Excel for Administrative Assistants

Conference Info

  • IndustryHuman Resources
  • Unique IDUSC2024265
  • Duration60 Minutes
  • DateJan 24,2025 - Mar 31,2025

Description

Overview

Many administrative professionals are unaware of Excel’s many features and functions they can implement to improve the accuracy and efficiency of their work. In this comprehensive webinar, Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, shares applicable Excel fundamentals that will enable administrative professionals to achieve those goals. Step-by-step, David demonstrates and explains ways to streamline data entry, remove duplicates from lists, quickly sift through lists of data with the Slicer feature, create instant reports with pivot tables, as well as minimize data entry by using look-up functions.

David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) version of Excel. David draws your attention to any differences in the older versions of Excel (2021, 2019, 2016, and earlier) during the presentation as well as in his detailed handouts. David also provides an Excel workbook that includes most of the examples he uses during the webcast.

Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based product that provides new feature updates as often as monthly. Conversely, the perpetual licensed versions of Excel have feature sets that don't change. Perpetual licensed versions have year numbers, such as Excel 2021, Excel 2019, and so on.

Who should attend:

Professionals who wish to learn practical Excel fundamentals to improve the accuracy and efficiency of spreadsheets.

Topics typically covered:

  • Adding rows to a blank pivot table to create instant reports.
  • Change the cursor direction in Excel to Right instead of Down to facilitate faster data entry.
  • Creating a pivot table to transform lists of data into on-screen reports.
  • Distinguishing the differences among pivot table-related menus in Excel 2013 and later versus older versions of Excel.
  • Drilling down into the details behind any amount within a pivot table with just a double-click.
  • Eliminating duplicates from a list with just a few mouse clicks.
  • Filtering pivot tables to show fewer columns and/or rows of data.
  • Improving the integrity of spreadsheets by using SUMIF to look up values in a more flexible fashion than VLOOKUP.
  • Improving the integrity of spreadsheets with Excel’s VLOOKUP function.
  • Learning how the Table feature empowers you to improve the integrity of Excel spreadsheets.
  • Removing the Table feature from a worksheet if it’s no longer needed.
  • Streamlining the filtering of lists in Excel 2013 and later by using the Slicer feature with tables.

Your Benefits For Attending

  • Recall how to change the cursor direction to facilitate faster data entry in Excel.
  • State the arguments used in Excel's VLOOKUP function.
  • Identify the steps required to create a pivot table.

Speaker(s)

  • David H Ringstrom

    David H Ringstrom

    David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is a nationally recognized Microsoft Excel expert. He is the president and owner of Accounting Advisors, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia. David founded Accounting Advisors in 1991 as a consulting-services business, later he began teaching continuing education classes as well. His mission since is to offer quality training and consulting services on Microsoft Excel via live webcasts, on-demand self-study webcasts, and in-house engagements. David has taught hundreds of webinars on Excel and other topics, in addition to speaking at conferences and in-house engagements. More than 24 providers, located throughout the country as well as overseas, now look to David for their Excel and accounting software training needs. More than 24 providers, located throughout the country as well as overseas, now look to David for their Excel and accounting software training needs.

    David’s Excel courses cover the gamut of the software’s features and functions to provide CPAs as well as accounting and financial professionals the knowledge they need to work more efficiently and effectively in Excel. David is known for saying, “Either you work Excel, or it works you.” Based on this belief, he focuses on teaching users what they don’t know but should know about Excel.

    His comprehensive yet easy to understand presentations cover Excel 2019, 2016, 2013, and 2010. David’s webcasts are fast-paced, and he welcomes attendees’ questions. In addition, his detailed handouts and slides serve as handy reference tools students can fall back on after participating in his webcasts or taking his self-study courses.

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