Course

Advanced Techniques in Microsoft Excel («ME2»)

This Excel course will help you to develop your calculation and visualisation skills. You will learn to use complex functions such as IF, VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP, as well as how to visualise data, work with conditional formatting and create charts.
Duration 2 days
Price 1'140.–
Course documents Digital Digicomp courseware

Course facts

Key Learnings
  • Creating your own tables with different calculations in an efficient way
  • Understanding percentage, date and look-up functions in Excel
  • Visualising data using charts, sparklines and conditional formatting
  • Consolidating multiple worksheets or workbooks
Content

1 Introduction and repetition

2 Cell references

  • Relative, absolute, and mixed references

3 Using functions

  • Structure of functions

4 Auto-completion of functions

5 Rounding results (incl. rounding by five)

  • Structure of the function
  • Nested IF functions

6 Logical functions

  • «IF» family of functions
    • Structure of the function
    • Nested IF functions
    • IFs
    • IF errors
  • AND and OR functions

7 Using names

  • Definition, customise, delete and use
  • Table names

8 Date functions and time calculations

9 Lookup functions

  • VLOOKUP function (optional: HLOOKUP)
  • XLOOKUP

10 Charts

  • Chart types columns, lines, bar, pie, and radar
  • Customise charts
  • Print charts

11 Conditional formatting

  • Predefined rules
  • Rules with functions

Component of the following courses

Target audience

This course is aimed at users who already have experience with Excel and want to expand their knowledge in a practical way.

Requirements

Attention: This course is not suitable for beginners. Basic knowledge of Excel similar to the following course is required:

    Microsoft Excel Refresher («MEREFR»)

    1 day
    • Basel, Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Virtual Training, Zürich
    CHF
    650.–

    Microsoft Excel Foundation («ME1»)

    2 days
    • Basel, Berne, Geneva, Lausanne, Zürich
    CHF
    1'140.–

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