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Excel Advanced Formulae Course (one day)

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Topics covered on this course

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  • Array formulae

    Subtopics

    1. Recap of cell references
    2. Spilled arrays
    3. Dealing with spill errors
  • Range names

    Subtopics

    1. Creating range names
    2. Editing range names
    3. Using range names in formulae
    4. Spill behaviour
  • Advanced IFs

    Subtopics

    1. Revision of single IF functions
    2. Nesting IF functions
    3. The IFS function
  • Lookup functions

    Subtopics

    1. VLOOKUP and its limitations
    2. The XLOOKUP function
    3. Exact and approximate matches
    4. Data validation for exact matches
    5. Dealing with no matches
  • Advanced lookup functions

    Subtopics

    1. The XMATCH function
    2. The INDEX and MATCH functions
    3. The OFFSET function
  • Text functions

    Subtopics

    1. Basic text functions
    2. Finding and replacing text
    3. Extracting and joining text
  • Using Copilot Chat

    Subtopics

    1. What to include in requests
    2. Using the results
    3. Modifying the results
  • Dynamic ranges

    Subtopics

    1. The TRIMRANGE function
    2. TrimRef notation
    3. The DROP function
    4. Dynamic range names

Topics marked will be covered if time allows.

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And some benefits specific to online training:

  • Courseware posted to you in advance
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Advanced Excel - Formulae course dates

The table below lists the Advanced Excel - Formulae courses that we currently have scheduled (click on one of the tabs to filter the list).

We don't currently have any Excel Advanced Formulae courses scheduled. 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 Excel Advanced Formulae course, whereby you get to pick the dates, training delivery method and venue!

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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 Excel Advanced Formulae 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 Excel Advanced Formulae 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 Excel Advanced Formulae 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 Excel Advanced Formulae 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 online Excel Advanced Formulae courses scheduled. 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 Excel Advanced Formulae 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!

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 370 reviews here. We would like to sincerely thank the clients whose names are shown below for kindly agreeing to let us share their feedback.

"Our trainer was amazing!!!"

Olivia Ciubotaru

Silverstone

"A great instructor and the course content was perfect for the skills I was wanting to learn. Wise Owl came recommended by a few people, so definitely has a great reputation for quality courses and instructors."

Alexandra Thacker

FIS Global (WorldPay)

"Engagement and guidance from our trainer was amazing. One of the best courses I have attended in terms of delivery."

Michelle Wayte

Marley Ltd

"Knowledgeable trainer and useful information included in the sessions. "

Hannah Presswell

Bedfordshire Police

"The trainer was great with all questions asked and helped where she could. You don't find many people going away at night to find the answer."

Jamie Stewart

Hyde Central Services Ltd

"It was incredible, the trainer was first class."

Ross McCarthy

Mitsubishi Electric UK

About this Advanced Excel - Formulae course

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

If you're a reasonably confident basic Excel user - but suspect that you could be using formulae better - this course is for you! It concentrates on those pesky Excel formulae, including covering:

  • How to use the new(ish) dynamic arrays to create formulae which magically fill ranges of cells, and what to do when something gets in the way of these arrays

  • How to use range names instead of cell references in your formulae

  • Creating advanced conditions and lookups in formulae to implement decisions

  • Using text functions (including some new ones) to manipulate text

If time allows the course will also show how best to get help with your formulae from Copilot, and also how to create self-adjusting (dynamic) ranges.

Pre-requisites

To attend this course you need to be a confident and experienced user of basic Excel functionality. You must also know how to create straightforward formulae in Excel.

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.

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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 Formulae (this course) One day
Excel Advanced Data One day
Power Query For Excel One day
Excel Business Modelling 2 days
Excel Advanced 2 days
Excel VBA macros 2 days
Advanced VBA 2 days
Fast track Excel VBA 3 days

What courses do you have related to this one?▼

You might like to consider invesigating these related courses:

Related course Days Level
Excel Advanced Data One day Intermediate or advanced
Excel VBA macros 2 days Introduction

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.

Booking 2 or more places? Ask about discounts:

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+44 (161) 883 3606

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