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INTERMEDIATE
This intermediate Microsoft Excel training course is suitable whatever version of Excel you use,
from 2003 2013, you will expand your knowledge and skills. By the end of this course, you will
be able to create charts, work effectively with multiple sheets in workbooks, use basic functions
effectively, use productivity tools and work with the Excel list/database features.
By the end of this course, students will be able to create charts, work effectively with multiple
sheets in workbooks, use basic functions effectively, use productivity tools and work with the
Excel list/database features.
Having practiced all of these new skills extensively during the course you will be able to hit the
ground running on your return to the office and should be able to complete your Excel work far
more quickly.
This Excel training course assumes that you have a basic understanding of Windows.
Additionally, you should have an understanding of concepts covered in the Excel
Essentials course. These include creating workbooks, using AutoFill and AutoSum, constructing
formulae, Absolute Cell References and formatting worksheets.
Course Details
Review Exercise Formulas and Function
This introductory session reviews the key basic Excel skills that delegates need to get the most
from this course. It serves as a very quick revision of functions, ranges and some simple
functions.
The key topics covered are:
Understanding Functions
Calculating An Average
Worksheet Techniques
Being able to manipulate and control worksheets is a key skill in Excel. This will show you how
to make your worksheets do exactly what you want them to, and also how to format them to
make working with them clearer. It also covers hiding and unhiding rows and columns within a
worksheet.
The key topics covered include:
Grouping Worksheets
Splitting Windows
Data Linking
As you become a more proficient Excel user it is very likely that your spreadsheets will contain
more than one worksheet. This means that you then need to be able to link data from one
worksheet to another worksheet, and potentially from one workbook to another workbook. This
lesson leads you through how to do that quickly and simply.
The key topics covered include:
Creating Charts
The ability to quickly and simply create a chart or graph to illustrate the data in your spreadsheet
is one of the most used parts of Excel. The chart wizard offers a huge number of potential chart
types and presentation options. This session shows you how to create a simple chart and the
basics of how to work with it.
The key topics covered include:
Dragging A Chart
Deleting A Chart
Charting Techniques
The previous session showed you how to create a chart. This session shows you how to ensure
that it is presented exactly as you would like it to be, Excel offers numerous options. Learning to
control and manipulate all of these options is complex but allows you to present your chart
exactly as you would like it to be.
The key topics covered include:
Showing Gridlines
Adding A Trendline
Special Pasting
Cutting and pasting in Excel can be tricky when working with different data types. As ever, Excel
offers a number of options to ensure that it all works smoothly. This session will make sure that
you get it right first time.
The key topics covered include:
Transpose Cells
Conditional Formatting
Excel offers the ability to only change the formatting of cells meeting certain criteria. This can
make finding key data in a large spreadsheet very quick and simple. This session shows you
how to set the criteria that you are looking for and also how to format those cells to ensure that
you can easily see them.
The key topics covered include:
Managing Rules
Clearing Rules
Hyperlinks
Excel is often used to hold lists of webpages or information that includes a hyperlink to a
website or a file produced in a completely different program. This session will show you how to
do all of this quickly and simply.
The key topics covered include:
Using A Hyperlink
Hyperlinking To A Range
Creating a Table
Modifying a Table
Filtering
Course Details
Labels and Names
The first session of this course reviews the concept of creating and using names for cells which
is covered in our Intermediate Excel Course. In doing so it also quickly reviews formulas and
selections.
The key topics covered include:
Logical Functions
This section of the course introduces logical functions. This is a key part of more advanced
Excel use. It focuses on the use of IF functions and how they can be combined to produce
Nested IF functions and also combined with AND, NOT or OR in more complicated situations.
The key topics covered include:
Nesting IF Functions
Using AND
Using OR
Using NOT
Validating Data
When working with large amounts of data the ability to validate data using Excel is critical. This
is especially true when working in combination with logical formulas which require that all data is
in the appropriate format to work. This session covers both data validation, which is checking
that the data in the cells meets certain criteria and also the ways that you can then highlight
data that does not meet the criteria.
The key topics covered include:
Lookup Functions
Lookup functions are another very powerful tool to master when working with large amounts of
data. They allow individual items in a list to be found and then the corresponding value from
another column or row in the same data table. For example, if working with a series including
dates and values of a variable, they offer the ability to find a certain data and have the formula
return the value of that variable on the specific date being search for.
The key topics covered include:
Using CHOOSE
Using VLOOKUP
Using HLOOKUP
Using INDEX
Summarizing Data
Excel contains a number of features that allow you to very quickly summarise large amounts of
data. This shorter session will show you how to very quickly use these features to create subtotals and other summary statistics.
The key topics covered include:
Subtotalling a List
Copying Subtotals
Pivot Tables
PivotTables are one of Excels most powerful functions. They are extremely versatile and make
it very easy to extract information from large tables of data without the use of formulas. They are
also very quick to use as by moving, or pivoting, fields of data from one location to another
using drag and drop functionality they allow you to look at the same data in a number of
different ways.
The key topics covered include:
Understanding PivotTables
Counting In A PivotTable
Grouping In PivotTables
Sorting In A PivotTable
Data Consolidation
Excels Consolidate feature allows you to merge and summarize values from multiple
workbooks. Its a great tool for combining data when several users work with different instances
of the same file but can also be used when the data to be consolidated is held in differernt
formats.
The key topics covered include:
Data Tables
Data tables are a summary function for the scenarios tool. It allows you to summarise the
results of multiple scenarios very simply. It creates a table that shows the changes in the inputs
into a scenario and also the outputs for a range of values. A data table can work with either one
or two input variables.
The key topics covered in this section include: