Microsoft Excel: Advanced Formulas and Functions – Chris Dutton

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It’s time to show Excel who’s boss. Whether you’re starting from square one or aspiring to become an absolute Excel badass, you’ve come to the right place.

This course will give you a deep understanding of the advanced formulas and functions that transform Excel from a basic spreadsheet program into a dynamic and powerful analytics tool. While most Excel courses focus on simply what each formula does, I teach through hands-on, contextual examples designed to showcase why these formulas are awesome and how they can be applied in a number of ways. I will not train you to regurgitate functions and formula syntax; I will teach you how to THINK like Excel.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

By the end of the course you’ll be writing robust formulas and functions from scratch, allowing you to:

• Easily build dynamic tools & Excel dashboards to filter, display and analyze your data
• Go rogue and design your own formula-based formatting rules
• Join datasets from multiple sources in seconds with lookup, index & match functions
• Pull real-time data from APIs directly into Excel (weather, stock quotes, directions, etc.)
• Manipulate dates, times, text, and arrays
• Automate tedious and time-consuming analytics tasks using cell formulas and functions in Excel (no VBA required!)

We’ll dive into a broad range of Excel formulas & functions, including:

• Lookup/Reference functions
• Statistical functions
• Formula based formatting
• Date & Time functions
• Logical operators
• Array formulas
• Text functions
• Powerful analytics tools like INDIRECT, HYPERLINK, WEBSERVICE & FILTERXML

If you’re looking for the ONE course with all of the advanced formulas and functions that you need to know to become an absolute Excel ninja, you’ve found it.

WHATS INCLUDED IN THE COURSE?

• Downloadable project files and resources
• Unique tips and tools that you won’t find in ANY other course, guaranteed
• Advanced demos and case studies
• Course quizzes & homework exercises
• 100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE?

• Excel users who have basic skills but want to get really, REALLY good
• Anyone hoping to expand their analytics skill set, work more efficiently with data, and take their career to a new level
• Students looking for an engaging, hands-on, and highly interactive approach to training

Course Curriculum

Getting Started

• Course Structure & Outline (4:12)
• Downloading the Homework Exercises (1:42)

Excel Formulas 101

• Introduction (1:06)
• The Formula Library & Auditing Tools (4:37)
• DEMO: Evaluate Formula (1:25)
• Basic Formula Syntax (3:31)
• Fixed & Relative Cell References (4:57)
• Common Errors & IFERROR (7:25)
• Function, CTRL & ALT Shortcuts (6:36)
• BONUS: Mac Shortcuts (2:08)
• Data Validation Rules (3:28)
• Fixed vs. Volatile Functions (3:21)
• QUIZ: Formulas 101
• HOMEWORK: Formulas 101 (0:46)
• New Lecture

Conditional Statements & Logical Operators

• Introduction (1:23)
• Anatomy of the IF Statement (4:01)
• Nested IF Statements (4:53)
• AND/OR Operators (8:47)
• NOT (<>) Operators (3:17)
• Addressing Errors with IFERROR (4:03)
• Common IS Statements (4:00)
• QUIZ: Conditional Statements & Logical Operators
• HOMEWORK: Conditional Statements & Logical Operators (0:44)

Statistical Functions

• Introduction (1:12)
• Basic Stats Functions (5:17)
• SMALL/LARGE & RANK/PERCENTRANK (6:19)
• RAND() & RANDBETWEEN (2:12)
• The SUMPRODUCT Function (3:55)
• COUNTIFS/SUMIFS/AVERAGEIFS (4:49)
• DEMO: Basic Dashboards with Stats Functions (8:09)
• QUIZ: Statistical Functions
• HOMEWORK: Statistical Functions (0:35)

Lookup & Reference Functions

• Introduction (1:23)
• Named Arrays (3:30)
• ROW/ROWS & COLUMN/COLUMNS (3:18)
• VLOOKUP & HLOOKUP (5:54)
• DEMO: Joining Data with VLOOKUP (6:23)
• Combining IFERROR & VLOOKUP (4:30)
• VLOOKUP Range Options (6:18)
• The INDEX Function (1:59)
• The MATCH Function (2:32)
• Combining INDEX & MATCH (6:08)
• Combining MATCH & VLOOKUP (4:47)
• UPDATE: VLOOKUP Correction (5:05)
• The OFFSET Function (2:05)
• Combining OFFSET & COUNTA (2:58)
• DEMO: Building a Scrolling Chart with OFFSET (9:51)
• QUIZ: Lookup & Reference Functions
• HOMEWORK: Lookup & Reference Functions (0:54)

Text Functions

• Introduction (0:57)
• UPPER, LOWER, PROPER & TRIM (3:32)
• CONCATENATE (&) (3:26)
• LEFT, MID, RIGHT & LEN (3:31)
• TEXT & VALUE (4:20)
• SEARCH & FIND (5:04)
• Categorizing Data with IF(ISNUMBER(SEARCH)) (5:39)
• Combining RIGHT, LEN & SEARCH (5:43)
• The SUBSTITUTE Function (2:21)
• QUIZ: Text Functions
• HOMEWORK: Text Functions (0:59)

Date & Time Functions

• Introduction (2:13)
• Understanding DATEVALUE (5:05)
• Date Formatting & Fill Series (3:39)
• TODAY() & NOW() (2:16)
• YEAR/MONTH/DAY & HOUR/MINUTE/SECOND (3:04)
• The EOMONTH Function (6:17)
• The YEARFRAC Function (2:27)
• WEEKDAY, WORKDAY & NETWORKDAYS (7:24)
• The DATEDIF Function (4:23)
• DEMO: Budget Pacing Tool (11:07)
• QUIZ: Date & Time Functions
• HOMEWORK: Date & Time Functions (0:35)

Formula-Based Formatting

• Introduction (1:30)
• Creating and Managing Formula-Based Rules (4:39)
• DEMO: Highlighting Rows with MOD (3:50)
• DEMO: Formatting Cells Based on Values (3:29)
• DEMO: Formatting Cells with Stats Functions (5:28)
• DEMO: Formatting Cells with Text & Conditional Functions (5:08)
• QUIZ: Formula-Based Formatting
• HOMEWORK: Formula-Based Formatting (0:34)

Basic Array Formulas

• Introduction (1:26)
• Rules of Array Formulas (3:24)
• Pros & Cons of Array Formulas (2:15)
• Vertical, Horizontal & 2-D Array Constants (6:26)
• Using Array Constants in Formulas (3:38)
• Named Array Constants (4:31)
• The TRANSPOSE Function (4:21)
• Linking Data: Array vs. Non-Array Comparison (2:36)
• DEMO: Returning the “X” Largest Values (3:09)
• DEMO: Counting Characters Across Cells (1:52)
• DEMO: Creating a “MAX IF” Function (Part 1) (3:09)
• DEMO: Creating a “MAX IF” Function (Part 2) (6:54)
• The Double Unary Operator (“–“) (3:49)
• QUIZ: Array Formulas
• HOMEWORK: Array Formulas (2:09)

Badass Bonus Functions

• Introduction (1:41)
• The INDIRECT Function (10:55)
• The HYPERLINK Function (6:19)
• Real-Time Data with WEBSERVICE & FILTERXML (7:16)
• QUIZ: Badass Bonus Functions

Wrapping Up

• Resources & Next Steps (0:41)