Microsoft Excel - Basic and Advanced

Looking for a Microsoft Excel course for beginners to experts? This online Microsoft Excel course has something for everyone, covering beginner, intermediate and advanced lessons in Microsoft Excel.

In 49 engaging Microsoft Excel lessons you will learn basic techniques including how to use math, statistical, logic and text functions, organize data by sorting and filtering, effectively present your data in several chart formats and more. You will also learn intermediate and advanced techniques such as how to find a value with VLOOKUP, create and format PivotTables, record basic Macros and more.

Whether you use Excel for work or study, these tutorials will start you on your journey to becoming an Excel Ninja!

• Microsoft Excel 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and Microsoft 365 compliant
• Award winning Microsoft MVP instructor Ken Puls
• Certificate of training upon completing the Microsoft Excel course
• Accredited with CPD UK
• Bite sized video tutorials, cheat sheets, exercise files and quizzes
• Unlimited testing
• Self-paced Microsoft Excel course can be completed in your own time over 12 months

Course Syllabus includes 48 lessons covering beginner, intermediate and advanced levels

• Getting to know Excel - Find your way around and learn the basics of Excel.

• The Ribbon - Understand the terminology and elements of the Ribbon.

• The Work Surface - Understand the main terms used to describe Excel’s work canvas.

• Navigation - Navigate the Excel Interface and learn how to select cells and ranges.

• First File - Create your first Excel file, enter data and create a table.

• Formatting - Make information look more attractive in Excel.

• Basic Math - Work with basic mathematics in Excel.

• Essential Formula Knowledge - Understand the most common and essential formula categories in Excel and how to use them.

• Formula Anatomy - Understanding Excel Formula Anatomy

• Cell Referencing - Learn about working with absolute and relative cell referencing, and techniques for copying formulas.

• Function Anatomy - Use to understand the anatomy of Excel functions, and what their components mean.

• Math Functions - Learn basic math functions including SUM, ROUND and SUBTOTAL.

• Basic Statistics - Learn basic statistical functions including COUNT, COUNTA, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, MEDIAN and MODE.

• Logic Functions - Learn to build standalone logical IF functions, and make them more complex by nesting AND and OR within them.

• Text Functions - Learn to break apart text with the LEFT, RIGHT, MID, FIND and SEARCH functions, and to combine text with the & character.

• Understanding Dates - Understand how dates work in Excel using the TODAY, YEAR, MONTH, DAY and DATE functions.

• Understanding Time - Understand how time works in Excel, and how to change from whole numbers into time increments and back again.

• · Intermediate Formula Knowledge - Learn more advanced formulas and gain a deeper understanding of how Excel formulas work.

• Formula Auditing - Learn to work with formula auditing tools including tracing precedent and dependent cells and formula evaluation.

• Conditional Math - Learn to use SUMIF, COUNTIF and SUMPRODUCT to add cells only when certain conditions are met.

• External Links - Learn about creating and updating external links, and about the potential dangers of external links in Excel.

• Temporal Functions - Learn to work with the EOMONTH and EDATE functions that easily shift dates from one month or year to another.

• VLOOKUP with Approximate Match - Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an approximate match and return it or the corresponding value from another column.

• VLOOKUP with Exact Match - Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an exact match and return it or the corresponding value from another column.

• Other Lookup Methods - Learn to work with INDEX, MATCH and HLOOKUP, as alternatives to the VLOOKUP function.

• Optimizing Data - Get your data into a usable form and unleash Excel's most powerful tools with it.

• Sorting - Learn to sort data in Excel by a single column or by multiple columns.

• Filtering - Learn to filter Excel data for specific words, dates, and apply multiple filters to a single data table.

• Contiguous Data - Learn tricks for consolidating your data so it's vertically contiguous (without blank rows) – for Tables, PivotTables and Charts.

• Naming Ranges - Learn about creating named ranges, and the benefits of doing so.

• Excel Tables - Learn about creating Excel tables, and their advantages.

• Recording Macros - Learn to record basic Excel macros to automate your actions (instead of doing them manually).

• · Data Analysis - Analyze, summarize and highlight data quickly and easily using Excel's PivotTables.

• Creating PivotTables - Learn to create and modify basic PivotTables (for quickly summarizing and highlighting data).

• Formatting PivotTables - Learn to control formatting and other options in PivotTables.

• Calculated Fields in PivotTables - Learn to create and modify basic calculated fields for PivotTables.

• What-If Analysis - Learn to perform what-if analysis in Excel using the Scenario Manager and Goal-Seek.

• Presenting and Reporting - Interpret your data and turn it into information using Excel's advanced formatting tools.

• Cell Formatting - Learn to work with the Format Cells dialog to apply text rotation and borders, and to center data across multiple cells.

• Outlining - Learn about adding and working with Excel’s outlining tools to quickly hide irrelevant sections of your worksheet.

• Custom Number Formats - Learn to build your own custom number formats to display dates, values and variances how you want to see them.

• Conditional Formats with Built-In Rules - Learn to create top/bottom and highlight cell rules, as well as to apply icon sets and data bars.

• Conditional Formats with Custom Rules - Learn to create custom conditional formatting rules based on formulas.

• Building Column Charts - Learn how to create an effective column chart by reducing ink and 'noise' that distract from the main messages.

• Building Bar Charts - How to create an effective bar chart by reducing ink and noise that distract from the story.

• Building Pie Charts - Learn how to build an effective pie chart, and when you should and shouldn’t use them.

• Building Line Charts - How to create an effective line chart through careful manipulation of chart elements to enhance its story telling ability.

• Building Combination Line and Area Charts - When you want to graph 3 line series, but only want 2 in focus most of the time.

• Validating and Updating - Increase the integrity and longevity of your spreadsheet so that the right data is entered and can be easily updated.

• Data Validation - Learn how to use Data Validation to ensure that users enter valid data in input cells.

• Comments - Learn about creating, reviewing and printing Excel comments.

• Styles - Learn how to apply built-in number styles and create your own custom styles packages.

• Preparing to Deploy - Set up Excel's aesthetics, including preparing to print, and protect your spreadsheet's key components.

• Custom Views - Learn how to create and manage Custom Views in a worksheet.

• Page Setup Options - Learn about page setup options, fitting print jobs on a page, headers and footers, and other ways to customize print jobs.

• Security Considerations - Learn about the setup and weaknesses of Excel’s security systems.

This online course is designed to teach people to use Microsoft Excel more effectively for work and study. It includes 48 beginner, intermediate and advanced level lessons delivered in bite sized, engaging video tutorials by an award-winning Microsoft Excel MVP instructor, Ken Puls.

No prior knowledge of Excel is required

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Certificate of achievement

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Certificate of completion

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