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Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures
Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures

Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures: Turbocharge your Excel proficiency with expert tips, automation techniques, and overlooked features

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  • Get hands-on experience by carrying out techniques in detailed example workbooks
  • Reclaim portions of your day by immediately implementing data integrity and automation features
  • Incorporate spreadsheet disaster recovery techniques into your daily work

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David Ringstrom coined the phrase “Either you work Excel, or it works you!” after observing how many users carry out tasks inefficiently. In this book, you’ll learn how to get more done with less effort. This book will enable you to create resilient spreadsheets that are easy for others to use as well, while incorporating spreadsheet disaster preparedness techniques. The time-saving techniques covered in the book include creating custom shortcuts and icons to streamline repetitive tasks, as well as automating them with features such as Tables and Custom Views. You’ll see how Conditional Formatting enables you to apply colors, Cell icons, and other formatting on-demand as your data changes. You’ll be empowered to protect the integrity of spreadsheets and increase usability by implementing internal controls, and understand how to solve problems with What-If Analysis features. In addition, you’ll master new features and functions such as XLOOKUP, Dynamic Array functions, LET and LAMBDA, and Power Query, while learning how to leverage shortcuts and nuances in Excel. By the end of this book, you’ll have a broader awareness of how to avoid pitfalls in Excel. You’ll be empowered to work more effectively in Excel, having gained a deeper understanding of the frustrating oddities that can arise daily in Excel.

Who is this book for?

This book is for intermediate to advanced excel users working in diverse roles such as business users, accountants, project managers and business analysts among others. The more time that you spend in excel the more time this book will save you. You will be able to maximize your productivity by learning spreadsheet interactivity, accessibility and automation. This clear step-by-step explanation and detailed example workbook will help you to try out new techniques firsthand and leverage them for your business's advantage in no time.

What you will learn

  • Explore hidden and overlooked features that will save your time
  • Implement disaster prevention and recovery techniques
  • Improve spreadsheet accessibility for all users
  • Bolster data integrity and spreadsheet resilience
  • Craft code-free custom worksheet functions with LAMBDA
  • Create code-free report automation with Power Query
  • Integrate spreadsheet automation techniques with ease

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theshark34 Nov 09, 2022
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I really liked the book, its filled with great tips from top to bottom.First part is all about accessibility like in spreadsheets. Second part is about interactivity and automation, which is a great feature to help reducing workload. Third part is about data analysis, which is a topic thats getting more and more important these days. The author shows a huge amount of different functions that can be used to to analyse data.He ends up the book with "Other Books you May Enjoy" which contains some great advice on which books are related to this one.My favorite part was chapter three, which was about "Toolbar Treasures". I work with Excel on a daily, however I found some great tips and shortcuts to implement and make my daily work way easier and faster.The whole book, including chapter three, is great to getting deep insights on how to use Excel effectively..
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Sanna Oct 31, 2022
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I have learnt more from Packt's Microsoft books in this year than I have learnt all my life.I wish this book was available with me when I started learning Excel during my school days. The sample spreadsheet has given me something to work upon and apply the tips provided in the book.This book tells you all what you don't have to do to be a more efficient Excel user. Definitely recommended.
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Mahendra Lokhande Oct 29, 2022
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I would recommend downloading the workbook from the provided GitHub link to get a better understanding of the possibilities within Excel. I have gained additional knowledge of several functions within Conditional formatting, which is the most important Excel feature personally. As I am turning pages, I am witnessing increased insights to be better at Excel.The author David makes sure that the book is relatable for all Excel users. His experience is very well administered when he shares his understanding of the software and its audience with sentences like,‘Some users purchase third-party software to extract data from PDF files due to a lack of better alternatives’Yeah David, that is me. I simply followed all the steps mentioned and voila, I managed to extract the PDF data directly into Excel without looking at any third-party apps.Such alternatives and information make the book an exercise in Excel expertise.
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Amazon Customer Dec 27, 2022
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As a practicing CPA, the challenge with Excel has always been two-fold:1- To expand the overall knowledge of Excel so you recognize the situation where is can be used for a time-saving advantage.2- To know how to specifically use a certain function or formula to accomplish what you recognized in step 1.I need a source that gives me both the theoretical and the practical.This book bridges the gap between good theory and good practice.It serves as an encyclopedia of what Excel can do and you can zero in on specific sections that show you the how-to.It’s both the book you keep on the corner of your desk for excel research and the book you can give the accounting staff to help them implement a need you discerned for the client.David brings the same clarity of his webinars to the printed page.Highly recommend for all accountants and financial professionals.
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Mr Excel Nov 14, 2022
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The author is famous for conducting over 2,000 webinars on Excel. Teaching this many courses allows you to know what topics are important to Excellers and what questions people have. Some of my favorite sections of this book: Treasures for the Quick Access Toolbar, Checkboxes, Forecast Sheet, Solver, Excel Nuances in Chapter 9, The author finishes the book with three strong chapters on Dynamic Arrays, LET & LAMBDA, and Power Query, If you currently use Excel 20, 30, or 40 hours a week, you will find good tips throughout this book.
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