The Top Ten Excel Functions Everyone Should Know

Formulas are equations that can perform calculations, return information, manipulate the contents of other cells, test conditions, and more. Explore what is considered the top 10 functions to know.

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!

• Learn many statistical functions including SUM, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, and COUNT
• Use the Logical IF statement
• Understand VLOOKUP
• Calculate dates using TODAY, and NOW
• Learn many functions to manipulate text once imported including LEFT, RIGHT, and CONCAT
   

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 basic mathematical operators and know the difference between relative and absolute cell references. This course is for beginner to intermediate Excel users.

• Business Owners
• CEOs / CFO's / CTOs
• Managers
• Accountants
• CPA's
• Financial Consultants
• IT Professionals
• Auditors
• Human Resource Personnel
• Bookkeepers
• Marketers
• Anybody with large amounts of Data
• Anybody who uses Microsoft Excel on a regular basis, and wants to be more efficient and productive

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 classroom
and virtual training and has been an instructor of Microsoft Office since its inception.
Her strengths include customizing classes based on the needs of individual students and
providing realistic business examples to compliment training.  She is a high energy trainer with
a flair for training the adult student.
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.