Excel Tips & Tricks

One Day • Instructor Led

This course offers valuable tips and tricks to maximize the capabilities of Excel. You will learn shortcuts that are sure to speed up application development with Excel and take your skills to the next level. Below are just a few of the tips and tricks –

  • creating “impossible” charts
  • tweaking Pivot Tables
  • copying print settings across sheets
  • taming “automatic” toolbars
  • using a UserForm
  • how to create dynamic chart data
  • use Analysis Toolpak
  • sort on more than three columns
  • attach toolbars to worksheets
  • apply custom functions

Prerequisites

To ensure your success, we recommend you have experience using Excel with data and familiarity with basic concepts of data analysis such as working with tables, filtering, sorting, using formulas and performing calculations.

Course Outline

Lesson 1: Basic Excel Usage

  • Selecting
  • Navigating
  • Hiding
  • Formatting

Lesson 2: Data Entry

  • AutoComplete, AutoCorrect and Auto Fill
  • Freezing panes
  • Drop-Down lists

Lesson 3: Formatting

  • Number formats
  • Gridlines, borders and underlines
  • Wrapping text
  • Colors and alternate row shading

Lesson 4: Basic Formulas & Functions

  • References
  • Values and formulas
  • Names

Lesson 5: Useful Formula Examples

  • Calculating
  • Dates
  • Counting
  • Lookups

Lesson 6: Charts & Graphics

  • Different types of charts
  • Plotting
  • Graphics

Lesson 7: Data Analysis and Lists

  • Sorting
  • Filtering

Lesson 8: Working with Files

  • Importing
  • Document properties
  • Passwords

Lesson 9: Printing

  • Printing controls
  • Page breaks and numbering

Lesson 10: Customizing Toolbars & Menus

  • Buttons and commands
  • Creating, taming and attaching toolbars

Lesson 11: Spotting, Fixing & Preventing Errors

  • Error checking
  • Phantom links
  • Cell relationships

Lesson 12: Basic VBA & Macros

  • Security issues with macros
  • Recording and running a macro
  • Using add-ins

Lesson 13: Mathematical Calculations

  • Converting measurements and temperatures
  • Calculating, area, surface, circumference and volume
  • Generating random numbers and integers

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