Advanced Microsoft Excel 2013

Maximize your investment in Microsoft Excel 2013 by mastering Excel's advanced features. In this practical, hands-on course, you will discover how to use scenarios and data tables to quickly perform multiple what-if data analyses and discover a variety of advanced techniques for PivotTables. You will also master the art of conditional formatting, consolidation, summarizing data, and so much more!
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Advanced Microsoft Excel 2013

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Wouldn't it be great to know how to effectively use all the advanced Excel features? In this practical and information-packed course, you will learn how to utilize this program's functions and capabilities.

Most organizations rely heavily on Excel to consolidate, analyze, and report financial information. Your company is probably no exception. By learning these advanced techniques, you can become more valuable to your organization.

You will see how to work with the additional analysis tools provided by Excel add-ins and become skilled in using validation to protect the integrity of your worksheets from less experienced users. Impress your coworkers by learning how to add functional and eye-catching custom controls to any worksheet and how to use scenarios and data tables to quickly perform what-if data analyses. You will discover advanced techniques for PivotTables, like creating Timelines, calculated fields, and calculated items. You will learn how to use Excel's consolidation function to efficiently summarize data from multiple sources, become adept at importing external data, and master the art of conditional formatting to highlight duplicate entries and other common worksheet problems.

Learn how Excel 2013 table tools take the complexity out of table creation and management. As you become proficient at nesting functions within other functions, you will be able to accomplish just about anything Microsoft Excel has to offer!

What you will learn

  • Become skilled in using validation to protect the integrity of your worksheets
  • Learn how to add functional and eye-catching custom controls to any worksheet
  • Understand how to use scenarios and data tables to quickly perform what-if data analyses
  • Discover advanced techniques for PivotTables, like creating Timelines, calculated fields, and calculated items
  • Learn to efficiently summarize data from multiple sources and import external data
  • Master the art of conditional formatting to highlight duplicate entries and other common problems
  • Learn how Excel 2013 table tools take the complexity out of table creation and management

How you will benefit

  • Become a more indispensable part of your organization with advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
  • Open the door to more career opportunities and promotions with this advanced knowledge
  • Become more confident in your ability to analyze and report on data
  • Impress your coworkers and managers with your new knowledge

How the course is taught

  • Instructor-led or self-paced online course
  • 6 Weeks or 3 Months access
  • 24 course hours

This course explores Microsoft Excel 2013's sometimes-overlooked and advanced features. You will learn how to use data analysis tools and techniques to improve your decision making, and you will practice generating accurate data more quickly. By the end of this course, you will be well prepared to contribute more value to your organization with your advanced understanding of Excel. To kick things off, you will spend this first lesson exploring how to modify Excel to streamline processes and make your work easier.

This lesson will explore some great table management features in Excel 2013, discuss how to use data forms with Excel databases, and look at a few alternative database techniques. You'll be glad to know that working with tables has become much easier in this latest version of Excel. The lesson will wrap up with a brief look at some of the practical applications for data forms.

In this lesson you will tackle data validation techniques—your first line of defense against incorrect or missing data and the logical next step after data forms. You will also learn how to create input messages and error alerts to guide the user's data entry, how to keep track of validation rules, and how to apply a custom validation rule to other cells so that you don't have to create it all over again.

The first three lessons covered what you might call intro-level advanced Excel topics, but now it's time to head into more complex territory. In this lesson you will start working with custom controls—graphical objects that help facilitate data input and are sure to impress users. You will also master the process of creating a dynamic list box, which allows you to control the values in one list box based on the values chosen by your user in a separate custom control.

In this lesson you will discover how to use conditional formatting. You will see how to use conditional formatting to hide errors, to highlight records based on multiple criteria, to track and alert you about due dates, to find the differences between two lists, to shade every other row, and more.

In this lesson, you will learn how to use Excel's consolidation function to efficiently summarize data from multiple sources. You will begin with an exercise on consolidating data within the same workbook, and after that, you will practice consolidation using an advanced technique with category labels and wildcards. You will also learn how to use automatic and manual outlining to view or hide different levels or sections of your information.

This lesson will focus Logical, Database, Math & Trig, and Lookup & Reference. You will get an overview of these functions and take a look at the Insert Function dialog box. Then, you will practice working with the IF function, nesting functions, the DSUM function, and the VLOOKUP function—all of which will come in handy when you need to perform a quick, thorough analysis of your data.

In this lesson, you will find out all about importing external data. You will test two methods for refreshing the target area for the imported data and find out how to edit an Excel query. After that, you will do an import from an external database. Finally, you will learn how to perform a web query, which—you guessed it—allows you to import data from the Internet.

It's time to look at data tables. In this lesson, you will learn how to use two types of data tables: a one-variable data table (which lets you substitute a single variable in the formula) and the two-variable data table (which allows you to change multiple aspects of the formula).

This lesson explores three more of Excel's what-if analysis tools: Goal Seek, Scenario Manager, and Solver. You will put Excel's Solver to work to discover the optimal solution to models that have multiple variables and constraints.

In this lesson, you will discover how to use PivotTables, which are excellent for summarizing massive amounts of data and viewing different cuts of the information quickly. You will create a PivotChart based on the data fields in your PivotTable. You may not be done with the course, but after mastering PivotTables and PivotCharts, you will certainly be able to count yourself an advanced Excel user.

You will begin the final lesson with a look at the functions available in the Analysis ToolPak. You will complete an exercise using advanced filters, and then you will learn some relevant Excel tips and tricks. When you're done with this lesson—and the course—you will want to pass along the techniques you've learned to friends and colleagues who are still wrestling with Excel!

Chad Wambolt has spent his entire professional career in the finance field, working for both private and publicly-held companies with sales ranging from $500 million to $3 billion. He is a graduate of Boise State University, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in accounting. Through the course of his career, Wambolt became an expert user of Microsoft Excel. Since 1997, he has taught Excel to students of varying skill levels and helped organizations streamline internal processes.

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites to take this course.

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

  • This course must be taken on a PC. It is not suitable for Macs.

Software Requirements:

  • PC: Windows 8 or later.
  • Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge is also compatible.
  • Microsoft Excel 2013, Microsoft Office 2013 (Office Home and Student 2013, Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013, or Microsoft Office Home and Business 2013 (not included in enrollment).
  • Note that the "Starter Version" and "Web App" versions of Microsoft Excel 2013 will not work with the full version of Excel taught in this course.
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  • Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

  • Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

Instructor-Led: A new session of each course begins each month. Please refer to the session start dates for scheduling.
Self-Paced: You can start this course at any time your schedule permits.

Instructor-Led: Once a course session starts, two lessons will be released each week for the 6 week duration of your course. You will have access to all previously released lessons until the course ends.
Self-Paced: You have 3 month access to the course. After enrolling, you can learn and complete the course at your own pace, within the allotted access period.

Instructor-Led: The interactive discussion area for each lesson automatically closes two weeks after each lesson is released, so you're encouraged to complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
Self-Paced: There is no time limit to complete each lesson, other than completing all lessons within the allotted access period.

Instructor-Led: The final exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson. Once the final exam has been released, you will have two weeks plus 10 days (24 days total) to complete the final and finish any remaining lessons in your course. No further extensions can be provided beyond these 10 days.
Self-Paced: Because this course is self-paced, no extensions will be granted after the start of your enrollment.

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