Course description
Microsoft Excel® in Depth: Virtual In-House Training
The goal of this course is to provide a deeper understanding of Excel and its intricacies and a new ability to use it efficiently producing the best solutions for your projects.
This practical course provides a solid background of the features of Excel and a deeper understanding of its features, benefits and uses. This is not a beginner’s course in Excel. You will learn some advanced features such as Pivot Tables, Charting, Tables, Sorting, Filtering and Functions.
The goal of this course is to provide a deeper understanding of Excel and its intricacies and a new ability to use it efficiently producing the best solutions for your projects.
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What you Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
- Use functions like IF, AVERAGE, SUMIF, SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT, INDEX, MATCH, CHOOSE, DATE, and many more
- Create meaningful charts
- Use pivot tables
- Use Conditional Formatting, Data Validation
- Take advantage of using Named ranges, do sorting, filtering, tables
Training Course Content
Getting Started
- The building blocks of Excel, built-in functions, will be examined
- The basics of formatting your data will be examined
- Shortcuts and data manipulation will be explored
- Built-in features like those mentioned in the “What you will learn” section above will be explored in detail
Excel Functions – VLOOKUP, IF, INDEX, MATCH, CHOOSE, SUMIF, SUMIFS, SUMPRODUCT, DATE, so many more
Using Named ranges, Data Validation, Sorting, and Filtering
- Learn the Name manager;
- Learn the difference between local and global names;
- Ensure correct access to linked workbooks;
- Ensure data accuracy;
- Learn how to use cascading data validation (for example, once a user chooses “cars”, another cell allows only Ford, Toyota, etc.);
- Sorting by more than 3 fields;
- Filtering by font, pattern, or value;
- See your data based on things like dates in the 3rd quarter, or fields where quantity x price is greater than some fixed value
Conditional formatting and data formatting
- Make relevant data stand out
- Isolate highs and lows
- Make error cells invisible
- Learn about Data bars, Icon sets, and Color scales
- Highlight differences between worksheets
- Learn all the codes in the Format/Number list
- Using cell Styles
- Learn all about alignment, protection, borders, colors and more
Pivot Tables
- Learn how to summarize large amounts of data with a few clicks
- Learn various ways of presenting the data
- Learn the various pivot table tools
- Learn how to customize and format a pivot table to suit your needs
- Learn how to group data
- Learn how to use the various options to present your data
Charts
- Learn how to create a chart with one keystroke!
- Learn the 11 types of built-in charts
- Learn how to create a chart with one keystroke!
- Learn how to customize the charts to make the information tell the right story
- Learn how to use the design, layout, and formatting available to charts in Excel 2007
- Learn embedded charts versus chart sheets
- Learn how to use modify all the pieces of a chart
Array formulas
- Learn how to use the most powerful formulas in Excel
- Learn how to combine many formulas into one compact array-formula
- Learn the real power of these formulas and why regular formulas can’t do the job
- Learn how to use built-in array formulas, like TREND or TRANSPOSE
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