Learn to use pivot tables and pivot charts in Microsoft Excel to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes: take control of your data and your business! Even if you've never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage their flexibility and analytical power--and includes exploration of new array functions and Copilot capabilities in analysis creation. Drawing on more than 30 years of cutting-edge Excel experience, MVP Bill Jelen (MrExcel) shares practical recipes for solving real business problems, expert insights for avoiding mistakes, and advanced tips and tricks you'll find nowhere else.

By reading this book, you will:

• Master easy, powerful ways to create, customize, change, and control pivot tables
• Use Copilot and Analyze Data features to create pivot tables
• Transform huge datasets into clear summary reports
• Instantly highlight your most profitable customers, products, or regions
• Pivot data with powerful dynamic arrays and Power Query
• Use PIVOTBY and GROUPBY functions to create reports without needing to refresh
• Build geographical pivot tables with 3D Maps
• Construct and share state-of-the-art dynamic dashboards
• Revamp analyses on the fly by dragging and dropping fi elds
• Build dynamic self-service reporting systems
• Share your pivot tables with colleagues
• Create data mashups using the full Power Pivot capabilities in modern Excel versions
• Generate pivot tables using either VBA on the Desktop or Typescript in Excel Online or on the Desktop
• Embrace GetPivotData for better looking reports and learn how to prevent it for quick reporting
• Unpivot source data so it's easier to use

About This Book

• For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time
• For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data

Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen (MrExcel) and Tracy Syrstad help you automate Excel tasks to get more done, faster than ever.

Use this guide to automate virtually any routine Excel task: save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks. Make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you won't find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad help you instantly visualize information to make it actionable; capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere; and automate the best new features in Microsoft Excel. You'll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, and 50 workbooks packed with examples and complete, easy-to-adapt solutions.

By reading this book, you will:

• Quickly master Excel macro development
• Work more efficiently with ranges, cells, and formulas
• Generate automated reports and quickly adapt them for new requirements
• Learn to automate PivotTables to summarize, analyze, explore, and present data
• Leverage more of Excel VBA's power with classes, collections, and Advanced Filter
• Make the most of User-Defined Functions (UDFs), including new LAMBDA functions
• Build sophisticated UserForm custom dialogs to collect data from other Excel users
• Integrate data from the Internet, Access and SQL Server databases, and other sources
• Automatically generate charts, visualizations, sparklines, and Word documents
• Extend Excel's power by controlling other Office programs and Windows itself
• Create Office Add-ins to expand worksheet functionality or streamline retrieval of external information
• Get started creating brand-new TypeScript applications for Excel Online

About This Book

- For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time

- For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data

Bill Jelen, MrExcel and Oz du Soleil of Excel on Fire, two of the leading Excel channels on YouTube, joined forces to write a unique book to help you get the most from Excel and combat bad data. Guerrilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel: Excel Skirmishes and Conquering Crap Data Third Ed. goes beyond Excel tips & tricks and includes real world warnings and case studies. When asked about the motivation for this book, Oz replied: this is for the person who's been thrown into the fire with Excel and data. They may not have a background for this work but they still have to perform because the world doesn't wait for you to graduate from beginner to intermediate and then to advanced. No. You have to perform and deliver. In other words, GDA3 is a survival guide whether you're new to Excel or a longtime professional who needs a reference guide. The book is light and quick, giving you bite-sized lessons, but going deep on critical topics like pivot tables and Power Query.

Use Microsoft 365 Excel and Excel 2021 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes: take control of your data and your business! Even if you've never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their flexibility and analytical power-- including important recent improvements in Microsoft 365 Excel. Drawing on more than 30 years of cutting-edge Excel experience, MVP Bill Jelen (MrExcel) shares practical recipes for solving real business problems, expert insights for avoiding mistakes, and advanced tips and tricks you'll find nowhere else.

