Excel 2019 All-in-One

Master the new features of Excel 2019 / Office 365

Lokesh Lalwani

• Publisher: BPB Publications
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9789388511582
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming in JavaScript
• Index: Computer Science

100% practical guide to understand and use Basic to Advance level Excel 2019 Key Features

• What's New in Excel 2019 / Office 365
• Putting Data into Excel
• Transforming and Managing the Data
• Formulas and Functions
• Data Analysis techniques
• Data Visualization techniques
• Multiple ways of Data Extraction
• Automation in Excel through Macros

Description
Excel is, by far, the most preferred spreadsheet program on this planet. People love it because of its simplicity and easy user interface. The primary focus of Excel is to perform basic to advanced level numeric calculations. Every industry, department, job role is dependent on Excel to perform day to day duties as well as data analysis and visualization. Microsoft Excel is available in both offline (Excel 2019) and online (Office 365) versions.
If you are new to Excel or use this program day in day out, then this book will surely clear your logics and concepts of excel.
This book starts with an introduction to Excel program and an overview of its interface and move towards an explanation of new features being introduced in Excel 2019 and Office 365, then an in-depth discussion on entering and transforming data. Understanding different formulas and functions with practical exercises. Afterwards, how to perform data analysis and present it using different data visualization tools. Finally, extracting data and automation of tasks through Macros.
After going through this book, you will become conceptually strong in using various features of Excel. You will increase your productivity by understanding and using the right tool for the related data set. What Will You Learn
By the end of the book, you will come across many case studies to put your knowledge to practice and understand many tools to solve real-life business problems such as importing data into Excel from different sources, data cleaning through various tools including flash fill, bringing data together into one place using lookup functionality, analysing it to get insights through pivot tables & what if analysis, generating forecast based on past trends, exporting final reports, understanding Power features like Power Pivot/Query/Map and automating manual processes through Macros. Remember to practice along with sample data files provided in the exercise files bundle of the book to master these techniques. Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone who is either new to Excel or daily Excel user. This book will take you from basic concepts of Excel to Advanced level. Whether you belong to any industry or serving any department, as an Excel user, this book will make you a Pro in Excel. Table of Contents
1. What's New in Excel 2019/Office 365
2. Entering Data in Excel
3. Transforming and Managing Data
4. Formulas and Functions
5. Data Analysis
6. Data Visualization
7. Data Extraction
8. Automation in Excel through Macros About the Author
Lokesh Lalwani, is a Microsoft Certified Office Expert with over a decade of experience in the field of training. He is a seasoned entrepreneur and Co-founder of a renowned corporate training firm - Nurture Tech Academy.
He has conducted 1, 000 plus corporate workshops on various technologies like Advanced Excel, Business Presentations, Power BI etc. and trained over 12, 000 professionals. He is also sharing his knowledge through 5 pre-recorded courses, on above mentioned technologies, over world's most popular E-learning platforms with an average rating of 4.5/5 from over 15, 000 learners. He believes in "life is learning". His Blog: https://www.nurturetechacademy.in/blog/
His LinkedIn Profile: https://in.linkedin.com/in/lokesh-lalwani-7a6b6b55

Chapter 1

What’s New in Excel 2019/Office 365

Excel is, by far, the most preferred spreadsheet program in the world. People love it because of its simplicity and easy user interface. The primary focus of Excel is to perform basic to advanced level numeric calculations. Every industry, department, and role is dependent on Excel to perform day-to-day duties as well as data analysis and visualization. Microsoft Excel is available in both offline (Excel 2019) and online (Office 365) versions.

Structure:

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Why use Excel
• New interface of Excel 2019/Office 365
• Worksheets and workbooks
• New functions in Excel 2019/Office 365
• Easier sharing in Excel 2019/Office 365
• New features in Excel 2019/Office 365
• Enhancements in pivot table
• Publish reports to Power BI

Objective:

The sole objective of this chapter is to familiarize you with the new features and interface of Excel 2019/Office 365. After going through this chapter, you will be able to work around in the new interface of Excel. If you are new to Excel, then this chapter will give you a thorough understanding on how to use worksheets and workbooks. You will also get familiar with the new function introduced in Excel 2019/Office 365. In addition, you will get a hold on the new features. Excel is famous for its amazing feature pivot table, and recently this feature has undergone some updation. Here you will get to dive into them too. You will also learn how to publish excel reports to Power BI.

Why use Excel

Excel can be used for following purposes:

• Data entering/capturing: In Excel, data can be entered manually or captured into using Get Data group. In Excel 2019/Office 365, data can be captured from many sources like another file (for example. another Excel workbook, Text/CSV, XML, JSON, Folder, and so on), database (for example. SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Analysis Services, SQL Server Analysis Services), online services (for example Facebook), other sources (from example Table/Range, Web, Microsoft Query, OData Feed, ODBC, OLEDB, Blank Query) or by combining Queries (Merge Query, Append Query).
• Data cleaning: Sometimes capturing the data from a non Microsoft application may corrupt the data which needs to be clean first before any analysis can be done on the same. For this Excel provides some very strong and easy to use data cleaning options such as Text to Columns, case change (for example, UPPER, LOWER, PROPER), data extraction from cells (LEFT, RIGHT, MID, FIND, SEARCH), data concatenation (CONCATENATE, &, TextJoin).
• Data Management: Although it is important to understand that Excel is not a Database Management System (DBMS) like Microsoft Access, it still gives us many data management tools like Lookup functionality (VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, LOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH, and so on), Sort & Filter, Advanced Filter, Date & Time functions, conditional calculations, financial functions, Statistical functions, and so on.
• Data analysis: Microsoft Excel provides a variety of options for analyzing data. Few of the most commonly used options are pivot table and/or Power Pivot, Analysis tool pack, and What-If Analysis.
• Data visualization: Microsoft Excel improved its data visualization immensely in Excel 2019/Office 365. The bucket of charts has some new ones in this latest version like Map and Funnel Charts, apart from Waterfall, Histogram, Sunburst, and TreeMap, which got introduced in the earlier version. Sparkline, Slicer, Timeline, PivotChart and conditional formatting are also a part of data visualization.
• Data extraction: Data can be extracted directly on a paper using print command or in soft from as an Excel Workbook, PDF, Microsoft Word, CSV, XML, Web Page, Text, Add-In or XPS, or uploaded to Power BI for further analysis and visualization.
• Automation: Almost every Excel user perform some repetitive tasks daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, half-early, or yearly. Sensing the need to have some automation solution Microsoft introduced the concept of Macros, w...