| Introduction |
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What You Can Safely Ignore |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Part 1: Getting Started with Excel 2016 |
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Part 2: Editing without Tears |
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Part 3: Getting Organized and Staying That Way |
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Part 4: Digging Data Analysis |
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Part 5: Life beyond the Spreadsheet |
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Conventions Used in This Book |
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Selecting Ribbon commands |
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| Part 1 Getting Started With Excel 2016 |
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Chapter 1 The Excel 2016 User Experience |
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Excel's Ribbon User Interface |
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14 | (1) |
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Customizing the Quick Access toolbar |
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Having fun with the Formula bar |
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What to do in the Worksheet area |
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Showing off the Status bar |
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Launching and Quitting Excel |
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Starting Excel from the Windows 10 Start menu |
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Starting Excel from the Windows 10 Ask Me Anything text box |
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Starting Excel from the Windows 8 Start screen |
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Starting Excel from the Windows 7 Start menu |
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Adding an Excel 2016 shortcut to your Windows 7 desktop |
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Pinning Excel 2016 to your Windows 7 Start menu |
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Pinning Excel 2016 to the Windows 7 taskbar |
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Using the Tell Me help feature |
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Chapter 2 Creating a Spreadsheet from Scratch |
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So What Ya Gonna Put in That New Workbook of Yours? |
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The ins and outs of data entry |
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Doing the Data-Entry Thing |
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The telltale signs of text |
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How Excel evaluates its values |
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Fabricating those fabulous formulas! |
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If you want it, just point it out |
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Altering the natural order of operations |
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Fixing Those Data Entry Flub-Ups |
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You really AutoCorrect that for me |
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Taking the Drudgery out of Data Entry |
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I'm just not complete without you |
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Fill 'er up with AutoFill |
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Inserting special symbols |
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Entries all around the block |
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How to Make Your Formulas Function Even Better |
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Inserting a function into a formula with the Insert Function button |
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Editing a function with the Insert Function button |
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I'd be totally lost without AutoSum |
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Sums via Quick Analysis Totals |
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Making Sure That the Data Is Safe and Sound |
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Changing the default file location |
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The difference between the XLSX and XLS file formats |
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89 | (1) |
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Saving the Workbook as a PDF File |
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Document Recovery to the Rescue |
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| Part 2 Editing Without Tears |
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Chapter 3 Making It All Look Pretty |
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Choosing a Select Group of Cells |
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Point-and-click cell selections |
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Using the Format as Table Gallery |
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Customizing table formats |
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Creating a new custom Table Style |
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Cell Formatting from the Home Tab |
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Formatting Cells Close to the Source with the Mini-bar |
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Using the Format Cells Dialog Box |
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Understanding the number formats |
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The values behind the formatting |
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Ogling some of the other number formats |
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Now you see it, now you don't |
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125 | (2) |
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127 | (8) |
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128 | (1) |
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Tampering with how the text wraps |
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128 | (2) |
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130 | (2) |
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Applying fill colors, patterns, and gradient effects to cells |
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134 | (1) |
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Creating a new style for the gallery |
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Copying custom styles from one workbook into another |
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Fooling Around with the Format Painter |
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Formatting with scales and markers |
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Highlighting cells ranges |
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Formatting via the Quick Analysis tool |
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Chapter 4 Going Through Changes |
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Opening Your Workbooks for Editing |
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Opening files in the Open screen |
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Operating the Open dialog box |
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Changing the Recent files settings |
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Opening multiple workbooks |
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Using the Open file options |
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Undo is Redo the second time around |
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What to do when you can't Undo? |
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Doing the Old Drag-and-Drop Thing |
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Copies, drag-and-drop style |
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Insertions courtesy of drag and drop |
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Copying Formulas with AutoFill |
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Some things are absolutes! |
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Cut and Paste, Digital Style |
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Keeping pace with Paste Options |
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Paste it from the Clipboard task pane |
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So what's so special about Paste Special? |
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Let's Be Clear about Deleting Stuff |
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Get these cells outta here! |
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Staying in Step with Insert |
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Stamping Out Your Spelling Errors |
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Eliminating Errors with Text to Speech |
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Chapter 5 Printing the Masterpiece |
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Previewing Pages in Page Layout View |
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Using the Backstage Print Screen |
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Printing the Current Worksheet |
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182 | (2) |
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Using the buttons in the Page Setup group |
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Using the buttons in the Scale to Fit group |
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Using the Print buttons in the Sheet Options group |
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191 | (1) |
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192 | (6) |
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Adding an Auto Header and Footer |
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192 | (2) |
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Creating a custom header or footer |
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194 | (4) |
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Solving Page Break Problems |
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198 | (3) |
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Letting Your Formulas All Hang Out |
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| Part 3 Getting Organized And Staying That Way |
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Chapter 6 Maintaining the Worksheet |
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205 | (28) |
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206 | (3) |
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Splitting the Worksheet into Windows |
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Fixed Headings with Freeze Panes |
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210 | (3) |
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Adding a comment to a cell |
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215 | (1) |
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Editing comments in a worksheet |
