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GETTING STARTED WITH EXCEL ....................................................................... 4
Things You Should Be Familiar With ........................................................................ 5
Working with Cells ..................................................................................................... 7
Working with Data ...................................................................................................... 9
Working with Dates and Times ................................................................................ 10
Other Functionality ................................................................................................... 11
Getting Price Data from Yahoo! Finance ................................................................. 12
LAB 1: Calculating Volatility and Covariance ........................................................ 13
Advanced Excel Functionality .................................................................................. 14
Goal Seek .................................................................................................................. 14
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