Overview
Covering a wide range of advanced skills for Microsoft Excel 2010, such as customising visual elements, workbook setting, conditional formatting and number formats, organising data and objects, automating tasks using macros and more, this selection of courses for financial management you will take your analsis, reporting and presentations to a higher level. This comprehensive 10 pack is designed to deliver advanced skills using Microsoft Excel 2010.
Pack inclusions:
- Customising visual elements in Excel 2010
- Workbook settings, conditional formatting and number formats in Excel 2010
- Organising data and objects in Excel 2010
- Verifying Excel 2010 data and formulas
- Automating Excel 2010 tasks using macros
- Analysing data with What-If Analysis in Excel 2010
- Adding visuals, themes, and styles to Excel workbooks
- PivotTable filters, calculations, and PowerPivot
- PivotTables and PivotCharts in Excel 2010
- Using Lookup, Reference, Math and Text Functions in Excel 2010
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Audience
Anyone looking to expand their financial management skills using Microsoft Excel 2010.
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Adding Visuals, Themes, and Styles to Excel 2010 Workbooks
Overview
Excel has more than just charts to offer in the way of visual presentation. Nonchart-related graphic tools such as Shapes, SmartArt, WordArt, ClipArt, and Screenshots are all ways to enhance the visual impact of documents that tend to be dominated by dry numbers and text. This course focuses on these and other graphic elements that can be added to Excel 2010 spreadsheets. This course also introduces ways to change the themes and styles offered by Excel 2010.Objectives
This course focuses on these and other graphic elements that can be added to Excel 2010 spreadsheets. This course also introduces ways to change the themes and styles offered by Excel 2010.
Audience
Individuals and business users with basic computer literacy
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Analysing data with What-if Analysis in Excel 2010
Overview
Excel 2010 provides powerful data-analysis tools that enable you to explore large amounts of data and to make educated business decisions based on that data. Using Goal Seek and Solver enables you to retrieve required results from formulas by determining the data the formula requires. And you can use additional what-if analysis components, data tables and scenarios, to forecast worksheet outcome models and to see how changing values in formulas affect the formula results.Objectives
- Use Goal Seek for data analysis
- Use Solver to perform data analysis
- Create scenarios using the Scenario Manager
- Manage Excel 2010 what-if scenarios
- Create a data table for what-if analysis
- Recognise how to project values in a series
- Use what-if analysis to find out how to achieve a desired result
- Use what-if analysis to determine the maximum or minimum value of one cell by changing other cells
- Use what-if analysis to forecast best-case and worst-case results
- Use what-if analysis to explore a possible set of outcomes at a glance
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Customizing Visual Elements in Excel 2010
Overview
Adding visual elements to Excel worksheets can help to enhance what can sometimes be dry facts and figures, making it easier to hold the attention of the intended audience. A balance needs to be struck, however, between enhancing and overwhelming when it comes to adding graphics and colors to your Excel workbooks. Excel 2010 provides you with a number of basic and advanced techniques for customizing common elements such as charts, themes, cell styles, and graphics. This course describes many of these techniques and shows you how to implement them to their best effect.Objectives
- Manually adjust a chart's layout and formatting
- Save and apply a chart template
- Manually format illustrations using the Format object dialog box
- Customise and save Excel themes and styles
- Save an Excel template and apply to a new workbook
- Adjust individual chart elements
- Format Excel illustrations
- Create a new cell style
- Create an Excel theme
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
PivotTable Filters, Calculations, and PowerPivot
Overview
PivotTables are a handy tool for summarizing large amounts of data efficiently and making it more manageable. Sometimes, though, it's useful to be able to filter the data in a PivotTable, and Excel 2010 provides filtering functionality for this specific purpose. For those people who require a more visual representation of data, Excel 2010 provides a new feature called a Slicer, which is basically a graphical representation of a PivotTable filter. Excel also provides a number of ways in which you can apply calculations to the data in PivotTables in the form of summary functions and custom calculations. All of these useful features of Excel 2010 are introduced and described in this course.Objectives
- Use calculations in PivotTable reports
- Filter data in PivotTable reports
