Spreadsheets & Data
Excel Advanced Formulas
Build spreadsheets that do not break — and update themselves
12 lessons4 modules9h 25m durationbeginner level
About this course
This course teaches anyone who lives in spreadsheets to replace fragile, hard-coded formulas with robust ones that survive edits, scale to thousands of rows, and update themselves. You will build exact and approximate lookups with XLOOKUP, recreate them with INDEX/MATCH for older Excel, wrap logic in IF, IFS, AND, OR, and IFERROR, run weighted averages and multi-condition counts with SUMPRODUCT, and assemble live reports with FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, and SEQUENCE. Each lesson works from a concrete dataset such as a sales export or price list, shows the exact formula, and explains the gotchas so your spreadsheets stop breaking.
Curriculum
Module 1: Lookups That Do Not Break: XLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH
- Why VLOOKUP Fails and What Replaces ItPreview
- XLOOKUP From Exact Match to Fallbacks🔒
- INDEX/MATCH for Every Version and Two-Way Lookups🔒
Module 2: Conditional Logic: IF, IFS, and Error Handling
- IF, Nested IF, and When to Switch to IFS🔒
- Combining Conditions with AND, OR, and NOT🔒
- Catching Errors with IFERROR and IFNA🔒
Module 3: SUMPRODUCT and Multi-Criteria Math
- How SUMPRODUCT Multiplies and Sums Arrays🔒
- Multi-Criteria Counting and Summing🔒
- Choosing Between SUMPRODUCT, SUMIFS, and Helper Columns🔒
Module 4: Dynamic Arrays: FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, and Live Reports
- FILTER: Extract Rows That Update Themselves🔒
- SORT, SORTBY, and UNIQUE for Clean Summaries🔒
- SEQUENCE, Spill References, and Fixing #SPILL!🔒
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