Microsoft Excel Intermediate

The goal of this course is to provide you with the knowledge required to use more advanced formulas and work with various tools to analyse data in spreadsheets, such as advanced sorting and filtering, and conditional formatting. You will also organise table data and present data as charts.

The course emphasises hands-on experience, with a series of self-guided exercises integrated into the training.

• Use formula-related tools and techniques
• Work with popular Excel functions including IF, IFS, VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP*
• Utilise the features of new dynamic arrays and dynamic array formulas*
• Use advanced data list features and Excel Tables
• Create and visualise using charts and sparklines
• Use common features such as comments, notes, and templates
• Apply and use conditional formatting

This course is aimed at existing Excel users who need to further their knowledge. Delegates are assumed to have experience of entering data and writing basic formulas, including common functions such as SUM and AVERAGE.

Module 1: Formula tools and techniques

• Quick Analysis
• Absolute and mixed referencing
• Working with Range Names
• Linking to other worksheets
• Linking to external workbooks

Module 2: Popular Excel functions

• Understanding functions
• Criteria-based functions (inc. COUNTIFS, SUMIFS and AVERAGEIFS)
• Logical functions (inc. IF and IFS*)
• Lookup and reference functions (inc. VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP*)
• Dynamic array functions (inc. UNIQUE, SORT and FILTER*)

Module 3: Working with data lists

• Flash Fill
• Advanced sorting
• Summarising with subtotals
• Advanced filters

Module 4: Mastering Excel tables

• Introducing tables
• Creating and managing tables
• Calculations and totals in tables
• Formatting a table
• Further table tools

Module 5: Charts

• Understanding charts
• Creating and modifying charts
• Working with chart elements
• Formatting charts
• Chart templates
• Analyse data with sparklines

Module 6: Additional features

• Comments and notes
• Hyperlinks
• Templates
• Excel options

Module 7: Conditional formatting

• Applying and managing conditional formatting
• Creating custom conditional formatting
• Sorting and filtering by colour

*IFS, XLOOKUP, UNIQUE, SORT AND FILTER functions are only available if you are using Office 365 or Excel 2021