Leila Gharani – Excel Essentials for the Real World

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Leila Gharani – Excel Essentials for the Real World

This course highlights what you need to know for the real world. Our members also consistently report a newfound enthusiasm for using Excel after taking our course, and we’re confident you will too.

Why Have Over 400,000 Students Decided to Learn Excel from Us?

Every 6 minutes, a new student enrolls in one of Excel courses. Here are three reasons why people across the world are coming to us to learn Excel.

 

Reason 1– Everyone is Welcomed

No matter your background, no matter your job, no matter your experience level – everyone is welcomed. What is your reason for wanting to learn Excel? Here are the types of people who enroll in our courses.

You’re an Analyst

Whether you’re a data / sales / HR / credit collection or reporting analyst, you’re deep in the data. Swimming in it. Or maybe more like drowning in it. You’re combining files, cleaning up columns, and rolling out reports. Excel has a permanent place on your computer screen.

You’d like to do your job faster. You feel like you’re still using Excel the “old way”. You’d like to impress your boss and colleagues. And how about a pay raise or promotion one day? That’d be nice.

You’re in the right place.

 

You’re an Accountant

Everybody counts on you to do the counting. You follow tax law like most people follow sports. Without a spreadsheet, you’d be wandering the streets lost.

It’d be nice to get ahead of your work. It’d be fun to try out some of those features you’ve seen inside Excel but haven’t taken for a test drive. And you’d sure as heck like to avoid making those “D’oh!” type Homer Simpson mistakes.

You’re in the right place.

 

You’re a Project Manager

It’s tough to keep projects within budget, especially when the scope keeps changing. You plan for resources, manage project risks and monitor progress.

Aside from the project management software you’re using, you need a simple tool to keep you organized. A place where you can easily share results with others in an accessible format.

You’re in the right place.

 

You’re a Consultant

Consultants are the Indiana Jones of the corporate world. Every new project is an adventure. You get to use a multitude of business skills. You learn fast and develop fast. Speed is crucial.

Unfortunately, many consultants spend much of their time normalizing data rather than analyzing it. It’s a competitive world. Once you know how to use the latest tools, you’ll have an advantage.

You’re in the right place.

 

In addition to these backgrounds, our ranks are filled with lawyers, managers, civil engineers, freelancers and husbands & wives.

You can see how no matter your reason for wanting to learn Excel, you’re in the right place.

We serve so many people from all different backgrounds. Recently we surveyed our audience, and we were blown away by all the different professions.

 

What if you’ve been using Excel for many years?

You’ve been using Excel for many years, and you want practical ideas to work more efficiently? You’d like to discover little-known features that have been in hiding?

This course will be a game changer for your job.

 

Reason 2 – We Speak Excel in Plain English * (Not Robot-Talk)

It’s all too common to read a blog article about Excel and think, “What the heck did I just read?”

It sounds gibberish.

Too often, reading Excel training is like reading a technical manual for your home furnace. You’d have to be an engineer to understand it.

That’s not a recipe for success if you’re an everyday person.

Our students love that we talk to them like human beings – no robots. We’re not here to program you. We’re here to teach you.

Mark Twain makes a good point. Why use a technical word when we can use a simple, everyday word? Rest assured, you won’t find overly-technical or stuffy or pretentious language around here. No way!

You’ll get things explained plain English. No “filler content,” either. You’re a busy person, so we get right to the point.

If you want a real-world, plain-spoken teacher – and not some stuffy academic type – you’re in the right place.

* If English is not your first language, that’s okay. We constantly hear from students about how easy it is to follow our lessons – despite their shaky grasp of English. Each lecture includes English captions and you can slow down the speed of the videos if you need to.

 

Reason 3 – We’re Lazy (in a Good Way)

Here Is a Rule With Excel …

If something in Excel feels like it’s harder than it should be, it probably is.

That’s another way of saying: There’s always a better way.

