RENT TEXTBOOKS

by: Billo, E. Joseph

ISBN: 9780470381236 | 047038123X

Chemists across all subdisciplines use Excel to record data in tabular form, but few have learned to take full advantage of the program. Featuring clear step-by-step instruction, Excel for Chemists illustrates how to use the scientific calculating power of Excel to perform a variety of chemical, biochemical, physical, engineering, biological, and medicinal calculations. Including a CD-ROM for both Mac and Windows, this new edition provides chemists and students with the current version of Excel (Excel 2007), Excel 2003, and Excel 2008 for Macin... MOREtosh, as well as many other new applications.

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"There is no other book on the market that deals so thoroughly with the application of Excel for analyzing chemical data. Highly recommended.

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Reviews from previous editions:

"Excel for Chemists should be part of any academic library offering courses and programs in Chemistry."
—Choice

"I highly recommend the book; treat yourself to it; assign it to a class; give it as a gift."
—The Nucleus

The newly revised step-by-step guide to using the scientific calculating power of Excel to perform a variety of chemical calculations

Chemists across all subdisciplines use Excel to record data in tabular form, but few have learned to take full advantage of the program. Featuring clear step-by-step instructions, Excel for Chemists illustrates how to use the scientific calculating power of Excel to perform a variety of chemical calculations. 

Including a CD-ROM for Windows, this new edition provides chemists and students with a detailed guide to using the current versions of Excel (Excel 2007 and 2010) as well as Excel 2003.

Additional features in this third edition include:

• How to perform a variety of chemical calculations by creating advanced spreadsheet formulas or by using Excel’s built-in tools
• How to automate repetitive tasks by programming Excel’s Visual Basic for Applications
• New chapters show how to import data from other language versions of Excel, and how to create automatic procedures
• The accompanying CD contains a number of Excel macros to facilitate chemical calculations, including molecular weight, nonlinear regression statistics, and data interpolation
• Several appendices provide extensive lists of useful shortcut keys and function descriptions

Preface to the Third Edition xxv

Before You Begin xxvii

PART I THE BASICS

Chapter 1 Working with Excel 2007 or Excel 2010 3

Chapter 2 Working with Excel 2003 79

Chapter 3 Excel Formulas and Functions 137

Chapter 4 Excel 2007/2010 Charts 177

Chapter 5 Excel 2003 Charts 209

PART II ADVANCED SPREADSHEET TOPICS

Chapter 6 Advanced Worksheet Formulas 233

Chapter 7 Array Formulas 267

Chapter 8 Advanced Charting Techniques 289

Chapter 9 Using Excel's Database Features 327

Chapter 10 Importing Data into Excel 349

... MOREChapter 11 Adding Controls to a Spreadsheet 365

Chapter 12 Other Language Versions of Excel 385

PART III SPREADSHEET MATHEMATICS

Chapter 13 Mathematical Methods for Spreadsheet Calculations 403

Chapter 14 Linear Regression and Curve Fitting 435

Chapter 15 Nonlinear Regression Using the Solver 463

PART IV EXCEL'S VISUAL BASIC FOR APPLICATIONS

Chapter 16 Visual Basic for Applications: An Introduction 491

Chapter 17 Programming with VBA 503

Chapter 18 Working with Arrays in VBA 543

PART V SOME APPLICATIONS OF VBA

Chapter 19 Command Macros 557

Chapter 20 Custom Functions 571

Chapter 21 Automatic Procedures 589

Chapter 22 Custom Menus 595

Chapter 23 Custom Toolbars and Toolbuttons 607

PART VI APPENDICES

Appendix A What's Where in Excel 2007/2010 629

Appendix B Selected Worksheet Functions by Category 63 3

Appendix C Alphabetical List of Selected Worksheet Functions 639

Appendix D Renamed Functions in Excel 2010 661

Appendix E Selected Visual Basic Keywords by Category 663

Appendix F Alphabetical List of Selected Visual Basic Keywords 667

Appendix G Selected Excel 4 Macro Functions 689

Appendix H Shortcut Keys by Keystroke 693

Appendix I Selected Shortcut Keys by Category 703

Appendix J ASCII Codes 707

Appendix K Contents of the CD-ROM 709

INDEX 719

E. Joseph Billo retired in 2006 as Associate Professor of Chemistry at Boston College and is the author of Excel for Chemists: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition. He has presented the two-day short courses "Advanced Excel for Scientists and Engineers" and "Excel Visual Basic Macros for Scientists and Engineers" to over 2,000 scientists at corporate clients in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.