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You Will Learn How To
- Summarize data with Excel by incorporating formulas, formatting, and charts and graphs
- Efficiently navigate and manipulate multiple spreadsheets in a workbook
- Optimize your worksheets using templates, graphs and formulas
- Design simple-to-complex formulas by nesting Excel functions
- Present data visually using Excel tables and charts
- Import, fine-tune and share Excel data in your workgroup
Course Benefits In today's workplace, Microsoft Excel is the de facto tool for working with data on the desktop. Knowing how to leverage Excel enables you to simplify complex tasks and is essential to daily work responsibilities. In this introductory course, you gain the skills to create Excel worksheets, develop formulas and apply sophisticated formatting to capture and present your data.
Who Should Attend Anyone who uses Microsoft Excel and needs to acquire the knowledge, skills and techniques to design formulas, create and edit worksheets, and present data results. No previous experience with Excel is assumed.
Hands-On Training Throughout this course, exercises provide you with experience applying Excel features, formulas and formatting. Hands-on exercises include:
- Navigating the Excel interface for efficiency and speed
- Formatting existing data for greater visual impact
- Designing formulas to manipulate, summarize and refine raw data
- Troubleshooting and tracing formula errors
- Charting your data for clearer presentation
- Recording macros to streamline tasks
- Linking worksheets with references
Course 1361 Content Introduction to Microsoft Excel
The spreadsheet model
- Worksheets and their contents
- Differentiating workbooks and worksheets
Navigating the interface
- General navigation
- Office Button
- The Ribbon
- Customizing the interface
- Managing large spreadsheets by zooming
- Identifying worksheet tabs by color
- Changing worksheet views
Basic data editing
- Modifying cell contents and formats
- Inserting data with AutoFill
- Knowing when to use Paste Special
- Finding and replacing data
Acquiring and Conforming Data
Importing data from outside sources
- Integrating data from other Excel sheets
- Utilizing data from servers
- Managing external links
- Finding and removing duplicates
Excel tables and lists
- How Excel tables work
- Converting text to columns
- Sorting and grouping table data
- Adding data in a table or list
Worksheet Formatting and Presentation
Initial formatting
- Configuring cell numeric formats
- Aligning data within cells
- Efficient presentation using the Format Painter
- Fitting cells to data size
- Naming cells and cell ranges
Worksheet presentation
- Freezing worksheet areas
- Hiding content in worksheets
- Editing, modifying and saving templates
Innovative formatting
- Styling cells and sheets with prebuilt styles
- Conditionally formatting cells and data
- Rotating and wrapping text
Leveraging Formulas and Functions
Formula basics
- Determining the order of operations
- Specifying relative and absolute cell references
- Automatic sums with AutoSum
- Conditionally summarizing data
- Introducing conditional logic in formulas
- Nesting expressions in formulas
Extending formulas and functions
- Putting strings together with concatenation
- Finding data with a formula: VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP
- Copying and pasting formulas and/or values
- Handling formulas with dates
Auditing worksheet formulas
- Deciphering tagged cells with errors
- Identifying formula error indicators
- Tracing spreadsheet formula errors
Creating a Visual Presentation of Data
Charting your data
- Determining when charts are required
- Creating and modifying charts with wizards
- Adjusting chart layouts, title and labels
- Switching chart type or data source
Printing workbooks
- Setting options on the Page Layout tab
- Viewing and adjusting page breaks
- Developing appropriate headers and footers
Introducing Advanced Excel Features
PivotTable basics
- Creating a PivotTable with wizards
- Pivoting existing PivotTable data
Final workbook touches
- Reviewing and adding comments on worksheets
- Protecting and sharing worksheets
- Tracking shared worksheet changes
Creating and managing macros
- Macro basics
- When to use a macro
- Recording effective macros
- Launching macros from buttons
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