Excel Hacks: Capitalize on the Power of Flash Fill and Power Query

Microsoft Excel is more than just a great spreadsheet program—it’s a powerful tool for organizing and analyzing information. Excel is also a major source of frustration when new data arrives in formats, fields, and columns that aren't so helpful. Sound familiar?

What if you were able to quickly organize, manage and retrieve information in Excel, without long formulas or complicated keyboard shortcuts?

Join Anne Marie DelPrincipe as she unveils the secrets behind Microsoft Excel's two most powerful weapons; Flash Fill and Power Query! You will leave this live webinar knowing how to:

• Use Flash Fill to combine and extract names, format numbers, move text around in order to create new information
• Transform data into a normalized tables and fill in blank cells
• Separate dollars and cents; combine text, currency and date, and separate hours from minutes
• Find duplicates across multiple tables, and much more!

Bonus Handouts: How to Install Power Query in Excel and Tutorial on Power Query and Flash Fill 

Hot Tip: Control+E is the famous shortcut for centering text in Word and in PowerPoint.  However, in Excel, it is the shortcut for command for Flash Fill. In a new column, next to existing data, enter a value that represents what you want to extract and click on Control+E to fill in the rest of the information.

About the Trainer: Anne Marie DelPrincipe, MBA, owner of Mastering Software Unlimited, has over 30 years of training experience with emphasis on end-user computing and desktop publishing. Anne Marie also works as an Adjunct Professor at Raritan Valley Community College (RVCC) teaching Computer Literacy. She is a Corporate Training Specialist at RVCC and at Rutgers University teaching MS Office, Adobe products and PACE Certification. Anne Marie shares tips and techniques for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on her blog, mosexpert.wordpress.com. Anne Marie earned a B.A. in CIS and a M.B.A. in MIS from Iona College.