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Microsoft Excel Mania Brian Kovar and Stacy Kovar Tips and Tricks • What’s New in Excel 2010 (OK, so that is not so new, but some folks are just now implementing) • Old Standbys • Ideas for Using Them Introductions • Stacy Kovar • Brian Kovar What’s New • Sparklines • Conditional Formatting – Icon Sets, Color Scales and Data Bars • Custom Ribbon Tabs • Screenshots • Paste Preview • Print to Single Page options - Scaling Sparklines • You know how to make a graph in Excel • These are neat little graphs that show up in a single cell • Great for visually representing underlying data • Like any Excel graph, they update when you change the underlying data cells • Great for creating a financial dashboard for a client Conditional Formatting • Conditional Formatting – Formats cells based on the data in the cell. • Icon Sets – Put an icon in a cell based on the value in the cell. • Data Bars – Represent the data visually, overlaid on the cell. • Color Scales – changes the background color based on the values in the cell relative to other cells in the range. Make your own Tab on the Ribbon • Improve your workflow through easy access to the things you do all of the time • First you find the ribbon… create a new tab then a new group within the tab and finally add commands to the group • You can also add groups with commands to existing ribbon tabs as well • You can also export and import ribbons, if you want to share it within the office (but we’ll leave that to next year!) Other Useful Tools • Screenshots • Paste Preview • Print to Single Page options - Scaling • Paste Paste Formulas Formulas and Number Formatting Keep Source Formatting No Borders Keep Source Column Widths Transpose • Paste Values Values Values and Number Formatting Values and Source Formatting • Other Paste Options Formatting Link Picture Linked Picture Other Useful Tools • Screenshots • Paste Preview • Print to Single Page options - Scaling Old Standby: The Pivot Table • Pivot Table – Summarize data of interest in a large database by the values in a field to better understand the data. For example, sales by region and salesperson, or expenses by month. • Many software systems (SAP, for example) have similar tools built in. Pivot Tables What’s New • Slicers – Allow you to easily filter the data in a PivotTable by Single or Multiple Fields. By adding a pivot table and slicers, you can actually create an interactive, data analysis application for users to generate their own data. PowerPivot • Pivot tables are a simple example of a larger, more complex category of data analytics tools. These tools are the components of data mining, knowledge management, business analytics, business intelligence and other popular buzz phrases. • While it used to be that you needed special software to perform analysis on multiple databases, the most recent version of Excel has an add-on called PowerPivot, that allows for a lot more powerful analysis. • http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/bi/ff966490.aspx Old Standbys Demos • • • • • • • Small / Large Autosum Formatting versus rounding? &/Concatenate Sumproduct Conditional Formatting Goal Seek