Excel 2013 — The Missing Manual

Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program and the de facto standard for numerical analysis. But this complex program can take a lifetime to learn without the right guide. That’s where Excel 2013: The Missing Manual comes in. With crystal-clear explanations, hands-on examples, and lots of undocumented tips, tricks, and workarounds, this jargon-free book helps you master Excel’s raft of impressive features.

The important stuff you need to know:

• Go from novice to ace. Learn everything from writing your first formula to analyzing data.
• Perform a variety of calculations. Enter raw data and have Excel perform financial analyses, math operations, and statistical analyses
• Illustrate trends. Bring your data to life using charting, summarizing, and data visualization options in the Quick Analysis feature
• Examine your data. Summarize information and find hidden patterns with pivot tables and slicers
• Pinpoint the data you need. Use the handy timeline filter to browse specific date ranges in a mass of pivot table data
• Share your spreadsheets. Store Excel files on SkyDrive and collaborate with colleagues on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn

Matthew MacDonald is a science and technology writer with well over a dozen books to his name. Web novices can tiptoe out onto the Internet with him in Creating a Website: The Missing Manual. HTML fans can learn about the cutting edge of web design in HTML5: The Missing Manual. And human beings of all description can discover just how strange they really are in the quirky handbooks Your Brain: The Missing Manual and Your Body: The Missing Manual.