In this video tutorial we're going to take a look at the intermediate Skills tips and tricks that you need to know in order to use excel Properly and efficiently if you haven't already watched my other excel video. It's called the Beginner's guide to Excel and I highly recommend that you start with that video before watching this one so one of the last things that I showed in [that] beginners guide video was how to do some formatting how to Change let's say the column widths how to do italics and things like that well in this video We're going to start off [by] looking at a couple of advanced formatting options, then I'll show you a data entry Shortcut that's fantastic called the autofill handle then we'll take a look at how to do formulas and functions in excel And then we'll finish with a few more intermediate and advanced tips and tricks so here. I am in the spreadsheet I started in the beginners tutorial It's a list of movies that I own and I'm putting in [some] data about those movies well I want to show you a couple of shortcuts as you're trying to format the data That's in a spreadsheet These tricks will save you a lot [of] time the first is called the format Painter and you can find it here on the home tab home Ribbon in the clipboard group And it looks like a paintbrush the format painter is what it is and the way It works is let's say that part of your spreadsheet has a format that you wish other parts of your spreadsheet Had all you have to do is click on the good example that [you] would like click [here] on the format painter and that Copied it. It didn't copy the content rather it copied the format of this cell So now all I need to do is move [my] mouse to [the] place where I want to copy that Format to and I can click and if I release the mouse click it will copy the format But Let's say you would like the entire range this range Of 5 or 6 cells to have that layout you can just click and drag Holding the click and then release and you can see now they've all been painted with that format in this case That's not at all what I want so I'm going to undo it with this arrow up here in the upper left and it takes Me [back] now another more advanced formatting option that is pretty exciting at least to me is what they call Conditional formatting so it's up here at the top on the home tab home Ribbon here it is in the styles group Conditional formatting and the way this works is you [select] a column or a row [either] way? I'm going to select the column d. So I just click [on] it and the entire Column is selected [now] [I] simply go up here to conditional formatting and click and It gives me some options it mentions Rules several times basically we're going to set up some rules for the content of these cells and The formatting of these cells and the easiest example I can think of is color scales, so let's just look at that But I want you to explore this in more detail if you're interested in conditional formatting because it's really an exciting tool So I'm going to go into color scales and I want the color of Each cell to change to adjust depending on how valuable the movie is now to do this I would select Probably this color scale here It looks like it has green at the top and red at the bottom So the idea the more green it [is] the more valuable it is the redder it is the more worthless It is if you want [to] reverse that you can and there are all of these [other] options as well with different color schemes But I'm going to go with that first one I'll just click on it and what this does is it evaluates the entire column it looks for the highest numbers and Gives them the greenest background and then the lowest numbers get the darkest red Background and then everything else in between is adjusted accordingly so that easily I can just glance at this spreadsheet And I can see where the most valuable movies are if you like that please investigate conditional formatting more There's great ways to display the data in a conditional way you can use Data bars You can say if the highlighted cell is greater than 10 then make the background Green or put the text in bold if it's less than 5 then format it with a background of red There's all of these if then statements that you can use with these highlight cells rules. There's top/bottom rules top 10% bottom 10% icon sets We can show arrows going up down left or right and just some really exciting Formatting options that you [have] here okay before we leave formatting and move on to a few other things I want to show you that because these numbers represent currency I probably should format them a little differently so I can click here on D and everything in Column D That's a number will get formatted differently right now everything in here is formatted in a general way Which is to say that there's nothing special about the way They're formatted at least the numbers themselves however if I go up here I can change that from general to any one of these other things And there's even more beyond that there's also some shortcuts like this. I just want to click on the dollar sign now they all show up as Accounting currency if you don't need it or want it to be accounting you can just go down and do regular Currency all that changes is where the dollar sign is located Okay, so this is awesome this spreadsheet is turning out great so far Next let's look at formulas. This is where the true power of excel is found I believe so far in our spreadsheet [all] we've done is enter text or numbers and then also in some cases We've applied some formatting but other than that we haven't put anything special into the spreadsheet well Let's change that what I'd like to do next is put in some Formulas that will help me know some things like what's the total value of my DVD collection? What is the average value of the DVDs that [I] own and what's the most expensive? Value and the least expensive stuff like that all right, so let's figure that out down here at the bottom [of] the spreadsheet [I'm] going to create a formula now. It doesn't have to be here I could put the formula anywhere on this spreadsheet or another spreadsheet, okay, wherever I want to put this formula I can do it, but I'm going to do it here so I'll just click and whenever I do a formula in excel [I] click on a cell and then I think to myself the phrase this cell so [I] click this cell Equals and I want to find out the total amount that my collection is worth So I need to somehow add up all of those numbers [let] me show you the hard way first the hard way would be to say