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Bill Jelen is the host of MrExcel.com and the author of 50 books about Microsoft Excel including Pivot Table Data Crunching, Excel Gurus Gone Wild, and Guerrilla Data Analysis Using Microsoft Excel. He writes monthly Excel columns for Strategic Finance magazine.
He has been awarded the MVP in Excel for 10 years by Microsoft.
He has made over 60 guest appearances on TV’s Call for Help with Leo Laporte and was voted guest of the year on the Computer America radio show.
His has produced over 2000 episodes of his daily video podcast Learn Excel from MrExcel.
Before founding MrExcel.com in 1998, Jelen spent twelve years “in the trenches”, as a financial
analyst for the accounting, finance, marketing, and operations departments of a publicly held co ...more

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	VBA and Macros: Microsoft Excel 2010 by Bill Jelen (Goodreads Author), Tracy Syrstad 3.96 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Microsoft Excel 2010 In Depth 4.04 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PowerPivot for the Data Analyst: Microsoft Excel 2010 4.15 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2010 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Excel Gurus Gone Wild: Do the IMPOSSIBLE with Microsoft Excel 3.95 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Excel 2013 Pivot Table Data Crunching by Bill Jelen (Goodreads Author), Michael Alexander 4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pivot Table Data Crunching by Bill Jelen (Goodreads Author), Michael Alexander 3.86 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PowerPivot Alchemy: Patterns and Techniques for Excel by Bill Jelen (Goodreads Author), Rob Collie (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pivot Table Data Crunching: Microsoft Excel 2010 by Bill Jelen (Goodreads Author), Michael Alexander 4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pivot Table Data Crunching for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 by Bill Jelen (Goodreads Author), Michael Alexander 3.74 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Excel 2016 VBA and Macros by Bill Jelen (Goodreads Author), Tracy Syrstad 4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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― Bill Jelen, Learn Excel 2007 through Excel 2010 From MrExcel: Master Pivot Tables, Subtotals, Charts, VLOOKUP, IF, Data Analysis and Much More - 512 Excel Mysteries Solved

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