Course duration
- 8.0 hours
Course Benefits
- Create pivot tables and charts.
- Learn to trace precedents and dependents.
- Convert text and validate and consolidate data.
- Collaborate with others by protecting worksheets and workbooks.
- Create, use, edit, and manage macros.
- Import and export data.
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access to an On-Demand course.
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Course Outline
- Using Pivot Tables
- Creating Pivot Tables
- Preparing Your Data
- Inserting a Pivot Table
- Inserting Slicers
- Working with Pivot Tables
- Grouping Data
- Using PowerPivot
- Managing Relationships
- Inserting Pivot Charts
- More Pivot Table Functionality
- Exercise: Working with Pivot Tables
- Creating Pivot Tables
- Auditing Worksheets
- Tracing Precedents
- Exercise: Tracing Precedents
- Tracing Dependents
- Exercise: Tracing Dependents
- Showing Formulas
- Data Tools
- Converting Text to Columns
- Exercise: Converting Text to Columns
- Linking to External Data
- Controlling Calculation Options
- Data Validation
- Exercise: Using Data Validation
- Consolidating Data
- Exercise: Consolidating Data
- Goal Seek
- Exercise: Using Goal Seek
- Working with Others
- Protecting Worksheets and Workbooks
- Password Protecting a Workbook
- Removing Workbook Metadata
- Exercise: Password Protecting a Workbook
- Password Protecting a Worksheet
- Exercise: Password Protecting a Worksheet
- Password Protecting Ranges in a Worksheet
- Exercise: Password Protecting Ranges in a Worksheet
- Marking a Workbook as Final
- Protecting Worksheets and Workbooks
- Recording and Using Macros
- Recording Macros
- Copy a Macro from Workbook to Workbook
- Exercise: Recording a Macro
- Running Macros
- Editing Macros
- Adding Macros to the Quick Access Toolbar
- Managing Macro Security
- Exercise: Adding a Macro to the Quick Access Toolbar
- Recording Macros
- Random Useful Items
- Sparklines
- Inserting Sparklines
- Customizing Sparklines
- Exercise: Inserting and Customizing Sparklines
- Preparing a Workbook for Internationalization and Accessibility
- Display Data in Multiple International Formats
- Modify Worksheets for Use with Accessibility Tools
- Use International Symbols
- Manage Multiple Options for +Body and +Heading Fonts
- Importing and Exporting Files
- Importing Delimited Text Files
- Exercise: Importing Text Files
- Exporting Worksheet Data to Microsoft Word
- Exercise: Copying Data from Excel to Word
- Exporting Excel Charts to Microsoft Word
- Exercise: Copying Charts from Excel to Word
- Sparklines
- Features New in Excel 2013
- Using Slicers to Filter Data
- Exercise: Filtering Data with Slicers
- Creating a PivotTable Timeline
- Exercise: Creating a Timeline
- Creating a Standalone PivotChart
- Workspaces in Excel 2013
- New Features in Excel 2016
- PivotTable Updates
- Ink Equations
- Multi-Select Option in Slicers
- Quick Shape Formatting
- Sharing
- Exercise: Sharing a Workbook
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Experience in the following is required for this Microsoft Excel class:
- Basic and Intermediate Excel experience.
Courses that can help you meet these prerequisites:
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.