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Index
Title Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
Stories about change, stories in context: basic calculations
Saving time to hit a deadline: repeating and fixing a calculation across cells
How much did it cost? How many people were affected? The first function: adding a series of cells with SUM
Who’s top, who’s bottom? MAX, MIN, and sorting
Detour: getting to know the spreadsheet - useful shortcuts and tips to avoid mistakes
Hitting the deadline: understanding and formatting the data - number or text
Best sellers and averages: MEDIAN, AVERAGE and MODE
How many payments? How many people? Counting, not adding up: COUNT
Only count if… setting criteria for a formula: COUNTIF
If… continued: setting criteria for a sum: SUMIF
Putting the story into context, or looking from a fresh angle: merging data from different tables using VLOOKUP
My data is dirty! Basic cleaning using TRIM, CLEAN and SUBSTITUTE
Detour: generating consecutive numbers or dates
Using more than one function at a time: nested functions
Generating categories and other extra data: IF
Detour: testing whether something is TRUE or FALSE
Finding errors or missing data - and testing data types: ISERR, ISBLANK, ISTEXT and others
Testing two things at once: AND, OR and NOT
What day did that date fall on? Which year was the worst? Extracting days, months and years from full dates
How old is someone? Ages and using TODAY’s date
Grabbing or checking the first, middle or last part of a piece of information: RIGHT, LEFT and MID
Case study: When you get data in sentences: using SEARCH and error handling to extract numbers from phrases
Putting names, addresses and other data back together: CONCATENATE, & and adding special characters with CHAR
More data cleaning: formatting text or numbers consistently with UPPER, LOWER, PROPER and FIXED
Changing rows into columns, and vice versa: TRANSPOSE
Repeating calculations across multiple cells or to create the ingredients of a single function: array formulae
Grabbing data from elsewhere - IMPORT and GOOGLE functions in Google Sheets
Dealing with data in another language: GOOGLETRANSLATE and DETECTLANGUAGE
Converting currency or using stock prices: GOOGLEFINANCE
Publishing live data in a live chart
Comparing change visually by generating sparkline charts for every row: SPARKLINE
Asking questions (or allowing users to), SQL-style: QUERY
Adding some randomness: spreading out locations randomly using RAND
Is this value ranked high or low? What value is 3rd? RANK, LARGE and SMALL
What percentile is this at or above? PERCENTRANK and PERCENTILE
Classifying data into top, middle and bottom quarters: QUARTILE
Cross referencing and advanced cell references: naming cells and using INDIRECT, INDEX and MATCH
Getting statistical: correlation with CORREL and other ways of testing data
The final chapter: next steps
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