Advanced Microsoft Excel Training Courses

This Advanced Microsoft Excel training course is designed for students to gain the skills necessary to be able to protect worksheet data, perform advanced data operations using summarizing, data consolidations, filters, pivot tables, macros, and much more.

By the completion of this advanced Microsoft Excel 2019 training course, you will be comfortable with many of the advanced features and functions that this powerful spreadsheet software from Microsoft has to offer.

With the ability to handle advanced tasks in Excel, you’ll be able to get more power out of your worksheets, dramatically shorten your task times, and increase your efficiency in the process.

Learn how Excel 2016 table tools take the complexity out of table creation and management. As you become proficient at nesting functions within other functions, you’ll be able to accomplish just about anything Microsoft Excel has to offer!

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Modify Excel options

• protect data in worksheets and workbooks

• Import data into Excel and export data from Excel

• Use data linking to create more efficient workbooks

•  group cells and use outlines to manipulate the worksheet

•  create summaries in your spreadsheets using subtotals

• Use the Data Consolidation feature to combine data from several workbooks into one

• create, use and modify data tables

•  create and work with scenarios and the Scenario Manager

• understand and create simple pivot tables

•  construct and operate pivot tables using some of the more advanced techniques

• Create and edit a pivot chart.

• Use advanced filters to analyze data in a list

•  use a variety of data validation techniques

• Create and use a range of controls in a worksheet

•  Share workbooks with other users

• Create recorded macros in Excel

Course Outline

Setting Excel Options

• Understanding Excel Options

• Personalizing Excel

• Setting the Default Font

• Setting Formula Options

• Understanding Save Options

• Setting Save Options

• Setting the Default File Location

• Setting Advanced Options

Protecting Data

• Understanding Data Protection

• Providing Total Access to Cells

• Protecting a Worksheet

• Working With a Protected Worksheet

• Disabling Worksheet Protection

• Providing Restricted Access to Cells

• Password Protection for a Workbook

• Opening a Password-Protected Workbook

• Removing a Password From a Workbook

Importing and Exporting

• Understanding Data Importing

• Importing From an Earlier Version

• Understanding Text File Formats

• Importing tab-delimited text

• Importing Comma-Delimited Text

• Importing space-delimited text

• Importing Access Data

• Working With Connected Data

• Unlinking Connections

• Exporting to Microsoft Word

• Exporting Data as Text

• Inserting a Picture

• Modifying an Inserted Picture

Data Linking

• Understanding Data Linking

• Linking Between Worksheets

• Linking Between Workbooks

• Updating Links Between Workbooks

• Grouping and Outlining

• Understanding Grouping and Outlining

• Creating an Automatic Outline

• Working With an Outline

• Creating a Manual Group

• Grouping by Columns

Summarizing and subtotaling

• Creating Subtotals

• Using a Subtotalled Worksheet

• Creating Nested Subtotals

• Copying Subtotals

• Using Subtotals With AutoFilter

• Creating Relative Names for Subtotals

• Using Relative Names for Subtotals

Data Consolidation

• Understanding Data Consolidation

• Consolidating With Identical Layouts

• Creating a Linked Consolidation

• Consolidating From Different Layouts

• Consolidating Data Using the SUM Function

Data Tables

• Understanding Data Tables and

• What-If Models

• Using a Simple What-If Model

• Creating a One-Variable Table

• Using One-Variable Data Tables

• Creating a Two-Variable Data Table

Scenarios

• Understanding Scenarios

• Creating a Default Scenario

• Creating Scenarios

• Using Names in Scenarios

• Displaying Scenarios

• Creating a Scenario Summary Report

• Merging Scenarios

PivotTables

• Understanding PivotTables

• Recommended PivotTables

• Creating Your Own PivotTable

• Defining the PivotTable Structure

• Filtering a PivotTable

• Clearing a Report Filter

• Switching pivot table fields

• Formatting a PivotTable

• Understanding Slicers

• Creating Slicers

• Inserting a Timeline Filter

PivotTable Features

• Using Compound Fields

• Counting in a PivotTable

• Formatting PivotTable Values

• Working With PivotTable Grand Totals

• Working With PivotTable Subtotals

• Finding the Percentage of Total

• Finding the Difference From

• Grouping in PivotTable Reports

• Creating Running Totals

• Creating Calculated Fields

• Providing Custom Names

• Creating Calculated Items

• PivotTable Options

• Sorting in a PivotTable

PivotCharts

• Inserting a PivotChart

• Defining the PivotChart Structure

• Changing the pivot chart type

• Using the PivotChart Filter Field Buttons

• Moving pivot charts to Chart Sheets

Advanced Filters

• Understanding Advanced Filtering

• Using an Advanced Filter

• Extracting Records With Advanced Filter

• Using Formulas in Criteria

• Understanding Database Functions

• Using Database Functions

• Using DSUM

• Using the DMIN Function

• Using the DMAX Function

• Using the DCOUNT Function

Validating Data

• Understanding Data Validation

• Creating a Number Range Validation

• Testing and Validation

• Creating an Input Message

• Creating an Error Message

• Creating a Drop-Down List

• Using Formulas as Validation Criteria

• Circling Invalid Data

• Removing Invalid Circles

• Copying Validation Settings

Controls

• Understanding Types of Controls

• Understanding How Controls Work

• Preparing a Worksheet for Controls

• Adding a Combo Box Control

• Changing Control Properties

• Using the Cell Link to Display the Selection

• Adding a List Box Control

• Adding a Scroll Bar Control

• Adding a Spin Button Control

• Adding Option Button Controls

• Adding a Group Box Control

• Adding a Check Box Control

• Protecting a Worksheet With Controls

Sharing Workbooks

• Sharing Workbooks via the Network

• Sharing Workbooks via OneDrive

• Saving to OneDrive

• Sharing Workbooks

• Opening Shared Workbooks

• Enabling Tracked Changes

• Accepting or Rejecting Changes

• Disabling Tracked Changes

• Adding Worksheet Comments

• Navigating Worksheet Comments

• Editing Worksheet Comments

• Deleting Comments

Recorded Macros

• Understanding Excel Macros

• Setting Macro Security

• Saving a Document as Macro Enabled

• Recording a Simple Macro

• Running a Recorded Macro

• Relative Cell References

• Running a Macro With Relative References

• Viewing a Macro

• Editing a Macro

• Assigning a Macro to the Toolbar

• Running a Macro From the Toolbar

• Assigning a Macro to the Ribbon

• Assigning a Keyboard Shortcut to a Macro

• Deleting a Macro

• Copying a Macro