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Excel Foundation – Level 3

Level 3 – 2 Days

If you have attended our Level 1 and Level 2 courses you have a good foundation of how to navigate Excel as well as having a good grasp of the tools to build worthwile spreadsheets. In this course we will get under the hood of Excel and  explore all of the great features which will help you extract meaningful results from your raw data. Prepare to be amazed!

What We Will Cover:


DATA CONSOLIDATION

  • Consolidate Multiple Worksheets into One
  • Consolidate by Position
  • Consolidate by Category
  • Consolidate from Other Workbooks

 

CUSTOMIZING EXCEL

  • Changing Default Options
  • Custom Lists

 

SCENARIOS

  • Creating and Saving the Scenario
  • Displaying Scenarios
  • Other Scenario Options-Edit, Merge, Summary, etc.

 

CONSOLIDATE

  • Creating and Saving Consolidation
  • Other Consolidation Options

 

DATA TABLES

  • Creating
  • Substitute Consecutive Values in a Formula

 

A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO MACROS

  • What is a Macro?
  • Recording a Macro
  • Playing a Macro
  • Relative Referencing
  • Rerecording a Macro

 

PIVOT TABLES

  • Changing the Layout of a Pivot Table
  • Basic Pivot Table Formatting
  • Calculations
  • Pivot Table Summaries
  • Pivot Table Slicers
  • Creating Pivot Tables from External Data
  • Creating Pivot Charts

 

ADVANCED FILTER

  • Setting Up the Ranges
  • Setting Up the Criteria Range
  • Performing the Filter
  • Copy Unique Records to Another Location

 

GROUP & OUTLINE, & SUBTOTALS

  • Grouping Rows/Columns on a Sheet
  • Showing/Hiding Details in an Outline
  • Display/Hide Outline Symbols

 

USING SUBTOTALS

  • Adding Automatic Subtotals
  • Adding Other Automatic Analysis (Average, Count, etc)
  • Removing Subtotals

 

CHARTS

  • Understanding Charts
  • Adding Data
  • Pie, Column, Bar and Line

 

DATA SET CLEANUP

  • How to clean a dataset
  • What not to do?
  • How to fix datasets to work with PivotTables