Deciphering Excel Error Prompts (Currently Unavailable)

Author: David H. Ringstrom

Excel errors can be stressful, confusing, and difficult to solve on your own. In this course, you’ll learn some of the reasons why errors are encountered and how to quickly and confidently solve them.

Publication Date: August 2018

Designed For
Practitioners seeking to use Excel more effectively by understanding and mitigating Excel error prompts.

Topics Covered

• Understanding how to manage the Protected View prompt in Excel 2010 and later.
• Identifying the various # sign errors Excel formulas can return.
• Making sense of the Enable Content prompt related to macros in Excel.
• Using range names to streamline formulas and bookmark key inputs within a workbook.
• Updating perpetually licensed versions of Excel by way of service packs.
• Utilizing the Error Checking command to locate cells that contain errors within a worksheet.
• Learning what steps to take if you can't open a damaged workbook.
• Discovering how to avoid wasting time when saving workbooks as .XLS files by dispatching the Compatibility Checker.
• Using a simple macro to eliminate redundant prompts that appear when you save a file in text or .CSV format.
• Understanding how to launch Excel in Safe Mode to troubleshoot Excel issues.
• Mastering the IFERROR function to display alternate values in lieu of a # sign error.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the worksheet function that eliminates extraneous spaces from text within a worksheet.
• Recall which versions of Excel offer the FORMULATEXT function.
• Identify which section of the Excel Options dialog box that allows you to manage the Protected View setting.

Level
Basic

Instructional Method
Self-Study

NASBA Field of Study
Computer Software & Applications (2 hours)

Program Prerequisites
None

Advance Preparation
None