Event Description

This course guides you through creating formulas using Financial, Date & Time, Math & Trig, Statistical, Lookup & Reference, Database, Text and Logical functions.

Designed For

Experienced Excel 2016 users, or experienced Excel users switching from earlier versions.

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; and Select Logical functions to perform calculations based on one or more tests.

Major Subjects

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 and Time functions; SUM, RAND, SQRT, and ROUND Math and Trig functions; AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, COUNT, MEDIAN, MODE.SNGL, and LARGE Statistical functions; VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, and FORMULATEXT Lookup and Reference functions; DSUM, DCOUNT, DAVERAGE, DMIN, and DMAX Database functions; PROPER, SUBSTITUTE, and LOWER Text functions; and IF, AND, and IFNA Logical functions.

Prerequisites

Experience working with Excel 2016 in the Windows operating system environment

Instructions

None