Excel - Advanced Training Course
This course expands on the foundational and intermediate concepts covered in the Microsoft® Office Excel® Basic and Microsoft® Office Excel® Intermediate modules, enabling you to maximise your Excel capabilities. By mastering collaboration with colleagues, automating intricate or repetitive processes, and applying conditional logic to develop and implement sophisticated formulas and functions, you will unlock the full potential of Excel. As you gain deeper insight into leveraging Excel to handle complex tasks, you will free up time to focus on extracting the insights you need from the extensive data your organisation produces.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be equipped to perform advanced data analysis, collaborate effectively on workbooks with other users, and automate workbook functionality.
- You will:
- Manage multiple worksheets and workbooks.
- Share and secure workbooks.
- Automate workbook functionality.
- Utilise lookup functions and formula auditing tools.
- Forecast data.
- Create sparklines and map data.
Course Outline
1 - WORKING WITH MULTIPLE WORKSHEETS AND WORKBOOKS
- Topic A: Use Links and External References
- Topic B: Use 3-D References
- Topic C: Consolidate Data
2 - SHARING AND PROTECTING WORKBOOKS
- Topic A: Collaborate on a Workbook
- Topic B: Protect Worksheets and Workbooks
3 - AUTOMATING WORKBOOK FUNCTIONALITY
- Topic A: Apply Data Validation
- Topic B: Search for Invalid Data and Formulas with Errors
- Topic C: Work with Macros
4 - USING LOOKUP FUNCTIONS AND FORMULA AUDITING
- Topic A: Use Lookup Functions
- Topic B: Trace Cells
- Topic C: Watch and Evaluate Formulas
5 - FORECASTING DATA
- Topic A: Determine Potential Outcomes Using Data Tables
- Topic B: Determine Potential Outcomes Using Scenarios
- Topic C: Use the Goal Seek Feature
- Topic D: Forecast Data Trends
6 - CREATING SPARKLINES AND MAPPING DATA
- Topic A: Create Sparklines
- Topic B: Map Data
Requirements
To ensure success, students should have practical, real-world experience creating and analyzing datasets using Excel. Specific tasks students should be able to perform include: creating formulas and using Excel functions; creating, sorting, and filtering datasets and tables; presenting data by using basic charts; creating and working with PivotTables, slicers, and PivotCharts; and customizing the Excel environment. To meet these prerequisites, students can take the following courses, or should possess the equivalent skill level:
Microsoft® Office Excel®: Basic
Microsoft® Office Excel®: Intermediate
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