This presentation covers skills in Excel including absolute and relative cell referencing, conditional formatting, text/string functions, nested IF statements, and forms/combo boxes. It provides examples of using these functions and tools to highlight and analyze data visually, check for multiple conditions, and create interactive dropdown lists. Formulas are demonstrated to look up values and join text. The presentation aims to help users apply conditional formatting rules, data bars, color scales, and icon sets to visualize data and identify patterns or outliers.

1. Zubair Farooq
Assistant Programmer
NEMIS, AEPAM

2. This Presentation cover the following skills:
 Using absolute cell referencing
 Applying conditional formatting
 Text /String Functions
 Using nested IF statements
 Forms and combo boxes

3. This formula Refers to Returns
=C2 Cell C2 The value in cell C2
=Sheet2!B2 Cell B2 on Sheet2 The value in cell B2 on
Sheet2
=$A$1 absolute column ‘A’ and absolute row ‘1’
=A$1 relative column ‘A’ and absolute row ‘1’
=$ A1 Absolute column ‘A’ and relative row ‘1’

4.  Use a conditional format to help us visually
explore and analyze data, detect critical issues,
and identify patterns and trends.
 it highlights interesting cells or ranges of cells
 It emphasizes unusual values, and visualize
data by using data bars, color scales, and icon
sets

5. Home
How to Apply the Conditional
Formatting To Highlight the Cell

7. How to Apply the Conditional
Formatting Rules

9. How to Apply Data Bars and
Color Scales

10. Data Bar
Color Scheme

11. Example of Icon Set

12.  Upper(text) Converts text to uppercase
 Lower(text) Converts text to lowercase
 Exact (text1,text2)
Checks to see if two text values are identical
 TRIM(text)
Removes all spaces from text except for single
spaces between words
 CONCATENATE(text1,text2,…)
Joins several text items into one text item

13. IF is used to conduct conditional tests on values
and formulas.
Syntax
IF(logical_test,value_if_true,value_if_false)
e.g.
IF(A2<=100,"Within budget","Over budget")
IF(C3>D10, “TRUE”,”FALSE”)
IF(C10<20,1,0)

14.  Nested IF means check the multi conditions
We can also say IF within IF
e.g.
IF(A2>89,"A",IF(A2>79,"B", IF(A2>69,"C",IF(A2>59,"D","F"))))
Nested if used in our example:
IF(E8>$B$19,"Distinction",IF(E8>$B$20,"Merit",IF(E8>$B$21,"Pass","Fa
il")))

15.  to create a Combo box
select a region area whose details you want to bringup in the
page. For this, click on View and Forms

17. Assign the Value
Against the Combo
box
VLOOKUP:
You can use the VLOOKUP function to search the first column of a range of cells,
and then return a value from any cell on the same row of the range
Syntex:
VLOOKUP(lookup_value, table_array, col_index_num, [range_lookup])