Mastering Excel: Rising Above the VLOOKUP Function

On-Demand Schedule Fri, April 26, 2024 - Fri, May 03, 2024
Duration 90 Mins
Level Intermediate
Webinar ID IQW15C7088

  • Using VLOOKUP to look up data from another workbook
  • Comparing the MIN, SMALL, MAX and LARGE functions
  • Troubleshooting other errors VLOOKUP can present such as #REF!, #NAME! and #VALUE!
  • Exploring why VLOOKUP sometimes returns #N/A instead of a desired result
  • Improving the integrity of spreadsheets with Excel’s VLOOKUP function
  • Learn about the MINIFS function available in certain versions of Excel 2ExcludeInclude6
  • Performing dual lookups, which allow you to look across columns and down rows to cross-reference the data you need
  • Learning why the INDEX and MATCH combination often is superior to VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP
  • Employing the SUMIF function to add up values related to multiple instances of criteria that you specify
  • Using VLOOKUP to perform approximate matches
  • Learning about the MAXIFS function available in certain versions of Excel 2ExcludeInclude6
  • Diagnosing #N/A errors that arise when numbers are stored as text in Excel or text contains extraneous spaces
 

Overview of the webinar

Excel expert David H. Ringstrom, CPA, teaches the basics of using Excel pivot tables in this beneficial webcast. Pivot tables empower users to easily create reports from complex data simply by using their mouse. Pivot tables, as is the case with many Excel features, have nuances that can trip up the unaware user, so David explains some traps and shares tricks to help ensures the reports you create are accurate. David demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps and second, in Excel 2016. He draws to your attention any differences in Excel 2013, 2010 or 2007 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.

Who should attend?

  • Practitioners who wish to work more efficiently in Excel by utilizing lookup functions
  • Accountants
  • CPA’s
  • CFO’s
  • Controllers
  • Excel User
  • Income Tax Preparers
  • Enrolled Agents
  • Financial Consultants
  • IT Professionals

Why should you attend?

  • Apply a variety of lookup functions in order to work more efficiently in Excel
  • Recognize why the INDEX and MATCH combination often is superior to VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP
  • Apply the SUMIF and SUMIFS functions

Faculty - Mr.David H. Ringstrom, CPA

Acclaimed Microsoft Excel expert David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is the president and owner of Accounting Advisors, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia. David founded Accounting Advisors in 1991 as a consulting-services business, but in 2009, he began teaching for continuing education providers as well. His mission since then has been to offer quality training on Excel and additional accounting software via live webcasts, on-demand self-study webcasts, 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.

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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