This book includes step-by-step examples and case studies that teach users the many power tricks for analyzing data in Excel. These are tips honed by Bill Jelen, “MrExcel,” and Oz do Soleil during their careers run as a financial analyst charged with taking mainframe data and turning it into useful information quickly. Topics include data quality, validation, perfectly sorting with one click every time, matching lists of data, data consolidation, data subtotals, pivot tables, pivot charts, tables and much more.

Jelen uses his combined experience and analytical ingenuity to demystify the arduous task of dealing with downloaded data. He uses real-life examples of real-life management requests, and then walks users through the maze of Excel tools and formulas.

This book includes step-by-step examples and case studies that teach users the many power tricks for analyzing data in Excel. These are tips honed by Bill Jelen, &“MrExcel,&” during his 10-year run as a financial analyst charged with taking mainframe data and turning it into useful information quickly. Topics include perfectly sorting with one click every time, matching lists of data, data consolidation, data subtotals, pivot tables, and much more.

This book includes step-by-step examples and case studies that teach users the many power tricks for analyzing data in Excel. These tips have been honed by Oz du Soleil, a former financial analyst charged with taking mainframe data and turning it into useful information quickly, and "Mr. Excel" himself, Bill Jelen. Topics include data quality, validation, perfectly sorting with one click, matching lists of data, data consolidation, data subtotals, pivot tables, pivot charts, tables, and much more. This new edition has been updated for Excel 2013.

"Using real-life examples of real-life management requests, this thorough guide walks you through the maze of Excel tools and formulas that not only cuts valuable time out of the process, but teaches you in plain English how to overcome the most common analytical obstacles." --

* Essential for those who know basic Excel and want to explore the full potential of the program * Teaches how to manipulate data to suit specific needs and achieve more by doing less work * Self-contained two-page lessons, featuring high-resolution screen shots and minimal text, show how to create custom functions, retrieve data from databases, use value chains, and slice and pivot information from the Web with Excel's PivotTable utility * Covers data analyzing techniques for statistical functions, financial functions, data sharing, PivotTables and PivotCharts, Solver, and BackSolver