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Excel Advanced (Home study)

Provider
Abal Computer Services
Summary
Advanced This course is for experienced users of Excel who wish to extend their range of commands and make use of the products more complex facilities. It explores some of the more advanced commands and functions and enables you to apply them to solving your own business problems.

About the Course

Target
Those experienced in using Excel
Entry requirements
Hardware Requirements :

In order to participate in our home study course you will need access to a personal computer running Windows 98 or above, with a printer attached. You will need a full copy of Microsoft Word and Excel version 97 or above. You will need about 2mb free space on the hard drive to save your work
Outcome
Content
Lesson 1 – Filtered lists
  • Setting up a filtered list
  • View only the data you need
  • with automatic filtering
  • Find records in a database that meet your criteria
  • Extract records that meet your criteria
  • Analyse data with database functions
  • Sort data by specific criteria

    Lesson 2 – Financial functions
  • Working with Excels financial functions
  • Using the PMT function to calculate loan repayments
  • Using the PV to calculate the present value of an investment
  • Using the FV to calculate the future value of an investment

    Lesson 3 – Conditional logic
  • Using conditional Logic - IF functions
  • Evaluating a condition to True or False
  • Evaluating more than one condition
  • Working with nested Functions

    Lesson 4 – Lookup tables
  • Creating a lookup table
  • Using lookup tables
  • Working with Vlookup and Hlookup
  • Limitation of Lookup tables
  • Using the Match function

    Lesson 5 – Advanced charting and graphing
  • Advanced Graphing techniques
  • Creating custom charts
  • Classic combination Charts
  • Plotting data using secondary axis
  • Custom scatter graphs
  • Line and column combination graphs

    Lesson 6 – Data input tables
  • Creating a data table
  • Using one input data tables
  • Using two input data tables
  • Formulas to use with input tables
  • Changing variables in input tables

    Lesson 7 – Pivot tables
  • Creating and building a pivot table
  • Working with pivot tables
  • Changing and updating pivot tables
  • Getting external data into a workbook
  • Creating a dynamic summary with a pivot table

    Lesson 8 – Sharing data with other applications
  • Converting a worksheet into a Microsoft Access table
  • Create links to more than one worksheet
  • Update data when the source information changes
  • Breaking links with other files
  • Creating Hyperlinks

    Lesson 9 – Auditing your spreadsheet
  • Working with the auditing tools
  • Tracing dependants
  • Tracing precedents
  • Protecting your data
  • Protect a sheet
  • Protect a workbook
  • Share your work with colleagues

    Lesson 10 – Advanced Excel Functions
  • Comparing alternatives for better decisions
  • Using goal seek
  • Creating multiple scenarios to compare alternatives
  • Test different scenarios using What If
  • Save different groups of values using
  • Scenario Manager

    Lesson 11 – Customising user options
  • Analysing and sharing your data
  • Validating your data
  • Restricting data entry to ensure accuracy
  • Tracking changes
  • Creating custom views

    Lesson 12 – Creating and using Macros
  • Creating macros to automate repetitive tasks
  • Add comments to your macro to make them easier to
  • understand
  • Edit your macros
  • Create a macro button to make the macro easier to run
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    Availability

    Starts
    Home study
    Duration
    Home study
    Timetable
    Home study
    Provider
    Abal Computer Services

    Venue and Contact details

    Main Unit 4, South Suffolk Business Centre
    Alexandra Road
    SUDBURY
    Suffolk
    CO10 2ZX
    UNITED KINGDOM

    Telephone 01787 374138

    Fax 01787 312089

    Email training@abal-computers.com

    Website http://www.abal-computers.com

    Venue Notes Home Study no attendance required

    Contact Notes Tel: 01787 374138

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