Overview
With approximately 500 functions now available in Excel, it is easy to overlook some newer and more powerful tools. Learn how to take advantage of Excel’s more advanced features – some new and some legacy – to elevate your productivity to higher levels. Discover Excel’s newer tools, including XLOOKUP, SUMIFS, SWITCH, and STOCKHISTORY. Also included are discussions of advanced financial functions, such as IPMT and PPMT, and how to retrieve summarized data easily using GETPIVOTDATA and CUBEVALUE. Additionally, discuss how to make sophisticated calculations easier with Dynamic Array formulas, harness the power of the AGGREGATE function, and create more accurate forecasts with Excel’s FORECAST.ETS function.
Objectives
- Identify situations in which each of the following functions might be useful: SUMIFS, SWITCH, and STOCKHISTORY
- Distinguish between the XLOOKUP function and legacy Excel functions such as VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, and MATCH
- Cite examples of when using Dynamic Arrays would be useful
- Differentiate between Excel’s AGGREGATE and SUBTOTAL functions
- Identify conditions in which the FORECAST.ETS function is preferable to the FORECAST function
