Microsoft Excel Masterclass for Business Managers
6 Reasons why you should choose this Excel course
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Carefully designed curriculum teaching you only the most used functionalities of Excel in business environment
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Concise – you can complete this course within one weekend
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Business related examples and case studies
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Ample practice exercises because Excel requires practice
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Downloadable resources
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Your queries will be responded by the Instructor himself
Start using Excel to its full potential to become proficient at your Excel tasks today!
Either you’re new to Excel, or you’ve played around with it but want to get more comfortable with Excel’s advanced features. Either way, this course will be great for you.
A Verifiable Certificate of Completion is presented to all students who undertake this Excel course.
Why should you choose this course?
This is a complete and concise tutorial on MS Excel which can be completed within 4 hours. We know that your time is important and hence we have created this fast paced course without wasting time on irrelevant Excel operations.
What makes us qualified to teach you?
The course is taught by Abhishek and Pukhraj. Instructors of the course have been teaching Data Science and Machine Learning for over a decade.
We are also the creators of some of the most popular online courses – with over 150,000 enrollments and thousands of 5-star reviews like these ones:
I had an awesome moment taking this course. It broaden my knowledge more on the power use of Excel as an analytical tools. Kudos to the instructor! – Sikiru
Very insightful, learning very nifty tricks and enough detail to make it stick in your mind. – Armand
Our Promise
Teaching our students is our job and we are committed to it. If you have any questions about the course content, practice sheet or anything related to any topic, you can always post a question in the course or send us a direct message.
Download Practice files, take Quizzes, and complete Assignments
With each lecture, there is a practice sheet attached for you to follow along. You can also take quizzes to check your understanding of concepts. Each section contains a practice assignment for you to practically implement your learning. Solution to Assignment is also shared so that you can review your performance.
What is covered in this course?
This course covers everything you need to crack Excel in the professional work place.
Below are the Excel course contents of this complete and concise course on Microsoft Excel:
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Introduction – In this video, the structure and contents of the course are discussed.
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Mathematical Functions – This lecture covers Mathematical formulas such as SUM, AVERAGE,RAND, MIN & MAX, SUMPRODUCT.
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Textual Formulas – This Excel lecture covers Textual formulas such as TRIM, CONCATENATE, SUBSTITUTE, UPPER & LOWER, LENGTH, LEFT, RIGHT & MID
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Logical Formulas – This lecture covers Logical formulas such as AND & OR, IF, COUNTIF, SUMIF
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Date-time (Temporal) Formulas – This lecture covers Date-time related functions such as TODAY & NOW, DAY, MONTH & YEAR, DATEDIF & DAYS
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Lookup Formulas – This Excel lecture covers Lookup formulas such as VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH
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Data Tools – This lecture covers Data operating tools such as Data Sorting and Filtering, Data validation, Removing duplicates, Importing Data (Text-to-columns)
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Formatting data and tables – This Excel lecture covers data formatting options such as coloring, changing font, alignments and table formatting options such as adding borders, having highlighted table headers, banded rows etc.
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Pivot Tables – This Excel lecture covers Pivot tables end-to-end.
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Charts – This Excel lecture covers charts such as, Bar/ Column chart, Line Chart, Scatter Plot, Pie & Doughnut charts, Statistical Chart – Histogram, Waterfall, Sparklines
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Excel Shortcuts – This lecture will introduce you to some important shortcuts and teach you how to find out the shortcut for any particular excel operation.
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Analytics in Excel – This Excel lecture covers the data analytics options available in Excel such as Regression, Solving linear programming problem (Minimization or Maximization problems), What-if (Goal Seek and Scenario Manager)
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Macros – This lecture covers the process of recording a Macro, running a Macro and creating a button to run a Macro.
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Bonus Lectures – Waterfall chart in Excel 2016 and previous versions of Excel, Infographics 1: Cool charts, Infographics 2: Cool charts
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And so much more!
By the end of this course, your confidence in using Excel will soar. You’ll have a thorough understanding of how to use Microsoft Excel for study or as a career opportunity.
Go ahead and click the enroll button, and I’ll see you in lesson 1!
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FAQ’s
Why learn Microsoft Excel?
1. Microsoft Excel helps solve Business Problems
2. Microsoft Excel helps you get stuff done
3. Microsoft Excel will make you better at your job (no matter what that is)
4. Microsoft Excel know-how can instantly increase your job prospects as well as your starting salary
How much time does it take to learn Microsoft Excel?
Microsoft Excel is easy but no one can determine the learning time it takes. It totally depends on you. The method we adopted to help you learn Microsoft Excel quickly starts from the basics and takes you to advanced level within hours. You can follow the same, but remember you can learn nothing without practicing it. Practice is the only way to learn Microsoft Excel quickly.
What are the steps I should follow to learn Microsoft Excel?
