Microsoft Excel for Mac - Basic & Advanced

Understanding Excel Formula Anatomy.

Learn about working with absolute and relative cell referencing, and techniques for copying formulas.

Use to understand the anatomy of Excel functions, and what their components mean.

Learn basic math functions including SUM, ROUND and SUBTOTAL.

Learn basic statistical functions including COUNT, COUNTA, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, MEDIAN and MODE.

Learn to build standalone logical IF functions, and make them more complex by nesting AND and OR within them.

Learn to break apart text with the LEFT, RIGHT, MID, FIND and SEARCH functions, and to combine text with the & character.

Understand how dates work in Excel using the TODAY, YEAR, MONTH, DAY and DATE functions.

Understand how time works in Excel, and how to change from whole numbers into time increments and back again.

Learn to work with formula auditing tools including tracing precedent and dependent cells and formula evaluation.

Learn to use SUMIF, COUNTIF and SUMPRODUCT to add cells only when certain conditions are met.

Learn about creating and updating external links, and about the potential dangers of external links in Excel.

Learn to work with the EOMONTH and EDATE functions that easily shift dates from one month or year to another.

Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an approximate match and return it or the corresponding value from another column.

Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an exact match and return it or the corresponding value from another column.

Learn to work with INDEX, MATCH and HLOOKUP, as alternatives to the VLOOKUP function.

Learn to sort data in Excel by a single column or by multiple columns.

Learn to filter Excel data for specific words, dates, and apply multiple filters to a single data table.

Learn tricks for consolidating your data so it's vertically contiguous (without blank rows) – for Tables, PivotTables and Charts.

Learn about creating named ranges, and the benefits of doing so.

Learn about creating Excel tables, and their advantages.

Learn to record basic Excel macros to automate your actions (instead of doing them manually).

Learn to control formatting and other options in PivotTables.

Learn to create and modify basic calculated fields for PivotTables.

Learn to perform what-if analysis in Excel using the Scenario Manager and Goal-Seek.

Learn to work with the Format Cells dialog to apply text rotation and borders, and to center data across multiple cells.

Learn about adding and working with Excel’s outlining tools to quickly hide irrelevant sections of your worksheet.

Learn to build your own custom number formats to display dates, values and variances how you want to see them.

Learn to create top/bottom and highlight cell rules, as well as to apply icon sets and data bars.

Learn to create custom conditional formatting rules based on formulas.

How to create an effective bar chart by reducing ink and noise that distract from the story.

Learn how to build an effective pie chart, and when you should and shouldn’t use them.

How to create an effective line chart through careful manipulation of chart elements to enhance its story telling ability.

When you want to graph 3 line series, but only want 2 in focus most of the time.

Learn how to use Data Validation to ensure that users enter valid data in input cells.

Use to restrict users ability to enter invalid data in cells by providing them with a drop down list of valid options.

Learn about creating, reviewing and printing Excel comments.

Learn how to apply built-in number styles and create your own custom styles packages.

Learn how to create and manage Custom Views in a worksheet.

Learn about page setup options, fitting print jobs on a page, headers and footers, and other ways to customize print jobs.

Learn about the setup and weaknesses of Excel’s security systems.