Microsoft Excel 2007 Part 2 - Advanced

Designed for: Those who wish to learn this popular spreadsheet program to an advanced level

Pre-requisites: Familiarity with the Windows environment and basic keyboarding experience

Objectives: To teach the Excel 2007 program to an advanced level and to cover the City & Guilds Spreadsheet Processing Techniques Intermediate exam as well as the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist test (MCAS) and ECDL Advanced (Spreadsheets) exam.

Course Content

• Lesson One – Including: Using AutoFill, carrying out date calculations, adding a worksheet background, showing/hiding gridlines and headings, creating and working with tables, converting text to columns, removing duplicates, consolidating data, hiding/unhiding worksheets, using paste special, creating a custom format

• Lesson Two – Including: Defining, using and managing named ranges, using named ranges in formulas, inserting, modifying and removing hyperlinks, formatting elements of a column chart, using functions: ROUND; SUMIF; SUMIF; IF; IFERROR; AND, using the IF function nested with OR

• Lesson Three – Including: Using conditional formatting, editing a conditional formatting rule, using the Rules Manager, formatting cells meeting a specific condition, applying more than one conditional formatting rule, sorting data using cell attributes, filtering data using cell attributes, using advanced filter options

• Lesson Four – Including: Recording and running macros, editing a macro, running a macro from the Quick Access Toolbar, deleting macros, using data validation, tracing precedent/dependent cells in a worksheet, evaluating formulas, tracing errors.

• Lesson Five – Including: Summarising data using subtotals, using database functions, grouping and ungrouping data, creating a pivot table, refreshing pivot table data, filtering information in a pivot table, formatting pivot table data

• Lesson Six – Including: Inserting headers and footers, copying and pasting data between worksheets, grouping and ungrouping worksheets, creating a new workbook, VLOOKUP function, switching between workbooks, viewing multiple workbooks, hiding and unhiding a workbook, saving as a template, creating a workbook from a template, using existing templates and online resources

• Lesson Seven – Including: Protecting worksheet cells, applying and removing passwords, setting file properties, sharing workbooks, merging workbooks, tracking changes, accepting or rejecting changes, using the Document Inspector, marking a workbook as final, removing a password, adding a digital signature

• Lesson Eight – Including: Using statistical functions: COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, COUNTIF, using text functions: PROPER, UPPER; LOWER, CONCATENATE, using financial functions: PV; NPV; RATE, using nested functions

Benefits

 Learn how to use this popular spreadsheet program

 The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace

 A personalised workbook to use as a reference guide on completion of the course

 The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training Certificate

Course duration: 18-20 hours

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