11. Requisite Excel: Essential Features

Whether you create simple worksheets to track your small business income and expenses, or you do complex statistical analysis of migrating bird populations, Microsoft Excel provides you with all the tools and features you need to actually do the number crunching and analyze the results. Excel continues to be the gold standard for spreadsheet software and Excel 2010 provides you with all the possibilities provided by earlier versions of Excel along with a number of improvements and new features.

In this chapter, we take an introductory look at the new possibilities provided by Excel 2010. We also look at the process of building Excel worksheets, including entering data. We will also examine how to best ...

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