Excel Advanced
Course length: 1 day
Prerequisites: Excel Intermediate or equivalent knowledge.
Overview: You will learn various advanced techniques for analyzing and manipulating data in Excel.
Course content
Lesson 1: Customizing the work area
- Working with built-in toolbars
- Using custom toolbars
- Creating and using styles
- Using templates
Lesson 2: Advanced formula construction
- Using names
- Using the IF function
- Using the VLOOKUP function
- Using IS functions and the Auditing features
Lesson 3: Using pivot tables
- Creating pivot tables
- Modifying pivot tables
- Grouping and summarizing data in a pivot table
Lesson 4: Working with multiple worksheets
- Working with workbooks
- Linking cells in different workbooks
- Workbook versus links and workspaces
Lesson 5: Consolidating and analyzing data
- Consolidating data from more than one worksheet
- Using the Goal Seek and Solver utilities
- Using Scenario Manager to view a worksheet with different input values
Lesson 6: Using protection and display options
- Using comments
- Protecting workbooks
- Using custom views
Lesson 7: Introduction to macros
- Running macros
- Recording a macro
- Viewing and editing VBA code
Lesson 8: Working with interactive Excel Web documents
- Saving Excel worksheets as Web documents
- Spreadsheet Web Components
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