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Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures

You're reading from   Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures Turbocharge your Excel proficiency with expert tips, automation techniques, and overlooked features

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803243948
Length 444 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Improving Accessibility
2. Chapter 1: Implementing Accessibility FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Disaster Recovery and File-Related Prompts 4. Chapter 3: Quick Access Toolbar Treasures 5. Chapter 4: Conditional Formatting 6. Part 2:Spreadsheet Interactivity and Automation
7. Chapter 5: Data Validation and Form Controls 8. Chapter 6: What-If Analysis 9. Chapter 7: Automating Tasks with the Table Feature 10. Chapter 8: Custom Views 11. Chapter 9: Excel Quirks and Nuances 12. Part 3: Data Analysis
13. Chapter 10: Lookup and Dynamic Array Functions 14. Chapter 11: Names, LET, and LAMBDA 15. Chapter 12: Power Query 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

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If you share spreadsheets with others, both inside and outside of your organization, there's a decent chance that the recipient is using an older version of Excel, meaning Excel 2016 or earlier. Microsoft 365 brings us a steady stream of new functionality, such as the dynamic array functions that I discuss in Chapter 10, Lookup and Dynamic Array Functions, and the somewhat new LET function as well as the newer LAMBDA function that I discuss in Chapter 11, Names, LET, and LAMBDA. It’s invigorating to have new tools to bring to bear in Excel, until the user you shared a workbook with asks “Why am I seeing #NAME? everywhere in this workbook?”. It's hard to keep tabs on what new functionality works where. For instance, you can use LET but not LAMBDA in Excel 2021. You can't use either in Excel 2019 and earlier. I regret to inform any Excel for macOS users that the Compatibility Checker is not available to you, but it is...

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