By reading this book, you will:

• Master easy, powerful ways to create, customize, change, and control pivot tables
• Transform huge datasets into clear summary reports
• Instantly highlight your most profitable customers, products, or regions
• Use the data model and Power Query to quickly analyze disparate data sources
• Create powerful crosstab reports with new dynamic arrays and Power Query
• Build geographical pivot tables with 3D Maps
• Construct and share state-of-the-art dynamic dashboards
• Revamp analyses on the fly by dragging and dropping fi elds
• Build dynamic self-service reporting systems
• Share your pivot tables with colleagues
• Create data mashups using the full Power Pivot capabilities in modern Excel versions
• Generate pivot tables using either VBA on the Desktop or Typescript in Excel Online
• Save time and avoid formatting problems by adapting reports with GetPivotData
• Unpivot source data so it's easier to work with
• Use new Analyze Data artificial intelligence to create pivot tables

Excel tips to skyrocket white-collar productivity.

Originally designed for Bill Jelen's live Power Excel seminars, the target audience already uses Excel 40 hours a week. These tips are the aha tips that uncover secret methods in Excel. The book covers general Excel functions, pivot tables, and formulas such as VLOOKUP and the new XLOOKUP. It introduces elements of modern Excel such as the Power Pivot Data Model and cleaning data with Power Query. Updated annually, this edition for 2021 adds information on LET and LAMBDA functions, amazing new data types, dynamic array formulas, and more.

Master proven processes for improving development with Scrum and Azure DevOps

This guide can help any development team plan, track, and manage work far more effectively, by combining today's leading agile framework (Scrum) and Microsoft's ALM/DevOps toolset (Azure DevOps). Renowned Scrum expert Richard Hundhausen thoroughly covers team formation, backlogs, Sprints, test plans, collaboration, flow, continuous improvement, Azure Boards, Azure Test Plans, and the real-world tradeoffs associated with DevOps. Throughout, you'll find practical, in-the-trenches tips from experienced Professional Scrum Developers. To make this guide even more valuable, Hundhausen has organized it to complement Scrum.org's popular Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program, which he created with Scrum.org's Ken Schwaber, author of this book's Foreword.

Professional Scrum Trainer Richard Hundhausen shows how to:

• Deepen your understanding of the Scrum framework and Professional Scrum as based on the 2020 Scrum Guide.
• Provide proven work item planning and tracking, and quickly drive value from Azure Boards
• Improve your Scrum pre-game the tasks you'll perform before your first Sprint
• Use Azure DevOps to create and manage backlogs, plan Sprints, and collaborate throughout them
• Improve at scale with Scaled Professional Scrum and the Nexus scaled Scrum framework
• Recognize which practices are still most efficiently performed without tools
• Define and optimize team flow, overcome common dysfunctions, and evolve into a high-performance Professional Scrum Team

About This Book

• For everyone who works with or relies on Scrum, including developers, designers, architects, testers, business analysts, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, managers, and other stakeholders
• Focuses primarily on using Scrum for software products, but can support development of adaptive solutions for any complex problem performance Professional Scrum Team

Providing the tools and techniques necessary for finding errors and fraud in audits, this guide for auditors looking to better validate their Microsoft Excel spreadsheets provides techniques for performing a risk assessment and gathering spreadsheet and other data from company systems. Performing audit data analysis using data and analytical management functions and pinpointing the common errors in spreadsheets with focused Excel tests is discussed, as are the best practices for error and fraud prevention when developing spreadsheets. This reference is fully updated to reflect Excel 12.

Drawn from actual excel conundrums posted on the author's website, www.mrexcel.com, this high-level resource is designed for people who want to stretch Excel to its limits. Tips for solving 100 incredibly difficult problems are covered in depth and include extracting the first letter of each word in a paragraph, validating URL's, generating random numbers without repeating, and hiding rows if cells are empty. The answers to these and other questions have produced results that have even surprised the Excel development team.

