Excel for All: Beginner to Experts

MS Excel: Offload your work: Agenda

In this video we are will be finalizing the steps to reach our agenda.

The video starts with the screen overview and also explains some essential starting techniques.

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Data Cleaning: Customize a list

This Video explains about how the Excel's Fill handle can be used to drag and drop and create several lists out of it without typing it.

We can also see if a customized list can be created and incorporated in excel in the similar way.

Data Cleaning: Format Numbers

This video is one of the important video in the series:

We are learning the different types on number formatting in Excel here like:

Data formats, Currency formats, etc.

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Data Cleaning: Coloring cells the smarter way

Have you been coloring cells the historical way? Here is a video that can help us save tremendous amount of time in coloring and highlighting the insightful data. and also helps us save time from redoing it again.

Download the Data below and start working together.

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Data Cleaning: Going beyond a simple paste

In Excel, when we copy, there are too many features that gets copied , example - Value of the cell, boder, color, font color, formula, etc.

But at the time of pasting we might want to paste only one required feature.

The video explains how can we use the option "Paste Special" in excel to do this.

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Data Cleaning: Going beyond a simple Find

This video takes us beyond a very popular concept of "CTRL + F"

Use a blank sheet to work with is, no specific data needed.

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Organizing data in Excel: Sorting and Filtering

This video will explain about the best practices from data arrangement. and Talks about the difference in sorting and filtering as well. Do look for quick shortcuts to the same here.

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Organizing data in Excel: Deciding what others Enter

We all know the problems and discrepancies in entering of the data by different people. the best way is to restrict them to type the way we need it. Data validation talks about the same in this video.

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Organizing data in Excel: Creating Subtotals

This video is based on the concept of Subtotal, where we derive calculations on the data and present them within the data itself. (below the data mostly). very useful when we need to segment the data and take printouts.

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Organizing data in Excel: Consolidating Tables

Summary from a summary.

This is exactly what a Consolidate tool does.

If you have two cross tabs displaying similar information, and you need them to be clubbed together, do switch on the video once you download the given data, and we can start together then?

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writing smart Functions in Excel: Tricks

This video is to explain the symbols important to work with functions, and help you self suffice yourself to get any new function by yourself.

this shall be treated as the foundation of all the functions, based on which every function in excel works, and will help us understand any new functions by ourselves -easily.

writing smart Functions in Excel:Arguments

This video is a continuation of the last video and explains some trial usage of functions. some sample functions will also be displayed in this video.

00:01 how to identify optional Arguments and usage.

01:38 Absolute/ Fixed cell references (using $ Symbols)

03:20 to make dynamic(smarter) functions

writing smart Functions in Excel: Creating Templates from Summaries

This Video explains how do we create a summary of the data and then how do we convert it into a self learning template.

a self learning template is a kind of report which is generated one and automatically adopts itself on any changes made on the data

00:35 Creating Summary

01:40 Formula of summary to template conversion

Please download the Data for working with this video. you can continue with the same data for the next videos, untill we complete counting.

writing smart Functions in Excel: Count Functions

We start touching upon functions from this video. carrying an idea of learning various aspects of a function and be able to crack functions concept as a whole.

we are hereby starting with some counting functions used in summarizing data sets.

00:20 Logic comes from the historical ways of doing things (strange but true)

02:40 Thinking about the name of the functions

03:15 learning to Explore functions

04:25 CountA function ( difference between CountA and Count Function)

05:55 Popularly made mistakes while selecting a range in Excel

07:14 Correcting  the mistake by selecting a bigger range

writing smart Functions in Excel: Countif Functions

This video explains the practical usage of the functions in a correct manner and filling arguments step by step.

02:10 COUNTIF Function to conditionally calculate the summary of the data based on values in the columns.

04:00 how to name ranges and whats the usage of the same in functions

04:50 naming multiple columns at a time using their headings as names

06:45 using COUNTIFS function to work with multiple conditions at a time.

08:25 Creating charts to present the template

11:15 Chart alignment trick

11:50 Connecting Excel charts to Powerpoint dynamically

15:55 using Wildcard characters(*/?) to avoid the data cleaning.

writing smart Functions in Excel: Text functions

This video talks about some random data cleaning text functions. you don't need any specific data sets to be downloaded, just open up a blank sheet and start working on it with the video.

Segmenting Data in Excel: IF Functions

Before we can think of a summary, we need to divide the data into meaningful segments by using some logical functions.

basically to create categorical variables in the data.

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Segmenting Data in Excel: Nested IF, AND and OR Functions

This video is a continuation of the logical functions itself where the advanced logical function is used.

Nested Ifs

Why create reports the tedious way: Introduction to Pivots

See how a Pivot table makes our life simpler by generating awesome reports in no time.

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Why create reports the tedious way: Generating Pivot Reports

This video is a continuation of the previous video and talks further about generating reports. some more problems have been picked up in the video on report generation.

Why create reports the tedious way: Slicing the Report

In this video we specifically going to focus on data segmentation and slicing of the reports based on different criterias.

Why create reports the tedious way: Pivots on Dates

Lecture video explains the use of Group option in Pivot tables to make the report generation based on the time factor user friendly.

Showcasing your data with Excel: Ways to Present

Starting from this lecture , we talk about presenting the information that we have.

the current video talks about some trial and error approaches that we follow.

Showcasing your data with Excel: Creating a template

A self learning template is a kind of information that keeps getting updated by itself and also accommodates the output based on changes in the requirement.

Showcasing your data with Excel: Making Templates Smarter

Using index and Match functions , you will notice how the output becomes smarter and smarter.

the standard step to making anything smarter is to:

identify constants and replacing them by variables

Showcasing your data with Excel: Creating Dashboard from Templates

In this video we are discussing how to create controllable charts.

Showcasing your data with Excel: using Controls

This video cements the concepts we have learnt and based on it creates a dynamic and well managed information dashboard which can be controlled from a single point.