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Bite-sized Formats / Validation Course (one day)

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Topics covered on this course

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  • Conditional formats  

    Subtopics

    1. Creating cell rules
    2. Viewing conditional formats
  • Advanced conditional formats  

    Subtopics

    1. Managing cell rules
    2. Data bars and icon sets
  • Data validation  

    Subtopics

    1. Setting validation rules
    2. Setting error messaages
    3. Setting input messages
  • Advanced data validation  

    Subtopics

    1. Circling invalid data
    2. Using lists

Topics marked will be covered if time allows.

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Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

And some benefits specific to online training:

  • Courseware posted to you in advance
  • Separate pre-course check-up included
  • Our clever Wordsworth system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

We've been in business over 30 years - we must be doing something right!

Bite-sized Conditional Formats and Data Validation course dates

The table below lists the Bite-sized Conditional Formats and Data Validation courses that we currently have scheduled (click on one of the tabs to filter the list).

If you can't see the course you want listed, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price UK times  
Wednesday 29 July 2026 29 Jul 2.5 hours Online £150.00 + VAT 09:30-12:00 Book
Tuesday 11 August 2026 11 Aug 2.5 hours Online £150.00 + VAT 13:00-15:30 Book

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You can also book hourly online consultancy for your time zone with one of our 7 expert trainers!

We don't currently have any Bite-sized Formats / Validation courses scheduled in our London training centre. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own bespoke Bite-sized Formats / Validation course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

Other relevant pages

You can also book hourly online consultancy for your time zone with one of our 7 expert trainers!

We don't currently have any Bite-sized Formats / Validation courses scheduled in our Manchester training centre. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have a handful of like-minded people in your organisation, you could consider booking your own bespoke Bite-sized Formats / Validation course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

Other relevant pages

You can also book hourly online consultancy for your time zone with one of our 7 expert trainers!

If you can't see the course you want listed, don't despair! If you can muster 3 or 4 people together, it may well be worth organising an onsite course at your office (we'll provide and set up the computers), or else an online course tailored to your needs.

Date(s) Date(s) Duration Venue Price UK times  
Wednesday 29 July 2026 29 Jul 2.5 hours Online £150.00 + VAT 09:30-12:00 Book
Tuesday 11 August 2026 11 Aug 2.5 hours Online £150.00 + VAT 13:00-15:30 Book

Show these times in your country and time zone.

Other relevant pages

You can also book hourly online consultancy for your time zone with one of our 7 expert trainers!

About half of our courses are created bespoke for a single organisation, and either delivered onsite (usually somewhere in the UK, but we're willing to travel!) or online. For onsite courses we will usually provide and set up the necessary computers free of charge.

There are four main reasons why you might want to book tailored training like this:

  1. If you have 3 or more people, organising custom training will probably be cheaper than booking people individually onto a scheduled course.
  2. You'll be able to choose the content of any training, and be able to pause it for discussions on how you'll use software internally, or ask to take digressions.
  3. You may not be able to travel to our venues, so it might be easier to ask us to travel to you.
  4. You may not be able to make the dates of our published scheduled courses, and want to be able to choose when your training takes place.

If you'd like a quote for how much a tailored course would cost please let us know what you'd like to achieve and we'll get back to you (normally within half a working day).

What other people have said about our Excel training

Here are some comments we've received about our Excel training . You can see all of our 399 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"I found the day very informative and set at an appropriate level for me. Plenty of skills for me to use going forward, already shared some aspects with colleagues."

Paul Fowler

Hyde Central Services Ltd

"The trainer taught this VBA course with enthusiasm and explained everything in detail and constantly offered help when needed. I feel confident in VBA after this training course."

Jessie Nelligan

Sellafield Ltd

"Our trainer was amazing! She explained everything so well and had no problem re-explaining things for those that needed extra help. She made the 7 hours fly by. I feel like I've learned so much around excel and will be using my new knowledge going forward. Thank you!"

Kaylee Akerman

Southend-on-Sea City Council

"I was very happy with the course and our trainer. I find it difficult not to rush ahead when I already know something, however the trainer made the course interesting and had a good variety of information for us which was great as I felt I learnt a lot. Our company have used Wise Owl before and would not hesitate to use them again."

Kayleigh Heaton

MLCS3 Ltd

"Loved the really quick tips that were shared - I am already using these fast wins! The trainer was engaging and knowledgeable and really tailored the training to what the delegates needed/wanted, without missing out the already planned content."

Georgina Holmes

Southend-on-Sea City Council

"I found the course extremely valuable and our trainer was fantastic! The content was catered perfectly to the group."

Cara Spry

Mitsubishi Electric UK

About this Bite-sized Conditional Formats and Data Validation course

Click on one of the tabs below to see the given information about this Excel course.

This course covers two things. One is applying conditional formatting to ranges of cells:

Some conditional formatting effects

One of the many effects that you can achieve using conditional formatting.

The other is applying data validation to cells:

Data validation message

The sort of message you can get to appear if someone doesn't type the right thing into your cells.

You should already be comfortable with the basics of Excel to attend this course.

Pre-requisites

You shouldn't attend this course unless you're comfortable using the basics of Excel, including creating formulae and moving round a worksheet.

What you'll need to bring

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed.  This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers using our whizzy Wordsworth online training system, and these computers will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

  • For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
  • For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it). We will also ask you whether you want to receive a printed copy of the course manual (and post this to you if you do).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

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What other Excel courses can I take?▼

Here is a list of all of the Excel courses that we run:

Course name Days
Excel Introduction One day
Excel Intermediate One day
Excel Advanced 2 days
Power Query For Excel One day
Excel Business Modelling 2 days
Excel VBA macros 2 days
Advanced VBA 2 days
Fast track Excel VBA 3 days
Bite-sized Excel Basic Formulae One day
Bite-sized Formats / Validation (this course) One day
Bite-sized Excel Tables One day
Bite-sized Conditions using =IF One day
Bite-sized Looking up data One day
Bite-sized Excel Pivot Tables One day
Bite-sized Get Data / Query Editor One day
Bite-sized Excel Charts One day

What courses do you have related to this one?▼

We don't have any courses listed of direct relevance to this one.

What are your venues for your classroom Excel courses?▼

We run our scheduled classroom training courses in the following venues:

Venue Details
Excel training in London We run our courses in London from the LandMark offices in Bevis Marks, right in the middle of the City (and close to Liverpool Street mainline station).
Excel training in Manchester We run our courses in Manchester from the Holiday Inn business centre, which is a few minutes' walk from Piccadilly station.
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