[...]... of data bars in Chapter 24, “Conditional Formatting.” 8 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling FIGURE 1- 8  Examp e of Exce 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... 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... 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   Creat ng 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... 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... 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. .. 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  F e tab opt ons 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... umn etter and row number when you refer to the ce 12 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling FIGURE 2-6  Se ect Create From Se ect on FIGURE 2-7  Se ect the Left Co umn 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... my vision of developing a user-friendly text designed for use by business analysts Finally, my lovely and talented wife, Vivian, and my wonderful children, Jennifer and Gregory, put up with my long weekend hours at the keyboard Chapter 1 What’s New in Excel 2 010 Microsoft Excel 2 010 contains many new features that are helpful to the business analyst, i ­ncluding these: ■ Customizable ribbon  Now you . 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 custom ze the r bbon. As an example, suppose you want. Toolbar. 4 Microsoft Excel 2 010 : Data Analysis and Business Modeling Sparklines Sparklines are small charts or graphs that t in a single cell. Sparklines let you place a graphical summary of data. referees, players, and lineups. During the last 15 years I have also taught Excel busi- ness modeling and data analysis classes to MBA students at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. (As