Building Budget Spreadsheets (Video) (Course Id 2586)

In this presentation, author and Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, teaches you how to create resilient and easy-to-maintain budget spreadsheets. David will contrast assigning names to cells, which both simplify formula writing and review, as well as spreadsheet navigation with the Table features, which offers similar benefits. You'll see how the Use In Formula command streamlines formula writing, and how the VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, and SUMIF functions minimize formula maintenance.

David is the author of “Microsoft Excel 365 for Dummies”, “Exploring Microsoft Excel’s Hidden Treasures”, and has written or co-authored six other books. He demonstrates every technique at least twice: first, on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and second, in the subscription-based Excel for Microsoft 365. David draws your attention to any differences in Excel 2021, 2019 or 2016 during the presentation and in his detailed handouts. The handouts include an Excel workbook with most of the examples he uses during his demonstrations.

Excel for Microsoft 365 is a subscription-based product that receives periodic feature updates. Conversely, perpetually licensed versions have year numbers in their names and do not receive any feature updates.

Course Learning Objectives

• State where range names assigned to worksheet cells appear within Excel's user interface.
• Identify the character that denotes an absolute reference within a formula.
• State which tab within the Format Cells dialog box contains the Hidden checkbox.