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Microsoft Excel Advanced
Course Duration: 1 Day

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Course Objective
By the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

  • Create and use named ranges
  • Make more use of inbuilt and custom functions
  • Apply worksheet security
  • Create scenarios and views for use in reporting
  • Generate reports automatically
  • Use improved techniques to speed up data input and manipulate data
  • Utilise the select special function
  • Control data input by editing and creating custom number formats and provide data validation
  • Produce data analysis by 3 or more categories easily using pivot tables

Delegate Profile
Existing users of Excel who have attended our Excel Intermediate course or have equivalent knowledge.

Pre-Requisites
A good working knowledge of the principle features of Excel is assumed.

Structure
Each delegate has the exclusive use of a PC and training includes extensive hands-on activity.


Course Content

Review of intermediate skills
Consolidation exercise

Creating and using named ranges
The name box
Defining, creating and selecting named ranges
Using named ranges in formulas

Advanced formulae
More Excel functions using lookup tables
IF functions
String and error checking
Joining data via concatenation
Nesting functions
Using the paste function feature

Managing external data sources
When to import tables and when to attach
Using OLE to view data in other applications
Using hyperlinks to navigate between Microsoft Office documents

Worksheet security
Protecting areas of the worksheet
Protecting file access with passwords

Scenarios, views and reports
Using scenarios and creating views to use in reporting
Using the Report Manager to create reports that can be generated automatically

Working with data
Using various techniques to speed up data input and manipulate existing data
Transposing, pasting only formats and values
Data validation

Select special
Automated selection of specific types of data on the worksheet (errors, text,comments)

Advanced number formatting
Controlling input by editing and creating number formats, including conditional number formats
Excel styles

Data analysis
Analysing and summarising data from a list via a pivot table

Question & Answer Session

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