Self-Study

Surgent's Microsoft 365: Exploring Useful Excel Functions

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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.

Major subjects

• 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

Learning 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

Who should take this program?

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

Pricing

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