TOP 25 Basic Excel Formulas for Beginners (2025) | Step-by-Step Excel Guide

📊 Want to master Excel formulas from scratch? In this video, I’ll walk you through the TOP 25 most essential Excel formulas that every beginner must know!

Whether you're a student, job seeker, data analyst, or business professional — these formulas will boost your productivity and data skills fast! 💪

✅ What you’ll learn in this video:
• SUM and SUMIF – calculate totals with or without conditions
• COUNT and COUNTA – count values (with or without blanks)
• IF and VLOOKUP – apply logic and look up values from tables
• CONCATENATE and LEN – combine text and measure length
• PROPER, UPPER, TRIM – clean and format text correctly
• LOWER – convert text to all lowercase easily
• NOW and TODAY – get current date and time dynamically
• YEAR, MONTH, DAY – extract parts of a date (year, month, day)
• LEFT, RIGHT, MID – extract specific characters from text
• MIN and MAX – identify smallest and largest values quickly
• LARGE and SMALL – find ranked top or bottom values in a range
• PRODUCT – multiply numbers efficiently in your spreadsheet
• COUNTBLANK – count how many cells are empty in a range
• AVERAGE – calculate the average (mean) of a group of numbers
• IF + AND / OR / IFS – apply complex conditions with ease
• TRIM – remove extra spaces from text
• TEXT (əgər əlavə etsən) – format numbers and dates as custom text
• VLOOKUP – search for data vertically within a table range

✅ These formulas are used daily by professionals in:
• Accounting
• Finance
• HR
• Operations
• Data entry
• Project tracking
• Reporting and dashboards

💡 By the end of this video, you'll be confident with Excel basics and ready to build more advanced formulas and automate your work.

⏱️ Use the chapters to skip to any function you want to review.

Chapters:
00:00 - 00:30 - Intro
00:31 - 01:01 - SUM Function
01:02 - 01:37 - AVERAGE Function
01:38 - 02:14 - MIN Function
02:15 - 02:49 - MAX Function
02:50 - 03:27 - COUNT Function
03:28 - 04:07 - COUNTA Function
04:08 - 04:52 - PROPER Function
04:53 - 05:37 - UPPER Function
05:38 - 06:58 - CONCATENATE Function
06:59 - 07:33 - LEFT Function
07:34 - 08:08 - RIGHT Function
08:09 - 08:46 - MID Function
08:47 - 09:20 - LEN Function
09:21 - 09:54 - TRIM Function
09:55 - 10:39 - IF Function
10:40 - 12:21 - LARGE Function
12:22 - 13:58 - SMALL Function
13:59 - 14:59 - COUNTBLANK Function
15:00 - 15:25 - NOW Function
15:26 - 16:17 - TODAY Function
16:18 - 16:50 - DAY Function
16:51 - 17:28 - MONTH Function
17:29 - 18:04 - YEAR Function
18:05 - 18:47 - VLOOKUP Function
18:48 - 19:24 - PRODUCT Function
19:25 - 19:39 - End

🎯 This video is perfect for:
• Excel beginners
• Office workers
• Students
• Freelancers
• Anyone who wants to improve their Excel skills fast!

💾 To download the Excel (.xlsx) file directly from Google Drive:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

✅ This file contains all the real examples and formulas shown in the video – perfect for hands-on practice!

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