Excel 2007 Advanced

Learn how to use this popular spreadsheet program.

The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace.

You will get a personalised workbook to use as a reference guide on completion of the course.

The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training certificate.

To teach the Excel 2007 program to an advanced level and to cover the City & Guilds Spreadsheet Processing Techniques Intermediate exam as well as the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist test (MCAS) and EDCL Advanced (Spreadsheets) exam.

Those who wish to learn this popular spreadsheet program to an advanced level.

Familiarity with the Windows environment and basic keyboarding experience.

18 - 20 hours

Lesson One - Including: Using AutoFill, carrying out date calculations, adding a worksheet background, showing/hiding gridlines and headings, creating and working with tables, converting text to columns, removing duplicates, consolidating data, hiding/unhiding worksheets, using paste special, creating a custom format.

Lesson Two - Including: Defining, using and managing named ranges, using named ranges in formulas, inserting, modifying and removing hyperlinks, formatting elements of a column chart, using functions: ROUND; SUMIF; IF; IFERROR; AND, using the IF function nested with OR.

Lesson Three - Including: Using conditional formatting, editing a conditional formatting rule, using the Rules Manager, formatting cells meeting a specific condition, applying more than one conditional formatting rule, sorting data using cell attributes, filtering data using cell attributes, using advanced filter options.

Lesson Four - Including: Recording and running macros, editing a macro, running a macros from the Quick Access Toolbar, deleting macros, using data validation, tracing precedent/dependent cells in a worksheet, evaluating formulas, tracing errors.

Lesson Five - Including: Summarising data using subtotals, using database functions, grouping and ungrouping data, creating a pivot table, refreshing pivot table data, filtering information in a pivot table, formatting pivot table data.

Lesson Six - Including: Inserting headers and footers, copying and pasting data between worksheets, grouping and ungrouping worksheets, creating a new workbook, switching between workbooks, viewing multiple workbooks, hiding and unhiding a workbook, saving as a template, creating a workbook from a template using existing templates and online resources.

Lesson Seven - Including: Protecting worksheet cells, applying and removing passwords, setting file properties, sharing workbooks, merging workbooks, tracking changes, accepting or rejecting changes, using the Document Inspector, marking a workbook as final, removing a password, adding a digital signature.

Lesson Eight - Including: Using statistical function: COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, COUNTIF, using text functions: PROPER, UPPER; LOWER; CONCATENATE, using financial functions: PV; NPV; RATE, using nested functions.