101 Excel 2013 Tips, Tricks & Timesavers
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John Walkenbach is a leading authority on spreadsheet software, and principal of J-Walk and Associates Inc., a one-person consulting firm based in southern Arizona. John is the author of more than 50 spreadsheet books and has written more than 300 articles and reviews for a variety of publications, including PC World, InfoWorld, PC Magazine, Windows, and PC/Computing. John also maintains a popular website (The Spreadsheet Page, http://spreadsheetpage.com ) and is the developer of several Excel utilities, including the Power Utility Pak, an award-winning add-in for Excel. John graduated from the University of Missouri and earned a Masters and PhD from the University of Montana.
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Excel is a very popular program. Millions of people throughout the world use it on a regular basis. But its a safe bet that the vast majority of users have yet to discover some of the amazing things this product can do. If Ive done my job, youll find enough useful information in this book to help you use Excel on a new level.
This book isnt a beginners guide to Excel. Rather, its a book for those who already use Excel but realize that they have a lot more to learn. This book contains 101 tips and tricks that Ive learned over the years, and Im certain that about 99 percent of all Excel users will find something new and useful in these pages.
If you have absolutely no experience with Excel, this book might not be the best choice for you. To get the most out of this book, you should have some background in using Excel. Specifically, I assume that you know how to accomplish the following tasks with Excel:
Create workbooks, insert worksheets, save files, and perform other basic tasks.
Navigate through a workbook.
Use the Excel Ribbon and dialog boxes.
Use basic Windows features, such as file management and copy-and-paste techniques.
To use this book, you need a copy of Microsoft Excel 2013 for Windows. If you use an older version of Excel, some of the tips wont apply.
As far as hardware goes for the computer you use to run Excel, the faster, the better. And, of course, the more memory in your system, the happier youll be.
Take a minute to skim this section and become familiar with some of the typographic conventions used throughout this book.
Formulas usually appear on a separate line in monospace font. For example, I might list the following formula: