1. RAHUL KAVI Rahul.Kavi@mail.wvu.edu SEPTEMBER 05, 2013
Day 6: Excel Chapters 3 & 4
RAHUL KAVI
SEPTEMBER 05, 2013

2. Recap CONDITIONAL FUNCTIONS NESTED FUNCTIONS PAYMENTS RANGE NAMES
MANAGING RANGE NAMES
VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP

3. Text manipulation Convert Text to Columns CONCATENATE()
Data->Text to Columns
Just like importing text files
CONCATENATE()
Combines text

4. Changing Case PROPER() UPPER() LOWER() Also known as title case
First letter of each word capitalized
UPPER()
LOWER()

5. SUBSTITUTE SUBSTITUTE(text, old text, new text, n)
text: the text you want to make the substitution to
old text: the text you want to remove
new text: the text you want to replace old text with
n: which occurrence to change
If n is not specified, all text matching old text will be replaced with new text

6. Other text functions TRIM() LEFT(text, n) RIGHT(text, n)
Removes leading and trailing spaces
LEFT(text, n)
Returns the leftmost n characters of text
RIGHT(text, n)
Returns the rightmost n characters of text
MID(text, start, n)
Returns n characters of text, starting with the character in the position specified by start

7. xml eXtensible Markup Language Why use XML?
Each piece of data has a tag that specifies what it represents
A tag is like a label
HTML is a specific form of XML with limited tags (<h1>header</h1>, <b>bold</b>, etc.)
XML can have any tag

8. xml Wrong XML File XML only carries data
No information on how to display it (like Word, Excel, etc.)

9. XML syntax Element Tags
Start tag, end tag, and data
Tags
Tags use angled brackets <>
End tags must have the same name as the start tag, but are prefixed with a /
<example>data</example>
Tags are case sensitive so you can’t end an <example> with </Example>
Comments <!-- comment tags do not need an end tag -->

10. XML Import
Data Ribbon->From Other Sources->From XML Data Import

11. Custom XML imports File->Open->Select XML File
Choose “Use the XML Source task pane”
Drag elements to the desired cells
Right click on the XML area, XML->Import and select the XML file again
Excel will import the data in the format you laid out

12. charts Charts are visual representations of data.
Important Chart Terms
Chart Area: entire chart
Plot Area: area where data is displayed
Title: brief description of chart
X-axis: labels and scale or category
Y-axis: labels and scale or category
Legend: labels for colors used

13. Types of charts Column/Bar Charts Line Charts Pie Charts Area Charts
Clustered
Stacked
100% Stacked
Line Charts
Simple
Pie Charts
Simple
Exploded Pie
Pie of Pie
Bar of Pie
Area Charts
Like line charts, but area below line is filled
Scatter Plot

14. More chart types Stock Charts Surface Chart Doughnut Chart
High-Low-Close
Open-High-Low-Close (candlestick)
With or without volume (how many shares were traded) data
Surface Chart
3D plot of two variables per category
Doughnut Chart
Like pie chart, but can show multiple data series
Bubble Chart
Like scatter chart, but shows three variables.
The 3rd variable controls the size of the bubble
Radar Chart

15. Next Class Creating Charts Editing Charts Moving Charts
Chart Layouts and Styles
Printing Charts
Sparklines
Trendlines