Excel Guide: Learn Beginner and Intermediate Skills, Formulas, Functions, Tips, and Tricks to Becoming an Expert in Excel

Spreadsheets become easier to work with when the grid, its commands, and its formulas start to make sense. Excel Guide by Richard Steve builds that understanding step by step, beginning with the Excel workspace and moving into common tasks, calculations, functions, and ways to organize and present data.

Get comfortable with the worksheet

The opening sections introduce the Ribbon and its tabs, along with rows, columns, cells, cell ranges, and worksheets. From there, the guide turns to practical operations such as entering and moving information, copying data, adjusting worksheets, and working with templates. These foundations help readers understand where Excel’s tools are and how the spreadsheet’s basic parts fit together.

Make everyday spreadsheet tasks more manageable

Formatting topics include fonts, cell and row sizing, Merge and Center, Format Painter, conditional formatting, and AutoFill. The contents also cover sorting and filtering, inserting symbols, adding a signature, and using common keyboard shortcuts. Four numbered exercises appear throughout the book, giving readers opportunities to work with the material as they progress.

Build from formulas to functions

The formula chapters cover addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, averages, counts, minimum and maximum values, and AutoSum. Readers are also introduced to displaying and copying formulas and to relative and absolute cell references. The functions section includes date and time functions, VLOOKUP, and the IF, AND, and OR functions.

Organize, explore, and present data

Later topics include pie and bar charts, data-entry forms, checkboxes, Find and Replace, data validation, freeze panes, drop-down lists, and document saving and printing. Together, these subjects provide a broad introduction to the ways Excel can be used to enter, work with, and present information.

A starting point for Excel learners

With its coverage spanning interface basics, routine worksheet work, calculations, and selected data tools, this guide is suited to readers who want a structured introduction to beginner and intermediate Excel skills.