Basic Math and Percentages
- Sales Tax Calculation: Calculate the final price including tax for a list of products.
- Discounted Prices: Determine the sale price after applying various discount percentages.
- Profit Margin Calculation: Calculate profit margins for products based on cost and selling price.
- Expense Allocation: Split expenses among multiple categories and calculate percentage allocation.
- Budgeting: Create a budget and calculate variances between actual and planned expenses.
SUM Function
- Monthly Expenses: Sum the monthly expenses for a household budget.
- Project Costs: Calculate total project costs by summing different expense categories.
- Total Sales: Sum daily sales figures to find the total sales for the month.
- Charity Donations: Sum donations from various sources to get the total amount raised.
- Mileage Tracking: Calculate the total miles driven over a period.
COUNT Functions
- Inventory Count: Count the number of different items in stock using COUNT, COUNTA, and COUNTBLANK.
- Attendance Tracker: Use COUNTIF to track attendance based on predefined criteria.
- Survey Responses: Count the number of responses for each option in a survey using COUNTIFS.
- Customer Feedback: Count the number of positive and negative feedback entries.
- Employee Absences: Track and count the number of absences for employees over a year.
AVERAGE Function
- Grades Calculation: Calculate the average grade for a group of students.
- Performance Metrics: Find the average performance score across multiple departments.
- Daily Temperatures: Calculate the average temperature over a week.
- Sales Performance: Determine the average sales per day over a month.
- Budget Variance: Calculate the average variance between budgeted and actual expenses.
MIN/MAX Function
- Best and Worst Sales Performance: Identify the best and worst sales figures from a dataset.
- Temperature Records: Determine the highest and lowest temperatures over a month.
- Employee Salaries: Find the minimum and maximum salaries in a company.
- Product Ratings: Identify the highest and lowest ratings for products.
- Stock Prices: Determine the highest and lowest stock prices over a year.
IF and Nested IF Functions
- Pass/Fail Determination: Use the IF function to determine if students passed or failed based on their scores.
- Tax Brackets: Apply nested IFs to assign tax rates based on income levels.
- Bonus Eligibility: Determine employee eligibility for bonuses based on performance and tenure.
- Shipping Costs: Calculate shipping costs based on order amount and shipping destination.
- Grade Assignment: Assign letter grades to students based on their numerical scores.
LOOKUP Functions
- Employee Lookup: Use XLOOKUP to find employee details based on their ID.
- Product Price Finder: Implement HLOOKUP to find prices of products in a horizontal list.
- Departmental Budget: Use VLOOKUP to allocate budgets to departments based on a predefined table.
- Customer Orders: Use INDEX and MATCH to retrieve order details based on customer ID.
- Inventory Reorder: Lookup and identify items that need reordering based on stock levels.
Conditional Functions
- Conditional Sums: Calculate total sales for a specific region using SUMIF.
- Conditional Counts: Count the number of orders above a certain value using COUNTIF.
- Expense Tracking: Use SUMIFS to sum expenses based on multiple criteria like category and month.
- Sales Commission: Calculate commission based on sales thresholds using SUMIF.
- Customer Segmentation: Count customers in different segments using COUNTIFS.
Pivot Tables
- Sales Analysis: Create a pivot table to analyze sales data by region and product category.
- Customer Segmentation: Use pivot tables to segment customers based on purchase behavior.
- Employee Performance: Analyze performance metrics by department and job role using pivot tables.
- Expense Breakdown: Create a pivot table to break down expenses by category and month.
- Market Trends: Analyze market trends over time using pivot tables and charts.
Data Analysis and Visualization
- Sales Trend Analysis: Create a line chart to visualize monthly sales trends.
Text Functions
- Data Cleansing: Use TRIM, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, and CONCAT to clean and merge data.
- Email Extraction: Extract domain names from a list of email addresses using FIND and MID.
- Name Formatting: Convert names to proper case, using PROPER, UPPER, and LOWER functions.
- Address Parsing: Split addresses into separate columns for street, city, and zip code.
- Text Search: Use SEARCH and FIND to locate specific text within a dataset.
Financial Functions
- Loan Amortization: Calculate monthly payments and interest using PMT and IPMT functions.
- Investment Growth: Project future investment values using the FV function.
- Depreciation Calculation: Use SLN and DB functions to calculate asset depreciation.
- Net Present Value: Calculate the net present value of an investment using the NPV function.
- Internal Rate of Return: Determine the internal rate of return for a series of cash flows using the IRR function.
- Bond Pricing: Calculate the price of a bond using the PV function.
Date and Time Functions
- Project Timeline: Calculate project start and end dates using WORKDAY and NETWORKDAYS.
- Age Calculation: Determine ages from birthdates using the DATEDIF function.
- Meeting Scheduler: Calculate the number of working days between two dates.
- Date Formatting: Convert dates to different formats using TEXT and DATE functions.
- Time Tracking: Calculate total hours worked based on start and end times.
Advanced Formulas
- Array Formulas: Use array formulas to perform complex calculations over a range of cells.
- Dynamic Ranges: Use OFFSET and INDIRECT to create dynamic ranges for charts and tables.
- Multi-Criteria Lookups: Use INDEX and MATCH with multiple criteria to perform complex lookups.
- Matrix Calculations: Perform matrix multiplications using MMULT and other advanced functions.