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216 | (1) |
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Getting your comments in print |
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217 | (1) |
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217 | (4) |
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221 | (3) |
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Doing Your Research with Smart Lookup |
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Controlling Recalculation |
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227 | (1) |
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Putting on the Protection |
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228 | (5) |
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Chapter 7 Maintaining Multiple Worksheets |
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Juggling Multiple Worksheets |
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234 | (4) |
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Sliding between the sheets |
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A worksheet by any other name |
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A sheet tab by any other color |
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Getting your sheets in order |
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Opening Windows on Your Worksheets |
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242 | (5) |
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Comparing Worksheets Side by Side |
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247 | (1) |
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Shifting Sheets to Other Workbooks |
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248 | (4) |
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Summing Stuff on Different Worksheets |
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252 | (3) |
| Part 4 Digging Data Analysis |
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Chapter 8 Doing What-If Analysis |
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Playing What-If with Data Tables |
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258 | (6) |
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Creating a one-variable data table |
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Creating a two-variable data table |
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Playing What-If with Goal Seeking |
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Making the Case with Scenario Manager |
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Setting up the various scenarios |
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Producing a summary report |
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Chapter 9 Playing with Pivot Tables |
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Data Analysis with Pivot Tables |
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272 | (7) |
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Pivot tables via the Quick Analysis tool |
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272 | (2) |
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Pivot tables by recommendation |
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Manually producing pivot tables |
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Refining the Pivot Table style |
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Formatting values in the pivot table |
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280 | (1) |
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Sorting and Filtering Pivot Table Data |
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280 | (5) |
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Filtering column and row fields |
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Modifying the pivot table fields |
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Pivoting the table's fields |
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286 | (1) |
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Modifying the table's summary function |
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287 | (1) |
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288 | (7) |
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Moving pivot charts to separate sheets |
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289 | (1) |
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| Part 5 Life Beyond The Spreadsheet |
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Chapter 10 Charming Charts and Gorgeous Graphics |
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295 | (36) |
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Making Professional-Looking Charts |
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296 | (13) |
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Charts thanks to Recommendation |
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296 | (1) |
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Charts via the Quick Analysis tool |
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Charts on their own chart sheets |
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301 | (1) |
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Moving and resizing embedded charts |
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Moving embedded charts to chart sheets |
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302 | (1) |
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Customizing charts from the Design tab |
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Customizing chart elements |
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Editing the generic titles in a chart |
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306 | (3) |
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Adding Great-Looking Graphics |
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Sparking up the data with sparklines |
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Telling all with a text box |
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315 | (2) |
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317 | (1) |
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Editing inserted pictures |
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317 | (1) |
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Formatting inserted images |
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318 | (1) |
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Adding preset graphic shapes |
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319 | (2) |
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321 | (1) |
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322 | (2) |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (1) |
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Controlling How Graphic Objects Overlap |
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326 | (3) |
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Reordering the layering of graphic objects |
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326 | (2) |
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328 | (1) |
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329 | (2) |
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Chapter 11 Getting on the Data List |
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331 | (24) |
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331 | (8) |
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Adding records to data lists |
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332 | (5) |
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Moving through records in the data form |
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337 | (1) |
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Finding records with the data form |
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338 | (1) |
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339 | (5) |
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Sorting on a single field |
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341 | (1) |
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Sorting on multiple fields |
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341 | (3) |
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344 | (6) |
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Using ready-made number filters |
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346 | (1) |
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Using ready-made date filters |
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346 | (1) |
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347 | (3) |
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350 | (5) |
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Querying Access database tables |
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350 | (2) |
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Chapter 12 Linking, Automating, and Sharing Spreadsheets |
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355 | (24) |
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356 | (2) |
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358 | (1) |
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Adding Hyperlinks to a Worksheet |
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359 | (3) |
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Automating Commands with Macros |
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362 | (8) |
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363 | (4) |
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367 | (1) |
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Assigning macros to the Ribbon and the Quick Access toolbar |
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368 | (2) |
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370 | (1) |
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Sharing workbooks saved on OneDrive |
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370 | (9) |
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373 | (1) |
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Sharing workbooks with IM |
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374 | (1) |
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Presenting worksheets online |
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374 | (1) |
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Editing worksheets online |
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375 | (4) |
| Part 6 The Part Of Tens |
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379 | (18) |
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Chapter 13 Top Ten Beginner Basics |
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381 | (4) |
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Chapter 14 The Ten Commandments of Excel 2016 |
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385 | (2) |
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Chapter 15 Top Ten Ways to Manage Your Data |
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387 | (6) |
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Chapter 16 Top Ten Ways to Analyze Your Data |
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