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Using Basic Formulas and Functions in Microsoft Excel 

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Overview

Implement formulas and functions to automate repetitive tasks, reducing manual effort and increasing productivity

Duration

2 hours

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

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Using Basic Formulas and Functions in Microsoft Excel
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Using Basic Formulas and Functions in Microsoft Excel
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  • Guided project & hands-on learning
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Using Basic Formulas and Functions in Microsoft Excel
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Course details

Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
  • For individuals who have never used Excel before and want to learn the basics of creating spreadsheets, entering data, and performing simple calculations
What are the course deliverables?
  • Create an account in Microsoft Office 365 and upload a file to open with Excel
  • Write formulas to perform simple calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
  • Use the SUM and SUMIF functions to analyze data on the sales of a sample company as well as calculate averages and percentages
More about this course
  • In this project, you will learn about the general format for writing formulas and functions in Excel to perform analysis on the sales data from a sample company
  • In this analysis, you will calculate total sums of profits, you will learn how to use functions to analyze the popularity of the items sold and you will also learn how to calculate averages and percentages of monthly profits
  • Throughout the project, you will work through some examples that will show you how to apply the formulas and functions you have learned

Using Basic Formulas and Functions in Microsoft Excel
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Coursera 
Curriculum

Upload a document using the free online version of Microsoft Office 365

Write functions in Excel to perform simple calculations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division

Use the SUM function and multiplication formula in Excel to perform analysis on sales data for a co

Use the SUMIF function in Excel to perform analysis on the popularity of the items sold from the company sales data

Use formulas to calculate averages and percentages in Excel to perform analysis on the monthly profits from the company sales data

Using Basic Formulas and Functions in Microsoft Excel
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