Office 2013 In Depth

11. Requisite Excel: Essential Features

Whether you create simple worksheets to track your small business income or you do a complex statistical analysis of migrating bird populations, Microsoft Excel gives you all the tools and features you need to assemble your data, calculate results, and then analyze those results. Excel continues to be the gold standard for spreadsheet software. Excel 2013 builds on the features and tools provided by earlier versions of this powerful spreadsheet application and offers a number of improvements and new features.

In this chapter, we take a look at new features in Excel 2013. We also look at the process of building Excel worksheets, including entering data. In addition, we examine how to best navigate the Excel ...