Excel 2013 Absolute Beginner's Guide

Tracy Syrstad

Mar 2013 · Que Publishing

About this ebook

Make the most of Excel 2013–without becoming a technical expert! This book is the fastest way to master Excel...use it to build powerful, trustworthy, easy-to-understand workbooks...discover hidden patterns and make better decisions...visualize data so everyone understands it...share and present workbooks on the web, tablets, anywhere! Even if you’ve never used Excel before, you’ll learn how to do what you want, one incredibly clear and easy step at a time. Excel has never, ever been this simple!

Who knew how simple Excel 2013 could be?

This is the easiest, most practical beginner’s guide to using Microsoft’s incredibly powerful new Excel 2013 spreadsheet program...simple, reliable instructions for doing everything you really want to do! Here’s a small sample of what you’ll learn:

• Quickly create, edit, and format workbooks
• Enter formulas and use functions effectively
• Enter data more rapidly, easily, consistently, and accurately
• Master powerful ways to sort, filter, consolidate, or group data
• Visualize information through great charts, PivotTables, and Sparklines
• Illustrate workbooks with images, shapes, and SmartArt
• Explore and analyze data more easily with Excel 2013’s amazing new Power View
• Share, print, present, and secure your workbooks
• Store your workbooks online with SkyDrive
• Work with macros
• Build immense power into worksheet cells with UDFs

About the author

Tracy Syrstad is the project manager for the MrExcel consulting team and also handles many of the tech support calls. She’s been helping people with Microsoft Office issues since 1997 when she discovered free online forums where anyone could ask and answer questions. She discovered she enjoyed teaching others new skills, and when Tracy began working with the MrExcel team, she was able to integrate the fun of teaching with one-on-one online desktop sharing sessions.