[...]... of data bars in Chapter 24, “Conditional Formatting.” 8 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling FIGURE 1- 8  Example of Excel 2 010 data bars Paste Special Live Preview If you right-click a range of cells and select Paste Special (see Chapter 14 for a discussion of the Paste Special command), Excel 2 010 brings up a live preview of the possible menu c ­ hoices, as shown in Figure 1- 9... to this problem As shown in Figure 2 -15 , we want to compute revenues for 2 012 –2 018 that grow at 10 percent per year off a base level of $300 million in 2 011 18 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling FIGURE 2 -15   Creating a range name for last year To begin, we use the Name box to name cell B3 growth Now comes the neat part! Move the cursor to B7 and bring up the New Name dialog box... Ribbon In Excel 2007, users were not able to customize the tabs displayed across the top of the ribbon In Excel 2 010 , it is easy to customize the appearance of the ribbon tabs Begin by selecting File in the upper-left portion of the ribbon After choosing Options, you’ll see the Customize Ribbon page shown in Figure 1- 1 1 2 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling FIGURE 1- 1  How to... Chapter 11 , “Circular References.” Similarly, entering the formula =AVERAGE (1: 1) will average all numbers in row 1 What is the difference between a name with workbook scope and one with worksheet scope? The file Sheetnames.xlsx will help you understand the difference between range names that have workbook scope and range names that have worksheet scope When you create names 16 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis. .. µ) into a cell Improved Data Bars Excel 2007 introduced using data bars as a method to summarize numerical data In Excel 2 010 data bars have been improved in two ways: ■ You can choose either Solid Fill or Gradient Fill for shading ■ Data bars recognize negative numbers Figure 1- 8 shows an example of how the new data bars appear Rows 4 -11 contain gradient shading, and rows 12 17 contain solid shading... clicking the drop-down arrow to the right of Popular Commands and choosing Commands Not In The Ribbon After scrolling down (pressing the P key several times is probably quicker!), you will find the PivotTable And PivotChart Wizard command, which you can then add to your Quick Access Toolbar 4 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling Sparklines Sparklines are small charts or graphs... with the choices shown in Figure 1- 6 5 6 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling FIGURE 1- 6  File tab options You can see that the File tab combines the Print and File menus from previous versions of Excel Also, selecting Options lets you perform a variety of tasks, such as customizing the r ­ ibbon or the Quick Access Toolbar, or installing add-ins In Excel 2007 these tasks (except... simply select row 12 (by clicking on the 12 ) and use the Name box to enter the name wage Then select row 13 and use the Name box to enter the name hours If you now enter in cell F14 the formula wage*hours and copy this formula to the range G14:L14, you can see that in each column Excel finds the wage and hour values and multiplies them Remarks ■ Excel does not allow you to use the letters r and c as range... range lookup argument is True or omitted and an exact match to the lookup value 21 22 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling is found in the first column of the table range, Excel bases the lookup on the row of the table in which the exact match is found If the range lookup argument is True or o ­ mitted and an exact match does not exist, Excel bases the lookup on the largest value... column letter and row number when you refer to the cell 12 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling FIGURE 2-6  Select Create From Selection FIGURE 2-7  Select the Left Column check box Excel now knows to associate the names in the first column of the selected range with the cells in the second column of the selected range Thus, B6 is assigned the range name AL, B7 is named AK, and so on . 87 Time and Time Functions 10 5 The Paste Special Command 11 1 Three-Dimensional Formulas 11 7 The Auditing Tool 12 1 Sensitivity Analysis with Data Tables 12 7 The Goal Seek Command 13 7 Using the Scenario. x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" Microsoft ® Excel ® 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling Wayne L. Winston Contents What’s New in Excel 2 010 1 Range Names 9 Lookup Functions 21 The INDEX Function. Options, you’ll see the Customize Ribbon page shown in Figure 1- 1. 2 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling FIGURE 1- 1 How to customize the ribbon. As an example, suppose you want