Surveying Summing Functions in Excel (Video) (Course Id 2636)

In this presentation author and Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA shares several worksheet functions with you that will enable you to sum data in a variety of ways. Techniques include maximizing the statistics that appear on Excel's Status Bar, using the AutoSum feature, and future-proofing the SUM function. David will also compare the SUBTOTAL function with the Subtotal feature, contrast SUMIF and SUMIFS, demonstrate SUMPRODUCT, and much more.

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

• Identify how to improve the integrity of SUM-based formulas in Excel.
• State what SUMIF returns if a match cannot be found.
• Recall the maximum number of criteria pairs that the SUMIFS function permits.