Improve Spreadsheets by Building Controls in Excel

Overview

In today's data-driven world, spreadsheets serve as the backbone of business and personal productivity. However, creating complex and error-prone spreadsheets can lead to critical mistakes and inefficiencies. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge and tools to build robust spreadsheets, implementing a range of controls and safeguards to ensure data integrity, streamline processes, and maximize accuracy. This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Prerequisites

A good knowledge of using Excel

Objectives

After attending this presentation you will be able to ...

• Apply best practices when creating your spreadsheets
• Determine which controls you need to develop for your spreadsheets
• Use controls to build more accurate spreadsheets

Highlights

The major topics that will be covered in this class include:

• Learn best practices when designing your spreadsheets
• How to create a proper worksheet structure
• Learn to use Excel's built in features to find errors
• How to create your custom controls to prevent and find errors
• Using links to quickly move to controls
• Using Conditional Formatting to highlight errors