1. Start learning from the basics of Microsoft Excel. The first 3 sections of the course cover the basics.
2. Once done with the basic try your hands on advanced MS Excel. Next 7 sections cover Advanced Excel topics
3. Next section will help you some cool new tricks of Microsoft Excel.
4. Practice your learning on the exercise provided with every lecture.
What is the difference between basic and advanced level of Excel?
At Basic level of MS Excel a person
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Can build excel formulas using: SUM, IF, AVERAGE, COUNT, ROUND
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Is comfortable building excel formulas to manipulate text and dates
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Understands and can use the Filter and Sort feature of Microsoft Excel.
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Can create basic charts like Line chart, bar chart and pie chart
At Advanced level of MS Excel a person
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Can implement Excel LOOKUP Formulas like VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, Index and Match
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Can use conditional and logical formulas like IF, SUMIF, COUNTIF, OR, AND etc.
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Knows what a Pivot Table is and how to build one.
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Knows what an add-in is and how to install one.
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Can record a macro and use it later.
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Can successfully edit/modify simple recorded macros.
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Can create advanced charts like Waterfall chart and overlay chart in Microsoft Excel
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Can create solve analytics problem using excel solver.
Start working proficiently on Microsoft Excel and increase your office productivity.
The Authors of this course have several years of corporate experience and hence have curated the course material keeping in mind the requirement of Excel in today’s corporate world.
Introduction
Why Learn Excel? Since 80% of jobs require spreadsheet and word processing skills, it makes sense you've probably stumbled over Excel at one point in time. But the tool does a whole lot more than just produce a table of numbers — here are four reasons why you should learn Excel (and even if you think you're a pro, how you can dig a little deeper into the platform).
In this video, the structure and contents of the course are discussed. This will give you an idea of the course structure and what your are going to learn in this course. You can also skip lectures which you think you already know.
You are on lecture 1 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
This lecture will help you to set you expectations from this excel course. You will learn what to expect and what not to except from this course. This will help to make decision about continuing with this course. We highly recommend that you watch this lecture carefully.
One advice before going forward, you can add bookmark in each video lecture. This will help to revisit any specific important section of this Excel Course.
Essential Formulas and Functions
This lecture covers Excel Mathematical formulas such as
SUM
AVERAGE
RAND
MIN & MAX
SUMPRODUCT
Excel formulas are most important part of MSÂ Excel. Formulas are important in many jobs. In a recent survey we conducted about formulas, over 90% of respondents said that Excel formulas were "important", "very important", or "vital" to their job.
If you are a beginner, you must practice all the Mathematical Excel formulas we have mentioned in this lecture.
Exercise 1
You are on lecture 4 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
This lecture covers Excel Textual formulas such as
TRIM
CONCATENATE
SUBSTITUTE
UPPER & LOWER
LENGTH
LEFT, RIGHT & MID
Formulas are a powerful way to capture and save a working solution. They let you repeat the solution again whenever you like, always with perfect accuracy. They are far better than your faulty memory.
Even if you are an intermediate Excel user you must complete the lecture and solve exercise to get a solid understanding of excel Textual formulas.
Don't forget to take notes and add bookmarks during the lectures
This lecture covers Excel Logical formulas such as
AND & OR
IF
COUNTIF
SUMIF
Logical Formulas help you translate your vision into reality. Ever felt like you can explain what you want to do in plain English, but you have no idea how to do it in Excel? Logical Formulas let you build the analysis that's in your head.
Beginners will need some time to absorb Excel Logical functions. So I recommend you take play with different function to get a solid foundation for more advanced excel features.
Exercise 3
You are on lecture 8 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
This lecture covers Date-time related functions such as
TODAY & NOW
DAY, MONTH & YEAR
DATEDIF & DAYS
Date and time formats are very common in day to day business use. Skill with Temporal formulas allows you to deploy a full set of razor-sharp tools when solving problems which involves date and time formats. Without formula skills, you are forced to use a dull saw on every job, no matter how large or tedious.
Exercise 4
You have on lecture 10 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Lookup Formulas
This lecture covers Lookup formulas such as
VLOOKUP
HLOOKUP
INDEX
MATCH
Lookup formulas are one of the most utilized excel functions. VLOOKUP refers to vertical lookup. You use this function when you have to find a value in the corresponding rows of a column. VLOOKUP is one of the most used Excel functions.
This formulas act as a measure to gauge knowledge of Excel users. Questions on these formulas are very common in interviews. So take notes and bookmark the video.
Exercise 5
You have on lecture 12 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Data Tools
This lecture covers Data operating tools such as
Data Sorting and Filtering
Data validation
Removing duplicates
Importing Data (Text-to-columns)
Today, data is everywhere. Local data is one of the most important things that a business needs to gather and analyze. Local data allows you to draw conclusions and make decisions on how to increase your profits. When you gather data, you want a program that will work with Project Management software like Clarity or SharePoint. These programs allow you to extract information in a variety of Excel formats, including .csv, .txt and .xlsx. Once this information is extracted, you can generate reports to help you gain insight on the local market. These insights will help you gain information on how to use local data to improve your business.
