Course Overview
A continuation from the
introductory course, this one day course looks at more in-depth
functionality and commands in Excel.
You will look at different
ways of formatting and presenting information and use both databases and
charts to analyse data.
This outline is based on Microsoft Excel
2007 (or Excel 2008 if you are a Mac user). If you are using a different
version, please give us a call on 020 7359 9855.
Course
content
Introduction
· Refresher on basic formulas and
functions
· Preventing rounding errors
· Building in checks and
proofs
· Conditional formulas
· Linking worksheets / workbooks
Further
functions
· Logical functions; IF, AND, OR
· Conditional
statistical functions
· Date and time functions
Creating
business diagrams
· Creating Venn diagrams
· Editing diagrams
·
Exporting diagrams
Databases
· Creating a database
·
Sorting and filtering
· Sub-totalling
· Consolidations
·
Enhanced list functionality
Formatting numbers
· Creating custom
number formats
· Conditional formatting
· Controlling date
formats
Creating charts
· The different types of charts
·
Chart formatting features
· Using Trends
· Combining charts
·
Linking Excel and Word
Security
· Worksheet protection
·
Workbook protection
Questions and answers