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Jeff Lenning, Author of Excel University
Former "Big 6" auditor. Accounting and finance roles at global companies. Published Excel expert. California CPA Education Foundation Award for Instructor Excellence.
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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 guides you through Excel and enables you to boost your productivity and save your most valuable resource: time. We start by exploring the top 5 productivity boosting shortcuts. Next, we'll look at how we can improve spreadsheet design, boost our proficiency with additional shortcuts, master the fundamental functions, and finally we'll make sure our spreadsheets are error free. This course is the primer to Excel you didn't know you needed!
Learning Objectives
- Identify 5 top productivity shortcuts in MS Excel
- Utilize Excel data tables and named ranges in excel
- Demonstrate the use of conditional formatting and explore alternatives to the SUM function
- Be able to hide and unhide worksheets
- Improve your workbook organization for better, faster use
- Demonstrate the basics of nested functions and better workbook design
- Increase your Excel speed with selected shortcuts
- Remove duplicates from lists and tables
- Look up values in a table using VLOOKUP
- Utilize multiple lookup functions such as VLOOKUP, MATCH, and INDEX
- Be able to trap errors with IFERROR function and create indented report labels
- Demonstrate multiple uses for the IF function
- Enact multi-column comparisons with COUNTIFS
- Be able to create indented report labels
- Articulate tactics for Excel data validation and reporting
- Improve error checking
- Implement concatenation basics
- Build your own Date with the Date function
Last updated/reviewed: June 4, 2021
75 Reviews (264 ratings)Reviews
Katherine Hart
(None at Not Applicable)
I use this course and the materials CONSTANTLY in my work and it has helped my career dramatically. As long as you work hard and try, you can do anything. The people at work think I’m a literal wizard because of my excel skills which have been amped up due to this course. I have done this 5 hour course at least 5 times in order to practice and drill in the concepts. I want to work for this company!
Homer Hernandez
(Owner at Homer Hernandez CPA)
I liked the real world examples. Workbook design tips will give me and my supervisor more confidence. The use of lists or drop downs will eliminate errors and wasted time.The course not only shows function syntax but also its use in worksheets. Also the tips will help me become much more efficient. I will always use the subtotal function and conditional formatting to spot errors.
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(Analyst)
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Anonymous
(Senior Accountant)
This course is very effective and easy to follow. Jeff does a great job of walking you through excel shortcuts, formulas, organizational techniques that is sure to increase your job productivity. I would recommend this course to those who work with excel often in their jobs. I look forward to incorporating these skills in my day to day use.
Pamela Hartmann
(Program Specialist at VA - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
Excellent course! It was a great review of the power of Excel from the productivity boosting shortcuts through formatting and data validation. I would reference this course over again when working in Excel.The instructor presented the course in an engaging and exciting format. I highly recommend to colleagues.
Sergey Bulychev
(internal auditor at Transneft Finance LLC)
Просто фантастический курс по Excel! После него вы становитесь по-настоящему продвинутым пользователем электронных таблиц от Microsoft! Автору - респект и уважуха!
Anonymous
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I consider myself to be a pretty good Excel user, and I learned a few new tricks and ways to be more efficient. This is a long course, and I would suggest going through the different examples. Only problem I had, was that I couldn't seem to get all of the Excel templates to open.
Anonymous
(Associate Financial Analyst)
Several of the courses included in this package are offered a la carte. You are well advised to take them all in sequence using this course series.
Jeff is a great teacher with top notch materials and delivery. I can't recommend his classes, any of them, highly enough.
Nikita Patel
(Consultant at DLC Group)
I really enjoyed this course! I am an intermediate Excel user and found some of these tips and tricks to be tools I can get good use of in my day-to-day job. I wish I had some of the shortcuts covered in the videos in a handout that I can refer to later.
Anonymous
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All of the information is good and relevant with good examples. However, this is more information than a 5 hour course should have. There really needed to be time to practice in between. It should have had more credits or more time spent on each segment.
Sheilah Brown
(Controller at SMB LTC)
My only dislike is that the slides are not available for download. The spreadsheets are very helpful, but don't show the overall concept that is being taught. Together they are very powerful in showing how to use Excel functions to make your job easier.
Anonymous
(Accountant)
It is interesting and contains very good information, but the only materials found in this course where only for the first Chapter - Excel Training: 5 Top Productivity Boosting Shortcuts" I wish all of the chapters had the material presented.
Anonymous
(DIRECTOR)
I highly recommend this course. I am a heavy user of excel but I was surprised that I have learned various tips, shortcuts and formulas that I don't use today. The examples provided are helpful and the instructor is very clear and engaging.
