Microsoft Excel Intermediate

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Microsoft Excel Certificate of completion

Digital certificate - Included

Aims

This Microsoft Excel intermediate course is for attendees who want to expand their knowledge to work with larger spreadsheets, create formulas across multiple worksheets and workbooks, manage tables of data, and use advanced formatting techniques.

Our Microsoft Excel course is delivered using the latest version available through Microsoft 365. This ensures that our demonstrations include the most up-to-date features and functions. While many of the concepts and techniques covered are applicable to earlier versions of Excel, there may be some differences in the user interface and available features. If you are using an older version of Excel, our trainers are happy to provide guidance on how to access similar functionalities within your version.

Objectives

On completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Create formulas across multiple worksheets
• Copy formats and values across multiple worksheets
• Copy and link information across multiple workbooks
• Manipulate text and use Text functions
• Apply, edit, and delete conditional formatting
• Create and modify data tables
• Create sub totals and group & ungroup data

Course Content

Introduction and Objectives

Working with Multiple Worksheets

• Selecting multiple worksheets
• Creating formulas across worksheets
• Using grouped worksheets
• Referencing cells across sheets
• Hyperlinking between sheets

Using Multiple Workbooks (Files)

• Opening, activating & tiling workbooks
• Copying data between workbooks
• Creating formulas across workbooks
• Editing workbook links

Using Paste Special

• Copying values & formulas between worksheets
• Transpose a table

Working with Excel Data Tables

• Converting existing data into a table
• Using the Quick Analysis button to add totals to a table

Working with Outlines

• Applying, expanding & collapsing an outline
• Modifying and clearing outline
• Using Auto Outline

Manipulating Text

• Use Text to columns to split a single column of data into multiple columns
• Using Text Functions (Upper, Lower, Proper, Trim, Left, Right and Concatenate)

Using Conditional Formatting

• Applying a comparative conditional formatting rule
• Managing conditional formatting rules (editing, formatting, and deleting)
• Applying built-in data bars and colour scales to numeric data

Creating Subtotals in a List

• Creating subtotals for groups of data
• Creating multiple subtotals
• Copying visible data to a new worksheet
• Removing subtotals

Hints and Tips

For people who already know the basics and want to work faster and more accurately with everyday spreadsheets. It’s especially useful if you regularly work with multiple sheets or workbooks and want to improve how you organise, format and analyse data beyond simple formulas.

Attendees who wish to attend this course must have knowledge of Excel and feel comfortable with creating, formatting, and editing spreadsheets. They should be able to write formulas using multiplication, addition, subtraction, division and use the basic functions, sum, average, max, min and count.

Microsoft Excel is a core skill across almost every industry. Skills from this course support roles such as Administrator, Office Manager, Finance Assistant, Data Administrator, Analyst and Project Coordinator. It also provides a foundation for advanced Excel, data analysis and Power BI.