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Start mastering Excel, the world's most popular and powerful spreadsheet program, with Excel expert Dennis Taylor. Learn how to best enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, work with multiple worksheets, format the appearance of your data and cells, and build charts and PivotTables. Other lessons cover the powerful IF, VLOOKUP, and COUNTIF family of functions; the Goal Seek, Solver, and other data analysis tools; and automating tasks with macros.
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Dennis Taylor
Excel author at LinkedIn Learning
Dennis Taylor is an Excel expert who has 25+ years of experience in spreadsheet authoring and training.
Dennis has experience working as an author, speaker, seminar leader, and facilitator. Since the mid-90s, he has been the author/presenter of numerous Excel video and online courses and has traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada presenting over 300 seminars and classes. He has authored or co-authored multiple books on spreadsheet software and has presented over 500 Excel webinars to a diversity of audiences. Dennis has worked with hundreds of different corporations and governmental agencies as well as colleges and universities. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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- [Voiceover] Hi, I'm Dennis Taylor and welcome to Excel 2016 Essential Training. In this course I will show you how to use this popular and powerful software. We'll begin by getting you familiar with Excel's menu system, how to create formulas and use simple functions, how to format your data for appearance sake, how to use printing and charting capabilities of Excel, and how to work with powerful functions like if and V look up. I'll show you a few data analysis tools, like Goal Seek and Solver and how to automate your work via macros. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get started with Excel 2016 Essential Training.
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