as their proficiency with Excel functions and formulas improves.

But building proficiency with Excel functions and formulas takes time. Given that Excel contains more than 400 functions, you could spend months, even years, learning which functions are best for certain tasks and which functions can be combined with others functions.

This is where this book comes in. Here, we will introduce you to the world of Excel formulas by guiding you through the various built-in functions Excel has to offer. Each chapter builds on the last, taking you from basic math functions to actually building your own custom functions.

As youll discover, leveraging Excel functions will not only make you more productive, but it will allow you to accomplish tasks that you didnt know could be handled with Excel formulas.

This is not a book for beginning Excel users. If you have absolutely no experience with Excel, this is probably not the best book for you unless youre one of a rare breed who can learn a new software product almost instantaneously.

To get the most out of this book, you should have some background using Excel. Specifically, we assume that you know how to

• Create workbooks, insert sheets, save files, and complete other basic tasks.
• Navigate a workbook.
• Use the Excel Ribbon and dialog boxes.
• Use basic Windows features, such as file management and copy-and-paste techniques.

This book was written with Excel 2016 as a base, but most of the material also applies to Excel 20072013. If youre using a version prior to Excel 2016, you may find that a handful of functions (such as the new Forecasting functions introduced in Excel 2016) will not be available to you. Any function not available in all four versions of Excel will be called out in each chapter.