Course Description
Expand your ability to professionally present your results by applying the skills used in this course. With this training, you gain the knowledge and skills to build more sophisticated spreadsheets, perform “what-if” analyses, apply functions, manipulate PivotTables, and use the advanced features of Excel to aid in making and presenting business decisions.
Agenda
Troubleshooting and Enhancing Professional Workbooks
- Deciphering and correcting functions for data integrity
- Accurately interpreting calculations
- Implementing Names to enhance your workbook model
- Monitoring KPIs using conditional formatting
Analyzing Data with Functions
Summarizing business data with functions
- Identifying the correct statistical function to aid analysis
- Applying basic financial functions
- Differentiating serial dates and date presentations
- Calculating the number of working days
Controlling calculations and nested formulas
- Interpreting data variations with the IF function
- Streamlining calculations with referencing
- Developing nested functions for multiple conditions
- Capturing information with lookup functions
- Applying techniques to implement and troubleshoot nested calculations
Optimizing Workbook Models with "What-If" Analysis
Planning for contingencies
- Managing variables in worksheets with Scenarios
- Comparing and contrasting different datasets with scenario reports
Quantifying variables in a workbook model
- Determining the magnitude of a variable with Goal Seek to achieve an end value
- Calculating the optimum variable values in a worksheet model with Solver
Summarizing Business Information
Organizing workbooks and links
- Arranging multiple workbooks with Workspaces
- Managing external links
Consolidating ranges
- Building 3-D formulas to analyze worksheet data
- Summarizing multiple sources of Excel information into one worksheet
Formulating Decisions from Database Information
Distilling datasets for data analysis
- Managing multiple datasets on a single worksheet with the Table feature
- Defining an Excel dataset to ensure appropriate use of built-in features
- Extracting unique lists of records from an Excel dataset with the Advanced Filter
- Analyzing datasets with filters and aggregation
Interpreting and refining data with PivotTables and PivotCharts
- Defining data summaries interactively
Analyzing large datasets with PivotTables
- Summarizing datasets with grouping and aggregation
- Comparing related totals dynamically
- Filtering details with Report Filters and Slicers
- Presenting PivotTable reports effectively with charts
- Examining data patterns with Sparklines
- Interpreting multiple tables of data with PowerPivots
- Exploring, visualizing and presenting data with Power View
Enhancing Excel Usage with Macros
Automating repetitive tasks
- Simplifying complex tasks and reducing errors
- Bulletproofing routine editing and formatting
- Invoking macros with Form controls
Recognizing the code behind a macro
- Working with the Visual Basic Editor
- Troubleshooting and interpreting code in a macro procedure
- Modifying macros in the code window
Audience
Business and technical professionals making decisions based on data analysis, or anyone who wants to increase their knowledge of intermediate to advanced features in Excel who has experience with Excel fundamentals at the level of Course 1361, "Microsoft Excel Introduction."