Excel Power Skills: Master Formulas, Functions, and Macros – A 3-Hour Workshop

Excel functions can greatly enhance your ability to perform tasks in day-to-day activities in Excel. While there are hundreds of functions in available, there are many functions that all Excel users should know.

Whether you are an office worker, or a small business owner using Excel to keep track of your finances or just the casual user, these Excel functions can be very important time savers and enhance your ability to create better-performing spreadsheets!

Learning about the lookup functions will allow you to match data between databases. VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP enable you to look for a value quickly and easily at a column or row of data and return a value from the same row in a different column. Perfect for when working with large tables.

You will learn how to create a macro the by using the built-in macro recorder. You will then progress on to learn how to make simple changes to a macro using the built-in programming language called VBA.

• Learn many statistical functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, and COUNT
• Use IF statements
• Calculate dates using TODAY and NOW
• Learn many functions to manipulate text once imported including LEFT, RIGHT, TRIM and CONCAT
• Learn the arguments in the VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP functions
• Understand the importance of absolute references within many lookup functions
• Use VLOOKUP to perform both exact and approximate matches
• Explore why VLOOKUP sometimes returns #N/A
• Learn the difference between workbook macros and personal macros
• Make your macros available to all your workbooks
• Use the macro recorder to create a macro
• Save a file as a macro enabled Excel workbook
• Run a macro a variety of ways
• View the recorded macro in VBA
• Edit the macro
• Q&A

Excel is a cornerstone tool for data management, analysis, and problem-solving in today's professional landscape. Excel Power Skills: Master Formulas, Functions, and Macros is designed to help users enhance their expertise and unlock Excel’s full potential. Whether you’re looking to streamline workflows, analyze data with precision, or automate repetitive processes, this course equips you with the essential skills to excel in any data-driven role.