Boot Camp: Top 10 Excel Functions, VLOOKUP Functions, Recording Excel Macros with an Intro to VBA

Why Should You Attend:

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 10 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 enables you to look for a value quickly and easily down a column of data and return a value from the same row in a different column. Perfect for when working with large tabular data. INDEX and MATCH work in a similar way but provide more flexibility.

You will learn how to create a macro the easy way 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.

Formulas are equations that can perform calculations, return information, manipulate the contents of other cells, test conditions, and more.

Lookup functions are far superior to manually searching for specific data elements in a spreadsheet. VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH are some of the most well-known (and most useful) functions in Excel.

Being able to create and edit macros is one of the must have skills for Excel Power Users. Having this knowledge will save you hours of time by allowing you to automate any Excel-based task or process. If you have never created macros or used VBA before, this webinar is for you.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• 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, LEN, TRIM and CONCANTENATE
• Learn the arguments in the VLOOKUP function
• Understand the importance of absolute references within many lookup functions
• Use VLOOKUP to perform approximate matches
• Use VLOOKUP to look up data from another workbook
• Learn how VLOOKUP stops looking after it finds an initial match within a list
• Explore why VLOOKUP sometimes returns #N/A
• Learn about the IFNA function to explain #N/A errors
• Learn why the INDEX and MATCH combination often is superior to VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP
• Use the MATCH function to find the position of an item on a list
• Use the INDEX function to locate a value
• Learn the difference between workbook macros and personal macros
• Making 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
• View the recorded macro in VBA
• Edit the macro

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.

Cathy Horwitz
Instructor and Consultant, PC Training and Consulting

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 training and application support with personal computers and has been an instructor for the Microsoft Office Suite since 1989.

Cathy Horwitz believes that when your employees know the capabilities of the software they use, they will demonstrate improved productivity, will be more efficient and will be able to problem solve more easily.

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.

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