Overview
Excel functions can greatly enhance your ability to perform tasks in day-to-day activities in Excel. While there are hundreds of functions is available, there are 10 functions that all Excel users should know. Whether you are an office worker, a small business owner using Excel to keep track of your finances, or just a casual user, these Excel functions can be very important time savers and enhance your ability to create better-performing spreadsheets!
Learning about the lookup functions will allow you to match data between databases. VLOOKUP enables you to quickly and easily look for a value down a column of data and return a value from the same row in a different column. Perfect for when working with large tabular data. INDEX and MATCH work in a similar way but provide more flexibility.
You'll learn how to create a macro the easy way by using the built-in macro recorder. You'll then progress on to learn how to make simple changes to a macro using the built-in programming language called VBA.
Why you should Attend
Formulas are equations that can perform calculations, return information, manipulate the contents of other cells, test conditions, and more. Explore what is considered the top 10 functions.
Lookup functions are far superior to manually searching for specific data elements in a spreadsheet. VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH are some of the most well-known (and most useful) functions in Excel
Being able to create and edit macros is one of the must-have skills for Excel Power Users. Having this knowledge will save you hours of time by allowing you to automate any Excel-based task or process. If you’ve never created macros or used VBA before, this webinar is for you.
Areas Covered in the Session
- Learn many statistical functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, and COUNT
- Use IF and its counterparts COUNTIF, SUMIF, and AVERAGEIF
- Calculate dates using TODAY, NOW, NETWORKDAYS
- Learn many functions to manipulate text once imported including LEFT, RIGHT, LEN, TRIM, UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, and CONCATENATE
- Learn the arguments in the VLOOKUP function
- Understand the importance of absolute references within many lookup functions
- Use VLOOKUP to perform approximate matches
- Use VLOOKUP to look up data from another workbook
- Learn how VLOOKUP stops looking after it finds an initial match within a list
- Explore why VLOOKUP sometimes returns #N/A instead of the desired result
- Learn about the IFNA function available in Excel 2013 and later
- Use the IFERROR function to display something other than an #N/A error value when VLOOKUP can’t find a match
- See how the HLOOKUP function enables you to perform horizontal matches
- Learn why the INDEX and MATCH combination often is superior to VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP
- Use the MATCH function to find the position of an item on a list
- Learn the difference between workbook macros and personal macros
- Create a workbook macro
- Create a personal macro
- Use the macro recorder to create a personal macro
- Find and use the PERSONAL.XLSB file
- Use the macro recorder to create a workbook macro
- Save a file as a macro-enabled Excel workbook
- Run a macro
- View the recorded macro in VBA
- Edit the macro using VBA
Speaker
Cathy Horwitz believes that when your employees know the capabilities of the software they use, they will demonstrate improved productivity, will be more efficient and will be able to problem solve more easily.
Cathy teaches classes on the Microsoft suite of application software including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access and Outlook. Cathy has over 30 years of experience in classroom and virtual training and has been an instructor of Microsoft Office since 1989.
Her strengths include customizing classes based on the needs of individual students and providing realistic business examples to compliment training. She is a high energy trainer with a flair for training the adult student.
She holds the Modern Classroom Certified Trainer certification from Logical Operations which prepares instructors for all aspects of delivering a course using the latest training technologies and approaches.
When not teaching, Cathy enjoys gardening, shopping estate sales and refinishing mid-century furniture.
Who Should Attend
- Business Owners
- CEO's / CFO's / CTO's
- Managers
- Accountants
- CPA's
- Financial Consultants
- IT Professionals
- Auditors
- Human Resource Personnel
- Bookkeepers
- Marketers
- Anybody with large amounts of Data
- Anybody who uses Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, and wants to be more efficient and productive
