Welcome to Microsoft Excel 2013 p. 1 Customizing the QAT p. 5 Customizing the Ribbon Control p. 6 The Worksheet p. 6 Excel 2013 Specifications and

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1 Preface p. xi Welcome to Microsoft Excel 2013 p. 1 Customizing the QAT p. 5 Customizing the Ribbon Control p. 6 The Worksheet p. 6 Excel 2013 Specifications and Limits p. 9 Compatibility with Other Versions p. 9 The Status Bar p. 9 Problems p. 10 Basic Operations p. 11 Simple Arithmetic p. 12 The Mathematical Operators p. 14 Formatting (Displayed and Stored Values) p. 16 Working with Fractions p. 17 A Practical Worksheet p. 19 Copying Formulas: What Happens to References? p. 20 What's in a Name? p. 22 Another Practical Example p. 24 The Evaluate Formula Tool p. 27 Special Symbols, Subscripts, and Superscripts p. 28 Mathematical Limitations of Excel p. 30 Play It Again, Sam p. 32 Problems p. 32 Printing in Excel p. 41 Quick Print and Print Preview p. 42 The Print Preview Dialog p. 42 The Page Layout Tab p. 44 Header/Footers and Page Breaks p. 46 Documentation and Printing Formulas p. 48 Using Functions p. 49 The AutoSum Tool p. 51 The Insert Function Command p. 53 Computing a Weighted Average p. 54 Entering Formulas by Typing p. 57 Trigonometry Functions p. 58 Exponential Functions p. 59 The Round, Roundup, and Rounddown Functions p. 60 Other Rounding Functions p. 61 Some Other Mathematical Functions p. 61 Array Formulas p. 62 Matrix Functions p. 62

2 Volatility: Calculate Mode p. 64 Solving Systems of Equations p. 65 Financial Functions p. 67 Borrower Beware p. 68 Problems p. 70 Conditional Functions p. 75 Logical Comparison Operators p. 75 Boolean Functions p. 76 Practical Example p. 77 The IF Function p. 78 Nested Ifs p. 79 IF Formulas with Boolean Functions p. 80 The IFERROR Function p. 80 Resistors Revisited p. 81 Quadratic Equation Solver p. 82 Protecting a Worksheet p. 84 Table Lookup Functions p. 85 A Simple Lookup p. 86 A Two-Valued Lookup p. 88 Conditional Arithmetic p. 89 Array Formulas p. 92 The Sumproduct function p. 94 Conditional Formatting p. 97 Problems p. 99 Data Mining p. 103 Importing TXT File p. 103 Counting and Summing with Criteria p. 105 Frequency Distribution p. 106 Pivot Tables p. 106 Sorting p. 108 Filtering p. 110 The Excel Table p. 111 Problems p. 112 Charts p. 117 An XY Chart p. 120 Plotting Functions p. 124 Changing the Position of Axes Crossing p. 128 Filtering a Chart with Many Data Series p. 128 Finding Roots p. 128 Adding and Deleting Data Series p. 129 XY Chart with Two Y-axes p. 130

3 Chart with Control Lines p. 134 Large Numbers and Log Scales p. 135 Error Bars p. 137 Plotting Parametric Equations p. 139 Other Chart Types p. 140 Polar (Radar) Chart p. 141 Surface Charts p. 142 Combination Charts p. 143 Bar Charts p. 145 Plotting Sine Curves p. 146 URLs for Chart Websites p. 147 Problems p. 148 Regression Analysis p. 157 Trendline, Slope, and Intercept p. 158 Interpolation and Forecast p. 161 The Linest Function p. 162 Fixed Intercept p. 163 Multilinear Regression p. 165 A Polynomial Fit p. 167 A Logarithmic Fit (LOGEST) p. 168 The Forecast, Trend, and Growth functions p. 169 Residuals p. 170 SLOPE and Tangent p. 171 The Analysis Tool Pak p. 173 Problems p. 175 VBA User-Defined Functions p. 181 The Visual Basic Editor p. 183 Syntax of a Function p. 185 A Simple Function p. 185 Naming Functions and Variables p. 187 Worksheet and VBA Functions p. 188 When Things Go Wrong p. 189 Programming Structures p. 190 The IF Structure p. 190 Boolean Operators p. 191 The Select Case Structure p. 192 Exercise 6 p. 193 The For Next Structure p. 194 The Excel Object Model: An Introduction p. 195 For Each Next p. 196 The Do Loop Structure p. 197

4 Variables and Data Types p. 199 Input-output of Arrays p. 200 An Array Function p. 201 Using Functions from Other Workbooks p. 201 Problems p. 203 VBA Subroutines p. 207 Recording a Macro p. 208 Subroutines That Compute p. 210 Notes on the VB Editor p. 210 A Computing Macro p. 211 Name That Variable p. 214 Bolt Hole Positions p. 214 Finding Roots by Bisection p. 216 Using Arrays p. 219 Adding a Control p. 220 User Forms p. 221 Problems p. 225 Modeling 1 p. 229 Population Model p. 229 Vapor Pressure of Ammonia p. 231 Stress Analysis p. 232 Circuit Analysis p. 234 Ladder Down the Mine p. 235 Adding Waves p. 237 Centroid of a Polygon p. 238 Finding Roots by Iteration p. 242 Problems p. 242 Using Solver p. 247 Goal Seek p. 248 Solver as a Root Finder p. 249 Solving Equations with Constraints p. 252 Finding Multiple Roots p. 252 Systems of Nonlinear Equations p. 255 Curve Fitting with Solver p. 255 Gaussian Curve Fit p. 258 Solver Versus Linearization p. 260 A Minimization Problem p. 262 An Optimization Problem p. 262 Problems p. 264 Numerical Integration p. 273 The Trapezoid Rule p. 275

5 Simpson's 1/3 Rule p. 277 Adding Flexibility p. 279 Going Modular p. 280 Tabular Data p. 282 Gaussian Integration p. 284 Monte Carlo Techniques p. 287 Problems p. 288 Differential Equations p. 291 Euler's Method p. 292 The Runge-Kutta Methods p. 294 Solving with a User-Defined Function p. 296 Simultaneous and Second-Order Differential Equations p. 298 Solving a Second-Order Equation p. 299 The Simple Pendulum p. 301 Problems p. 302 Modeling II p. 307 The Four-Bar Crank p. 307 Temperature Profile Using Matrix Algebra p. 310 Temperature Profile Using Solver p. 313 Emptying the Tank p. 315 An Improved Tank Emptying Model p. 317 Problems p. 318 Statistics for Experimenters p. 321 Descriptive Statistics p. 322 Frequency Distribution p. 324 Confidence Limits p. 327 The Experimental and Expected Mean p. 330 Pooled Standard Deviation p. 332 Comparing Paired Arrays p. 333 Comparing Repealed Measurements p. 335 The Calibration Curve Revisited p. 338 More on the Calibration Curve p. 340 Problems p. 343 Appendix p. 347 Index p. 361 Table of Contents provided by Blackwell's Book Services and R.R. Bowker. Used with permission.