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This half day session pulls topics from the Beginner and Intermediate courses but with a focus on using Excel for administrative tasks. This course will be held at Perth Airport, Scone, PH2 6PL
Enquire via the Build Your Skill website.
This course can be delivered face-to-face or online (although not at the same time 🙂). There are Public (open to all) or closed courses (just for your organisation). Please get in touch to find out more. TOPICS COVERED: Exploring Excel • Customising the ribbon • Using templates Managing Workbooks • Formatting & worksheet techniques • Page set-up and print options Working with Data • Sorting (2 or more fields) / custom sorts • Auto & Advanced filtering • Filling data quickly Basic Formulas • Adding, subtracting, multiplying & dividing Basic Functions • Autosum, average, count, max & min Summarising Data • Using subtotal (to quickly find sum, average, count etc on sorted data) • Using 3D formulas (totaling data from identical sheets into a master sheet) • Using the consolidate function (totaling data from non-identical sheets into a master sheet) • Linking data from different workbooks Tables • Creating and editing tables (adding rows, columns & formulas and using slicers to find information quickly) Data Validation • Drop down menus (creating lists to help with accurate data input) • Basic data validation & error messages (to help with accurate data input) Absolute cell referencing & named cells • Absolute (using $ to fix reference cell into position) • Named cells (naming individual cells and ranges) Conditional Formatting • Basic conditional formatting (colour-based formatting to highlight, emphasise & differentiate data) Basic Pivot Tables • Introduction to PT’s (quickly summarise large amounts of data without changing the layout of the original data) Introduction to the IF Function • IF Statements (to evaluate certain conditions) • Introduction to the IFERROR function (to stop error messages such as #Null! #N/A! etc)
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