Microsoft Office training - Excel Advanced

Excel Training

Advanced Excel Training Course

£585 + VAT for most venues (£685 + VAT for London)

2 days

Excel can do so much more than simple formulae! This two-day advanced course will show you how to use VLOOKUP and MATCH/INDEX functions, create pivot tables and much, much more. The idea is that by the time you finish the course you will have seen virtually everything that Excel can offer(apart from VBA, the subject of a separate two-day Excel VBA course).

Course details

Locations:Manchester, London
Next course:Wed 06 June 2018
Time:09.30-16.30

SCHEDULED DATES Course Contents - PDF

Course Contents

Advanced IFs

Revision of single IFs
Nesting =IF
=IFS and =SWITCH

Lookup functions

Using VLOOKUP for continuous values
Using VLOOKUP for exact matches
List data validation for exact matches
Dynamic range names
Handling errors in lookup tables

Advanced lookup functions

Using = MATCH to find values
Combining =INDEX and =MATCH
The OFFSET function
The INDIRECT function

Text functions

Basic text functions
Finding and replacing text
Extracting and joining text

Multiple worksheets

Group editing
Formulae across sheets
3D summing across sheets

Advanced tables

Removing duplicates
Advanced filters (multiple criteria)
Adding and removing subtotals
Grouping/outlining controls

Pivot tables

Creating pivot tables
Changing the aggregation function
Drilling down
Filtering and sorting

Advanced pivot tables

Grouping fields
Showing % of grand totals, etc
Slicers and timelines

Getting data (was Power Query)

Using different data sources
Query steps
Massaging data before loading it
The "Column by example" transform

Covered if time allows If time

Advanced charts

Combination charts
Regression and trendlines
Picture charts
Sparklines

Covered if time allows If time

Scenarios

Creating what-if scenarios
The scenario manager

Covered if time allows If time

Goal-seeking

Targeting a given value
Setting the number of iterations

Why Choose Us?

No more than 6 people per class
Proper restaurant lunch included
554 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

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Sample customer feedback

"Very informative, well paced, well resourced. Good introduction to the material with enough exercises to enhance learning."

Martin Buckley (Hoist Finance)

"Really good. Most useful course I've possibly ever been on! It was genuinely excellent."

Leah Henshall (AQA Education Limited)

"Forward thinking approach, is apparent from Wise Owl website."

Andy Taylor (Production Bureau Ltd)

"It was a great two days, learnt so much. I think that I have only been programming for 2 months that understanding the usage and application of VBA was difficult. However, worthwhile as now I have started looking at my work in a completely different way. Thanks to the training!"

Nathan Sexton (University of Kent)

"The course was exactly what I was looking for in order to complete a specific project that I am working on shortly. Many of the topics are relevant to what I had in mind for the project. The content of the course and duration were right for a basics to RB. The trainer, was excellent and I learned a lot from his teaching method."

Mark McArdle (BAE Systems)

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Delegates should already have a good working knowledge of Excel (one way to achieve this would be to attend our one-day introduction to Excel and one-day intermediate Excel courses). Note that the course uses Excel 2016, although if you're using Excel 2013, 2010 or even 2007 you'll still find the vast majority of this course useful (you can see what's different about Excel 2016 here).