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5 Commonly Asked Excel questions in Job Interviews

Today, every employer expects that you have some advance knowledge of Microsoft Excel, though it may not be the primary function of your job. Advanced excel skills can certainly boost your chances to grab that vacancy. We have selected the Five commonly asked Excel questions in Job interviews:

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Using Get & Transform in Microsoft Excel 2016

Get & Transform is a powerful data analysis tool in Microsoft Excel that allows you to import, refine and work with data from a range of sources, including files saved to your computer and web pages on the internet. You can shape data in order to display the details relevant to your purposes and hide information that is not required, without making permanent and irreversible changes to the data.

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Understanding Advanced Filters in Excel

Excel worksheets can be used to keep lists of information such as employee details, subscribers, accounts, sales, or even bird sightings if need be. The Advanced Filter in Excel enables you to analyse the data in a list by filtering it according to specific criteria. Excel worksheets can be used to keep lists of information such as employee details, subscribers, accounts, sales, or even bird sightings if need be. The Advanced Filter in Excel enables you to analyse the data in a list by filtering it according to specific criteria.

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Creating Slicers in Excel

Slicers are special field filters that can be applied to Excel tables. They are most useful for further dissecting an existing PivotTable report in a worksheet. Slicers are actually graphics objects comprising of a rectangle and special filter buttons. Slicers are inserted into the worksheet from the Slicer command on the INSERT tab of the ribbon.

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Understanding Power Pivot in Excel

Excel’s reputation as an analysis tool grows with each successive upgrade. While data analysis was originally confined to data in a worksheet, Excel is now being used for analysing data from a variety of sources including databases and larger corporate data sources. Whilst this can be done using Excel itself, Power Pivot is an add-in that consolidates the steps towards achieving this.