These data tools from excel helps you to analyze your data and gain insightful information from it.
Exercise 6
You have on lecture 14 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Formatting data and tables
This lecture covers data formatting options such as coloring, changing font, alignments and table formatting options such as adding borders, having highlighted table headers, banded rows etc.
Most Excel users know how to apply basic numeric and text formats. But users who push beyond the basics will create more readable and effective sheets. In addition, knowing how to apply just the right formatting to specific cells quickly and easily helps users work more efficiently.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Exercise 7
You have on lecture 16 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Pivot Tables
The pivot table feature is perhaps the most technologically sophisticated component in Excel. With only a few mouse clicks, you can slice and dice a data table in dozens of different ways and produce just about any type of summary you can think of.
This lecture Pivot tables demonstrate how easy it is to create powerful data summaries using pivot tables.
This is the most important lecture of this course.
Exercise 8
You have on lecture 18 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Charts
This section covers Excel charts such as
Bar/ Column chart
Line Chart
Scatter Plot
Pie & Doughnut charts
Statistical Chart - Histogram
Waterfall
Sparklines
When most people think of Excel, they think of crunching rows and columns of numbers. But , Excel is no slouch when it comes to presenting data visually in the form of charts. In fact, Excel is probably the most commonly used software in the world for creating charts.
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
This section covers Excel charts such as
Bar/ Column chart
Line Chart
Scatter Plot
Pie & Doughnut charts
Statistical Chart - Histogram
Waterfall
Spartlines
When most people think of Excel, they think of crunching rows and columns of numbers. But , Excel is no slouch when it comes to presenting data visually in the form of charts. In fact, Excel is probably the most commonly used software in the world for creating charts.
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Excel Exercise 9
You have on lecture 21 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Named Ranges
Excel Shortcuts
Many professionals use Microsoft Excel every day, whether it's to create a chart, analyze data, or run a report to present at the next team meeting. Creating reports like these in Excel is time-consuming enough. We spend a lot of time in selecting, navigating, formatting, and entering formulas for our data. Excel keyboard shortcuts help us get our work done faster.
In this lecture we will introduce you to some important shortcuts and teach you how to find out the shortcut for any particular excel operation.
Excel Exercise 10
You have on lecture 23 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Analytics in Excel
Many people do not realize that Excel is more than a spreadsheet program. In fact, Excel is a problem-solving program. Although you can use it to generate traditional spreadsheets, the program can do so much more than that. Those who do not understand the complexity of this program will never be able to completely harness everything Excel has to offer.
This lecture we will covers the advanced excel features of data analytics such as
Regression
Solving linear programming problem (Minimization or Maximization problems)
What-if (Goal Seek and Scenario Manager)
Excel Exercise 11
You have on lecture 25 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Macros
Business owners and employees understand how important time truly is. As we learn to harness the power of Excel, you will have more and more time for other tasks. Macros in Excel can increase how quickly you can solve a problem. You can use Macros to automate your repetitive tasks
In this lecture we covers the process of recording a Macro, running a Macro and creating a button to run a Macro.
Excel Exercise 12
You have on lecture 27 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
Excel Use Cases: Engaging Visualizations
This lecture covers an interesting way to represent percentages through a chart.
You have on lecture 29 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
This lecture covers another interesting way to represent percentages through a chart.
You have on lecture 30 of 30 lectures of Microsoft Excel course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016. Once you complete this advanced Excel training course using Excel 2016, you will be able to
Learn the most common Excel functions used in the Office
Handle complex advanced Excel formula with ease
Master advanced Excel lookup formulas VLOOKUP,HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH functions and many more
Master Microsoft Excel's one of the most popular tools, PivotTables
Improve your data representation skills by MS Excel Charts
Create professional reports by using Excel Conditional formatting
We recommend you to do all Excel exercises which are spread through this advanced Excel certification course - Microsoft Excel Masterclass: Complete and Concise using Excel 2016.
Complete this MS Excel crash course to get Microsoft Excel course certificate.
A waterfall chart is a form of data visualization that helps in understanding the cumulative effect of sequentially introduced positive or negative values. It's useful for analytical purposes, especially for understanding or explaining the gradual transition in the quantitative value of an entity which is subjected to increment or decrement.
This lecture covers how to create a waterfall chart. Excel 2016 has a separate button, which makes it easier to make waterfall chart in 2016 version. But if you are using earlier version, it is a bit lengthy method. This lecture will cover both the methods of creating the waterfall chart.
Excel Use Cases: Income Tax template
Excel Use Cases: Modeling Customer Lifetime Value
Final Quiz
Bonus Section
