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Orchestrating Excel: Auditing Spreadsheets

Techniques for Auditing, Troubleshooting, and Ensuring Accuracy with David Ringstrom, CPA.

Created byDavid Ringstrom
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IntermediateUpdated Oct 30, 2019
Orchestrating Excel: Auditing Spreadsheets

What You'll Learn

check_circleRecall the location of the menu command that allows you to determine categorically if a workbook contains links or not.
check_circleDefine how to transform cell references into range names. State the location of the Enable Iterative Calculations setting within the Excel Options dialog box.
check_circleImplement the Watch Window to monitor the ramifications of even minor changes to your workbooks.
check_circleApply the Evaluate Formula feature to troubleshoot and understand complex formulas step by step.

About This Course

Learn from Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA, as he shares valuable techniques for verifying the integrity of even the most complex Excel spreadsheets. In this comprehensive course, David demonstrates how to use Excel’s formula auditing and error-checking tools, identify duplicates in a list, monitor the impact of even minor workbook changes, use the Evaluate Formula feature, and much more.

Each technique is demonstrated at least twice: first on a PowerPoint slide with numbered steps, and then live in the Office 365 version of Excel. David highlights any differences found in older versions of Excel (2019, 2016, 2013, and earlier) during the presentation and in his detailed handouts. The course also includes an Excel workbook containing most of the examples featured in the webcast.

Note: Office 365 is a subscription-based product that receives new feature updates as often as monthly. In contrast, perpetual license versions of Excel—such as Excel 2019, Excel 2016, and earlier—do not receive feature updates.

Your Instructor

David Ringstrom
David Ringstrom

CPA, Author, Professional Excel Spreadsheet Trainer and Consultant

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David H. Ringstrom, CPA, is the author of Microsoft 365 Excel for Dummies, and a nationally recognized instructor who has taught over 2,500 live webinars. His Excel courses are based on over 30 years of consulting and teaching experience. David’s catchphrase is “Either you work Excel, or it works you,” so he focuses on what he sees users don’t, but should know about Microsoft Excel. His goal is to empower you to use Excel more effectively. David has authored or co-authored 10 books, including Exploring Microsoft Excel's Hidden Treasures, QuickBooks Online for Dummies, and Idiot's Guide to Introductory Accounting.

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