How to use the most widely used formulas and functions in Excel to become more productive
Unlock the full power of Microsoft Excel with "Excel - Must-know formulas and functions," led by a Microsoft Certified Trainer.
This course is meticulously designed to transform you into an Excel formula master, capable of handling any data challenge with confidence. You'll move beyond basic calculations to truly leverage Excel's analytical capabilities.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
Fundamental Formula Mastery: Understand essential principles like the order of operations, relative and absolute references, and effectively use named ranges for clarity and efficiency.
Dynamic Data Analysis: Dive deep into powerful conditional functions including:
The versatile IF function, enhanced with AND, OR, and nested IF statements for complex logic.
Conditional aggregation with COUNTIF, SUMIF, and AVERAGEIF, mastering their multi-criteria counterparts (COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS).
Advanced Data Lookup & Management: Learn to efficiently retrieve and manage data across sheets and workbooks using:
Industry-standard VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP for both exact and approximate matches.
The flexible MATCH and INDEX combination, offering superior lookup capabilities, including left-side lookups.
Practical Date, Time & Text Handling: Conquer common data manipulation tasks with specialized functions for:
Accurate date and time calculations, including business days with NETWORKDAYS and WORKDAY.
Transforming and extracting text using CONCAT, PROPER, UPPER, LOWER, LEN, LEFT, MID, RIGHT, and the powerful Text to Columns feature.
Formula Auditing & Troubleshooting: Master techniques to understand, audit, and debug your formulas with tools like Trace Precedents, Trace Dependents, Show Formulas, and Evaluate Formula.
By the end of this course, you'll possess a robust toolkit of Excel formulas and functions, empowering you to streamline workflows, gain deeper insights from your data, and elevate your spreadsheet proficiency.
Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 25 Years of Training Experience, and over 40 years in IT overall
Tom Fragale is a computer professional with over 40 years of professional experience. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, a Microsoft Certified Office Master, and a Microsoft Certified Expert in Word and Excel, and a Microsoft Certified Specialist in Access, Outlook, and PowerPoint. He has trained over 50,000 business people in online webinars, public seminars, and on-site training. His clients include many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military bases, and companies large and small across many industries, including insurance, manufacturing, banking, pharmaceutical, education, retail, etc. He started his career as a database application programmer and has served as a consultant on many successful projects. His topics of expertise include: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Copilot, ChatGPT, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, Visio, QuickBooks, and SharePoint, among others. His passion is helping people get the most out of their computers, and he is a published author having written a book on Microsoft Access, and another on Excel Pivot Tables. He graduated in 1988 from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA with a B.A. in Computer Science.
