Microsoft Office Inside Out: 2013 Edition

Chapter 12. Inside Excel 2013

What’s in an Excel workbook?

Navigating in worksheets and workbooks

Entering and filling in data and series

Using formulas and functions

Formatting cells and ranges

Finding, editing, moving, and copying data

Customizing the worksheet view

PERHAPS because of its long association with accountants, Excel has a reputation as staid, even dull. It’s the software equivalent of a gray flannel suit. We think that characterization is unfair. Yes, it’s true that you can use Excel to count beans and widgets and calculate profits and losses with incredible precision. But you can also use this all-purpose tool for tasks that are completely unrelated to numbers. In the three chapters that begin here, we cover as many of those possibilities ...