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Welcome!  The Microsoft® Excel® Step-By-Step Training Guide Series is designed to quickly teach you the most common basic and intermediate Microsoft® Excel® formulas & features, including Pivot Tables, & the VLOOKUP formula.  Each book is organized into step-by-step sections, with screenshots, and easy to follow steps allowing you to learn and grow your knowledge of Microsoft® Excel® at your own pace. 

 

Learn more about the book series below:

Fundamentals:

  • Sum, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division, 

  • Average, Min, Max, Today, Networkdays, & SumIF

  

Pivot Tables (an introduction):

  • Organizing & summarizing data

  • Formatting results,  & adding  Pivot Charts

 

Excel® Features:

  • Data Sorting, Formula Trace, 

  • Text-To-Columns, & Conditional Formatting

 

Text Functions:

  • LEN, TRIM, CONCATENATE, 

  • MID, PROPER, UPPER, & LOWER

 

Logic  & Lookup Functions:

  • IF & AND

  • Learn how to use a basic VLOOKUP formula

Fundamentals:

  • Sum, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division, 

  • Average, Min, Max, Today, Networkdays, & SumIF

  

Pivot Tables (an introduction):

  • Organizing & summarizing data

  • Formatting results,  & adding  Pivot Charts

 

Excel® Features:

  • Data Sorting, Formula Trace, 

  • Text-To-Columns, & Conditional Formatting

 

Text Functions:

  • LEN, TRIM, CONCATENATE, 

  • MID, PROPER, UPPER, & LOWER

 

Logic  & Lookup Functions:

  • IF & AND

  • Learn how to use a basic VLOOKUP formula

  • Organizing & summarizing data

  • Formatting results

  • Inserting Pivot Charts

  • Displaying averages & percentages

  • Ranking data

  • Grouping data

  • Inserting calculated fields

  • How to create a basic Dashboard

  • Optional instructions for protecting Dashboard data and hiding tabs

  • Updating Dashboard data, while keeping the existing formatting and presentation intact

  • What the VLOOKUP formula does 

  • The parts of the VLOOKUP formula

  • Detailed examples with screenshots using a basic VLOOKUP formula

  • Incorporating the IFERROR functionality into your VLOOKUP formula

  • What to do when you attempt to lookup a value in the table_array, but none exists

  • What to do when you don’t have a unique lookup_value

  • What to do when the unique lookup_value is listed more than once in the table_array

  • Detailed example applying the VLOOKUP formula across multiple workbooks and tabs 

  • A review of common VLOOKUP error messages / issues and how to resolve them

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