When it comes to Excel …

• There’s always a faster workflow
• There’s always a way to automate
• There’s always a simpler formula
• There’s always a hidden tool you haven’t discovered (that could make your life easier)
• Why take five hours to complete a task in Excel when you find a shortcut that lets you complete it in 30 minutes? You may call that lazy. Around here, we call it smart.

These types of time savings may sound like an exaggeration, but it’s common for our students to come back and tell us how they’ve saved hours, days, and even months by learning a new Excel technique.

 

But There Is One Final Reason So Many Students Choose Us (and keep choosing us)

When you join one of our courses, you’re not alone. The old type of online course (waaaay back in 2019) made you wander the lessons like a survivor in The Walking Dead. “Where is everybody” you’d think.

Well, it’s 2023, and the world has changed.

You’ll log into our courses and find lively, active discussions. You’ll see our friendly teaching assistants answering questions.

You may not think this is a big deal, but who knows when you might have a question? Who knows what tip you might pick up from another student? Who knows… maybe you’ll be the one chiming in to answer questions, helping your fellow students in the comment section?

Students are demanding more from online courses. When you trust us for your education, you’re not just getting a course — you’re getting a community.

Learning Excel Is A Journey – Your First Destination Is This Course

You’re not going to learn Excel overnight. It’s a journey. And every journey begins with the first step.

Want to start things off right? You’re in the right place. This Excel Essentials course is perfect if:

• You are brand-new and want to get comfortable navigating Excel
• You’ve got some experience with Excel, but want to learn some new tips and tricks
• You’re an Excel power user who wants to review the basics

If any of the above apply to you, keep reading, and see how my course can help.

 

This is Your Captain Speaking – Welcome Aboard!

First off, you’ll have to get used to my Star Trek references. Big Trekkie over here.

Now, doing my best Captain Picard impression… “Welcome aboard!”

My name is Leila Gharani, the captain of this ship. I’m the founder of an education company called XelPlus.

When we first started posting videos to YouTube, we had no idea we’d one day have millions of subscribers. It’s been the thrill of a lifetime and an honor to reach so many people through YouTube.

But while I love our YouTube channel, it’s not everything. Yes, YouTube is great for tips, techniques, and announcing new Excel features. And it’s great because not everyone can afford our courses, so people can still get a ton of value for free (we have over 70 hours of free content on YouTube, and counting).

But it’s inside our courses where the magic happens. Going from YouTube to our online courses is like walking out of the school cafeteria and into a quiet classroom. You’ll leave a loud, distracting environment and enter a place of optimal learning.

Today, I’d like to invite you into a classroom where you’ll learn the Essentials of Excel.

 

Enroll in Excel Essentials

Take the same course others like you have taken to get started with Excel.

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to confidently:

• Input data and navigate large spreadsheets
• Apply hacks to get your work done faster
• Choose the right formula for the job
• Use hidden features to transform messy data to proper data sets
• Understand the story your data is trying to tell you
• Organize, clean, and manage large data sets
• Create compelling Excel reports
• Automate repetitive tasks
• Create flexible reports using Pivot Tables
• Quickly Import and transform data with new tools

And so much more.

You’ll start with Excel basics to make sure you have a strong grasp of the fundamentals. You’ll get a tour of Excel, learn where to find things in the menus, enter numbers into cells, and even try out a few basic formulas.

You’ll then move on to more advanced topics like conditional formatting, creating charts & graphs, and even get a taste of Power Query (but only if you’re ready).

Important: I don’t just cover the purpose of a feature or formula; I show how you can take advantage of it using practical, real-world examples.

Along the way, there will be challenges and quizzes to test your new Excel skills.

 

Actually, don’t click that button just yet.

Before you jet off, I want to explain what happens after payment…

After payment, you’ll be automatically enrolled in our online school. Our online school runs on software called “Teachable.” So, if you see the name Teachable, that’s what it means.

Teachable will send an email to the address you enter on the next page. Inside that email will be a link to your student area.

Now, if you’ve purchased a course from us before, first off – welcome back  . You’ll simply use your existing username and password to access your new Excel Essentials course.

If it’s your first time buying one of our courses, you’ll create a password and then you’ll get access to your new course. Future courses you buy will appear in this same course area.

