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Practical Excel 2016 for the Workplace – Intermediate and Advanced (ILT)

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    COURSE DESCRIPTION
    This course takes up where the Excel 2016 Fundamentals course leaves off. It covers a wide variety of Excel topics, ranging from intermediate to advanced level. You will learn a wide variety of Excel functions, tips for creating readable and correct formulas, a number of useful data analysis tools, how to import external data into Excel, and tools for making your spreadsheets more professional.

    Category: Office Productivity/Microsoft

    Duration: 1-2 Days

    What are the requirements?

    • Microsoft Office 2016

    What am I going to get from this course?

    • How to use intermediate to advanced Excel functions from various categories (counting/summing/averaging, math, text, date/time, statistical, financial, reference, and logical) to solve practical problems
    • More advanced tips for working with formulas, including formula auditing and formula evaluation
    • How to use Excel’s many powerful tools for data analysis, including tables, pivot tables, data tables, Goal Seek, and Solver
    • How to use Excel’s tools for importing external data from databases, text files, and the Web
    • How to use a number of intermediate to advanced tools for adding professional touches to your spreadsheets, including data validation, workbook/worksheet protection, scenarios, form controls, and recording macros
    • An introduction to several tools new to Excel 2016, including Flash Fill for text pattern recognition and several data analysis tools (Quick Analysis, the Excel Data Model, and the PowerPivot and Power View add-ins)

    What is the target audience?

    • Any competent Excel users who aspire to becoming Excel “power users”

    Lesson Plan

    Introduction to Course
    Welcome to Intermediate and Advanced Course
    Summarizing Functions
    More Summarizing Functions
    COUNTIF, SUMIF, AVERAGEIF
    COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS
    Math Functions
    Intro to Math Functions
    INT, ROUND, CEILING, FLOOR
    ABS, SQRT, SUMSQ
    LN, EXP
    RAND, RANDBETWEEN
    Text Functions
    Intro to Text Functions
    LOWER, UPPER, PROPER
    TRIM, VALUE
    Concatenating
    Parsing with Text to Columns
    Parsing with Text Functions
    Flash Fill
    Date and Time Functions
    Intro to Dates and Times in Excel
    Y2K
    TODAY, NOW
    YEAR, MONTH, DAY, WEEKDAY
    DATEDIF
    DATE, DATEVALUE
    NETWORKDAYS, WORKDAY
    Statistical Functions
    Intro to Statistical Functions
    MIN, MAX
    MEDIAN, QUARTILE, PERCENTILE
    STDEV, VAR
    CORREL, COVAR
    RANK, LARGE, SMALL
    New Statistical Functions
    Financial Functions
    Intro to Financial Functions
    PMT
    NPV, XNPV
    IRR, XIRR
    Reference Functions
    Intro to Reference Functions
    INDEX
    MATCH
    OFFSET
    INDIRECT
    Logical Functions
    Intro to Logical Functions
    IS… Functions
    IF… Functions
    Advanced Formula Tools
    Range Names 2
    R1C1 Notation
    Auditing Formulas
    Evaluating a Formula
    External Formula References
    Array Formulas
    Importing External Data
    Intro to Importing External Data
    Importing Data from a Database
    Importing Data from a Text File
    Importing Data from the Web
    Importing Data from Saved Connections
    Data Analysis Tools
    Intro to Data Analysis Tools
    Quick Analysis
    Tables
    Pivot Tables 1
    Pivot Tables 2
    Slicers
    Consolidating
    Subtotals
    Data Tables
    Forecasting
    Goal Seek
    Solver
    Power BI
    Intro to Power BI
    Data Model
    Power Query
    Power Pivot
    Power View
    Power Map
    Adding Professional Touches
    Intro to Adding Professional Touches
    Data Validation
    Protecting Worksheets and Workbooks
    Custom Views
    Scenarios
    Outlining
    Developer Ribbon
    Using Form Controls
    Recording a Macro
    Conclusion to Course
    Conclusion to Intermediate and Advanced Course

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