Excel – Master These 10 Functions to Skyrocket Your Productivity

Excel - Master These 10 Functions to Skyrocket Your Productivity

Microsoft Excel contains almost 500 built-in worksheet functions. Strip away the ones nobody uses. Discount the ones that have a specialized use-case and you’re left with a small set of functions that all Excel users should know, regardless of their job function, industry, or business sector. This webinar covers ten of Excel’s most popular productivity-boosting functions.

Topics 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 a criteria (e.g. what was the total number of hours worked on Project 123)
  • IFERROR: Want to get rid of those ugly #DIV/0 and #N/A errors? IFERROR is your friend
  • XLOOKUP: Often referred to as “VLOOKUP on steroids”, XLOOKUP is the new kid in town, making searching for data in a tabular list quick, simple and straightforward
  • UNIQUE: Quickly generate a unique list of items in a single step
  • FILTER: Quickly generate a dynamic list of filtered items. This is the powerhouse of the latest set of functions added to Excel
  • SORT: Quickly generate a sorted list of items. Combine the SORT function with the UNIQUE function for extra power!
  • GETPIVOTDATA: If you ever need to refer to a cell inside a pivot table, the GETPIVOTDATA function has you covered
  • 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? The SUBTOTAL function is just what you need

Who should attend

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.

IMPORTANT: Several of the functions XLOOKUP, UNIQUE, SORT, FILTER are only available to Office 365 subscribers and users of Excel 2021). Please check that this training is relevant for your version of Excel.

 

Excel – Pivot Tables – The Key To Modern Data Analysis and Reporting

Excel - Pivot Tables - The Key To Modern Data Analysis and Reporting

Whether you need to build an Excel-based dashboard, perform some serious data analysis, or simply summarize data for a personal project, Pivot Tables are one of the most powerful tools in Excel’s data analysis and Business Intelligence (BI) toolkit.

With just a few clicks of the mouse (and no complicated formulas!) you can quickly and easily build the reports, dashboards and charts that help you to summarize, analyze, interpret and understand your data which in turn helps you to spot trends and get answers to the important questions on which you base your key business decisions.

Pivot Tables have a reputation for being complicated and scary but by attending this training, you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to use and create them.

Objectives

  • Use Pivot Tables to turn raw data into meaningful and insightful reports and summaries
  • Structure your raw data in the right way
  • Design and format your Pivot Table reports so that they are easy to read and understand
  • Summarize your data in different ways including totals, counts and percentages
  • Convert a Pivot Table into a chart
  • Use formulas in a Pivot Table
  • Use Slicers to create interactive Pivot Table reports

Why you should attend

From global enterprises to early-stage startups and small businesses, people everywhere use Pivot Tables to summarize and understand their data. Learning how to create Pivot Tables is one of the must have skills for anyone who needs to use Excel to quickly build reports and summaries. This training will provide you with a solid foundation that you can use to build your own pivot tables and reports.

Topics covered

  • Use cases: Why and when you should use a Pivot Table
  • Your raw data – do’s and don’ts
  • Create a simple Pivot Table with a few mouse clicks
  • Different ways to summarize your data – total, count and percent
  • Produce time-based reports (quarterly, monthly etc)
  • Apply formatting to a Pivot Table to make it easy to read and understand
  • Display Pivot Table data in alphabetical or numerical order
  • Represent the Pivot Table data as a chart/graph
  • How to update a Pivot Table when the source data changes
  • Using Slicers to Slice, Dice and Filter your data
  • GETPIVOTDATA – What is it? When to use it and when to avoid it

Who should attend

You should attend this training if you need to use Excel to quickly build reports and summaries or if you simply want to learn how to create Pivot Tables to improve your knowledge of Excel.

You don’t have to be proficient in the use of Excel to attend. If you can create basic worksheets and can copy and paste and apply basic formatting to cells, you’ll be able to follow along. The training will be delivered using the latest version of Excel for Windows although much of the functionality is available in earlier versions of Excel.

Venue: Recorded Webinar

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Speaker

Mike Thomas
Mike Thomas have worked in the IT training business since 1989 and although he has a subject matter expert in a range of technologies, particularly Microsoft Office, my passion is for all-things-Excel-related with Power BI coming a close second. In a career spanning 30+ years, he has delivered training to thousands of people as well…

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