Calculate, compare and visualize costs in Excel 2013
An Excel tutorial by Peter Kalmstrom
 The
possibility to tell Excel to calculate is a crucial feature
and the most important reason to use it. Another reason
for Excel's popularity is that you can visualize data in
charts.
In the demo below Peter Kalmstrom calculates the costs for
different kinds of flooring materials and shows the result
in a graph.
While setting up the comparison between flooring materials
Peter gives many useful tips. He shows how to:
- Set number format
- Create a multiply formula
- Name an array of cells
- Create a vertical lookup formula
- Use the AutoSum button
- Copy format
- Create a data validation rule
- Create a pivot chart
Peter uses Excel 2013 for his demo, but most of what he
shows can be done in earlier versions of Excel too. If you
use SharePoint 2010, Peter's
demo on holiday calculations might be of interest.
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