Advanced Excel training

This Excel 2013 advanced training course, follows up from the Beginners Excel 2013 course by delving even deeper into the features and functions of this powerful spreadsheet software. Microsoft Excel 2013 is much more than a quick way to add up numbers. In this online course, you will learn advanced features such as nesting IF statements, how to calculate the Mean of a group of numbers using AVERAGEIF, SUMIF and more. You will learn about performing lookups with HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP. This tutorial also covers Spark lines, and goes in-depth with Pivot Tables and Charts. Finally, you will learn how to create and record your own Macros. This advanced Excel video course is not for beginners. You should have a firm grasp of the basics before taking this Advanced Excel training course. By the conclusion of this advanced computer software tutorial for Microsoft Excel 2013, you will have mastered the advanced features and functions of this software. Working files are included to allow you to follow along with the same Excel files the faculty trains you with.

Course Content are as follows:

Spreadsheet basics

• Creating,
• editing,
• saving
• printing spreadsheets

Working with functions & formulae

• Graphically representing data : Charts & Graphs
• Analyzing data : Data Menu, Subtotal, Filtering Data
• Formatting worksheets , Securing & Protecting spreadsheets

Formulas & Macros Formulas:

• Use the Function Wizard, Common functions (AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNT,COUNTA, ROUND, INT)
• Nested functions , Name cells /ranges /constants
• Relative, Absolute, Mixed cell references : >,<,= operators
• Logical functions using IF, AND, OR, NOT
• The LOOKUP function , Date and time functions , Annotating formulas

DATA Analysis:

• Sub Total Reports, Auto Filter
• Password Protecting Worksheets
• Linking Multiple Sheets
• Linking Between Word/Excel/Ppt
• Functions:- LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, COUNTIF, SUMIF
• What-if-analysis, GOAL SEEK
• Absolute Cell References
• Name Manager

Naming cells and ranges

• Creating and defining names
•  Making a name list
•  Advanced technique of using names in formulas
•  Using Name Manager
•  Navigating spreadsheet with names

Excel Pivot Tables

• Create an Excel Template
• Data Forms in Excel 2007/2010
• Drop Down Lists in Excel
• Add your own Error Messages
• Excel and Web Integration
• Hyperlinks in Excel
• Object Linking and Embedding

Database

• The database components
• Using Excel Form feature
• Inputting data
• Deleting data
• Finding records
• Using menu commands to find records

Advanced data sorting and subtotal

• Multi-level sorting
• Restoring data to original order after performing sorting
• Sort by icons
• Sort by colours
• Multi-level subtotal

Managing documents with workbooks

Consolidation with several worksheets

• Consolidating and combining several spreadsheets using the operation addition, subtraction
• Synchronizing the consolidated table with the source data

Data table

• One-Input table
• Two-Input table

Lookup table

• Lookup()
• Vlookup()
• Hlookup()
• Application of exact match and approximate match
• Creating an order form using vlookup function

Document protection

• Files protection
• Protecting cells/documents
• Unprotecting documents

File linking

• Paste link

Filter and advanced filter

• Defining single and multiple criteria
• Combining search criteria
• Deleting criteria
• Extracting records

Pivot table

• Steps to create a pivot table
• Creating pivot table from Excel
• Consolidating data from multiple ranges into a pivot table

Conditional format

• Highlighting data using cell colours, font colours
• Highlighting data using icons

Data validation

• Define the data input type
• Define the warning message
• Define the error message
• Circle invalid data

Using Scenario Manager

• Defining your own scenario
• Preview the result of scenario
• Editing a scenario

What-If Analysis

•  How to apply What-If Analysis

Inserting a hyperlink to a workbook

•  Creating a hyperlink
•  Editing a hyperlink
•  Creating a menu system using hyperlink

Creating a pull down box to facilitate the data entry process
Creating and using Macros