Excel

Excel 365 New Functions

Half DayHalf DayVersion 365

Build practical, job-ready Excel skills with hands-on, instructor-led training focused on real business tasks.

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This course is available for private and onsite training - delivered for your team anywhere in the U.S., or virtually on your schedule. You can also ask us to add it to the public calendar, or let us know you’re interested and we’ll reach out when a date is set.

Excel 365 has many exciting new functions which are not included in other versions of Office (2019 and earlier). These either have been a part of Excel 365 for years, or have been added through monthly updates to the software. In this class, students will learn how to use these new Logical, Lookup, and Dynamic Array functions in formulas.

Students should be familiar with how to create formulas using intermediate functions in Excel like SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS and have been exposed to VLOOKUP.

Lesson 1: Improved Lookup Functions
  • The superior lookup function, XLOOKUP
  • Return a position or count values with XMATCH
Lesson 2: Using Logical Functions
  • Summarize data using MINIFS, MAXIFS
  • Test multiple conditions with IFS
Lesson 3: Data Modification using Formulas
  • Joining data strings using CONCAT and TEXTJOIN
  • Replace values with SWITCH
Lesson 4: Dynamic Array Functions
  • FILTER returns a filtered array
  • Create a sorted array with either SORT or SORTBY
  • UNIQUE builds an array of all distinct values
  • Use SEQUENCE to create consecutive data
  • Build an array of random values with RANDARRAY
Lesson 5: Use Variables in a Formula
  • LET function
  • Use FILTER and SEQUENCE in LET