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Intermediate Microsoft Excel

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Course Length: 1 day

Delivery Methods: Available as private class only

Course Overview

In this Intermediate Microsoft Excel class, you will use powerful tools and features to manage and analyze your data. Packed with tips and tricks, you will quickly gain Excel power-user skills to help you work effectively. The class starts with popular formulas and functions like VLOOKUP, SUMIF, and CONCAT. Then, you will learn to manipulate data in lists by sorting, filtering, adding subtotals, and more. You will learn to create engaging and insightful reports by visualizing your data using charts and then adding shapes, images and logos. The class wraps up with important lessons on tables and advanced formatting, including conditional formatting, styles, and custom templates.

This popular course is approved by Microsoft and resold to Microsoft Partners worldwide as course number MS-55269-A.

Target Audience: Students who have basic Excel skills and are ready for intermediate Excel concepts. This class is for users of Excel 2019 or Excel 365 on Windows. (Users of Excel 2016 and Excel 2013 can attend the class and may notice some differences in their version of the software.)

Course Benefits

Use Excel database functions and logic functions to work with information in large datasets.
Leverage Excel's statistical functions to analyze data.
Visualize your data using charts to show trends, create comparisons, and demonstrate other meaningful insights.
Convert, sort, filter, and manage lists to keep your data organized.
Insert and modify illustrations, logos, or shapes to create professional reports.
Manage and analyze data using tables.
Emphasize interesting and unusual data with conditional formatting
Save time by using styles to apply formatting instantly.

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Webucator is a Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (CPLS). Our curriculum has been tested and approved by ProCert Labs, the official tester of Microsoft courseware, and has been found to meet the highest industry standards of instructional quality.

Course Outline

Advanced Formulas
1. Using Named Ranges in Formulas
  1. Naming a Single Cell
  2. Naming a Range of Cells
  3. Naming Multiple Single Cells Quickly
2. Exercise: Using Named Ranges in Formulas
3. Using Formulas That Span Multiple Worksheets
4. Exercise: Entering a Formula Using Data in Multiple Worksheets
  1. Using the IF Function
  2. Using AND/OR Functions
5. Using the SUMIF, AVERAGEIF, and COUNTIF Functions
6. Exercise: Using the IF Function
7. Using the PMT Function
8. Exercise: Using the PMT Function
9. Using the LOOKUP Function
10. Using the VLOOKUP Function
11. Exercise: Using the VLOOKUP Function
12. Using the HLOOKUP Function
13. Using the CONCAT Function
14. Exercise: Using the CONCAT Function
15. Using the TRANSPOSE Function
16. Using the PROPER, UPPER, and LOWER Functions
  1. The UPPER Function
  2. The LOWER function
  3. The TRIM Function
17. Exercise: Using the PROPER Function
18. Using the LEFT, RIGHT, and MID Functions
  1. The MID Function
19. Exercise: Using the LEFT and RIGHT Functions
20. Using Date Functions
  1. Using the NOW and TODAY Functions
21. Exercise: Using the YEAR, MONTH, and DAY Functions
22. Creating Scenarios
  1. Utilize the Watch Window
  2. Consolidate Data
  3. Enable Iterative Calculations
  4. What-If Analyses
  5. Use the Scenario Manager
  6. Use Financial Functions
Working with Lists
1. Converting a List to a Table
2. Exercise: Converting a List to a Table
3. Removing Duplicates from a List
4. Exercise: Removing Duplicates from a List
5. Sorting Data in a List
6. Exercise: Sorting Data in a List
7. Filtering Data in a List
8. Exercise: Filtering Data in a List
9. Adding Subtotals to a List
  1. Grouping and Ungrouping Data in a List
10. Exercise: Adding Subtotals to a List
Working with Illustrations
1. Working with Clip Art
2. Exercise 15:Working with Clip Art
3. Using Shapes
4. Exercise: Adding Shapes
5. Working with Icons
6. Working with SmartArt
7. Using Office Ink
Visualizing Your Data
1. Inserting Charts
2. Using the Chart Recommendation Feature
3. Exercise: Inserting Charts
4. Editing Charts
  1. Changing the Layout of a Chart
5. Using Chart Tools
  1. Changing the Style of a Chart
  2. Adding a Shape to a Chart
  3. Adding a Trendline to a Chart
  4. Adding a Secondary Axis to a Chart
  5. Adding Additional Data Series to a Chart
  6. Switch between Rows and Columns in a Chart
  7. Positioning a Chart
  8. Modifying Chart and Graph Parameters
6. Using the Quick Analysis Tool
  1. Watching Animation in a Chart
  2. Showing, Hiding, or Changing the Location of the Legend in a Chart
  3. Showing or Hiding the Title of a Chart
  4. Changing the Title of a Chart
  5. Showing, Hiding, or Changing the Location of Data Labels in a Chart..211
  6. Changing the Style of Pieces of a Chart
7. Exercise: Editing Charts
8. Add and Format Objects
  1. Insert a Text Box
9. Create a Custom Chart Template
Working with Tables
1. Format Data as a Table
2. Move between Tables and Ranges
3. Modify Tables
  1. Add and Remove Cells within a Table
  2. Change Table Styles
4. Define Titles
  1. Band Rows and Columns
  2. Total Row Option
  3. Remove Styles from Tables
5. Exercise: Creating and Modifying a Table in Excel
Advanced Formatting
1. Applying Conditional Formatting
2. Exercise: Using Conditional Formatting
3. Working with Styles
  1. Applying Styles to Tables
  2. Applying Styles to Cells
4. Exercise 21:Working with Styles
5. Creating and Modifying Templates
  1. Modify a Custom Template

Class Materials

Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Microsoft Excel class:

Basic Excel skills