Description
Excel Tables offer an easy way to create dynamic ranges that adjust when data changes. This makes tables perfect for pivot tables, charts, and dashboards that need to show the latest data. This course covers the key benefits of tables, including a detailed review of structured references, the special formula language for tables. Examples include VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH, and SUMIFS. The course also covers, table styles, slicers, filtering, sorting, and removing duplicates.
What you’ll learn
The basics
What is an Excel Table, and why would you want to use one?
How to quickly create and name a table
How to use the right terminology to describe tables and table parts
How to get rid of a table when you don’t want one anymore
The four key options that control table behavior, and their unlikely locations
How calculated columns work, and how to manually override the automatic behavior
Table skills
How to control table rows and columns
How tables create dynamic ranges and how to use them
How table filters work, and how to quickly hide and display the filter
How to sort a table by one or more columns
The special shortcuts you can use to work with tables
How to add and customize the totals row in a table
How to quickly remove duplicates in a table
How to extract unique values from a table
Structured references
What structured references are and how they work with tables
How to use formulas to access different parts of a table
How structured references behave inside a table (vs. outside a table)
How to copy structured references and lock references when needed
Formulas and Tables
How to use formulas to do a conditional sum with a table using SUMIFS
How to use VLOOKUP and MATCH with a table together for dynamic column referencing
How to use INDEX and MATCH with a table, and the key benefit this offers
How to set up a running total in a table using structured references
How you can use the INDEX function to get the first row in a column
How to set up conditional formatting in a table with a formula
How to use data validation in a table + how to use a table to create a dynamic list
How to use named ranges when Excel won’t let you use structured references
How to set up a formula to display how many items in a table are visible
Slicers
How to quickly add (and remove) a slicer to a table
How to add more than one slicer to to table
How to stop slicer buttons from moving around
What options are available for slicers, and how they work
How to define and apply a custom style to control how slicers look
Table styles
How tables are formatted with styles, and what you can include in a style
How to quickly apply a style and see what style is applied
How to remove all formatting from a Table, and override local formatting
How to create your own custom style
How to move a custom style from one workbook to another
How to set up Excel to use your custom style by default
Practical table examples
How to use a table to create a dynamic pivot table
How to make a dynamic chart based on table data
Who this course is for:
Everybody who want to learn Excel
