Microsoft Excel’s greatest strength - flexibility - is also its greatest weakness. This Excel course for new and even the most skilled Microsoft Excel users demonstrates how to build structure and consistency into your spreadsheets to maximize accuracy and minimize errors. We also explain the five key questions that you need to keep in mind when constructing your spreadsheets for external review.

We review the methods and best practices for building a structural foundation for your spreadsheets and provide a downloadable template file which you can adapt to your own style as you develop it. We cover:

• Why structure matters

• Creating a structural foundation for consistent spreadsheets

• Constructing spreadsheets that meet three main goals using key five questions

• Tips for using calculation and functionality to maximize accuracy and minimize errors

This course is brought to you by Illumeo. Illumeo, incorporated in 2009, is revolutionizing the hide-bound world of corporate learning. Illumeo works with corporate professionals and organizations of all sizes to build the skills and capabilities that help everyone be an expert at their job. Based in Silicon Valley, CA, Illumeo serves thousands of corporations and corporate professionals across Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Sales, and Marketing. The platform offers assessments, industry-benchmarked competency analyses, hundreds of expert-developed courses, collaborative tools, and the ability for companies to self-publish internal courses that promote institutional knowledge retention and dissemination. Illumeo is the place for expertise management and we are dedicated to the proposition that everyone can be an expert at their job.