Surgent's 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.

Highlights

• Best practices when designing spreadsheets
• Creating a proper worksheet structure
• Using Excel's built-in features to find errors
• Creating custom controls to prevent and find errors
• Using links to quickly move to controls
• Using conditional formatting to highlight errors

Prerequisites

A working knowledge of Excel

Designed For

Any Excel user that wants to learn how to create controls within Excel to improve accuracy

Objectives

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

Preparation

None