Important Functions with Microsoft Excel

Learn what some of the most popular and powerful functions are in Microsoft Excel, as well as how and when to use them.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most powerful and widely used spreadsheet programs in the world

It has the power to perform calculations and tasks to simplify our work. Whether you are using Excel personally, as a student or at work, the reason for using it is most probably to do some sort of calculation or perform a task of some sort.

Functions are tools found in Microsoft Excel to make this process easier for us.

If you were to individually add the values in 2 cells together, a simple formula telling Excel to add Cell A to Cell B (Cell A + Cell B) would work well... But what if you have to add the values of 100 or 1000 or more cells together??? Surely you can't individually type that into a formula, and therefore Excel has functions, in a case like this the SUM function, to make this a very simple operation.

This is just one example of how functions are used in Microsoft Excel. Excel has nearly 500 built-in functions, and more are being added. That is many operations simplified, that might have taken quite some time to perform otherwise.

Luckily, you don't need to know every function to be able to use Excel, so in this course I will teach you some of the most popular and powerful function which are just must know functions, but also some functions that are not well known, but you might be surprised at how they can help you...

I will explain how to use each function step by step and explain each of the criteria required for each specific function.

This course consist of 9 sections which include 38 video lessons which are mostly 4 - 10 min long, unless the function needs some more explaining.

Course layout as follows:

Section 1: Introduction

• Welcome

• Introduction to functions in Excel

Section 2: Date & Time Functions

• NOW and TODAY

• DAY, MONTH, YEAR and DATE

• HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND and TIME

• NETWORKDAYS and WORKDAY

• WEEKDAY and WEEKNUM

Section 3: Engineering Functions

• CONVERT

Section 4: Logical and Information Functions

• ISBLANK, ISERROR, ISNUMBER, ISTEXT, ISBLANK, ISFORMULA, ISODD, ISEVEN

• AND, OR and NOT

• IF and IFS

• IFERROR

Section 5: Lookup and Reference Functions

• VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP

• INDEX and MATCH

• ROW, COLUMN, ROWS and COLUMNS

• HYPERLINK

• TRANSPOSE

Section 6: Statistical Functions

• COUNT, COUNTA and COUNTBLANK

• COUNTIF and COUNTIFS

• SUM, SUMIF and SUMIFS

• MIN, MAX, LARGE and SMALL

• MINIFS and MAXIFS

• MODE

• RANK

Section 7: Mathematical Functions

• RAND and RANDBETWEEN

• ROUND, ROUNDUP, ROUNDDOWN and INT

• MROUND, CEILING.MATH and FLOOR.MATH

• MOD

• SUBTOTAL and AGGRETATE

Section 8: Text Functions

• LEFT, RIGHT, MID and LEN

• FIND and SEARCH

• REPLACE and SUBSTITUTE

• TRIM and CLEAN

• CONCAT and TEXTJOIN

• UPPER, LOWER and PROPER

• TEXT

  
  

Anyone with basic Excel knowledge can easily learn all these functions by taking this course.

If you have however never used Excel before, please make sure to look at my Microsoft Excel for Complete Beginners course, to learn the basics and get started.

You will receive a certificate on completion of this course.

Good luck, and please give me a rating and review if you enjoyed this course.