Demystify the concept of functions in Excel®, empowering you to harness the full potential of this powerful spreadsheet software.
Functions in Excel® are pre-defined formulas that perform specific calculations or actions on data. They serve as building blocks for creating dynamic and efficient formulas to manipulate and analyze your data. With hundreds of built-in functions available, Excel® offers a wide range of capabilities to handle various types of data and tasks. Excel® contains over 500 functions. Strip away the ones nobody uses. Discount the ones that have a specialized use case, and you’re left with a core set of functions that all Excel® users should know, regardless of their job function, industry, or business sector.
This presentation covers some of Excel’s most popular productivity-boosting functions. By the end of the session, you will have a solid foundation in Excel® functions, enabling you to leverage their power to perform complex calculations, automate tasks, and analyze data effectively.
This training is categorized as intermediate. It is aimed at users who want to learn about the commonly-used worksheet functions in Excel®.
Although the training will be delivered using the latest version of Excel®, this training is relevant for users of all versions of Excel®. (Please note that several of the functions, UNIQUE, SORT, and FILTER, are only available to Office 365® subscribers and users of Excel® 2021.)
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to describe the core set of Excel® functions.
- You will be able to discuss how to use functions to effectively analyze data.
- You will be able to explain how to perform complex calculations and automate tasks with functions.
- You will be able to identify which functions to use to manipulate text or dates in your worksheets.
Agenda
Functions Covered
- IF: Automate Data Entry…If This Condition Is True, Enter This Value Into a Cell, Else Enter That Value Into a Cell
- COUNTIFS: Count How Many Times a Particular Value (Date, Number, Text) Appears Within a Range (e.g., How Many Times Was Customer X a Late Payer?)
- SUMIFS: Add Up a Set of Numbers That Match Criteria (e.g., What Was the Total Number of Hours Worked on Project 123)
- FILTER: Quickly Generate a Dynamic List of Filtered Items
- SUBTOTAL: Storing List-Based Data in a Table Is Best Practice, but What If You Need to Generate a Total, Count, or Average From Filtered Data in the Table?
- LEFT, RIGHT, MID, CONCATENATE, TEXTJOIN, and More: These Popular Functions Allow You to Easily Manipulate Text in Your Worksheets
- WORKDAY, EOMONTH, NETWORKDAYS: These Popular Functions Allow You to Easily Manipulate Dates in Your Worksheets
Speakers
Mike Thomas,
theexceltrainer.co.uk- UK-based IT trainer with a career spanning 30+ years
- Delivered thousands of courses and produced hundreds of written and video-based tutorials
- Subject matter expert in a range of technologies with a primary focus and passion for Microsoft Office (especially Excel) on both the Windows and Mac platforms and Power BI
- A fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for many global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of industries, including healthcare, pharmaceutical, and public sector
- Designs and develops Microsoft Office®-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes
Who Should Attend
This live webinar is designed for business owners and managers, supervisors, associates, administrative professionals, analysts, controllers, bookkeepers, and accountants.
