Lynda com – Excel 2013 Advanced Formulas and Functions

Lynda com – Excel 2013 Advanced Formulas and Functions
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Conquer some of the most daunting features in Microsoft Excel once and for all. In this 2013 update to his popular series, author Dennis Taylor demystifies some of the most challenging of the 300+ formulas and functions in Excel and shows how to put them to their best use. The course starts with a review of the more basic, building-block functions, and a few critical keyboard shortcuts that will speed up working with Excel data, even on multiple sheets. Dennis then covers how to perform advanced searching and data retrieval with Lookup functions, tabulate and sort data with counting and statistical functions, format data with text and math functions, and work with financial data using advanced formulas. Dennis focuses on practical examples that transition effortlessly to real-world scenarios.

Topics include:
Displaying and highlighting formulas
Converting formulas to values
Creating 3D formulas to gather data from multiple sheets
Understanding the hierarchy of operations in formulas
Using absolute and relative references
Creating and expanding the use of nested IF statements
Looking up information with VLOOKUP, MATCH, and INDEX
Using the power functions: COUNTIF, SUMIF, and AVERAGEIF
Analyzing data with the statistical functions
Performing basic math
Calculating dates and times
Editing text with functions
Checking for errors with formulas