DURATION: 2 DAYS (16 HOURS)
DIFFICULTY LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE
Excel platforms, data types & formula structures
The Formula Bar and the Insert Function tool
The Name Box, naming and editing cell ranges
Undo & redo
Important shortcut keys
Cutting, copying, & pasting features
LivePreview
Clearing contents & format
Dragging & dropping cells
Autofilling & Flash filling
The Find command
The Replace command
The Go to command
Evaluating array formulas v normal formulas
Spilled array behavior of formulas
What’s best?
Absolute & relative references
References when copying formulas in an array
Tracing Precedent Cells
Tracing Dependent Cells
Displaying Formulas
Error Checking, cells with missing dependents and tracing errors
Calculation options
IF, IFS, AND
SUMIF, SUMIFS, DSUM
COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK
CONCATENATE, CONCAT, TEXTJOIN, TEXTAFTER
LEFT, RIGHT, MID
LOWER, UPPER, PROPER
TRIM
TEXT
The date format and value of date cells
EDATE, EOMONTH
DAYS, DAYS360
NETWORKDAYS, NETWORKDAYS.INTL
NOW, TODAY
VLOOKUP
XLOOKUP
Number formats
Excel number formats
Customizing number formats
Working with lists
Applying Sorting and Filtering to a list
Simple sorting
Sorting by multiple columns
Using AutoFilter
Using custom filter
Using Advanced Filter
SORT, FILTER
Removing duplicates from data
UNIQUE
TRANSPOSE
VSTACK, HSTACK
Types of Excel charts
Data ranges and selecting data
The bar graph
The pie chart
Advanced chart formatting
Sparklines
Conditional formatting and its purpose
Applying conditional formatting in individual cells and entire rows/columns
Preset rules & customizing rules
Common mistakes to avoid
Using Text to Columns
TEXTSPLIT
What's Copilot?
Hands-on exercises in utilizing Copilot for finance tasks