Do you often work with data at work or frequently extract data to create reports to update your leaders? Microsoft Excel is a powerful spreadsheet program that allows you to make quick and accurate numerical calculations. You will appear more professional when you present formulated spreadsheets to highlight your key data narratives. ‘Microsoft Excel 2019 – Advanced’ is a course that is suitable for you if you are looking to leverage the more advanced functions and features of Excel to increase your productivity while working with data.

Why is it so important to learn Excel? It is because almost every organization across all industries is using Excel to boost their employees’ productivity and quality of work. Many different job roles require some form of Excel knowledge as Excel is one of the most indispensable data processing tools in the working world now.

So what are some applications of Excel? For example, businesses use Excel for the creation of financial reports. Manufacturing plants use Excel for statistical analysis on their inventory. Families use Excel to help manage their family expenses, investment portfolios, and retirement savings projections. As you can see, Excel is an essential skill needed by everyone not only for work but also for their personal projects.

In our 2-day ‘Microsoft Excel 2019 – Advanced’ course, you will learn how to use advanced functions such as text formulas, date & time formulas, lookup functions, and understand formula errors. Besides that, you will be taught how to manage names, consolidate, organize and analyze data. Last but not least, you will learn to create pivot tables and record macros to automate repetitive formatting changes that you need to make to cells in your spreadsheet.

No Assessment

2 days

14 hours, 9am-5pm

Advanced Functions and Formulas

• Formulas with Multiple Operators
• Inserting and Editing a Function
• AutoCalculate and Manual Calculation
• Defining Names
• Using and Managing Defined Names
• Displaying and Tracing Formulas
• Understanding Formula Errors
• Using Financial Functions (PMT)
• Using Logical Functions (IF, AND, OR, SUMIF, COUNTIF & etc)
• Using Lookup & Reference Functions (VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, MATCH & etc)
• Using Text Functions (PROPER, CONCATENATE, UPPER, LEFT & etc)
• Using Date & Time Functions

Working with Data Ranges

• Creating a Custom AutoFill List
• Applying Conditional Formatting
• Creating & Managing Conditional Formatting Rules
• Sorting by a Custom List
• Filtering Data
• Creating a Custom AutoFilter
• Using an Advanced Filter
• Using Data Validation

Organizing and Analyzing Data

• Creating Scenarios
• Creating a Scenario Report
• Working with Data Tables
• Using Goal Seek
• Using Solver
• Using Text to Columns
• Grouping and Outlining Data
• Using Subtotals
• Consolidating Data by Position or Category
• Consolidating Data Using Formulas
• Sharing a Workbook
• Track changes
• Compare and Merge Workbook

Working with PivotTables

• Creating a PivotTable
• Specifying PivotTable Data
• Changing a PivotTable’s Calculation
• Filtering and Sorting a PivotTable
• Working with PivotTable Layout
• Grouping PivotTable Items
• Updating a PivotTable
• Formatting a PivotTable
• Creating a PivotChart
• Creating a Standalone PivotChart
• Use Slicers
• Sharing Slicers Between PivotTables
• Creating Relationships between Tables

Working with the Web and External Data

• Inserting a Hyperlink
• Importing Data from an Access Database or Text File
• Importing Data from the Web and Other Sources
• Working with Existing Data Connections

Working with Macros

• Recording a Macro
• Playing and Deleting a Macro
• Adding a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar