Overview
With
approximately 500 functions now available in Excel, some newer and more powerful
tools are easy to overlook. But, if you do that, your productivity will suffer.
In this session, you will learn how to take advantage of many of Excel’s more
advanced features – some new and some legacy – to elevate your productivity to
higher levels.
In
this session, you will learn about many of Excel’s newer tools, including
XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, SWITCH, and STOCKHISTORY. Also included in this session are
discussions of advanced financial functions, such as IPMT and PPMT, and how to
retrieve summarized data easily using GETPIVOTDATA and CUBEVALUE. Additionally,
you will learn how to make sophisticated calculations easier with Dynamic Array
formulas, harness the AGGREGATE function's power, and create more accurate
forecasts with Excel’s FORECAST.ETS function. No matter your experience working
with Excel, participating in this course will help you work more efficiently and
effectively in Excel.
Are
you ready to move past Excel’s simple functions, such as SUM? If so, participate
in this session to learn about many of Excel’s advanced functions, including
XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, and SWITCH. You’ll also learn about the revolutionary Dynamic
Arrays feature.
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List
examples of best practices for constructing formulas in Excel
spreadsheets
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Identify
situations in which each of the following functions might be useful: SUMIFS,
SWITCH,
•
and
STOCKHISTORY
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Distinguish
between the XLOOKUP function and legacy Excel functions such as VLOOKUP,
HLOOKUP, INDEX,
•
and
MATCH
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Cite
examples of when using Dynamic Arrays would be useful
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Differentiate
between Excel’s AGGREGATE and SUBTOTAL functions
•
Identify
conditions in which the FORECAST.ETS function is preferable to the FORECAST
function
This
course is designed for Business
professionals who work with Excel and want to extend their knowledge of advanced
features and functions to become more accurate, effective, and efficient with
spreadsheets.