
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:
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Sum, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division,
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Average, Min, Max, Today, Networkdays, & SumIF
Pivot Tables (an introduction):
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Organizing & summarizing data
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Formatting results, & adding Pivot Charts
Excel® Features:
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Data Sorting, Formula Trace,
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Text-To-Columns, & Conditional Formatting
Text Functions:
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LEN, TRIM, CONCATENATE,
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MID, PROPER, UPPER, & LOWER
Logic & Lookup Functions:
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IF & AND
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Learn how to use a basic VLOOKUP formula
Fundamentals:
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Sum, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division,
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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
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Learn how to use a basic VLOOKUP formula
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Organizing & summarizing data
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Formatting results
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Inserting Pivot Charts
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Displaying averages & percentages
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Ranking data
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Grouping data
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Inserting calculated fields
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How to create a basic Dashboard
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Optional instructions for protecting Dashboard data and hiding tabs
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Updating Dashboard data, while keeping the existing formatting and presentation intact
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What the VLOOKUP formula does
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The parts of the VLOOKUP formula
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Detailed examples with screenshots using a basic VLOOKUP formula
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Incorporating the IFERROR functionality into your VLOOKUP formula
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What to do when you attempt to lookup a value in the table_array, but none exists
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What to do when you don’t have a unique lookup_value
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What to do when the unique lookup_value is listed more than once in the table_array
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Detailed example applying the VLOOKUP formula across multiple workbooks and tabs
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A review of common VLOOKUP error messages / issues and how to resolve them