Okay, let’s recap how to get up and running with Excel Essentials:

You’ll click the button above

You’ll enter your usual details on the next page to complete payment

You’ll receive the email and click the link to login to your course area

 

Here’s Everything That’s Included

Section 1: Before You Dive In

How to Get the Most Out of This Course (3:01)

Download Course Files (1:09)

Pre-assessment Quiz (track your progress)

Course Outline for Quick Reference

Quick Check-in

Section 2: Quick Tour of Excel

Excel Workbook, Worksheet, Cell Structure (8:43)

Quick Tour of Excel – Ribbon & Quick Access Toolbar (3:45)

Customizing the Excel Interface (6:00)

Summary: Overview of Important Excel Features

Quiz: Excel Fundamentals

Section 3: Data Input & Hidden Features to Save Time

Overview – Data Input & Hidden Excel Features

Data Entry and Editing

Basic Excel Formulas

Text to Speech (Hidden Feature)

Correctly Input Dates and Time Stamps

Use AutoFill To Do Your Work

Flash Fill for Major Time Saving (Become Pro)

Custom Lists With AutoFill (Hidden Feature)

Inputting & Editing Comments & Notes

Finding Formula & Input Cells with ONE Click (Become Pro)

Data Validation to Reduce Time Checking Data

Adding Tool Tips (Screen Tips in Excel)

Learn to Work with Pictures, Shapes & Other Objects

Quiz: Data Input in Excel

Challenge: Data Manipulation & Preparation

Solution: Data Manipulation & Preparation

Summary: Key Features to Impress & Save Time

Section 4: Worksheet Navigation, Copying and Protecting

Overview – Worksheet Navigation

Useful Excel Shortcuts for Navigation (Become Pro)

Copying, Moving & Hiding Worksheets

Freeze Panes (Lock Rows, Columns) & Split Screen

Hide & Unhide, Insert, Adjust Columns & Rows

Copying and Pasting Data (Hidden Features)

Protecting Worksheets & Specific Ranges

Challenge: Update & Protect Report

Solution: Update & Protect Report

Quiz: Worksheet Navigation

Summary: Important Worksheet Features & Shortcuts

Section 5: Excel Formulas & What to be Aware of

 Overview & Finding Excel Functions from Insert Function

How Excel Calculates – Order of Precedence

Simple but Useful Formulas

Essential Excel Rule (Don’t Skip!)

Absolute and Relative Cell Referencing

Improve Clarity with Range Names

Referencing other Workbooks or Worksheets

Circular References & How to Locate Them

Combine Values From Two or More Cells to ONE Cell

Challenge: Allocate Yearly Value Based on Percentages

Solution: Allocate Yearly Value Based on Percentages

Quiz: Excel Formulas

Summary: Key Points when Writing Formulas

Section 6: Important Excel Functions (Everything you need to become Pro)

Overview & Finding Excel Functions from Insert Function

Important! Working with Functions

COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK

COUNT based on a Condition (COUNTIFS)

SUM & AVERAGE Functions

SUM by Criteria (SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS)

MAX & MIN (MAXIFS & MINIFS)

Rounding Values (ROUND, ROUNDUP & ROUNDOWN)

Essential Excel Date Functions

Time Calculations – Total Time Worked

Handling Excel Formula Errors

IF (Then, Else) Function – Conditional Formulas

VLOOKUP Function – Lookup Values from Another Place

Challenge: How Good Are you with Excel Functions?

Solution: How Good Are you with Excel Functions?

