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[eBook] $0 - Excel 2021: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners to Learn Valuable Excel @ Amazon AU/US

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Released on 21/9 with 99% five star ratings from 161 reviewers in the US. Too good to be true?

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Do you know how to use Microsoft Excel but have little or no experience with it?

Do you want to improve your Microsoft Excel skills so that you can utilize them to their maximum potential, particularly the features that are most helpful for individuals and businesses?

Are you searching for a program that allows you to create graphs, charts, formulas, and tables?

Do you need to improve your marketability and add to your skill set in order to compete in today's employment market?

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  • +4

    What do you call it if you Excel?

    Do you know how to Excel?

    Best to learn this at Easter, then as Bill and Ted said, you will Be Excel Lent.

    • Do you even Excel bro?

  • -1

    So they've implemented things like XLOOKUP and SORT in 2021 now? About time.

    • +3

      XLOOKUP was available last year.

      • That was quality, jv.

    • Whats the difference between xlookup and vlookup?

      • +1

        Xlookup is more versatile and easier to use.

        • First time I heard of it

          I thought indexmatch is the more superior one

          • @Homr: With the introduction of xlookup (was introduced in excel 365), it's largely made index match useless. So essentially it'll replace vlookup, hlookup, and indexmatch.

            If you still want to use indexmatch, I think it's been made simpler now with xmatch. You'll need fewer arguments in the formula.

            • @Munki: Thanks, since xlookup is a new function, what happens if I use it on an old excel worksheet?

              • +1

                @Homr: That formula won't work in older versions. Have tried it in an Excel 365 prepared file using Excel 2019.

                • @Munki: I got office 2016, just tried xlookup and doens't work haha

              • +1

                @Homr: They made things like binary lookups much easier. Asc/Desc number lookups will be 100x quicker.
                It is very straightforward with Lookup value, Lookup array, return array, <if not found>, [match mode], [search mode]
                I REALLY love the if not found as well, as it basically replaces an IFERROR nest. XLOOKUP has made most of my formulas much less convoluted.

                Here's some more info:
                https://exceljet.net/excel-functions/excel-xlookup-function

                Also I highly recommend Excel 365, there's new LAMBDA functions coming up soon which will make formulas WAY more powerful.
                Additionally, there are things like =LET where you can define variables, formulas etc and then run a calculation on it. Makes things a lot simpler and easier to keep track of.

                https://exceljet.net/excel-functions/excel-let-function

          • @Homr: XLOOKUP leaves index-match for dead…

            Learn it and forget all the other lookup functions.

            • @jv: yeh I'm scared to implement in my work spreadsheets. My work still using office 2013

              • @Homr: Yeah, you'll probably see a #NAME error if you open it in an older version.

                • @jv: exactly

  • I can't redeem it, says I'm in the incorrect country. Is there something else I need to do?

    • +1

      Use AU link for Australia, US link for US store

    • +1

      Move to correct country.

    • I can't redeem it, says I'm in the incorrect country.

      You should be able to travel to the correct country by December, assuming you are fully vaccinated.

  • always wondered if you can get good paying jobs mastering this

    • You can. Learn the 365 suite, master data analytics by integrating Microsoft Access & PowerBI and you will be in high demand.

    • +2

      This is my life … mastered Excel years ago and have had great jobs since.
      I had an assistant on a project who had little exposure to Excel. I told her that no matter what happens in the project as long as she walks out mastering the Lookup functions (and highlighted this in her resume) then she will be set for life. The project finished, she had the Lookups memorised, she applied for jobs and was offered four positions on the one day. The only thing the interviewers were interested in were her Lookup skills even though the jobs were not necessarily Excel focused. Easily jumped her ahead of all the other applicants. In her young 20ish voice she said to me "OMG!! I can't believe how right you were all this time, lol!!". I changed a life through Excel and I am proud!

  • I know how to use Excel, but have little (actually thankfully, no) experience with using a kindle… !~)

    • You can read the ebook in any browser on any device

      • nice one

  • +7

    Even for free I wouldn’t recommend this. The examples are hard to follow. You can get infinity clear answers from YouTube or exceljet.

  • +3

    If you prefer watching videos over reading examples, you can watch something like this for free

    https://youtube.com/c/LeilaGharani

  • +2

    I've downloaded, there's a reason this is free, it's not very useful. Everything is only briefly described with the syntax copy-pasted there. What is this, Excel recipes collection?

    The most I could think of is using this as a guideline of what to learn, even then it's not a very handy summary because everyone's need is different. There are so many to learn, it's better to focus on your immediate need first.

    I am still keeping it in my free kindle library along with hundreds of other books that I never read, like all those cooking recipes, Excel 'recipes', unfunny joke books, wonders of the earth, first books of boxed adventure and magic serials etc. Maybe I'll start downloading every free Amazon book in Ozbargain and see how many I'll end up with.

  • Cheers!

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