Help You Learn: Excel Functions, Charts, and Data Analysis

Author: Xiaotao Studio
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Microsoft Excel is one of the best spreadsheet software, capable of creating spreadsheets, performing complex data calculations, conducting data analysis and forecasting, and offering powerful chart creation functions. It is an ideal tool for personal and office tasks. Financial personnel can use it for financial calculations and analysis; securities management staff can use it for various chart analyses related to investments and securities trading; office staff can use it to manage personnel records of their organizations, such as calculating salaries and conducting performance evaluations. This book features two characters—a mischievous and eager-to-learn little fool and a knowledgeable "All-Knowing" older sister—who play the roles of student and teacher, respectively. The content of the book is woven throughout by their interactions. Readers can combine the multimedia teaching CD to follow the learning pace of the little fool, listen to the explanations from the older sister, and master the powerful data organization, management, and analysis functions of Excel through interactive learning. The book introduces Excel functions, charts, and data analysis in a step-by-step, progressive manner. The main content includes basic knowledge such as data input, data formatting, array formulas, function applications, and chart processing; data management functions like sorting, searching, pivot tables, filtering, and grouping; and data calculation and analysis functions such as data auditing, single-variable solving, what-if analysis, and solver. The book is structured around the process of the older sister teaching the little fool how to organize, manage, calculate, and analyze data in Excel. The content is detailed, easy to understand, and includes numerous examples. Each example is carefully selected and highly targeted, aiming to help readers grasp basic parameters and usage techniques, enabling them to solve practical problems more flexibly. This book is suitable for users of all versions of Excel, as well as for use as a textbook in data analysis courses for majors such as economics and management, public finance and finance, and material statistics. It can also serve as a training manual for computer applications and office automation or as a reference book for office personnel.