Anonymous
(Accountant)
Excel made easy by Jeff's instruction method, content and data selection for the course. Must take course for any Excel learner. Final exam questions were smartly crafted. Love this course. Thanks illumeo for bringing the course to us.
Steve Brown
(Senior Auditor at Charter Communications)
There is a lot of information presented in this long course. All of it was great information, but I think it was too much to be presented in one course. I believe it would be better served to be broken out into several courses.
Julie Hammeras CPA
(Sr. Manager, Transformation - ERP at Liberty Utilities)
Jeff Lenning is a great teacher and getting to do the exercises really helps keep the concepts easier to remember. He talks a little too fast, so it was great to be able to pause and work the exercises as he goes through them.
John Ball
(controller at CPP)
good course for anyone wanting to add to the knowledge of excel without getting to complex. There are many good tips and clever formulas, work arounds and productivity boosters. It makes you curious and you want to go further.
Anonymous
(Seeking Career Shift Opportunities)
The course is hands on from start to finish, and delivered in a very engaging manner. Highly recommended to anyone using Excel, regardless of years of experience. I expect to watch this again and again to digest what I learned.
Anonymous
(Senior Accounting & Reporting An..)
Great course - very helpful and useful! I really enjoyed all the additional practices sheets and extra credit. Jeff does a great job of using practical examples and walking through things in enough detail to recreate.
Kayla Garbison
(Account Executive at Yelp)
Very informative and useful! These tips and tricks are things I can implement every day in my workplace. I definitely suggest doing the workbooks along with the instructor to ensure each objective is learned.
Anonymous
(Fund Accountant)
I consider myself an advanced Excel user and there were many helpful tips in this course to make me think about the way I create workbooks and to consider alternatives to the way I approach certain tasks.
Bob Phipps
( at R.W. Phipps, PA)
this was amazing, i will be continuing the homework and want to call the lecturer to specifically talk about some recurring clients that i have. are you available for consulting work at a reasonable fee?
Anonymous
(Not Provided)
Although the course is oriented on recurring tasks (like, accounting reports preparation), many techniques explained here are useful for other purposes, e.g. for data analysis. Overall, great course.
Ted Feher
(Owner at Feher, PC (CPA))
A lot of information but extremely useful. Well put together, neatly explained, and the lesson workbooks make for a excellent resource. Especially liked the sections on dynamic namig etc.
Anonymous
(AP Specialist - Payments Team)
Overall had a lot of knowledge that was a good refresher from not using these functions and tools in excel in quite awhile. Instructor was very helpful and made it very easy to learn from
Anonymous
(Snr Accounting Consultant, CPA)
I truly enjoyed this course. It was not only a great review but I learnt a lot of tricks. I have always enjoyed Jeff's teaching style, and it is great that I have the accompanying books.
Alex Ledin
(Financial Analyst at Lockheed Martin Co.)
A treasure trove. I'm an advanced Excel user (pivots, macros, and VB) and I learned stuff... so you will too. One of the best courses that I've taken (for CPA CPE) on Illumeo.
Anonymous
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Very informative and very practical ways to use Excel to increase efficiency in work. As well as going over what Excel functions work best for different scenarios.
Jacob Daniel
( at United Community Bank)
More accounting based, but overall helpful with learning quick tips in excel. I enjoyed the excel examples and working through the the formulas and functions.
Anonymous
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I found the tips and shortcuts very useful and time saving. I also discovered some I had not previously known. The course was relevant and well thought out.
Jessica Spaulding
(Accountant at Firebirds Funding)
A lot of great information in this course. I'm looking forward to putting it into practice in my daily life and simplifying our reporting processes.
Adara Reese
(Program Analyst-Auditor at VA - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
A lot of content, might have been easier to grasp in smaller groups. However, I do enjoy this instructor and will continue taking courses from him.
Anonymous
(Senior Manager, Compliance)
This was one of the best courses I took - I really liked the fact that you could follow along with the instructor using the worksheets provided!
Collin Engelhardt
(Accounting Supervisor at University of Mary)
This is a great course! Only drawback was I could not get the supporting documents to download. The content was, however, incredibly useful!
james dalton
( at ME)
Great content. Great examples to work through. This was the longest 5.5hrs of CE in my life. Should be more hours. Very helpful indeed.
Anonymous
(Senior Accounting Analyst)
Thoroughly enjoyed the detailed analysis of excel functions and shortcuts. Excel is such an underutilized tool for data analytics.
Anonymous
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Good course. I liked the instructor. The course could use some better support materials that I could save and use in the future.
Christine Seres
(Senior Associate at RSM)
More time should be allocated to this course if the individual is attempting to complete the exercises as part of their training.