okay. We have a [five] so I'll type in five Plus two plus five and I can just keep doing this plus six plus nine I can just keep doing that basically creating a formula And then all I have to do is tap return or enter and look it adds up those numbers the thing is that's way Too tedious, so instead of doing that what I can do is type in the word sum so this cell is equal to the sum of And then you put a left parenthesis and now I just need to describe the Cell or in this case the range that I want it to add up that I want it to sum fortunately as I showed in [the] beginners video I can name a range every range in excel has a name and the name of this range is D3 Through D 22 so I'll just type D3 and if you remember from the beginners video the word through is Denoted with a colon and then D 22 and then you're supposed to put another parenthesis the end parenthesis now I'm going to not do that just to show you that even though you're supposed to you. Don't have to you now hit enter and Look what it's done. It's added up all of those numbers [the] grand total worth of my DVD collection is 135 Dollars [now] if you want to make sure that it worked you can double click [on] it and look what it did it Highlighted all of the numbers that it got that it included in the formula Now let me show you an alternate way the way. I [just] showed You is one of the nicest quickest ways to do it Especially if you have a giant spreadsheet, but there are a couple of other ways in addition to typing in the range I could just move my mouse up to the top click and drag with my mouse on the range that I would like it to add up and Then just tap return and you get the same results now There's also yet another even faster and easier way to do it And I'm going to delete my formula in order to show you this properly what I would do is I would just click on the cell but instead of typing equals I can just go [up] here on the home Ribbon and go to the editing group and here We have something called auto sum, it's this symbol here, and you can just click [on] it And it will automatically look immediately above and it will add up Everything in those cells so I can hit enter and I the same results So that's the fastest. I will say that sometimes it gets it wrong sometimes it gets the wrong data So just watch out for it I usually use autosum But just be a little bit skeptical Sometimes it might include data that you don't want included okay speaking of including data that you don't want Notice what it did to my conditional formatting now This is the only green value and everything else is small compared to it, right So I need to fix that with my conditional formatting I'll go in and highlight that entire Column and I'm going to clear the rules Okay, so it gets it completely out and I just want to [do] conditional formatting with Just those numbers not the total so now I go in conditional formatting color scales and look that's back to being useful Okay, now I should go in and type total and maybe put these in bold just to show that this number is different It's special it's different than those other numbers, okay next I'd like to do an average formula, and it's similar [I] would just say to myself this cell is equal to the average Left Parenthesis, and then I can click and drag or I can type in the range or notice that there is an auto Average which again, you should use it. It's great, but just be a little skeptical of the results I'm going to double click between those cells to make it so you can see the word average Next I want to do one of what's the highest value and the lowest [value] For these the formula is a little Different for highest the formula is this this cell is equal to the [max] or just max? Left parenthesis click and drag on the range or type in the range It's up to you hit return so what it did is it? Looked through that range [found] the maximum number the highest number and printed it here Next I'll do lowest for lowest We do this cell is equal to min left parenthesis and the range I'll type it in this time D3 through D [22] d 3 through D 22 hit enter And there's the lowest so you can see these formula are pretty useful You can get some really good numbers out of them So those are probably the four most common ones that I use some average Max and min But just know that there are many many more functions that you [can] use if you want to see pretty much an exhaustive list of all [of] the Functions that you [can] use just type in equals, and then look up here. This is the formula bar is what we have here and It's an alternative to typing your formula right here [in] the cell You [could] just go up to the formula bar and start typing and notice as you type you get some suggestions So it's recommending because I typed in [Avril] it's recommending average average a average if there's four different average Functions that I could draw from okay, so it will give suggestions That's one thing to know about but also over here on the left. Look what it does. There's a click drop-down Where you get some pretty good suggestions about the functions that you [might] want there's also a formulas tab Where you can go and a whole function library? Where you can get math, and trig formulas lookup and reference formulas [texts] logical these are great recently used financial formulas and if you really don't know which one you want to do just go here to Insert function, and you can get it on most of these dropdowns And then just type a brief description of what you want to do. Let's say. I want to count the number of DVDs that I have so I'll do a search for count and it brings up some Options that I have and it tells me what exactly it's going to do so use these tools that you have Use the formula bar use the formulas tab and if you need to use the insert function button That gives you some additional options, so you can also click here insert function So have fun playing around with formulas and functions. So they're very powerful Next we're going to take a look at a few intermediate and maybe some advanced tips and tricks that you should know [about] One that is pretty well known is called the autofill handle And this is where you'll find it when you click on a cell look in the lower, right corner There's a green square and if you put your mouse on that square it will become a plus sign now It's already a plus sign But it becomes a black Plus sign once you see that you know that you've got the autofill handle And what you can do with this is you [can] click and drag to copy. What's in the cell? So