Surgent's Microsoft 365: Exploring Useful Excel Functions

Overview

This course is a one-lesson intermediate level course that guides you through using the Quick Analysis feature to quickly insert row and column totals and creating formulas using Financial, Date & Time, Math & Trig, Statistical, Lookup & Reference, Database, Text, and Logical functions. The functions covered in this course are the: IRR, NPV, FV, PV, PMT, SLN, SYD, and DB Financial functions; NOW, TODAY, DATE, MONTH, DAY, YEAR, TIME, HOUR, MINUTE, SECOND, WEEKDAY, and NETWORKDAYS Date & Time functions; SUM, RAND, SQRT, and ROUND Math & Trig functions; AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, COUNT, MEDIAN, MODE.SNGL, and LARGE Statistical functions; VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and FORMULATEXT Lookup & Reference functions; DSUM, DCOUNT, DAVERAGE, DMIN, and DMAX Database functions; PROPER, SUBSTITUTE, and LOWER Text functions; and IF, AND, and IFNA Logical functions.

Highlights

Multiple ways to create a formula using one or more functions
Financial functions to calculate the internal rate of return, net present value, future value, present value, payment and depreciation
Date & Time functions to insert date and time components
Math & Trig functions to calculate the sum of a range of numbers; find a random number and the positive square root of a number; and round calculations to a specific number of places
Statistical functions to find the average, maximum, minimum, count, median and mode of a range of numbers plus the top five numbers
Lookup & Reference functions to find specific data and document worksheet formulas
Specific criteria and Database functions to calculate the sum, average, maximum value, minimum value and number of cells containing numbers in a database field
Text functions to improve worksheet appearance
Logical functions to perform calculations based on one or more tests

Prerequisites

Experience working with Microsoft 365: Excel in the Windows operating system environment

Designed For

Users experienced with using Microsoft 365: Excel in the Windows operating system environment, or experienced Excel users switching from earlier versions of Excel.

Objectives

Identify multiple ways to create a formula using one or more functions
Select Financial functions to calculate the internal rate of return, net present value, future value, present value, payment and depreciation
Select Date & Time functions to insert date and time components
Select Math & Trig functions to calculate the sum of a range of numbers; find a random number and the positive square root of a number; and round calculations to a specific number of places
Select Statistical functions to find the average, maximum, minimum, count, median and mode of a range of numbers plus the top five numbers
Select Lookup & Reference functions to find specific data and document worksheet formulas
Select specific criteria and Database functions to calculate the sum, average, maximum value, minimum value and number of cells containing numbers in a database field
Select Text functions to improve worksheet appearance
Select Logical functions to perform calculations based on one or more tests