Excel functions can greatly enhance your ability to perform tasks in day to day activities in Excel. Whether you are an office worker, or a small business owner using Excel to keep track of your finances or just the casual user, these Excel functions can be very important time savers and enhance your ability to create better performing spreadsheets. You will learn not only HOW to use these functions, but WHY they do what they do. Knowing the “why” helps you to do more with Excel. Attendees should have basic knowledge of creating Excel calculations using the basic mathematical operators and know the difference between relative and absolute cell references. • Learn many statistical functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN and COUNT • Use IF and its counterparts COUNTIF, SUMIF, and AVERAGEIF • Understand VLOOKUP • Calculate dates using TODAY, and NOW • Learn many functions to manipulate text once imported including LEFT, RIGHT, LEN, TRIM and CONCATENATE
