Excel Formula Focus: The Core Functions You Need to Know

Conference Info

  • IndustryHuman Resources
  • Unique IDUSC2025315
  • Duration90 Minutes
  • DateSep 19,2025
  • Time10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

Description

Overview

Excel functions can greatly enhance your ability to perform tasks in day to day activities in Excel.  While there are hundreds of functions in available, there are 10 functions that all Excel users should know.  Whether you are an office worker, or a small business owner using Excel to keep track of your finances or just the casual user, these Excel functions can be very important time savers and enhance your ability to create better performing spreadsheets!

Who should attend?

  1. Business Owners 
  2. CEO's / CFO's / CTO's 
  3. Managers 
  4. Accountants 
  5. CPA's 
  6. Financial Consultants 
  7. IT Professionals 
  8. Auditors 
  9. Human Resource Personnel 
  10. Bookkeepers 
  11. Marketers 
  12. Anybody with large amounts of Data 
  13. Anybody who uses Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, and wants to be more efficient and productive

Why should you attend?

This webinar will get you started with functions.  You will learn not only HOW to use these functions, but WHY they do what they do.  Knowing the “why” helps you to do more with Excel.  Attendees should have basic knowledge of creating Excel calculations using the basic mathematical operators and know the difference between relative and absolute cell references. This course is for beginner to intermediate Excel users.

What you'll learn?

  1. Learn many statistical functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN and COUNT
  2. Use IF and explore its counterparts COUNTIF, SUMIF, and AVERAGEIF
  3. Understand VLOOKUP
  4. Calculate dates using TODAY, and NOW
  5. Learn many functions to manipulate text once imported including LEFT, RIGHT, TRIM and CONCAT

Speaker(s)

  • Ms. Cathy Horwitz

    Ms. Cathy Horwitz

    Ms. Cathy Horwitz believes that when you know the capabilities of the software you use, you will demonstrate improved productivity, will be more efficient, and will be able to problem-solve more easily.

    Cathy teaches classes on the Microsoft suite of application software including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Access, and Outlook. Cathy has over 30 years of experience in the classroom and virtual training and has been an instructor of Microsoft Office since 1989.

    Her strengths include customizing classes based on the needs of individual students and providing realistic business examples to complement the training. She is a high-energy trainer with a flair for training adult students.

    She holds the Modern Classroom Certified Trainer certification from Logical Operations which prepares instructors for all aspects of delivering a course using the latest training technologies and approaches.

    When not teaching, Cathy enjoys gardening, shopping estate sales, and refinishing mid-century furniture.

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