Managing Excel Lists and Databases: Time-Saving Shortcuts for Sorting, Filtering, Analyzing and More

OVERVIEW

Learn how to manage databases in Excel with this webinar. Learn the tools that will help large amounts of data seem more manageable, and easier to sort through and analyze. Understand what functions work best with large tables, and how you can automate repetitive steps with simple macros. Become a master of working with databases in Excel.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND

Microsoft Excel has become the de facto spreadsheet application for business. But do you sometimes feel like you have rows and rows of data and it’s hard to make heads or tails of it? This class will help you learn how to manage databases in Excel, and get the most out of them.

For 75-minutes, Excel expert Tom Fragale will lead you through a full array of powerful and easy-to-use database commands and methods critical to effectively working with Excel databases. In this webinar, you will learn how to improve your Excel database skills so that you can better summarize info-making better, more-informed business decisions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• You’ll learn how to cleverly use standard Excel functions that could save you hours through to days of manual work.
• Easy-to-use methods to build and manage your database
• Specialized database functions that simplify your job
• Techniques to sort and filter data in order to identify business trends
• Tips and tricks to validate your data and guarantee accuracy

AREAS COVERED

• Creating a Database in Excel
• Setting up a database or list in Excel, Navigating your database, and Data Validation.
• Data import and clean-up tools
• Sorting and Totaling – Sorting, Multi-level sorting, Auto-Filter, Advanced Filters.
• Database Functions – Sub-totals, Consolidate, DSum, D Average.
• Summarizing Data – Subtotaled Lists, Using Functions to summarize data.
• Using Data Analysis – Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts
• Working with External Data
• Formatting great charts for presentations and documents

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

• Anyone in companies that use computer systems
• Experienced Excel users who work with large data sets
• Accountants and finance professionals
• CFO/Controllers Investment Analysts / Financial Analysts / Business Analysts Forecasting & Planning Personnel Mergers & Acquisitions Specialists Risk Managers Strategic Planners / Capital Expenditure Planners Cost Accountants / Managerial Accountants
• Any User of Excel who wants to learn how to create form-driven applications and spreadsheets

SPEAKER

Tom Fragale is a computer professional with over 30 years of professional experience. He has trained over 30,000 business people in on-line webinars, public seminars, and on-site training. His clients include many Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, military bases, and companies large and small across many industries, including manufacturing, banking, pharmaceutical, education, retail, etc. He started his career as a database application programmer and has served as a consultant and project manager on many successful projects. His topics of expertise include: Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Crystal Reports, SQL Server, Visio, QuickBooks, and SharePoint, among others. His passion is training people and helping people get the most out of their computers, and he is a published author having written a book on Microsoft Access. He graduated in 1988 from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA with a BA in Computer Science.

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