Excel 4.0 For Beginners - Master Microsoft Excel From A to Z

About this course

You’ll learn the essentials of Excel in just 2 hours.As a data analyst having to work constantly with Microsoft and on Excel, we focus on the core functionality that most people use to make you productive as quickly as possible vs. digging into every single feature available. This way, you’ll have a strong foundation to start getting insights from your data.Build a strong foundationWe start with the absolute basics. When you first open Excel, it may appear somewhat intimidating with so many different buttons and controls. To demystify Excel, we begin by walking through the interface and covering how you can easily get back to the controls that you use most often.Next, we delve into how you can enter data effectively and efficiently and format it so it can look good.Formulas and functions made super easyOnce we save our workbook, you’ll learn all about formulas and functions to help you answer those critical business questions. Here too we cover the basics, like how to use the status bar for simple metrics, how to enter a formula by referencing cells.From there, we move on to some of the most used Excel functions, like SUM, MAX, MIN, COUNT, COUNTA, COUTIF AND COUNTBLANK. You’ll understand how functions work and how to make sense of other functions not covered in this course, as there are over 500 functions in Excel.Visualize your data with chartsWe then launch into how to visualize your data using charts and conditional formatting. Charts make it easy to see trends and anomalies in your data that you might otherwise miss by just looking at your data.Explore your data with sorting, filtering, and pivot tablesSorting and filtering come next, which lets you manipulate how to view your data. You’ll also discover how pivot tables work and how you can analyze data simply by dragging and dropping fields. With the magic of pivot tables, you don’t even need to