5 Excel Formulas Every Office Job in Jalandhar Expects You to Know

Why Excel still decides office interviews

Billing counters, showrooms, schools and accounts offices all keep their daily records in spreadsheets. When they hire a computer operator or back-office executive, the practical round is usually a sheet of data and three or four questions to answer with it.

You do not need hundreds of functions. You need a handful you can use quickly and without looking them up.

The five that come up again and again

Learn these on a real sheet of sales or attendance data, not on a blank workbook.

• SUMIFS: add up values that meet one or more conditions, such as total sales for one product in one month.

• COUNTIFS: count rows that meet conditions, such as how many students were absent more than three days.

• XLOOKUP (or VLOOKUP in older versions): pull a price, name or phone number from another table using a code.

• IF and IFS: label rows automatically, such as “Paid” or “Pending”, or grade marks into bands.

• TEXT and date functions: turn a date into a month name or count the days between two dates for due-date tracking.

What to practise next

Once these are easy, move on to pivot tables. A pivot table answers most “total by month” or “total by customer” questions in a few clicks, and interviewers notice when you use one.

Keep a small file of the sheets you practise on. Showing a working example in an interview is more convincing than listing “Advance Excel” on your resume.