Formulas let Excel do your calculations for you, making your work faster and more accurate. This Excel formulas for beginners training assumes no prior experience with Excel or formulas.
Any task that involves adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing is a job for a formula. You'll learn to build basic formulas, use parentheses correctly and copy formulas without falling into common traps. You'll also make formulas easier to read by naming important cells.
The session then introduces functions, Excel's built-in formulas for specific calculations, which can replace long manual formulas. You'll practice with SUM, AVERAGE and COUNT and leave confident using formulas in your everyday work.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
If you're new to Excel, struggle with formulas or still calculate figures by hand, this session shows you how to let Excel do the work and save time.
It suits students, professionals and anyone with little formula experience. The demonstrations use Excel for Windows, and the features shown also work in earlier versions.
AREA COVERED
- Creating basic formulas: addition, subtraction, division and multiplication
- Using parentheses in formulas: what they do and why
- Copying a formula and the pitfalls to watch for
- Naming important cells to make formulas logical and easy to understand
- Speeding up work with the SUM, AVERAGE and COUNT functions
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Build formulas that add, subtract, multiply and divide
- Use parentheses to control the order of calculation
- Copy formulas while avoiding common errors
- Assign names to key cells to make formulas easier to read
- Use the SUM, AVERAGE and COUNT functions
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
- This training is perfect for beginners who are new to Excel or have limited experience with formulas. Whether you are a student, professional, or simply looking to improve your Excel skills, this training is for you
- The training will be delivered using the latest version of Excel for Windows however all of the functionality is also available to users of earlier versions of Excel
If you're new to Excel, struggle with formulas or still calculate figures by hand, this session shows you how to let Excel do the work and save time.
It suits students, professionals and anyone with little formula experience. The demonstrations use Excel for Windows, and the features shown also work in earlier versions.
- Creating basic formulas: addition, subtraction, division and multiplication
- Using parentheses in formulas: what they do and why
- Copying a formula and the pitfalls to watch for
- Naming important cells to make formulas logical and easy to understand
- Speeding up work with the SUM, AVERAGE and COUNT functions
- Build formulas that add, subtract, multiply and divide
- Use parentheses to control the order of calculation
- Copy formulas while avoiding common errors
- Assign names to key cells to make formulas easier to read
- Use the SUM, AVERAGE and COUNT functions
- This training is perfect for beginners who are new to Excel or have limited experience with formulas. Whether you are a student, professional, or simply looking to improve your Excel skills, this training is for you
- The training will be delivered using the latest version of Excel for Windows however all of the functionality is also available to users of earlier versions of Excel
Speaker Profile
Mike Thomas
Mike has worked in the IT training business since 1989 where his expertise and experience covers designing, delivering training courses, writing training materials and recording and editing video-based tutorials. Although he is a subject matter expert in a range of Microsoft technologies and has worked extensively with Mac OSX and Mac-related software since 2006; however, his passion is for all-things-Excel and in 2012 he founded the website theexceltrainer.co.ukMike is a Fellow of The Learning and Performance Institute and has worked with and for a large number of global and UK-based companies and organizations across a diverse range of sectors. In …
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