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Overview
Excel functions can greatly enhance your ability to perform tasks in day-to-day activities in Excel. While there are hundreds of functions available, there are 10 functions that all Excel users should know. Whether you are an office worker, a small business owner using Excel to keep track of your finances, or just a casual user, these Excel functions can be very important time savers and enhance your ability to create better-performing spreadsheets!
Why you should Attend
This webinar will get you started with functions. You will learn not only HOW to use these functions, but WHY they do what they do. Knowing the "why" helps you to do more with Excel. Attendees should have basic knowledge of creating Excel calculations using basic mathematical operators and know the difference between relative and absolute cell references. This course is for beginner to intermediate Excel users.
Areas Covered in the Session
- Learn many statistical functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, and COUNT
- Use IF and its counterparts COUNTIF, SUMIF, and AVERAGEIF
- Understand VLOOKUP
- Calculate dates using TODAY, NOW and NETWORKDAYS
- Learn many functions to manipulate text once imported including LEFT, RIGHT, LEN, TRIM, and CONCATENATE
- Use IFERROR when errors can’t be avoided
Who Will Benefit
- Business Owners
- CEO's / CFO's / CTO's
- Managers
- Accountants
- CPA's
- Financial Consultants
- IT Professionals
- Auditors
- Human Resource Personnel
- Bookkeepers
- Marketers
- Anybody with large amounts of Data
- Anybody who uses Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, and wants to be more efficient and productive
Speaker Profile
Cathy Horwitz believes that when you know the capabilities of the software you use, you will demonstrate improved productivity, will be more efficient and will be able to problem solve more easily.
Cathy teaches classes on the Microsoft suite of application software including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access and Outlook. Cathy has over 30 years of experience in classroom and virtual training and has been an instructor of Microsoft Office since its inception.
Her strengths include customizing classes based on the needs of individual students and providing realistic business examples to compliment training. She is a high energy trainer with a flair for training the adult student.
She holds the Modern Classroom Certified Trainer certification from Logical Operations which prepares instructors for all aspects of delivering a course using the latest training technologies and approaches.
When not teaching, Cathy enjoys gardening, shopping estate sales and refinishing mid-century furniture.