Learn about how to use macros to automate tasks in Excel and see how to create simple macros of your own. Veteran Excel trainer Dennis Taylor shows how to record a macro in stages, share macros between workbooks, set up keyboard shortcuts to run macros quickly, and use Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to code macros that can't be recorded. The course wraps up with a macro project that brings together each of the elements in a real-world scenario: converting a mailing list into a database-friendly format.

Topics include:

• Explain automation using macros.
• Analyze the macro from the Developer tab or the View tab.
• Identify the use of macros from a keystroke shortcut.
• Examine the VBA window and VBA components.
• Distinguish between absolute and relative references.
• Apply best practices when testing a macro in step mode.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 2h 4m
• Instructor: Dennis Taylor

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If you work in Excel, you know that even a small error can have big consequences, throwing off important calculations or transmitting incorrect information to your team. In this concise course, Excel expert Dennis Taylor provides quick and easy tips to help you avoid common mistakes. Dennis begins with the basics—how to display data so that errors can be easily spotted, enter data correctly the first time, and apply shortcuts for frequent entries. Dennis provides easy ways to protect worksheets and validate your data—techniques that are particularly helpful when multiple team members are contributing to the same spreadsheet. He also shows how to correctly use row and column references and avoid mistakes in formulas.

Topics include:

• Describe methods for entering values into multiple cells at once.
• Describe procedures for using and inputting pick lists.
• Enumerate steps for and consequences of locking worksheets and workbooks.
• Demonstrate the correct use of the Data Validation menu.
• Be able to use column references in formulas in order to simplify their appearance.
• Identify where to change the rules for formula error checking.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 45m 23s
• Instructor: Dennis Taylor

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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.

Topics include:

• Identify two navigational features within the Excel interface.
• Distinguish the best approach to managing data in cells.
• Recognize how Excel processes simple formulas.
• Describe the different ways to access formatting features.
• Identify page layout parameters for printing worksheets.
• Determine the best approach to creating charts.
• Explain how best to manage multiple worksheets and workbooks.

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 8h 53m
• Instructor: Dennis Taylor

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Charts allow you to communicate information visually, in a way that's more impactful than raw data, and they happen to be one of the most powerful and easy-to-use features in Microsoft Excel. In Excel 2016, there are six brand-new chart types to learn. Let Dennis Taylor show you how to create different kinds of Excel charts, from column, bar, and line charts to exploded pies, and decide which type works best for your data. Learn how to fine-tune your chart's color and style; add titles, labels, and legends; insert shapes, pictures, and text boxes; and pull data from multiple sources. Plus, get an overview of the new chart types in Excel 2016: Treemap, Sunburst, Waterfall, Histogram, Pareto, and Box & Whisker.

The training wraps up with lesson on changing data sources for charts and printing and sharing charts.

Topics include:

• Identifying chart elements
• Selecting the right chart type
• Creating basic charts
• Creating sparklines
• Styling charts
• Moving and resizing charts
• Modifying axes
• Adding labels and gridlines
• Analyzing data with trendlines
• Inserting pictures, shapes, and text boxes
• Customizing column, bar, line, and pie charts
• Creating Gantt charts and other specialized Excel charts
• Changing data sources
• Printing and sharing charts

About the Author

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.

Video Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Intermediate
• Video Duration: 4h 36m
• Instructor: Dennis Taylor

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