Anonymous
(Tax Consultant)
Great course. I learned a lot of Excel tips. Highly recommended even for those who believe themselves to be skilled Excel users.
Philip Simonson
(CFO / Broker at Omnetics Connector Corporation)
Excellent and pretty deep dive into some really useful functions and efficiency tips. Homework and samples are also very good.
Anonymous
(Mgr, Accounting/Reporting, Internal Repo..)
I learned some new tips for using Excel. But maybe breaking this training up into a few sessions might be easier for the user.
Anonymous
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This course was helpful and a good refresher. The shortcuts and keys demonstrated within this course is good for everyday use.
Angie Surry
(Field Business Plan Analyst at Charter Field Ops Business Planning)
I knew a lot of the presentation, but it's a great course because I learned some new techniques and wasn't a starter course.
Martin Smith
(owner at M. Ward Smith, Inc.)
This is a very good course that took a retard like me about 5 days to get through. I'm astonished that it's worth 5.5 hrs.
Lauren Reid
( at Clari)
great overview of a BUNCH of excel tricks. I learned about match, index, and the and funtion. super helpful trick with F9
Rene Galvan
(Broker at RGV Realty)
Instructor was very enthusiastic! His comments made me laugh. Time moved quickly and learned lots of new functions.
Anonymous
(Senior Financial Analyst)
Good refresher course. Seems that we know all but, refresher courses like these bring us back to learning curve.
Sean Kennedy
(SOX Compliance Manager at TowneBank)
Very good course. I know A LOT about Excel, and still found a couple of nuggets in there that I was not aware of.
Anonymous
(Accounts Payable Specialist)
Great course and information. I like the instructor despite some cheesy moments. Suggestion to all my coworkers.
Anonymous
(Accounts Payable Specialist)
This was a lot to learn in one course but I really enjoyed it! Love the instructor's enthusiasm about Excel.
Clayton Armfield
(Senior Financial Analyst at Stryker)
Great job. I would consider adding in time-lapse links for specific sections in the longer videos.
Shaila Shankar
( at Minted)
This course was outstanding in helping boost my efficiency and knowledge of excel functionality.
Anonymous
(Finance Manager)
Good course. Long, but does a good job of explaining excel functions, formulas, and shortcuts.
JOSH Aharonoff
( at Graphite Financial)
Excellent course and refresher on some important excel functions - thank for all the help!
John Russell
( at The Master's University and Seminar..)
Good material that is well presented. The supporting materials are clear and helpful.
Anonymous
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high again its me...love excel hope you do too. this course was fun and challenging
Anonymous
(Sr. Accounting Manager)
The course was very helpful. I liked that it included a lot of practical exercises.
Amy Myers
(VP of Corporate Treasury at University of Maryland Medical System)
Great course with excellent tips! Grateful to learn more about keyboard shortcuts.
Anonymous
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I found the Index Match functions most helpful to solve for Lookup limitations.
Andrew Anderson, CPA
(Principal Financial Analyst at Rio Tinto)
Great training and really useful tips to improve workbook design and function.
Anonymous
(N/A)
I learned a lot of new shortcuts that have advanced my knowledge of Excel.
zhu heinsohn
(accountant at Kraus)
very useful, and the author is good at the formula. and a lot of detail
Makarand Vaidya
(Senior Internal Auditor at Latitude12 Pty Ltd)
Helped me understand a lot of new ways of working efficiently in Excel
Anonymous
(Specialty Controller)
There were some great shortcuts that will help to improve my workflow.
Anonymous
(Accountant)
Great overview of so many efficiency tips and tricks. Very helpful.
Anonymous
(Chief Financial Officer)
Very comprehensive and lots of good information for any level user.
Anonymous
(Accountant)
Very helpful information for people in the accounting profession.
Sally Fonstein
(Corp Controller at Ustream, Inc.)
Really helpful course with relevant information to use every day.
Anonymous
(Financial Controller)
Great course! I would greatly recommend to accountant colleagues.
Betty Parks
(Card Program Administrator at Charter Communications)
The answer spreadsheets were very helpful as a reference.
Anonymous
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one of the best excel courses I have seen, very useful.
Anonymous
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Great tools for Excel. Learned a ton. Thanks illumeo!
Anonymous
(Head of Internal Audit Department)
Very good tips for using excel. Useful to save time.
Anonymous
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Very good excel tips and tricks; very helpful course
Laura Mensel
( at Rustici Software, LLC)
Great course! I'll come back and watch this again.
Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Intermediate
No Advanced Preparation or Prerequisites are needed for this course.
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