NEW 365 Functions: FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP & More

Summary: Important Excel Functions

Section 7: Data Cleaning & Management: Sorting, Filtering & Replacing data

Overview – Data Cleaning, Analysis & Management Tools

Sort Data (Organize & Create Order)

Unsort Data to Revert to Original Order

Add Subtotals to Sorted Data

Filter Data to Extract What you Need

Delete Blank or Empty Rows in Excel

Fill Empty Cells in One Go (Become Pro)

Remove Duplicates to Get a Unique List

Find, Select & Emphasize

Find and Replace Values & Formatting (Hidden Feature)

Why Excel Tables Can be a Time Saver (Become Pro)

Challenge: Data Management

Solution: Data Management

Summary: Tools to Organize, Clean & Manage Data

Special Message – You’ve Got This

Section 8: Formatting including Conditional & Number Formatting in Excel

Overview – All About Formatting

Formatting Tips – Alignment, Borders & More

Better Than Merge (Become Pro)

Justify Text Length (Hidden Feature)

Number Formatting Options (& Special Formatting)

Conditional Formatting (Top Bottom Analysis & More)

Icons & Data Bars with Conditional Formatting

Quiz: Excel Formatting

Challenge: Format Report

Solution: Format Report

Summary: Useful Formatting Tips

Section 9: Printing Excel Files & Saving as PDF

Checklist Before Printing

Useful Printing Options

Adding Page Breaks & Printing Parts of a Sheet

Printing Large Datasets (Make sure you include this!)

Header & Footer in Excel (Logo, Page Numbers, etc.)

Saving as PDF & Printing Many Sheets

Challenge: Prepare Report for Printing

Solution: Prepare Report for Printing

Summary: Important Printing Options

Section 10: Workbook Design Principles

Good Spreadsheet Design Principles (with Examples)

Adding Hyperlinks (Plus a Smart Workaround)

Define Cell Styles & Set Defaults (e.g. for Excel Tables)

Workbook Theme & Color to Save Time

Use Your Own Excel Templates

Quiz: Workbook Design

Summary: Workbook Design Principles

Section 11: Working With Excel Charts

Overview – Create Helpful Charts

Chart Basics for a Quick Start

Adding More Series to a Chart (Comparison Charts – Method 1)

Comparison Charts – Actual & Variance (Method 2)

Combination Charts (Plus a Hidden Feature)

Dynamic Chart Ranges with Excel Tables

Pareto & Histogram Charts (Excel 2016)

Treemap Chart (Excel 2016)

Sunburst, Pie & Doughnut Charts

Sparklines – Mini Charts Inside Cells

Quiz: Excel Charts

Challenge: Treemap for Management Report

Solution: Treemap for Management Report

Summary: Working with Excel Charts

Section 12: Quick Insights with Excel Pivot Tables

Benefits of PivotTables & Starting Checklist

Inserting a PivotTable

Why You Should Use Tables as Pivot Source (Become Pro)

Sorting Pivot Data & Analyzing Multiple Items

Adding Calculations & Multiple Reports with PivotTables

Using Slicers & Timeline (Working with Dates)

Creating PivotCharts

PivotTables or Formulas? When to Use What

Challenge: Data Analysis with PivotTables

Solution: Data Analysis with PivotTables

Summary: Important PivotTable Features

Section 13: Introduction to Power Query in Excel

Power Query, Power Pivot & Power BI – When to use which?

Availability of Power Query / Get & Transform

Import Text File with Power Query

Merge data in Power Query (for PivotTable)

Clean up (Very Messy) Data (multiple headers, unpivot etc.)

Challenge: Data Cleanup with Power Query

Solution: Data Cleanup with Power Query

Summary: Key Takeaways Power Query

Section 14: NEW 365 Excel Functions: FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, XLOOKUP & More

Excel Dynamic Arrays & New Functions in Office 365 & 2021

Availability of the New Excel Functions

Excel’s New Calculation Engine: Spill Error and @(at) sign

Excel UNIQUE Function: Get List of Distinct Values

Excel SORT & SORTBY Functions

Excel FILTER Function: Return Multiple Match Results

Excel XLOOKUP Function: The New Power Lookup Function

Challenge: Get Total Salary by Division

Solution: Get Total Salary by Division

Section 15: Next Steps

Your Next Steps & More Learning

 

Yes, you get a bunch! It’s a safe bet that if you need help with a topic in Excel, you’ll find it covered in these lessons.