MASTER CORE EXCEL 2016 TOOLS FOR BUILDING POWERFUL, RELIABLE SPREADSHEETS

Use this guide to automate virtually any routine task: save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks Make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you won't find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad help you instantly visualize information, so you can act on it... capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere... automate Excel 2016's best new features. You'll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, and 50 workbooks packed with bonus examples, macros, and solutions-straight from MrExcel

• Get started fast with Excel macro development
• Work efficiently with ranges, cells, and formulas
• Build super-fast applications with arrays
• Automate Excel's new pivot table enhancements
• Collect user data with custom dialogs
• Make your macros more reliable and resilient
• Pull data from the Internet with web queries
• Use advanced classes, collections, and custom functions
• Build sophisticated business analysis solutions
• Read and write to Access or SQL Server databases
• Control other Office programs, and Windows itself
• Write code that also works on older Excel versions
• Start writing Office Store-style Excel Apps

About MrExcel Library

Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these books will

• Dramatically increase your productivity-saving you 50 hours a year or more
• Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems
• Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have
• Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

This book is part of Que's Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Excel, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. See inside for details.

Excel 2016 In Depth

Full Color: Figures and code appear as they do in Excel 2016

Beyond the Basics...Beneath the Surface...In Depth

Do more in less time!

Experienced with Excel? Don't let Excel 2016 make you feel like a beginner again! This new full-color edition of the bestselling book has been completely overhauled. Gone is unnecessary and rarely used content; emphasis is on the most-used and new aspects of Excel 2016. The result is a focused book where every topic is relevant and worth learning. Excel 2016 In Depth is the fastest, smartest way to master Excel 2016's full power and updated interface. You'll discover how to leverage Excel's new tools for charting, business analysis, data visualization, forecasting, and more.

- Quickly clean your data with Excel 2016's powerful Get & Transform tools

- Discover Excel 2016's newest charts: waterfall, histogram, Pareto, sunburst, TreeMap, and Box and Whisker

- Use Forecast Sheets to forecast the future, including seasonal adjustments

- Pivot data on maps with 3D Maps, and animate your maps over time

- Create formulas, charts, subtotals, and pivot tables faster than ever

- Create amazing PowerPivot data mashups that integrate information from anywhere

- Automate repetitive functions using Excel macros

- Solve real-world business intelligence analysis problems

- Use PowerPivot Data Model to create pivot tables from multiple data sets without VLOOKUP

- Share workbooks on the Web and social networks

- Leverage Excel to create highly interactive web pages and online surveys

- Quickly apply attractive, consistent formats

This book is part of Que's Content Update Program. As Microsoft updates features of Excel, sections of this book will be updated or new sections will be added to match the updates to the software. See inside for details.

Updating the previous edition's tips to include features in Office 365 and Excel 2019, this new edition of MrExcel's popular software guide even incorporates suggestions sent in by readers. Each featured topic has a problem statement and description, followed by a broad strategy for solving the problem. MrExcel then walks readers through the specific steps to solve the issue. Alternate strategies are also provided, along with common scenarios that trip up users, leaving readers with not only answers to their specific dilemmas but also new and quicker ways to use formulas and spreadsheets.

Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen (MrExcel) and Michael Alexander help you crunch data from any source with Excel 2019 pivot tables.

Use Excel 2019 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes instead of hours, to take control of your data and your business. Even if you've never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their remarkable flexibility and analytical power-including valuable improvements in Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365. Drawing on more than 45 combined years of Excel experience, Bill Jelen and Michael Alexander offer practical recipes for solving real business problems, help you avoid common mistakes, and present tips and tricks you'll find nowhere else.

By reading this book, you will:

- Master easy, powerful ways to create, customize, change, and control pivot tables

- Control all future pivot tables using new pivot table defaults

- Transform huge data sets into clear summary reports

- Instantly highlight your most profitable customers, products, or regions

- Use Power Query to quickly import, clean, shape, and analyze disparate data sources

- Build geographical pivot tables with 3D Map

- Construct and share state-of-the-art dynamic dashboards

- Revamp analyses on the fly by dragging and dropping fields

- Build dynamic self-service reporting systems

- Share your pivot tables with colleagues

- Create data mashups using the full Power Pivot capabilities of Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365

- Automate pivot tables with macros and VBA

- Save time by adapting reports with GetPivotData

- Discover today's most useful pivot table tips and shortcuts

Renowned Excel experts Bill Jelen (MrExcel) and Tracy Syrstad explain how to build more powerful, reliable, and efficient Excel spreadsheets.

