Excel: Power Functions

Excel: Power Functions

Learn to Use the 10 Excel Functions Recommended by the Experts

Excel provides over 400 functions to perform a variety of calculations within your data. With this many functions, it’s guaranteed you’re missing out on some powerhouse formulas that can make your day easier. This course explores 10 functions the experts recommend to expedite your data analysis.

Ask any Excel expert to name their favorite Excel functions, and you’ll receive a variety of suggestions. Some you’ll recognize, others you won’t. This course examines 10 of the functions more commonly listed by the experts and removes the mystery of how and why to use them.

With over 450 functions available in Excel, odds are you aren’t getting the full power of Excel in your workbooks. This course steps you through functions that can increase your productivity and simplify your spreadsheets.

Do you work with dates? Learn how to generate anniversary dates, renewal dates, and end-of-month dates.

Do you need to locate values within a large array of data? Explore options that allow you to locate data anywhere within the database without the VLOOKUP limitation of looking in the leftmost column.

Do you create rolling averages? Learn which functions will help you calculate them.

Once you explore these functions, your spreadsheets will never be the same.

Objectives. You will be able to:

• Locate the syntax of an Excel function and explain the basics of function syntax design.

  
  

• Explain why function criteria should produce a True result.

  
  

• Understand and use wildcards in an Excel formula.

  
  

• Describe the syntax and write Excel formulas using the following functions:

1. DATEDIF

2. EDATE

3. EOMONTH

4. CONVERT

5. INDEX + MATCH

6. OFFSET+COUNT

10 Functions Recommended by the Experts

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What you will learn

• Locate the syntax of an Excel function and explain the basics of function syntax design.
• Explain why function criteria should produce a True result.
• Understand and use wildcards in an Excel formula.

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Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Bigger Brains