This course will teach you how to use Excel’s advanced features to streamline your work. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to create sophisticated business tools.
Session 1: Making Your Worksheets Look Professional
- Format dates
- Format numbers using built-in number formats
- Create custom number formats
- Use cell styles and change themes
- Use simple conditional formatting
- Manage multiple conditional formats using the Rules Manager
- Bring data alive with visualizations
- Create a formula driven conditional format
Session 2: Tables and Ranges
- Apply a simple filter to a range
- Apply a top 10 and custom filter to a range
- Apply an advanced filter with multiple OR criteria
- Apply an advanced filter with complex criteria
- Extract unique records using an advanced filter
- Convert to range into a table and add a total row
- Format a table using table styles and convert a table into a range
- Sort a range or table by rows
- Sort a range or table by custom list
Session 3: Subtotals
- Automatically subtotal a range
- Create nested subtotals
Session 4: Advanced Functions
- Use the IF logic function
- Use the AND and OR functions to construct complex Boolean criteria
- Concatenate string using the concatenation operator (&)
- Use the TEXT function to format numerical values as strings
- Extract text from fixed width strings using the LEFT, RIGHT and MID functions
- Extract text from delimited strings using the FIND and LEN functions
- Use TODAY, DAY, MONTH and YEAR
- Time calculations (mid-night)
- Use Time(), hours, minutes and seconds
- Use the SUMIF & COUNTIF functions to create conditional totals
- Use the SUMIFS & COUNTIFS functions to create conditional totals
- Use a VLOOKUP function for an exact lookup
- Use an IFERROR function to suppress error messages
- Use a VLOOKUP function for an inexact lookup
- Use INDEX, MATCH function
Session 5: PivotTables & Pivot Charts
- Create a one-dimensional pivot table report from a table
- Create a grouped pivot table report
- Understand pivot table rows and columns
- Understand the PivotTable data cache
- Apply a simple filter and sort to a pivot table
- Use report filter fields
- Filter a pivot table visually using slicers
- Add a timeline to a PivotTable
- Use slicers to create a data-driven interface
- Use report filter fields to automatically create multiple pages
- Format a pivot table using PivotTable styles
- Understand pivot table report layouts
- Add/remove subtotals and apply formatting to pivot table fields
- Display multiple summations within a single pivot table
- Group by Text
- Group by Date
- Group by numeric value ranges
- Show row data by percentage of total rather than value
- Create a pivot chart from a pivot table
- Embed multiple pivot tables onto a worksheet
- Use slicers to filter multiple pivot tables