Microsoft Excel 2016

(Basic)

(ELK91-055)

Duration: 1 day @ 7 hours
or
2 days @ 3.5 hours per day
(Morning or Afternoon Sessions Available)

Organizations the world over rely on information to make sound decisions regarding all manner of affairs. But with the amount of available data growing on a daily basis, the ability to make sense of all of that data is becoming more and more challenging.

Fortunately, this is where the power of Microsoft® Office Excel® 2016 can help.

Excel can help you organize, calculate, analyze, revise, update, and present your data in ways that will help the decision makers in your organization steer you in the right direction.

It will also make these tasks much easier for you to accomplish, and in much less time, than if you used traditional pen-and-paper methods or non-specialized software. 

This course aims to provide you with a foundation for Excel knowledge and skills, which you can build upon to eventually become an expert in data manipulation.

Course Objective: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to create and develop Excel worksheets and workbooks in order to work with and analyse the data that is critical to the success of your organization. 

This Microsoft Excel Beginners course covers the following 6 modules:

1.  Getting Started with Microsoft Office Excel

2. Performing Calculations

3. Modifying a Worksheet

4. Formatting a Worksheet

5. Printing Workbooks

6. Managing Workbooks

(Intermediate)

(ELK91-056)

Duration: 1 day @ 7 hours
or
2 days @ 3.5 hours per day
(Morning or Afternoon Sessions Available)

Whether you need to crunch numbers for sales, inventory, information technology, human resources, or other organizational purposes and departments, the ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time can create a powerful competitive advantage.

After all, the world runs on data more than ever before and that's a trend not likely to change, or even slow down, any time soon.

But with so much data available and being created on a nearly constant basis, the ability to make sense of that data becomes more critical and challenging with every passing day.

You already know how to get Excel to perform simple calculations and how to modify your workbooks and worksheets to make them easier to read, interpret, and present to others.

But, Excel is capable of doing so much more. To gain a truly competitive edge, you need to be able to extract actionable organizational intelligence from your raw data. In other words, when you have questions about your data, you need to know how to get Excel to provide the answers for you.

And that's exactly what this course aims to help you do.

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2016: Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence.

The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.

Course Objective: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to leverage the power of data analysis and presentation in order to make informed, intelligent organizational decisions.

This Microsoft Excel Intermediate course covers the following 5 modules: 

1. Working with Functions

2. Working with Lists

3. Analysing Data

4. Visualising Data with Charts

5. Using PivotTables & PivotCharts

(Advanced)

(ELK91-057)

Duration: 1 day @ 7 hours
or
2 days @ 3.5 hours per day
(Morning or Afternoon Sessions Available)

Clearly, you use Excel a lot in your role. Otherwise, you wouldn't be taking this course.

By now, you're already familiar with Excel 2016, its functions and formulas, a lot of its features and functionality, and its powerful data analysis tools.

You are likely called upon to analyze and report on data frequently, work in collaboration with others to deliver actionable organizational intelligence, and keep and maintain workbooks for all manner of purposes.

At this level of use and collaboration, you have also likely encountered your fair share of issues and challenges.

You're too busy, though, to waste time scouring over workbooks to resolve issues or to perform repetitive, monotonous tasks.

You need to know how to get Excel to do more for you so you can focus on what's really important: staying ahead of the competition.

That's exactly what this course aims to help you do.

 This course builds off of the foundational and intermediate knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2016: Part 1 and Part 2 courses to help you get the most of your Excel experience.

The ability to collaborate with colleagues, automate complex or repetitive tasks, and use conditional logic to construct and apply elaborate formulas and functions will put the full power of Excel right at your fingertips.

The more you learn about how to get Excel to do the hard work for you, the more you'll be able to focus on getting the answers you need from the vast amounts of data your organization generates.

Course Objective: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to perform advanced data analysis, collaborate on workbooks with other users, and automate workbook functionality.

This Microsoft Excel Advanced course covers the following 6 modules:

1.  Working with Multiple Worksheets & Workbooks 

2. Using Lookup Functions and Formula Auditing

3. Sharing and Protecting Workbooks

4. Automating Workbook Functionality

5. Creating Sparklines & Mapping Data

6.  Forecasting Data

(Data Analysis with PivotTables)

(ELK91–066)

Duration: 0.5 day @ 3.5 hours
(Morning or Afternoon Sessions Available)

Advances in technology have made it possible to store ever-increasing amounts of data. Along with this, the need to analyze that data and gain actionable insight is greater than ever.

You already have experience working with Excel and creating basic PivotTables to summarize data.

But Excel is capable of doing much more.

Being able to harness the power of advanced PivotTable features and create PivotCharts will help you to gain a competitive edge.

You will not only be able to summarize data for you to analyze, but also organize the data in a way that can be meaningfully presented to others.

This leads to data-driven business decisions that have a better chance for success for everyone involved.

Course Objective: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to use Excel 2016 advanced PivotTable functionality to analyze your raw data.

This Microsoft Excel Data Analysis with PivotTables course covers the following 3 modules:

1.  Preparing Data and Creating PivotTables

2. Analyzing Data Using PivotTables

3. Working with PivotCharts

(Data Analysis with PowerPivot)

(ELK91–067)

Duration: 0.5 day @ 3.5 hours
(Morning or Afternoon Sessions Available)

We are now living in the age of big data. Data is being collected all the time and for increasingly detailed transactions.

This can lead to an overwhelming amount of data, which brings about a need for people who can analyze large amounts of data quickly.

Fortunately, Excel provides Power Pivot to help you organize, manipulate, and report on your data in the best way possible.

Since a tool is only as good as the person using it, it is important to gain a solid understanding of Power Pivot to maximize your effectiveness when analyzing data.

Course Objective: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to use Power Pivot along with Excel 2016 to analyze data from a variety of sources.

This Microsoft Excel Data Analysis with PowerPivot course covers the following 3 modules:

1.  Getting Started with Power Pivot

2. Visualizing Power Pivot Data

3. Working with Advanced Functionality in Power Pivot

(Dashboards)

(ELK91–076)

Duration: 1 day @ 7 hours
or
2 days @ 3.5 hours per day
(Morning or Afternoon Sessions Available)

Whether you need to crunch numbers for sales, inventory, information technology, human resources, or other organizational purposes and departments, the ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time can create a powerful competitive advantage.

After all, the world runs on data more than ever before and that's a trend not likely to change, or even slow down, any time soon.

But with so much data available and being created on a nearly constant basis, the ability to make sense of that data becomes more critical and challenging with every passing day.

You already know how to get Microsoft® Office Excel® to perform simple calculations and how to modify your workbooks and worksheets to make them easier to read, interpret, and present to others.

But Excel is capable of doing so much more.

To gain a truly competitive edge, you need to be able to extract actionable organizational intelligence from your raw data, and present it in a visual format that enables decision makers to view key trends and conclusions at a glance.

And that's exactly what this course aims to help you do.

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft Excel® 2016: Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that you can use to create dashboards. 

The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable intelligence from it, and present that information to decision makers is the cornerstone of driving a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.

Course Objective: Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to create dashboards in Excel.

This Microsoft Excel Dashboards course covers the following 6 modules:

1.  Using Names in Formulas and Functions

2. Automating Workbook Functionality

3. Applying Conditional Logic

4. Visualising Data with Basic Charts

5. Using Advanced Charting Techniques

6. Analysing Data with PivotTables, PivotCharts, and Slicers