We use Modules instead of standard courses, this way you can easily have a tailored course

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General

Workbook basics

  • Creating workbooks
  • Inserting worksheets
  • Renaming sheets
  • Moving sheets
  • Copying sheets
  • Colouring sheet tabs
  • Moving sheets to another workbook

0.5 hour

Sheet basics

  • Selecting Cells
  • Using shortcuts to select
  • Selecting non adjacent cells
  • Selecting columns and rows
  • Inserting and deleting columns, rows, and cells
  • Selecting a record set
  • Selecting the entire sheet
  • Resizing columns and rows

1 hour

Copy and paste

  • Copy values
  • Paste values
  • Cut values
  • Paste Special
  • Shortcut keys to copy, cut and paste
  • Using mouse to copy, cut and paste

0.5 hour

Data Entry cheats

  • Filling data
  • Copying calculations
  • Working with dates
  • Entering current date and time
  • Custom lists

1 hour

Excel Help

  • Using the Office Assistant
  • Getting Help Without the Office Assistant
  • Tailoring help
  • Searching

0.5 hours

Preparing for print

  • Page setup
  • Repeat heading on every page
  • Set print area
  • Change margins
  • Background (2007)
  • Headers and footers
  • Hiding gridlines

1 hour

Formatting Module 1

  • Formatting cells
  • List formatting
  • Automatic formatting

1 hour

Formatting Module 2

Prerequisites: Formatting Module 1

  • Conditional formatting
  • Custom formatting
  • Styles

1.5 hours

Protecting Worksheets

  • Worksheet protection
  • Workbook protection
  • Locking cells
  • Password protecting a file

1 hour

Auditing

  • Auditing toolbar
  • Watching values

0.5 hours

Naming Ranges

  • Naming cells
  • Multiple page names
  • Using names
  • Changing name reference
  • Deleting names

1 hour

Projection Tools

  • Goal Seek
  • Scenario
  • Solver

1 hour

Calculations and Function:

Calculation fundamentals

  • BODMAS
  • Calculations
  • Basic Functions

2 hours

Linking Calculations

  • 3D formulae
  • Linking cells
  • Changing the document link to
  • Removing links
  • Options when sending a file with links

0.5 hours

Date and Time Functions

  • Entering current Date (today)
  • Entering current time (time)
  • Entering current date and time (now)
  • Calculating dates (date)

0.5 hour

Text functions

  • Changing the case of text
  • Concatenation
  • Extracting value from cell (left, right, mid)
  • Trim
  • Replace

1.5 hour

Logical Function Module 1

Prerequisites: Calculation fundamentals

  • If Statement
  • Nested If

1 hours

Logical Function Module 2

Prerequisites: Logical Function Module 1

  • And function
  • Or function
  • IsError/IsErr
  • IsNA

1.5 hours

Lookup functions

Prerequisites: Naming ranges and calculations fundamentals

  • Vlookup
  • Hlookup
  • Lookup
  • Creating the lookup list

2 hours

Lists and databases:

Lists Module 1

  • What is a list
  • Sorting
  • Filtering
  • Data entry form
  • List feature
  • Formatting lists
  • Freeze and Split

1 hour

Lists Module 2

Prerequisites: Lists Module 1

  • Advanced filtering
  • Subtotals
  • Grouping and ungrouping
  • Data validation
  • Circling invalid data

1.5 hours

Lists Module 3 – Calculations

Prerequisites: Calculation fundamentals and Lists module 1

  • Dfunctions
  • Countif
  • Sumif

1 hour

Pivot Tables Module 1

  • Creating
  • Adding fields
  • Moving fields
  • Subtotals
  • Filtering
  • Grouping
  • Pivot Charts
  • Updating

1.5 hours

Pivot Tables Module 2

  • Creating calculated columns
  • Show pages
  • Pivot table formatting
  • Table options
  • Creating a running total

1 hour

External Data

Importing

  • Importing CSV
  • Importing from ODBC database
  • Importing from word
  • Text to columns
  • MS Query

1.5 hours

External data

  • Database query
  • Web query
  • Updating data

1 hour

Pivot Tables

Pivot Tables Module 1

  • Creating
  • Adding fields
  • Moving fields
  • Subtotals
  • Filtering
  • Pivot Charts
  • Updating

1.5 hours

Pivot Tables Module 2

  • Creating calculated columns
  • Show pages
  • Pivot table formatting

Charts

Charts Module 1

  • Creating a chart
  • Changing colour
  • Chart options
  • Adding titles

1 hour

Charts Module 2

  • Setting a default chart type
  • Saving Chart settings
  • Adding Trend lines
  • Error bars
  • Adding a secondary axis
  • Multiple chart types in 1 chart

1 hour