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Excel Advanced Formulas & Features

Excel Advanced Formulas: Stop Doing Things the Hard Way

Beginner ⏱ 8 hours 📚 46 lessons 🌐 en 🏆 Certificate 📅 Last updated May 2026
Created by Leila Gharani

SUMPRODUCT, OFFSET, SUMIFS, Goal Seek, Solver—turn your spreadsheet into a decision engine. Start with Leila Gharani.

1 section • 46 lectures • 7.8h total length

  • How to use Excel Index Match (the right way) 12 min
  • Excel OFFSET Function for Dynamic Calculations - Explained in Simple Steps 14 min
  • How to Use SUMPRODUCT in Excel 15 min
  • Excel Dynamic YTD Calculations: OFFSET, SUMPRODUCT & SUM 13 min
  • Excel Goal Seek Explained in Simple Steps 6 min
  • Excel Solver - Example and Step-By-Step Explanation 10 min
  • How to Remove Hidden Data and Personal Information from Excel Workbooks 10 min
  • How to Easily Import External Data into Excel & Import Data from the Web 11 min
  • Excel SUMIFS: Sum Alternate Columns based on Criteria and Header 11 min
  • (Promo) Advanced Excel: Top 10 Tips & Formulas to Work Smarter 2 min
  • Excel: How to debug your Excel formulas and keep your eyes on certain cells 9 min
  • Excel Conditional Formatting with Symbols and Icons (for better reports) 10 min
  • How to Reset Week Number Every Month in Excel - (WEEKDAY & WEEKNUM Functions Explained) 17 min
  • How to Conditional Formatting the Lookup Result in Excel Data Table (Index Match) 9 min
  • Return Multiple Match Results in Excel (2 methods) 14 min
  • Excel MOD Function - Easy Explanation & Practical Examples of MOD for Work 20 min
  • Excel Complex VLOOKUP to Create Description: Excel COUNTA, INDEX & MATCH for Blank Cells 17 min
  • Excel SUMIFS Date Range Formula | Sum between dates & sum with multiple criteria 9 min
  • How to Change the Number Format of a Cell Based on a Condition in Excel 7 min
  • How to Use SUMIFS with Partial Match and Wildcards in Excel 9 min
  • How to Count a Specific Day of the Week Between Two Dates | How many Fridays? 6 min
  • How to Fix VLOOKUP Not Working | Convert Text to Date? (Excel Text to Columns) 5 min
  • How to Rank Duplicate Values in Excel without Skipping Numbers (Top 3 Report with Duplicates) 13 min
  • How to Change HORIZONTAL Data to VERTICAL in Excel (NO Transpose Function needed) 6 min
  • Convert NUMBERS to WORDS in Excel | No VBA (free file included) 9 min
  • Excel IF Function with PARTIAL Text Match (IF with Wildcards) 7 min
  • Excel MAX or MIN with CONDITIONS (MAXIFS & AGGREGATE Method) 8 min
  • Send Fully Dynamic Emails from Excel with a SINGLE FORMULA | No VBA Required! 9 min
  • Excel 3D Formulas Explained (Sum Across Multiple Sheets) 9 min
  • Remove ALL Unwanted Spaces in Excel (TRIM ALL Function?) 8 min
  • Calculating Returns On a Rental Property (ROI with Excel Template) 16 min
  • Why You NEED to know the Time Value of Money Formula (Excel NPV function) 14 min
  • How to Count Cells With Text in Excel (Mysterious Formula as NEVER Seen Before) 7 min
  • Find Multiple Match Results in Excel (Easier Solution For ALL Excel versions) 13 min
  • How to Use Power Automate to Send Emails from Excel with PERSONAL Attachments 11 min
  • How to Create Random Numbers in Excel (including no repeats) 7 min
  • How to Calculate Working Days in Excel & Exclude ANY Days you WANT (weekends too) 7 min
  • How to SUMIFS With Multiple Criteria In the SAME Column in Excel 4 min
  • Properly Calculate Percentile and Percentile RANK in Excel (INC vs EXC) 7 min
  • How to Calculate YTD (Year to Date) Values in Excel using the SCAN function 8 min
  • Forecasting in Excel Made SIMPLE (include seasonality & make predictions) 6 min
  • Excel LOOKUP Function Only PROS Use (simple to complex examples) 12 min
  • Excel What-If Analysis Data Table | Easy to Use Once you Learn This☝️ 9 min
  • You Won't Believe These Crazy PIVOT TABLE Hacks! 12 min
  • Introducing REGEX Excel Functions - Extract, Clean, and Format Data Easily! (NEW!) 19 min
  • Stop Using COUNTIF! The Better Way to Count in Excel 12 min
Leila Gharani

Leila Gharani

YouTube Channel

👥 1 students 📚 2 courses ► YouTube channel

Excel. Power Query. Copilot. ChatGPT. Power BI. PowerPoint.
You use them every day to automate Excel and your work - so why not actually master them?

I’ll show you how to:
✔️Automate the stuff that drives you nuts
✔️ Spend less time on grunt work, more time on wow work
✔️ Build reports that look good AND actually make sense

What You’ll Learn Here:
✔️ Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, VBA, Google Sheets & more
✔️ AI-powered Excel & the future of work
✔️ Data & finance skills that give you an edge

I don’t just teach this stuff - I use it daily.
My goal? To help you think differently about the tools you already have, so you can work faster, and with confidence.

🎓 My background: MA in economics / Economist / Business Consultant / Accounting Systems Expert / Oracle & SAP implementations (for Finance) / Teacher & Microsoft MVP

💡 400,000+ professionals have taken my courses at XelPlus - because working smarter just makes sense.
Join here 👉 https://www.xelplus.com/courses/

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