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Your first formulas

Point at cells so your numbers update themselves.

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Spreadsheet foundations

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Formulas, totals and quick summaries of a list.

  1. Your first formulasCells and formulasUp next
  2. Adding up with SUMSUM and rangesNot started
  3. Average, highest and lowestAVERAGE, MIN and MAXNot started
  4. Counting what’s thereCOUNT and COUNTANot started

Formulas that scale

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Fill a formula down a whole table, and make it decide things.

  1. Filling formulas downAbsolute referencesNot started
  2. Making decisions with IFIFNot started

Percentages and growth

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Percent change, discounts, tax and running totals.

  1. Percent change, discounts and taxPercent changeNot started
  2. Locking just the row or columnMixed referencesNot started
  3. Running totalsRunning totalsNot started

Answering questions about your data

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Totals and counts for just the rows you care about.

  1. Totals with conditionsSUMIF and SUMIFSNot started
  2. Counts with conditionsCOUNTIF and COUNTIFSNot started
  3. Partial matches and exclusionsWildcards in criteriaNot started
  4. Totals between datesDate ranges in criteriaNot started

Looking things up

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Pull the right value from another table.

  1. Find it with XLOOKUPExact-match lookupsNot started
  2. VLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCHClassic lookupsNot started
  3. Two-way lookupsTwo-way lookupsNot started
  4. XLOOKUP’s hidden powersAdvanced XLOOKUPNot started

Working with dates

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Schedules, deadlines, tenure and working days.

  1. Taking dates apartDate partsNot started
  2. Calculating with datesDate arithmeticNot started
  3. Tenure and working daysDATEDIF and working daysNot started
  4. Weekends and working daysWEEKDAY and WORKDAYNot started
  5. Times and timesheetsTime calculationsNot started

Advanced logic

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Rules with several conditions, and sheets that handle errors.

  1. Rules with several partsAND and ORNot started
  2. Many outcomes with IFS and SWITCHIFS and SWITCHNot started
  3. Handling errors and gapsIFERROR and IS functionsNot started
  4. Finding duplicatesFinding duplicatesNot started

Financial functions

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Loans, savings and whether an investment pays off.

  1. Loan paymentsLoan calculationsNot started
  2. Savings and compound growthSavings and growthNot started
  3. Is it worth investing?Investment appraisalNot started

Putting it all together

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Real jobs that take several skills at once.

  1. Fixing and using imported dataCombining functionsNot started
  2. A report that updates itselfBuilding reportsNot started
  3. Budget against actualBudget analysisNot started
  4. From timesheet to payPayroll calculationsNot started

Keyboard shortcuts

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Work faster, with Windows and Mac versions of every drill.

  1. Moving around fastNavigation shortcutsNot started
  2. Selecting without draggingSelection shortcutsNot started
  3. Everyday editing shortcutsEditing shortcutsNot started
  4. Formatting shortcutsFormatting shortcutsNot started