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Contents at a Glance
Introduction ................................................................1
Part I
Where's the Beef?
Chapter 1
Introducing Excel Tables ........................................................................ .......9
Chapter 2
Grabbing Data from External Sources
Chapter 3
Scrub-a-Dub-Dub: Cleaning Data
Part II
PivotTables and PivotCharts ............................79
Chapter 4
Working with PivotTables ........................................................................ ...81
Chapter 5
Building PivotTable Formulas
Chapter 6
Working with PivotCharts
.127
Chapter 7
Customizing PivotCharts
...141
Part III
Advanced Tools ...........................................155
Chapter 8
Using the Database Functions ...................................................................157
Chapter 9
Using the Statistics Functions
Chapter 10
Descriptive Statistics........................................................................ ........225
Chapter 11
Inferential Statistics
..........245
Chapter 12
Optimization Modeling with Solver
Part IV
The Part of Tens ..........................................287
Chapter 13
Ten Things You Ought to Know about Statistics .................................289
Chapter 14
Almost Ten Tips for Presenting Table
Results and Analyzing Data
................301
Chapter 15
Ten Tips for Visually Analyzing and Presenting Data ..........................307
Appendix
Glossary of Data Analysis
andExcel Terms Index
Table of Contents
Introduction .................................................................1 About This Book ........................................................................ ......................1
What You Can Safely Ignore
...1 What You Shouldn"t Ignore (Unless You"re a Masochist) ..........................2
Foolish Assumptions
...............3
How This Book Is Organized
..3
Part I: Where"s theBeef?
Part II: PivotTables and PivotCharts
Part III: Advanced Tools
3
Part IV: The Part ofTens
Icons Used inThis Book
.........4
Beyond theBook
.....................5
Where toGo fromHere
...........5
Part I
Where's the Beef? ..............................................7
Chapter 1
Introducing Excel Tables .............................9 What Is a Table and Why Do I Care? .............................................................9
Building Tables
......................12
Exporting froma database
Building a table thehard way.............................................................12
Building a table thesemi-hard way
Analyzing Table Information
16
Simple statistics
...........16
Sorting table records
...18
Using AutoFilter ona table
Undoing a filter
.............23
Turning offfilter
...........23
Using thecustom AutoFilter
Filtering a filtered table
Using advanced filtering
Chapter 2
Grabbing Data from External Sources .................31 Getting Data theExport-Import Way ...........................................................31
Exporting: The first step
Importing: The second step (if necessary)
Querying External Databases and Web Page Tables
................................44
Running a web query
...45
Importing a database table
Querying anexternal database
It"s Sometimes a Raw Deal
....55
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Chapter 3
Scrub-a-Dub-Dub: Cleaning Data .....................57 Editing Your Imported Workbook ...............................................................57
Delete unnecessary columns
Delete unnecessary rows
Resize columns........................................................................ .............58
Resize rows
...................60
Erase unneeded cell contents
Format numeric values
Copying worksheet data
Moving worksheet data
Replacing data infields
Cleaning Data withText Functions
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The CLEAN function
....65
The CONCATENATE function
The EXACT function
....66
The FIND function
........67
The FIXED function
......67 The LEFT function........................................................................ ........68
The LEN function
.........68
The LOWER function
...68
The MID function
.........69
The PROPER function
..69
The REPLACE function
70
The REPT function
.......70
The RIGHT function
.....70
The SEARCH function
..71
The SUBSTITUTE function
The T function
..............72
The TEXT function
.......72
The TRIM function
.......73
The UPPER function
....73
The VALUE function
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