Use this guide to automate virtually any routine Excel task: save yourself hours, days, maybe even weeks. Make Excel do things you thought were impossible, discover macro techniques you won't find anywhere else, and create automated reports that are amazingly powerful. Bill Jelen and Tracy Syrstad help you instantly visualize information to make it actionable; capture data from anywhere, and use it anywhere; and automate the best new features in Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365. You'll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, and 50 workbooks packed with examples and complete, easy-to-adapt solutions.

By reading this book, you will:

• Quickly master Excel macro development
• Work more efficiently with ranges, cells, and formulas
• Generate automated reports and quickly adapt them for new requirements
• Learn to automate pivot tables to summarize, analyze, explore, and present data
• Use custom dialog boxes to collect data from others using Excel
• Improve the reliability and resiliency of your macros
• Integrate data from the internet, Access databases, and other sources
• Automatically generate charts, visualizations, sparklines, and Word documents
• Create powerful solutions with classes, collections, and custom functions
• Solve sophisticated business analysis problems more rapidly

About This Book

• For everyone who wants to get more done with Microsoft Excel in less time
• For business and financial professionals, entrepreneurs, students, and others who need to efficiently manage and analyze data

CRUNCH ANY DATA, FROM ANY SOURCE, QUICKLY AND EASILY, WITH EXCEL 2013 PIVOT TABLES

Use Excel 2013 pivot tables and pivot charts to produce powerful, dynamic reports in minutes instead of hours... understand exactly what's going on in your business... take control, and stay in control

Even if you've never created a pivot table before, this book will help you leverage all their amazing flexibility and analytical power. In just the first seven chapters, you learn how to generate complex pivot reports complete with drill-down capabilities and accompanying charts. Then, you go even further, discovering how to build a comprehensive, dynamic pivot table reporting system for any business task or function.

Learning advanced pivot table and pivot chart techniques for Excel 2013 or the newest Office 365 has never been easier. You'll find simple, step-by-step instructions, real-world case studies, even complete, easy recipes for solving your most common business analysis problems.

- Create, customize, and change your pivot tables and pivot charts

- Transform gigantic data sets into crystal-clear summary reports

- Summarize and analyze data even faster with new Excel 2013 recommended pivot tables

- Instantly highlight your most (and least) profitable customers, products, or regions

- Quickly filter pivot tables using slicers

- Use dynamic dashboards using Power View to see exactly where your business stands right now

- Revamp analyses on the fly by simply dragging and dropping fields

- Build dynamic self-service reporting systems your entire team can use

- Use PowerPivot or the Data Model to create pivot tables from multiple data sources and worksheets

- Work with and analyze OLAP data, and much more

About MrExcel Library: Every book in the MrExcel Library pinpoints a specific set of crucial Excel tasks and presents focused skills and examples for performing them rapidly and effectively. Selected by Bill Jelen, Microsoft Excel MVP and mastermind behind the leading Excel solutions website MrExcel.com, these
books will

- Dramatically increase your productivity--saving you 50 hours a year or more

- Present proven, creative strategies for solving real-world problems

- Show you how to get great results, no matter how much data you have

- Help you avoid critical mistakes that even experienced users make

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COVERS: Microsoft Office Excel 2013

Excel tips to skyrocket white-collar productivity. Originally designed for Bill Jelen's live Power Excel seminars, the target audience already uses Excel 40 hours a week. These tips are the aha tips that uncover secret methods in Excel. The book covers general Excel functions, pivot tables, and formulas such as XLOOKUP. It introduces elements of modern Excel such as the Power Pivot Data Model and cleaning data with Power Query. Updated annually, this edition for 2024 adds information on Copilot and Python in Excel.