if I want to copy 2015, I just click and drag it's 2015 again 2015 again and I can just keep doing that I can even just click and drag and get a whole column of 2015 so [that's] the autofill handle I'm going to undo that now that also works with text not just With numbers so I can copy what's in a cell by using the autofill handle and clicking and dragging now What's really cool is you can copy a pattern so right here? I just clicked and dragged to highlight 2016 2015 now If I use the autofill handle look what it does it figures out the pattern the pattern is minus [one] subtract one And it just repeated that pattern so if you will show the autofill handle The Pattern that you would like for it to copy it will copy that pattern you can also Use the autofill handle to copy a formula now in this case the formula doesn't work too. Well, this is the sum formula It's trying to add up all of these numbers when I use the autofill handle dragged it over look what it did now It's trying to sum up this column and so because those aren't [numbers]. It's not working real well, but let me do it this direction You can see it is now adding up the years it thinks [that] it's currency, but that's okay It's adding up all of these years and coming up with a total so I just love the autofill handle It's especially good for anything related to time so for example dates. Let's say I want to put in each of the months of the year With dates and times you don't even have to establish a pattern you can just type in the [first] Thing that's related to date or time And then just go to the corner click and drag and look it automatically knows what comes next same with days of the week same with full dates and It's also the same with times So this autofill handle is just a lifesaver [a] time-saver for sure so I'm going to select all of that Just by clicking on the column letters across the top clicking and holding and then I'll right-click and choose clear Contents, and that clears it out, but I wanted you to see that autofill handle Okay, next up just three fast Rapid-fire tips that I think everyone needs to know if you're using excel [more] than just at a beginning level [and] the first one is How to sort so I put my movies in just in random order, but I would like to sort them alphabetically So what I'll do is I'll click on the first cell of the first record so star wars I clicked on that cell Now either on the home tab or on the data Tab either one You should be able to find sort and filter I'm going to go to the data tab here's sort and I would like it to sort Alphabetically a to z so I click on it and look what it did now all of the movies are alphabetized From a to z now the first time you do this you're going to be worried that you'll lose the integrity of your spreadsheet [that] [maybe] the dates won't match up now, but if you notice they do Okay, go back rewind the video if you want, but this used to say 2007 now It says 2003 so sorting is a really great feature in excel. What about filtering? What is filtering well filtering is a way to eliminate parts of your spreadsheet? Temporarily so that you can see the data you want to see to turn on filtering what I like to do is click and drag Across the Column headings that I've created so location Genre value ETc once I've highlighted all of them I go up to the top and I click filter and Notice they all now have a little [drop-down] arrow And so what I'm going to use this to do is I want to eliminate all of [the] PG-13 movies Let's say we're going to have a birthday party for a small child. I don't want to show a movie That would be too scary, I would go into ratings and click and right now It's showing everything okay, so I want to deselect all and go down, and I just want to choose Pg. That's the only one. I want selected now if I had g movies I could select those too But I'll just stick with that click ok and you can see it looks like it got rid of those additional records It really didn't get rid of them. You can see here on the left It jumps from [one] two jumps to five and in excel You just cannot eliminate row numbers or column headings. They always exist. They can be hidden, and that's what's happened here Is they're hidden but they still exist [all] right? So isn't that pretty useful I love filtering even more really than sorting now to get the data all showing again I can just click here on what looks like a funnel. Okay? It used to be the drop-down arrow now. It's a funnel I just click on it and Go to select all click [ok] and that takes the filter off I could do the same kind of filter for Genre And I could say I only want to see comedy or children's movies things like that So filters are very powerful now the last more advanced tip that I want to share with you is called Freeze Panes This spreadsheet really is not that big let's say I go buy a hundred more DVDS [then] it's really going to be a bigger spreadsheet and it's going to be harder to Put in my data and even to look at it as your spreadsheet gets more vertical You can kind of lose track of what your column titles are So that's where freeze panes comes in what you do with Freeze panes is you click? Underneath the row that you would like to freeze so I'm going to click on three because that's underneath my column titles then I'm going to go to the view tab the view Ribbon and notice there's an option in the window group called Freeze Panes and Watch what happens when I click freeze panes, [okay]? It first pops up with three options, and I'm just going to click freeze panes [so] now as I browse down the page as I enter more records [look] what happens those first two Rows stay visible to me and that's because I froze everything above [Row] 3 so that's where I'm going to stop in Reality a Comprehensive excel tutorial would be 15 20 25 [hours] long and this is already too long of a video But I really believe that if you watch my beginners guide to excel video and this intermediate Video that you will have what you need to get started using excel effectively as you continue using and learning excel I'd recommend that you this resource here at the top. Tell me what you want to do you can [just] type in something that you're trying to do and it will give you some help and Some Guidance on how to do it Thanks for [watching] [this] tutorial and please consider subscribing to my Youtube channel for more videos [about] technology for teachers and students and please consider following me on social Media platforms such as twitter and Facebook So that we can continue learning together
