MS Excel Intermediate

The course deals with familiarizing the intermediate and advanced users with the more complex features Excel offers.

See also the Excel beginner course page

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Course details

Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Instructor: Aniko Balogh
Duration: 3 days
Requirements for pass: minimum attendance - 2 days
When the course is offered: see the list of courses for the current semester and/or the InfoSys

Course material on Moodle:

CEU E-Learning Course on Excel for Beginners

Course outline

Day 1 -Revisiting some topics of the beginner training

• Absolute and relative addressing
• Working with data
• Creating charts
• Functions and formulae:
  • calculate percentage, percentage change
  • calculating average, sum,  minimum, maximum (AVERAGE, SUM, MIN, MAX)
  • conditional formatting

Day 2 -Application of functions

• Advanced functions and formulae:
• Financial calculations
  • The PMT financial function
• Using functions for further calculations
  • VLOOKUP
  • TRUE, FALSE
  • Goal Seek

Day 3 - Working with data

• Pivot-tables
• Creating charts from Pivot-tables
• Working with multiple sheets
• Working with multiple workbooks
• Recording macros
• Buttons with macros

Useful online resources (grouped by category)

Pivot table links:
http://lacher.com/toc/tutpiv.htm

Online Excel resources/tutorials:

https://www.excelcampus.com/
http://www.baycongroup.com/el0.htm
http://www.mrexcel.com/articles.shtml

Functions:
http://www.bettersolutions.com/excel.htm
http://www.meadinkent.co.uk/excel.htm

Youtube links:

https://youtu.be/lxq_46nY43g

https://youtu.be/9NUjHBNWe9M

 

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