Excel Formulas And Functions For Dummies

Evaluate your investments, calculate credit card costs, predict expenses, and more

When you figure in the interest, just how much ARE you paying for that car? You may not want to know, but if you do, Excel has a formula and function for that -- and over two hundred others. This book makes it easy to discover what they are, what they do, and how they can help you!

Discover how to: Save time with the Insert Function dialog Calculate loan payments and interest rates Understand array functions Correct formulas Use significance tests Work with date and time functions

Targets beginning to intermediate Excel users seeking real-world examples of how they can use Excel's powerful built-in functions Shows readers how to use Excel functions in formulas to help them decide between buying and leasing a car, calculate mortgage costs, compute grades, evaluate investment performance, figure college expenses, and more Gives explanations and examples of real-world situations Provides an abbreviated discussion of an additional 200 functions Excel commands nearly 90 percent of the market for spreadsheet applications; although this book is written for Excel 2003, the functions described are in earlier versions as well