Ready to take your spreadsheet skills to the next level? This Advanced Excel Training course is designed for professionals who want to work smarter—not harder—with Microsoft Excel. You’ll build upon the foundational and intermediate knowledge from Microsoft Excel – Part 1 and Microsoft Excel – Part 2, helping you get the most out of your Excel experience.
Learn to collaborate more effectively with colleagues, automate complex or repetitive tasks, and use conditional logic to create powerful formulas and functions. The more you master Excel’s advanced tools, the more you can shift your focus from manual work to extracting the insights your organization needs from its vast amounts of data. From building dynamic dashboards to forecasting trends, this course unlocks the full potential of Excel at your fingertips.
Duration: 1 DayIn this course, you will build upon the foundational and intermediate knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 1 and Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 2 courses to help you get the most of your Excel experience. The ability to collaborate with colleagues, automate complex or repetitive tasks, and use conditional logic to construct and apply elaborate formulas and functions will put the full power of Excel right at your fingertips. The more you learn about how to get Excel to do the hard work for you, the more you’ll be able to focus on getting the answers you need from the vast amounts of data your organization generates.
Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to perform advanced data analysis, collaborate on workbooks with other users, and automate workbook functionality. You will: Work with multiple worksheets and workbooks. Share and protect workbooks. Automate workbook functionality. Use Lookup functions and formula auditing. Forecast data. Create sparklines and map data.
Prerequisite(s):
Microsoft Excel for Office 365(Desktop or Online) – Part 2
Module 1 – WORKING WITH MULTIPLE WORKSHEETS AND WORKBOOKS
Use Links and External References
Use 3-D References
Consolidate Data
Module 2 – SHARING AND PROTECTING WORKBOOKS
Collaborate on a Workbook
Protect Worksheets and Workbooks
Module 3 – AUTOMATING WORKBOOK FUNCTIONALITY
Apply Data Validation
Search for Invalid Data and Formulas with Errors
Work with Macros
Module 4 – USING LOOKUP FUNCTIONS AND FORMULA AUDITING
Use Lookup Functions
Trace Cells
Watch and Evaluate Formulas
Module 5 – FORECASTING DATA
Determine Potential Outcomes Using Data Tables
Determine Potential Outcomes Using Scenarios
Use the Goal Seek Feature
Forecast Data Trends
Module 6 – CREATING SPARKLINES AND MAPPING DATA
Create Sparklines
Map Data
This course is intended for students who are experienced Excel users and have a desire or need to advance their skills in working with some of the more advanced Excel features. Students will likely need to troubleshoot large, complex workbooks, automate repetitive tasks, engage in collaborative partnerships involving workbook data, construct complex Excel functions, and use those functions to perform rigorous analysis of extensive, complex datasets. 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.