Advanced Excel with Real-Life Projects

Master workbook design, logical and lookup functions, SUMIFS, dynamic arrays, PivotTables, dashboards and Power Query — through real office projects. Most people use 10% of Excel. Employers look for the next 30%: clean workbook design, reliable formulas, lookups that never break, flexible summaries, dashboards and repeatable data cleaning. This book teaches those skills step by step with real sales, attendance and expense projects, a formula reference and a full answer key.

Who this eBook is for

Students, commerce graduates, office staff, accountants, MIS executives and aspiring analysts who already know basic Excel and want job-ready advanced skills they can prove in interviews and use at work every day.

What you will learn

• Design workbooks with Tables, clear structure and data-quality checks.
• Use IF, IFS, AND, OR, SWITCH and error handling confidently.
• Summarise data with SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, AVERAGEIFS and SUMPRODUCT.
• Look up data with XLOOKUP and INDEX/MATCH and fix lookup errors.
• Work with text, dates and dynamic-array functions like FILTER and UNIQUE.
• Apply data validation, conditional formatting and cleaning techniques.
• Build PivotTables, charts and an interactive dashboard.
• Automate repeatable data preparation with Power Query.
• Complete sales, attendance and expense projects end to end.
• Audit formulas and check your work with practice files and answers.

Inside this eBook

1. Workbook Design, Tables and Data Quality — A well-designed workbook prevents half of all Excel errors.
2. Logical Functions, IF and Error Handling — Teach Excel to make decisions — and to fail gracefully.
3. SUMIFS, COUNTIFS and Conditional Aggregation — Answer business questions with one formula.
4. XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH and Lookup Troubleshooting — Bring the right value from another table — every time.
5. Text, Date and Dynamic-Array Functions — Clean, split, combine and filter data with formulas that grow automatically.
6. Data Validation, Conditional Formatting and Cleaning — Stop bad data at the door and make important numbers stand out.
7. PivotTables, Charts and Dashboard Design — Turn data into a one-page view managers actually use.
8. Power Query and Repeatable Data Transformation — Clean once, refresh forever.
9. Sales, Attendance and Expense Projects — Three complete projects you can show in interviews.
10. Formula Audit, Practice Files and Answer Key — Check your work like a professional.

Also included

• Learning objectives, key takeaways and practice exercises in every chapter
• Complete answer key
• Glossary, 30-day action plan and printable workbook pages
• Formula reference
• Dashboard brief
• Answer key

Format

Premium PDF, 60 pages, A4 — read online on Skilmex or download your copy. Written by Skilmex Experts, edition 1.0 (2026). For personal use; please do not share the file.