Online Class: Advanced Excel 2016

This course is for the intermediate student who has already mastered the basic skills needed to use Excel 2016 and wants to gain more advanced skills to put to work in a business environment or for personal use.

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  • 33
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Course Description

Excel 2016 Advanced Skills Course

With most software programs on the market today, you can thrive with just a basic knowledge of the tools and options built into the individual program.  However, that is not necessarily true when it comes to Excel 2016.  

Excel is a complex, yet easy-to-use spreadsheet program that contains a multitude of much-needed tools with very advanced options.   While it's true that you can create an attractive spreadsheet and use simple formulas in Excel with very little experience, that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what Excel can truly do.  In order to be able to successfully use the program to create spreadsheets, enter data, and maintain that data, you must have more than basic knowledge.   This course gives you the advanced skills you need to be able to fully use the program.

This course is for the intermediate student who has already mastered the basic skills needed to use Excel 2016 and wants to gain more advanced skills to put to work in a business environment or for personal use.  This course goes in-depth, using step-by-step instructions to teach advanced techniques to broaden all students' knowledge and use of the program.

In this course, you will learn how to:

·    Create outlines in Excel

·    Create your own templates

·    Work with sparklines

·    Create and manage scenarios

·    Use Goal Seek and Solver

·    Create, manage, and format pivot tables and pivot charts

·    Use the Excel mathematical functions

·    Create and write complex formulas

·    Perform data lookups

·    Create and use IF statements

·    Use Excel's data functions

·    Create and use data validation rules

·    Apply custom and prebuilt conditional formatting

·    Work with functions to manipulate strings of text and data

·    Create and use macros

·    Troubleshoot and audit formulas

·    Create pivot tables and pivot charts

·    Use queries to import external data

·    Import and clean data

·    Link and consolidate worksheets and workbooks

·    Troubleshoot errors

·    And more

This advanced Excel course is designed for the intermediate Excel user who desires to learn more advanced skills.   The topics covered in this course will give each student the knowledge and practice to be able to use Excel in a business setting or for advanced personal use. 

This course makes the assumption that all students have at least a basic working knowledge of Excel and have mastered the basic skills required to:

  • Navigate Excel 2016

  • Create, name, save, and work with worksheets and workbooks

  • Work with, edit, and format cells, rows, and columns

  • Create and format tables

  • Enter data into Excel

  • Create basic formulas and calculations

  • Understand the role of functions in Excel, as well as mathematical operators

  • Understand absolute vs. relative cell references

  • Have basic knowledge of the What-If Analysis

  • Create, sort, and filter lists

If you are not a regular Excel user, it is important that you take the time to brush up on your basic Excel skills before continuing with this course.   Although our Excel 2016 basic course is not a mandatory prerequisite, it is recommended that you complete that course prior to starting advanced Excel 2016 training if you do not have a working knowledge of the topics listed above.

 
 

Course Lessons

  • Introduction

    Introduction
  • Lesson 2: Outlines, Custom Views, and Templates

    In Excel, outlining gives you the ability to organize large amounts of data.
  • Lesson 3: Mathematical Functions

    Functions are used to create formulas. In this lesson, we are going to start talking about some of the more basic functions, as well as teaching you to use them.
  • Lesson 4: Data Functions

    Data functions give you various ways to search your data.
  • Lesson 5: Data Lookups

    Data lookup is quite simply the process where values in Excel are scanned until certain results are found.
  • Lesson 6: The IF Function

    IF functions can be used to add comments to your data. They can also be used to hide errors in calculations.
  • Lesson 7: Manipulating Text

    We are going to take this lesson to learn some of the text functions and formulas, then teach you how they are used. More specifically, we will show you how to use them.
  • Lesson 8: Exploring Conditional Formatting

    Conditional formatting is another way to visualize your data.
  • Lesson 9: Working with Sparklines

    Sparklines represent data in your worksheet. They show the variations or trends in a section of your data, typically within a row.
  • Lesson 10: Linking To and Consolidating Worksheets

    Consolidating means to combine or summarize data from two or more worksheets.
  • Lesson 11: Importing and Cleaning Data

    Excel gives you several methods to import different types of files that contain your data.
  • Lesson 12: Pivot Tables

    A pivot table is a tool that you can use to summarize data when you have a lot of it in a worksheet.
  • Lesson 13: Continuing to Work with PivotTables

    PivotTables are an invaluable tool in Excel because they give you a way to summarize data; however, they also give you a way to look at the exact data that you need.
  • Lesson 14: PivotCharts

    A PivotChart is like a PivotTable in that it summarizes the data from a worksheet.
  • Lesson 15: The What-if Analyses

    A what-if analysis lets you explore possibilities by entering possible values into the same equation so you can see the possible outcomes in the cells of your spreadsheet.
  • Lesson 16: Goal Seek and Solver

    Goal Seek determines what value needs to be in an input cell to achieve a desired result in a formula cell. Solver determines what values need to be in multiple input cells to achieve a desired result.
  • Lesson 17: The Analysis ToolPak

    The Analysis ToolPak is an add-in, just like Solver is an add-in, that provides various methods of analysis.
  • Lesson 18: All About Data Validation

    Data validation in Excel allows you to define what type of data should be entered into a cell and allows you to prevent invalid data from being entered.
  • Lesson 19: Using Get & Transform to Perform Queries

    You can also import data from other databases into Excel 2016, as we mentioned in the last lesson. Get & Transform is a tool you can use to do this.
  • Lesson 20: Troubleshooting and Auditing in Excel 2016

    Excel 2016 gives you the tools to help you efficiently audit and troubleshoot your workbooks and data.
  • Lesson 21: Exploring Macros in Excel 2016

    A macro is a series of instructions or commands that can be triggered by a keyboard shortcut, button in the toolbar, or by an icon that you can stick in a worksheet.
  • Lesson 22: Continuing to Work with Macros

    We are going to continue to explore macros in this lesson and learn more about creating and working with them.
 

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  • Define outlines, custom views, and templates in Excel 2016.
  • Describe mathematical functions.
  • Describe data functions.
  • Describe data lookups.
  • Demonstrate usage of the if function.
  • Describe manipulating text.
  • Demonstrate conditional formatting.
  • Describe working with sparklines.
  • Describe linking to and consolidating worksheets.
  • Summarize importing and cleaning data.
  • Demonstrate creating Pivot Tables.
  • Demonstrate creating and using PivotCharts.
  • Demonstrate using the What-if Analyses
  • Demonstrate using the Goal Seek and Solver
  • Describe working with macros.
  • Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
 

Student Testimonials

  • "I really enjoyed this Course as I've always been interested in learning more about Excel, and this fueled my interest and desire to learn more. The main feature of your Courses is the dual option content of reading about the topic chapter, and then watching the video ( to see the demonstration of what was discussed) about the text. This is key, and based on my preferred visual learning style, it's far more effective than reading a chapter in an Excel text book." -- Richard B.