Course Outline

1-Day Excel training course designed as an Introduction

This Excel training course teaches good techniques to structure calculations in spreadsheets.
 

Target Audience for Excel Functions & Formulas

This course is aimed at users with a fairly basic understanding of Microsoft Excel who need to create more complex spreadsheets and those who want to know more about creating and using functions and formulas in their work and building spreadsheets from scratch. If you already have a good level of knowledge about functions and formulas then maybe our higher level Excel Data Analysis course may be for you, or for even more advanced knowledge into the world of macros and Visual Basic then look at our Excel Visual Basic (VBA) training course

Excel Training Course Objectives

To understand how to structure spreadsheets and gain a good grasp of the most frequently used functions.

Excel Training Pre-Requisites

Basic Understanding of Microsoft Excel would be beneficial

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Topics Covered

Excel Basics 

  • Review of Basic Shortcuts
  • Drag and Drop
  • Using AutoFill
  • Using AutoComplete
  • Rules for working with Formula
  • Basic Formula construction
  • How to lay out and design spreadsheets
  • Using cells in formula
  • Editing and Creating basic formula 

Cell Referencing 

  • Basic Cell Referencing
  • Fixed and Mixed Cell References
  • Shortcuts for Fixed Cell Referencing
  • Using Natural Language and Named Cells
  • Using the Name Manager
  • Referencing Named Cells 

Tables and Named Ranges

  • Using Data in Tabular format
  • Using External Constants
  • Creating a Data Table
  • Named Table Function
  • Formatting Named Tables
  • Assets of Named Tables
  • Adding Header, Footer and Total rows
  • Using Named Table Data in calculations
  • Named Row and Column conventions

Functions

  • Check on basic function
  • Sum, Average, Count, Min, Max..
  • Conditional Functions
  • CountIF, SumIF 

Data Validation

  • Using Data Validation
  • Using Data Validation drop downs
  • Using Data Validation to find Corrupt data such as blank spaces, misspellings etc 

Discovering Functions

  • Querying a function for its definition
  • Using the Insert function button
  • Searching for a function to solve a problem
  • Search techniques 

Text Functions

  • Importing Text strings
  • Converting Text to Columns
  • Separating Text strings
  • Find, Len, Right, Mid, Left 

More Functions

  • Multiple conditional function
  • Countifs, Sumifs, averageifs
  • Vlookup
  • HLookup
  • Analysing Filtered Data
  • The Subtotal function