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LinkedIn Learning

Excel for Sales Professionals

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn essential features, best practices, and strategies to track, analyze, and forecast sales.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • How to use the exercise files
1. Getting Started with Templates
  • Get started with a template
  • Modify a template and chart
  • Add a drop-down list
  • Share a template with your team
2. Importing Sales Data
  • Import data from a database
  • Import data from a CRM
  • Import data from a file
  • Cleaning up columns
  • Import data from many files
  • Query refresh options
  • Copy and pasting data
  • Cleaning up pasted data
3. Working with Tables
  • What is a table?
  • Sort and filter
  • Slicers
  • Automatic rows and columns
  • Add a dynamic commission calculation
4. Analyzing Sales Data
  • Conditional formatting
  • PivotTables
  • Unpacking PivotTables
  • Create a leaderboard
  • Leaderboard finishing touches
  • PivotCharts
  • Funnel charts
  • Quick forecasting
  • 3D maps
5. Build Awesome Sales Solutions
  • Multi-tier PivotTables
  • Create monthly and yearly summaries
  • Create period over period summaries
  • Create reports for multiple sales reps
  • Start a dashboard with existing PivotTables
  • Add PivotCharts to a dashboard
  • Add a map chart
  • Add a chart with a running total
Conclusion
  • Summary

Taught by

Dave Ludwig and Chris B. Smith

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