At the same time, this curriculum may intimidate you. Don’t let it. Let me explain…

Three Ways to Fail with this Excel Training

We’ve made it as easy as possible to learn Excel, but dangers still lurk along your path. Don’t fall prey to one of these common Excel pitfalls.

Pitfall #1: Trying to complete the entire course start to finish

Treat this course more like an Encyclopedia (remember those?). You wouldn’t open an Encyclopedia and start reading cover to cover.

Instead, when you log into this course, scroll down the lessons. See what jumps out at you, and dive into whatever looks appealing.

Now, I do recommend going through the two modules (the Intro & Tour of Excel) to get familiar with the basics. But after that, see what strikes your fancy.

Pitfall #2: Not taking your new skills for a test drive

Imagine that for the past month, when you’ve had some time to yourself, you’ve been opening YouTube navigating to your “How to Dance” playlist (you know you’ve had the urge).

The next day, you get a letter in the mail – an invitation to your cousin’s wedding. Time to bust out your new moves!

Sure, it may be a little scary. So maybe you start with something safe. Maybe you just bob your head from left to right. Over time, as you get better & more comfortable, you might throw in a spin move.

It’s the same thing with learning Excel. You’re learning fun new skills – try them out! Before you know it, you’ll have moves like Mick Jagger.

Pitfall #3: Not Asking for Help

This is a biggie…

Please, if you get stuck, don’t ghost. Are you new to online courses and afraid you’ll have trouble navigating around? Send an email to our support desk asap. We’ll help you out.

Stuck on an Excel formula and can’t figure out why you keep getting errors? Post a comment in our forum. Another student or one of our friendly teaching assistants will come to your rescue.

It’s okay to not know the answer. You’re not supposed to. But it’s not okay to stay silent. Fortunately, we make it fast and easy for you to get help. Just ask.

 

Find Your Baseline With Our Pre-Assessment Test

Once you enroll in the course, you’ll have the opportunity to take a pre-assessment test. This way you can assess your current knowledge and check for gaps.

Once you complete the assessment you’ll get your score.

Don’t worry! Your score is not shared with anyone. This test is only for you and your own progress.

Once you’ve completed the course, come back to this test and take it again. Note your score and document your progress.

Aside from tracking your progress, the benefit of a pre-assessment test is to help you pay closer attention as you learn.

Plus you’ll get an additional post-assessment test for a more comprehensive check.

 

That’s not all. We also have a Post-Assessment Test for you!

To make sure you haven’t missed important parts, we’ve added a separate post-assessment test for you.

In case you missed something, we’ll tell you which part of the course you need to revisit – like this:

Both tests are optional of course. You can skip them if you’d like.

If you’re on the fence about joining, maybe these awesome bonuses will put you over the edge.

 

Can You Afford To Not Get Better At Excel?

It’s not an exaggeration to say getting good at Excel can change your life.

• It can help you get a job
• It can help you get a raise or a promotion
• It can help you better understand your company’s financial situation
• It can solve difficult problems and make the correct solution obvious

How much longer will you do things the manual way? How much hair will you pull out while you wrestle with formulas? How many more mistakes will the boss tolerate?

Put an end to your Excel frustrations for good. This course will get you up & running with Excel – fast. There is no risk to joining as we have a 30-day guarantee. If you change your mind, no problem. But you owe it to yourself to give it a shot.

Let’s summarize all you get:

• Access to our entire 14-module course(11+ hours of videos)
• Lifetime access, so you’re never in a rush to complete a lesson
• The “Beam Me Up Scotty” topic transporterto quickly find what you need
• Our collection of Excel essential cheat sheetsto keep at your desk
• Practice & Solution Workbooksfor each Section
• A comment section to get your questions answered by our staff (how awesome is that?)
• Credits for CPD (Continuing Professional Development)
• English Captionsso you can easily follow along each video
• Quizzes to track how well you understand the concepts
• Challenges to test your knowledge and give you inspiration
• Complete eBookto read and reference whenever you need
• New updatesto the course for Office 365 and Office 2021 such as XLOOKUP, FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE and more essential functions you need to know to stay on top of your game.

Hope to see you inside.

 

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