• Who sold least / most cookies by month
• Who are the top 25% / bottom 25%
• Who has the most winning months
• Who has the most losing months
• Who sold the most cookies
• How is each girl trending
Let's dive in.
10 Excel Formulas To 10x Your Productivity:
• Who sold least / most cookies by month
• Who are the top 25% / bottom 25%
• Who has the most winning months
• Who has the most losing months
• Who sold the most cookies
• How is each girl trending
Let's dive in.
Before you start, format your worksheet and lay out what you want to build.
Shortcuts used:
• Ctrl + space bar = Insert Column
• Shift + space bar = Insert Row
• Ctrl + shift + + = Insert
• Ctrl + R = Fill Right
• =Sum(G8:G17)
Min and Max are helpful when working with large data sets.
Min returns the lowest value in a series of data.
Max returns the highest value in a series of data.
Min Formula: =Min(number1, number2...)
Max Formula: =Max(number1, number2...)
Concatenate will bring strings of data together.
When you want to combine a first and last name into a single cell, it's your tool.
The formula is:
=concatenate(text1, text2, text3)
Remember to add a " " between the first and second name as text2
Sparklines let's us answer the question: How is each girl trending.
With Sparklines, we can insert graphical data directly into a cell of our table as simply as:
• Select Range
• Insert Sparkline
• I choose Column
In statistics, a quartile divides the number of data points into four parts, or quarters, of more-or-less equal size.
It lets us know the bottom 25% of sales people and the top 25% of sales people are.
Formula: =quartile(array,quart)
quart = the quartile we want.
We use sumifs when we want to add cells that meet multiple criteria, generally in a list.
In our scenario, we want to sum numbers between two quartiles.
Formula = sumifs(range, criteria1 range, criteria1, criteria2 range, criteria2)
X-Lookup is an upgraded V-Lookup.
We use it to find data in a table or range.
We are going to combine our X-Lookup with our Min and Max function.
The formula: =XLOOKUP(lookup value, lookup array, return array)
Ours will pull the min / max person by month.
Countif will count a value that meets certain criteria.
We will use this to determine how many times someone was the minimum value or maximum value in a month.
Formula: =countif(range, criteria)
Conditional formatting lets us highlight information for the readers.
We can either set our own rules or use preset rules, as we will in our example.
By using different colors it draws your eyes to the good, and bad.
You always want your finished product to look good and be consistent.
When someone reads your work and it looks good, they ask less questions.
When you are asked less questions, you are more productive.
Make your work look good.
If you want to 10x your Excel productivity, learn these 10 formulas and techniques:
• Conditional formatting
• Format & shortcuts
• Min +Max formula
• Concatenate
• Sparklines
• X-Lookup
• Quartile
• Countif
• Sumifs
1. Follow @IAmClintMurphy
2. Share the first tweet
https://t.co/zYFc73vj2C
Until next time,
Clint Murphy
10 Excel Formulas To 10x Your Productivity:
— Clint Murphy (@IAmClintMurphy) June 23, 2022
More from Productivity
You May Also Like
1/“What would need to be true for you to….X”
Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?
A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:
2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to
- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal
3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:
Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.
Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.
4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?
To get clarity.
You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.
It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”
Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.
Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?
A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:
Next level tactic when closing a sale, candidate, or investment:
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) February 27, 2018
Ask: \u201cWhat needs to be true for you to be all in?\u201d
You'll usually get an explicit answer that you might not get otherwise. It also holds them accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to
- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal
3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:
Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.
Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.
4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?
To get clarity.
You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.
It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.
5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”
Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.
