Excel Level 3 - Smarter Working

Overview
This course will extend your knowledge of Excel by introducing concepts which will allow you to analyse numerical data more stringently and to automate commonly used procedures.

Recommended for

Staff who are already using Excel to analyse data and want to be able to extend their knowledge and work more efficiently.

What do you need to know already?

We will assume that you are already quite an experienced user of Excel and are familiar with:
Creating, editing and formatting spreadsheets which include formulas and a range of functions
Creating charts
Linking books and sheets together in various ways.

Objectives

At the end of the training you will be able to successfully:

• Create, use and save Excel templates
• Use PivotTables to analyse and format data at different levels of detail
• Use macros to automate common tasks
• Handle text in Excel using string functions
• Use data validation to improve accuracy and efficiency
• Use the documentation and support provided.

Modules covered in this course

Templates – Templates help you increase productivity and standardisation by allowing you to specify all the things that each instance of a given spreadsheet must contain.
Macros – By creating macros which mimic interactive processes you can speed up your handling of repetitive tasks.
String-Handling Features and Functions – This group of functions allows you to examine data values in a variety of detailed and sophisticated ways.
PivotTables – This section introduces pivot tables, an analysis method that allows you to rapidly summarise repetitive data in great detail.
Data Validation – Use Data Validation to ensure that users enter data into specific columns according to given content rules.

We recommend that you bring real-life examples and problems from work with you
so that you can go back to work after training having made real progress.

Please bring in your own laptop with appropriate Excel software on it. If you do not have access to a laptop we can sometimes provide a spare laptop for the day, please let us know if this is the case.