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Microsoft Excel Trivia

From PivotTable wizardry to the dark arts of VLOOKUP, prove you're not just another person who puts 'proficient in Excel' on their resume.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

What specific mathematical symbol must be typed first to signal that a cell contains a formula rather than plain text?

Equal sign

What powerful Excel tool allows users to quickly summarize and analyze large datasets in a cross-tabulated report?

PivotTable

What function, whose name is short for "vertical lookup," searches for a specific value in the first column of a table and returns data from the same row?

VLOOKUP

If you want to display data as slices that make up a single whole, which familiar chart type would you insert?

Pie chart

What is the name of the visual, button-based filter panel that allows users to quickly narrow down data within a PivotTable or table?

Slicer