EXCEL: Microsoft Excel Basic to Advanced Excel
Course Description
Chapter 1: Introduction to Excel
- Excel interface & navigation
- Creating, saving, and formatting workbooks
- Basic data entry & editing
Chapter 2: Formatting & Data Management
- Cell formatting, number formats, conditional formatting
- Sorting, filtering, and data validation
Chapter 3: Formulas & Functions
- Basic formulas, operators, and cell references
- Essential functions: SUM, AVERAGE, IF, COUNTIF, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP
Chapter 4: Advanced Functions & Data Analysis
- Logical, text, date, and lookup functions
- Advanced formulas: INDEX-MATCH, OFFSET, INDIRECT
- Data analysis with PivotTables & PivotCharts
Chapter 5: Charts & Visualization
- Creating and formatting charts
- Advanced chart techniques & dashboards
Chapter 6: Data Tools & Automation
- Goal Seek, Data Tables, Solver
- Macros & VBA basics for automation
Chapter 7: Advanced Excel Features
- Power Query, Power Pivot, What-If Analysis
- Protecting & securing workbooks
Chapter 8: Collaboration & Integration
- Sharing, commenting, and co-authoring
- Importing/exporting data with other applications
Course Curriculum
- Overview of Microsoft Excel & its applications
- Understanding the Excel interface (Ribbon, Tabs, Quick Access Toolbar)
- Creating, opening, saving, and closing workbooks
- Working with spreadsheets (rows, columns, and cells)
- Data entry and basic editing (copy, paste, undo, redo)
- Customizing the Excel environment
- Cell formatting (font, alignment, borders, colors)
- Number formatting (currency, percentage, date, custom formats)
- Conditional formatting (rules, color scales, data bars, icon sets)
- Data validation (drop-down lists, input messages, error alerts)
- Sorting and filtering data
- Freeze panes, split windows, and hiding/unhiding rows/columns
- Introduction to formulas and functions
- Cell referencing (relative, absolute, and mixed references)
- Arithmetic operations and logical operators
- Basic functions: SUM, AVERAGE, MIN, MAX, COUNT, COUNTA
- Conditional functions: IF, IFERROR, COUNTIF, SUMIF, AVERAGEIF
- Lookup functions: VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH
- Text functions: LEFT, RIGHT, MID, CONCATENATE, TEXT, TRIM, LEN, FIND, SEARCH
- Date & time functions: TODAY, NOW, DAY, MONTH, YEAR, DATEDIF, NETWORKDAYS
- Nested IF and advanced logical functions (IFS, SWITCH)
- Advanced lookup: INDEX-MATCH vs. VLOOKUP
- Array formulas and dynamic arrays
- Working with named ranges
- Error handling functions (IFERROR, ISERROR, ISBLANK)
- Advanced data analysis using PivotTables & PivotCharts
- Slicers & Timelines in PivotTables
- Data summarization & grouping
- Advanced filtering techniques

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