Excel Training videos
These videos come from our Excel video training.
Calculating a running total in an Excel table is a little tricky, because it's not obvious how to build the formula with structured references. You can easily get the current row with...
This video shows how to setup VLOOKUP with a table, and how to use the MATCH function inside VLOOKUP to generate a dynamic column index. This makes it easy to refer to columns by name...
In the video, we build one set of SUMIFS formulas with a table, and one set without. This makes it really easy to see the nice benefits you get when you combine tables and formulas.
Because tables support structured references, you can learn a lot about a table with basic formulas. In this video, we run through about a dozen examples. It's a nice demo of how...
In this video gives a brief introduction to structured references. Structured references is just a fancy name for formulas that use table names instead of normal cell references. This...
In most cases, you'll want to take time to build clean, uncluttered charts that are easy to read. However, a quick, messy chart is a great way to "sanity check" unfamiliar...
Excel charts have a flexible system to display values called "data labels". Data labels are a classic example a "simple" Excel feature with a huge range of options just...
The data labels in Excel charts are flexible and powerful. While you can easily use them to display values from source data, you can also display values from other cells. The video below...
The video below shows how to make a basic column chart in Excel, and how you can use custom number formats with data labels to quickly streamline a chart. If you're not sure which...
In this video, we show how to plot American generations in a floating horizontal bar chart. This seems like a simple problem, but it requires a formula, clever formatting, and a special...
In this video, we look at a step by step approach to randomly assign people to groups with teams using formulas. Along the way, we use three functions (RAND, RANK, and CEILING), helper...
In this video, we show examples of the 8 Excel formula errors you're likely to run into, and simple steps you can take to fix them. We look at #NAME?, #DIV/0!, #NUM!, #NULL!, #NA, #...
In this video, we look at how to build a chart that automatically includes new data, and dynamically highlights the top and bottom values. This is an easy way to create an interactive chart...
In this video, we'll look at how you can use the CHOOSE function for simple lookups. The CHOOSE function doesn't need an external table, and can sometimes replace more complicated...
In this video, we'll look at a few ways to generate random values with the RANDBETWEEN function. You can use this approach to generate random numbers, random prices, random dates, and...
