Your personal, hands-on guide to the latest and most useful features in Microsoft Excel 365

Excel 365 is Microsoft’s latest cloud-based version of its world-famous spreadsheet app. Powerful and user-friendly, it’s an ideal solution for businesses and people looking to make sense of―and draw intelligence from―their data.

The Excel 365 Bible carries over the best content from the best-selling Excel 2019 Bible while reflecting how a new generation uses Excel in Excel 365. The authoring team with their decades of Excel and business intelligence experience and recognition from the Excel community as Excel MVPs delivers an accessible and authoritative roadmap to Excel 365. Interested in the basics? You’ll learn to create spreadsheets and workbooks and navigate the user interface. If you’re ready for more advanced topics you can skip right to the material on creating visualizations, crafting custom functions, and using Visual Basic for Applications to script automations.

You’ll also get:

• Over 900 pages of powerful tips, tricks, and strategies to unlock the full potential of Microsoft Excel 365
• Guidance on how to import, manage, and analyze large amounts of data
• Advice on how to craft predictions and "What-If Analyses" based on data you already have

Perfect for anyone new to Excel, as well as experts and advanced users, the Excel 365 Bible is your comprehensive, go-to guide for everything you need to know about the world’s most popular, easy-to-use spreadsheet software.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started with Excel

Chapter 1: Introducing Excel

Chapter 2: Entering and Editing Worksheet Data

Chapter 3: Performing Basic Worksheet Operations

Chapter 4: Working with Excel Ranges and Tables

Chapter 5: Formatting Worksheets

Chapter 6: Understanding Excel Files and Templates

Chapter 7: Printing Your Work

Chapter 8: Customizing the Excel User Interface

Part II: Working with Formulas and Functions. 209

Chapter 9: Introducing Formulas and Functions

Chapter 10: Understanding and Using Array Formulas

Chapter 11: Using Formulas for Common Mathematical Operations

Chapter 12: Using Formulas to Manipulate Text

Chapter 13: Using Formulas with Dates and Times

Chapter 14: Using Formulas for Conditional Analysis

Chapter 15: Using Formulas for Matching and Lookups

Chapter 16: Using Formulas with Tables and Conditional Formatting

Chapter 17: Making Your Formulas Error-Free

Part III: Creating Charts and Other Visualizations

Chapter 18: Getting Started with Excel Charts

Chapter 19: Using Advanced Charting Techniques

Chapter 21: Visualizing with Custom Number Formats and Shapes

Part IV: Managing and Analyzing Data

Chapter 22: Importing and Cleaning Data

Chapter 23: Using Data Validation

Chapter 24: Creating and Using Worksheet Outlines

Chapter 25: Linking and Consolidating Worksheets

Chapter 26: Introducing PivotTables

Chapter 27: Analyzing Data with PivotTables

Chapter 28: Performing Spreadsheet What-If Analysis

Chapter 29: Analyzing Data Using Goal Seeking and Solver

Chapter 30: Analyzing Data with the Analysis ToolPak

Chapter 31: Protecting Your Work

Part V: Understanding Power Pivot and Power Query

Chapter 32: Introducing Power Pivot

Chapter 33: Working Directly with the Internal Data Model

Chapter 34: Adding Formulas to Power Pivot

Chapter 35: Introducing Power Query

Chapter 36: Transforming Data with Power Query

Chapter 37: Making Queries Work Together

Chapter 38: Enhancing Power Query Productivity

Part VI: Automating Excel

Chapter 39: Introducing Visual Basic for Applications

Chapter 40: Creating Custom Worksheet Functions

Chapter 41: Creating UserForms

Chapter 42: Using UserForm Controls in a Worksheet

Chapter 43: Working with Excel Events

Chapter 44: Seeing Some VBA Examples

Chapter 45: Creating Custom Excel Add-Ins

About the Authors

Michael Alexander is a senior consultant at Slalom Consulting with more than 15 year’s experience in data management and reporting. He is the author of more than a dozen books on business analysis using Microsoft Excel, and has been named Microsoft Excel MVP for his contributions to the Excel community.

Dick Kusleika has been working with Microsoft Office for more than 20 years. He was formerly a Microsoft MVP, having been awarded 12 consecutive years. Dick has written several books about Excel and Access.