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Printed Page 5
1st paragraph

3rd sentence: the phrase "the way" is repeated. (Another nice detail is the way the way you can jump . . .)

Dennis Taylor 
Printed Page 205
To Simulate a Watermark step 1

Should read "switch to Insert view" instead of Page Layout view.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 244
To count empty cells

This doesn't count empty cells, but does count text cells. Totally empty cells are excluded from the count.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 257
4th paragraph

Book states "Whereas ROUNDDOWN() always rounds a number towards its smallest value (so that =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) gives you -4)"

This is incorrect; =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) returns a result of -3 instead. =TRUNC(-3.4,0) and =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) return the same value.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 257
4th paragraph

Book states "Whereas ROUNDDOWN() always rounds a number towards its smallest value (so that =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) gives you -4)"

This is incorrect; =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) returns a result of -3 instead. =TRUNC(-3.4,0) and =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) return the same value

Anonymous 
Printed Page 257
4th paragraph

Book states "Whereas ROUNDDOWN() always rounds a number towards its smallest value (so that =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) gives you -4)"

This is incorrect; =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) returns a result of -3 instead. =TRUNC(-3.4,0) and =ROUNDDOWN(-3.4,0) return the same value

Anonymous 
Printed Page 286
Table 9-3 Advanced Statistical Functions (continued) has

the exact same descriptions for VAR() and VARA() Functions. This
is incorrect.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 291
3rd Paragraph

The beginning of the 3rd paragraph states "If you don't have 25 years to wait..." but the example is based on if you don't have $82K to invest. The code snippet the occampanies the text has 25 years set as the npre.

Richard Razo 
Printed Page 302
Figure 10-5

Hello, I think that there is an error in cells D12, E12, F12 and G12. The formula should include DB instead of DDB.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 598
Figure 21-3

One of the values in the graphic on p. 598 is incorrect. The graphic depicts a section of the practice file named DifferentSummaries.xlsx. In that file on Sheet1, there is a summary table comparing purchases made by Males and Females from different cities. The value in cell E17 should be 3,566, not $5,155.67.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 598
Figure 21-3

One of the values in the graphic on p. 598 is incorrect. The graphic depicts a section of the practice file named DifferentSummaries.xlsx. In that file on Sheet1, there is a summary table comparing purchases made by Males and Females from different cities. The value in cell E17 should be 3,566, not $5,155.67.

Great book, by the way.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 598
Figure 21-3

One of the values in the graphic on p. 598 is incorrect. The graphic depicts a section of the practice file named DifferentSummaries.xlsx. In that file on Sheet1, there is a summary table comparing purchases made by Males and Females from different cities. The value in cell E17 should be 3,566, not $5,155.67.

Great book, by the way.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 630
End of the "Settings" section

You omitted an explanation of the "Apply these changes to all other cells with the same settings" box on the Data Validation Settings screen. What does this box mean? I'm a newbie and I wish you had explained it....

Anonymous 
Printed Page 630
End of the "Settings" section

You omitted an explanation of the "Apply these changes to all other cells with the same settings" box on the Data Validation Settings screen. What does this box mean? I'm a newbie and I wish you had explained it....

Anonymous 


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