During interviews I'm asked to speak to my experience with excel. Any advice on what I can say to sound impressive when I have just used the standard vlookups and pivots we all used

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Based on the responses I realized I suck at excel and don't do any of that stuff

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Well what do you do often with excel?

Tell them you wrote a macro to automate your last job so you're looking to pick up a 2nd FT job.

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Tell them you're good at figuring things out and googling things or taking quick online courses to learn new tricks, that you have dabbled in macros but are by no means an expert, and that you think x lookup is better than pivot tables but you use both at times.

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Don’t think we use X lookup because it’s not compatible with a lot of clients on their side. Index match works just fine for me at leasr

Wait patiently for an hour when it freezes

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Use excel with only the keyboard

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Well...can I at least unplug my mouse AFTER I search Google? 😄

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I’ve never had to prove my excel experience like this, but I’d like to think my excel skill is adequate. Personally if I were asked this I would say the key is to understand the data and the purpose and use simple excel skills to achieve it. (sorry OP I feel I should have an example here but my thoughts are at a lost, just trying to help lol)

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Power query

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Macros

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I can break links

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New array formulas.

Pivot tables
Index match
Nested if and or functions

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