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Want to survive in a company in Bangladesh, then learn these survival techniques in Excel

As an MIS Executive, you need to prepare various types of report in MS Excel. That is why you need to take care about 2 important things in my opinion.


a) Analytical Ability:

This will help you tho design the report table based on requirements. You must think simply. Remember your information is important not the colorful design. If you have an order to prepare a report with some criteria, then first draw a sketch table in your notebook and design the table matrix (Row header and Column Header). This will help you to get the data fast.


b) Know MS Excel properly so that you can use it very quickly:

Learn your MS Excel properly so that you can use it to collect data very quickly. You don't need to go to training school. You can do it by yourself if you wish without free of cost. Now a day huge tutorials are found over online. Just search and learn. After learning apply the learning things into your real data, which is related to your company.

If you found the result correctly after applying the newly learned things into your real data, then it will give you a smile in your face. The smile is little for others but great for your. And that's the thing. Your analytical ability will increase.


But I have 1 Question!!!

I know you have a question in your mind, "In MS Excel there are lots of items to learn, but should I need to know all items?"

Simply answer is NO. You do not need to know all things in MS Excel. The minimum requirement for MIS Executive is to know the below functions and items:


Beginners Basic:
Basic Operators: + - / * ^
Basic Functions: SUM(), MAX(), MIN(), AVERAGE()
Basic Automatic data filling: Auto Fill Options by using mouse
Cell Format: Text, Number, Date, Alignment, Font, Borders
Paste Special: As Value, As Transpose, As Picture, As Format
Absolute and Relative Referencing: Absolute with $ sign and relative with non $ sign cell reference.
Select Keyboard: Basic Shortcut Keys like Ctrl+N, Ctrl+O, Ctrl+D, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V etc.

Data Cleaning Functions:
Data Arranging: Transpose(), Clean(), Trim()
Data Sorting: Large(), Small(),  Column(), Columns(), Row(), Rows(),
Data Pulling: LEFT(), RIGHT(), MID(), Upper(), Lower(), Exact(),
Data Finding: Search(), Find(), Index(), Match(), Lookup(), Vlookup(), Hlookup(), Choose(), Ctrl+F, Ctrl+
Data Validating: T(), N(), Text(), Value()
Find Replace: Ctrl+F, Ctrl+H, *, ?, ~
Remove Duplicate: Remove Duplicate, PivotTable

MIS reporting:
Subtotal
Conditional Formatting
Page Setup and Print
File Protection
PivotTable, PivotChart,

Necessary formulas:
Sumif(), Sumifs(), Countif(), Countifs(), Counta(), IF(), ISNA(), ISError(), ISBlank(), Index(), Match(), Vlookup(), Concatenate(), Round(), Date(), Day(), Month(), Year(), Sumproduct(), Text(), Len(), Trim(), Hlookup(), Lookup(), Choose()

Data Lookup:
Lookup with multi criteria,

Logical functions:
If(), IFs(), IFNA(), ISERROR(), ISBlank(), AND(), OR(), ISText(), ISNumber(),

Data Analysis:
PivotTable, PivotChart, PowerPivot, PowerView, PowerMap, Sorting, Conditional Formatting, Map, Filter, Subtotal, Dashboard, Activate-Deactivate Gridlines, Data Validation, Grouping, Hyper linking,
Freeze-Unfreeze Panes, Hide-Unhide Columns and Rows


All above these are available on Microsoft Wiki Articles. Just click there and learn and I believe YOU CAN DO IT.
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