Course Outline - Microsoft Teams for End Users

Microsoft Excel Intermediate

Course Duration: One Day

Target Audience:

Aimed at users who have basic experience with Excel and want to build on their current knowledge to set up their own spreadsheets and manipulate existing ones.

Course Objectives:

To develop a good working knowledge of Excel to include features such as functions and formulae, sorting and filtering data, working with charts and pivot tables.

Course Outline:

Review Concepts

  • Absolute, Relative References
  • Standard calculations

Excel Features

  • One click Forecasting
  • Smart Lookup
  • Tell me what you want to do…
  • Quick Analysis Tools

Naming Cell Ranges

  • Concept And Purpose
  • Naming Individual Cells
  • Naming Range Of Cells
  • Deleting And Amending Named Ranges
  • Using Name Ranges in Formulae/Functions
  • Named Ranges As Navigation Aid

Linking Sheets and Files

  • Changing the default number of workbook sheets
  • 3D Calculations
  • Linking sheets in the same file
  • Linking different Excel files
  • Using Edit, Links
  • Viewing Different Files on One Screen
  • Window Split / Freeze Panes
  • Viewing Different Parts of the Sheet at once
  • Custom Views

Logical Functions

  • IF Statements
  • Nested If
  • SUMIF / SUMIFS
  • AVERAGEIF / AVERAGEIFS
  • COUNTIF / COUNTIFS
  • ISERROR, IFERROR, IFNA
  • Nesting IF with AND & OR

Applying and Managing Conditional Formatting

  • Data Bars
  • Colour Scales
  • Icon Sets
  • Top/Bottom
  • Creating Formula based Conditional formatting

Lookup Functions

  • Vertical Lookup (VLOOKUP)
  • Horizontal Lookup (HLOOKUP)

Database / List Management

  • Sorting Data (By Values, By Cell Colour, By Font Colour, By Cell Icons)
  • Multi Column Sort
  • Filter (By Values, Cell Colour, Font Colour, Cell Icons)
  • Filter (By Values, Cell Colour, Font Colour, Cell Icons)
  • Multi Column Filter
  • Advanced Filter
  • Adding Subtotals
  • Freeze Panes
  • Group and Outline
  • Data Form
  • Format as Table Feature
  • Data Validation

Formulae Auditing Formula View

  • Tracing Precedents
  • Tracing Dependents
  • Using Watch Window
  • Go To Special…

Charts / Graphs Advanced Techniques

  • Using Recommended charts
  • Creating Chart Using Shortcut Keys
  • Setting Chart as Default
  • Area, legends, etc.
  • Using Sparklines (Line, Column, Win/Loss)
  • Creating a secondary axis

Pivot Tables

  • Creating a Pivot Table
  • Updating the Table
  • Changing the Table Structure
  • Formatting the Pivot Table
  • AutoFormats
  • Creating Charts from the Data
  • Calculated Items
  • Using Get Pivot data

Protection

  • Protection – Cells / Sheets / Files

Discussion and Question Time