Excel Training: Boosting Proficiency with Selected Shortcuts (PC Version)

Microsoft Excel is considered one of the most useful tools in the workplace. However, if Excel is used incorrectly, it can seriously drag down productivity. This course guides you through shortcuts and functions to enable you to boost your productivity and shave valuable time from repetitive tasks. You’ll learn:

Selected Shortcuts

Keep your hands on your keyboard to improve your speed. This online Excel course explores 5 shortcuts that assist when writing formulas and functions. The Excel lesson includes F9, fill down and right, Ctrl+Home, row shortcuts and column shortcuts. It also follows up on a discussion from Volume 1 Chapter 6, and expands the utility of F2.

Conditional Summing Basics

Have you explored the conditional summing functions in Excel? The SUMIFS function is absolutely a game changer.  This online Excel course introduces the multiple condition sum function SUMIFS. The Excel lesson works through the syntax of the function, and provides several practical examples so you can work hands-on.

Remove Duplicates

This online Excel course explores how to remove duplicate values from lists and tables. This Excel lesson demonstrates how to use the remove duplicates feature to generate a unique list of report labels.

Lookup Basics with VLOOKUP

Are you comfortable performing lookups in Excel? They are the keys that unlock significant efficiency in recurring-use workbooks. This online Excel course covers the cornerstone of all Excel lookup functions, VLOOKUP. This Excel lesson covers the function syntax, and provides numerous exercises so you can work hands-on to develop your skill.

Improve VLOOKUP with MATCH

This online Excel course demonstrates how to address a serious limitation of the VLOOKUP function. The VLOOKUP function will break when a user inserts a new column between the lookup and return columns. This Excel lesson explores the MATCH function, and illustrates how to use it to bypass this VLOOKUP limitation. We work through the syntax of the function, and provide several practical examples so you can work hands-on.

Improve VLOOKUP with TEXT and VALUE

This online Excel course addresses a serious limitation of the VLOOKUP function, the fact that equivalent values stored as different data types won’t match. That is, the number 100 won’t match 100 in the lookup range if stored as a text string. This lesson demonstrates how to bypass this limitation by using the TEXT and VALUE functions. We work through the syntax of the function, and provide several practical examples so you can work hands-on.

Moving Beyond VLOOKUP with INDEX

This online Excel course addresses a major limitation of the VLOOKUP function, the inability to go left. That is, the VLOOKUP function is not designed to return a value that lies to the left of the lookup column. This Excel lesson demonstrates how to bypass this limitation by using the INDEX function. We work through the syntax of the function, and provide several practical examples so you can work hands-on.