MS Excel 2010 - Spreadsheet advanced

MS Advanced Excel is for those looking to take their Excel skills to the next level. This course will suit data driven professionals using complex level spreadsheets in their daily work, and looking to become an advanced level user.

Entry Requirements

Students must have a solid base of experience in using MS Excel either in 2007 or 2010 versions, and should be able to create new spreadsheets from scratch, apply high level formatting and intermediate functions and features of excel.

Student Instructions

Please bring a blue or black pen, pencil and writing paper, highlighter pen, A Memory stick/USB flash drive for saving your work and taking your files home.

Topics

Lesson 1:
Tables

  • Apply table styles
  • Create calculations
  • Insert, delete rows
  • Resize a table
  • Convert to a range
  • Sort

AutoFilter

  • Apply a filter
  • Customise a filter

Advanced Filter

  • Criteria range
  • Use autofilter

Database Functions

  • Sum, max, min, count

Lesson 2:
VLookup

  • Vlookup
  • Exact vs closest match lookup

PivotTables

  • Create a PivotTable
  • Arrange information
  • Filter
  • Calculated fields
  • PivotTable options
  • PivotChart

Lesson 3:
Protection

  • Protect worksheet
  • Unlock cells
  • Protect workbook

Decision making tools

  • What If Tables
  • Scenarios
  • Goal seek
  • Solver
  • Comments

Lesson 4:
Sharing workbooks
Macros

  • Recording macros
  • Assigning macros
  • Running macros
  • Where to edit code
  • Relative macro

Exporting, importing data

Career Prospects

help gain employment in an office situation

Delivery Style

An easy to follow manual with appropriate activities for each topic is used, together with Excel computer software. This course is information based and designed to cater to a wide range of learner needs. It is predominately self-paced with facilitator assistance.

Outcomes

At the completion of this course you will know about the more advanced features and techniques of Excel