Mastering Excel Formulas and Functions

Why Should You Attend:

Do you create financial or data models? Excel is the perfect tool for that. In this webinar, attendees will learn how to build the model using formulas and observe the results automatically recalculate as the model is updated.

Although it is perfectly possible to use Excel without ever creating a formula or using a function, if you don’t, you’re missing out on a huge part of the application’s power. Formulas and functions will automate your calculations and save you a ton of time. Let Excel do the work for you.

Learning Objectives:

• Learning what formulas are
• Learning how to create formulas
• Learning how to create functions to manipulate text
• Learning how to use Lookup functions
• Learning how to use logical functions
• Learning how to perform calculations for dates and time

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Creating formulas to perform mathematical calculations
• Copying formulas and the difference between absolute and relative references
• Assigning names to cells and using them in formulas
• Using functions to combine text strings from multiple cells
• Using functions to change text from lowercase to uppercase and vice versa
• Using functions to perform calculations for dates and time
• Using the IF function to automate data entry
• The VLOOKUP function
• Creating complex functions the easy way

Who Will Benefit:

• Accountants
• CPAs
• CFOs
• Financial Consultants
• Controllers
• Banking
• Finance
• Insurance
• Education
• Telecom
• IT
• Marketing
• Sales
• Investments
• Pharmaceutical
• Medical Devices
• FDA
• Aviation
• Energy
• Retail
• Human Resource
• Logistics & Supply Chain
• Accounts
• Audit

Mike Thomas
IT Training Specialist, The Excel Trainer

Mike Thomas has worked in the IT training business since 1989. He is a subject matter expert in a range of technologies including Microsoft Office and Apple Mac. In 2012, he founded theexceltrainer.co.uk where he has produced nearly 200 written and video-based Excel tutorials. He has recorded several Excel training courses for pluralsight.com and in his career delivered hundreds of courses and webinars on a variety of Excel topics.

Mr. Thomas is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In addition to training, he also designs and develops Microsoft Office-based solutions that automate key business tasks and processes.

Topic Background:

Using formulas turns Excel into the world’s most powerful calculator. Whether you need to calculate loan repayments, generate a profit-and-loss account, solve mathematics or engineering problems, in fact, any scenario that involves addition, subtraction, division or multiplication of numbers and you’ll find that Excel is the best tool for the job.

Functions are built-in formulas that have been programmed to perform a specific calculation. They range from the simple such as SUM and AVERAGE (used to calculate the total and average of numbers in a range of cells) to the powerful IF and VLOOKUP.

Functions aren’t limited to calculating numeric data. They can save you a ton of time when working with text and dates too. For example, you can quickly calculate someone’s age from their date of birth, combine text items from several cells into a single cell or convert a list of lower case text items to capital letters.

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