- Create and use slicers
- Identify the functions of elements of the PowerPivot interface
- Identify the features of PowerPivot for Excel add-in
- Change functions in PivotTable reports
- Create your own formula in a PivotTable report
- Enable multiple filters and apply a Report filter
- Use slicers to filter data in a PivotTable report
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
PivotTables and PivotCharts in Excel 2010
Overview
One of the most powerful tools that Excel 2010 provides is a PivotTable that allows you to dynamically reorganize and display your data. PivotTables can summarize huge amounts of data by category without the need to input complex formulas or spend long hours manually reorganizing your spreadsheet. PivotTables also allow you to choose and change what you want to summarize, quickly and easily. This course will introduce you to PivotTables and show you the many benefits they provide.Objectives
- Create a PivotTable report
- Rearranging data in PivotTable reports
- Customise PivotTable reports
- Modify a PivotTable report's design
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Using Lookup, Reference, Math, and Text Functions in Excel 2010
Overview
The Excel 2010 function library includes a number of functions in Lookup & Reference, Math & Trig, and Text categories that enable you to quickly complete tasks and analyze data. Lookup and reference functions allow you to perform table lookups to return required information about specific worksheet cells. This course covers lookup and reference functions such as LOOKUP, VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, INDEX, ROW, and COLUMNS. Math & Trig functions provide multiple methods of working with numbers and triangles. This course explores rounding functions, INT, TRUNC, AGGREGATE, COS, SIN, and TAN. Excel 2010 also provides a number of functions to make working with text easier. Text functions, such as TRIM, CLEAN, PROPER, SEARCH, and MID, as well as string concatenation, are covered.Objectives
- Use lookup functions in Excel 2010
- Recognise when to use the lookup functions in Excel 2010
- Use reference functions in Excel 2010
- Use math functions in Excel 2010
- Recognise when to use the rounding functions in Excel 2010
- Use trig functions in Excel 2010
- Use text functions in Excel 2010
- Use advanced functions in Excel 2010
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at a power user level, who are familiar with spreadsheets, Microsoft Office, and online work environments
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Workbook Settings, Conditional Formatting, and Number Formats in Excel 2010
Overview
You can customize the look and feel of workbooks and the program's functionality and efficiency using Excel 2010's numerous features and tools. You can modify existing themes and styles to meet business needs, or you can create custom themes and styles to further enhance data presentation. Custom number formats allow you even more control over the presentation and usefulness of your workbooks and conditional formatting gives you the power to apply individual formatting based on custom rules that meet your specific needs. This course explores some of the more advanced ways that you can enhance your workbooks and data using Excel 2010's powerful customization features.Objectives
- Customise workbook settings using Excel Options
- Recognise how to alter code strings to create custom number formats
- Create a conditional format based on a new formatting rule
- Manage conditional formatting rules
- Customise workbook settings and the Quick Access Toolbar
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Organizing Data and Objects in Excel 2010
Overview
Excel 2010 provides multiple features for organizing and managing data, including sorting and filtering tools that are integral to data analysis. Using data organization features, you can sort, filter, and group and outline data so that you can focus on its key parts. Properly arranged data using the commands in the Arrange group allows you to present your data in a logical and easy to understand manner. This course explores organizing data in Excel 2010 using the built-in features. It also covers arranging objects for better viewing as well as the use of hyperlinks to organize data.Objectives
- Sort data in more than one column or row
- Create a custom filter
- Outline data using the Subtotal, Auto Outline, or Group commands
- Arrange objects on a worksheet page
- Recognise how you can arrange data to fit a specified page layout for printing
- Create a hyperlink
- Modify hyperlinks
- Sort and filter data
- Create an outline so you can group and summarise data
- Arrange objects on a page
- Create a hyperlink from a worksheet to a web page
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Verifying Excel 2010 Data and Formulas
Overview
Formulas are an integral and important feature of Excel 2010. So ensuring they are correct can save you time and a lot of headaches. Excel 2010 provides you with the tools you need to audit formulas and correct errors that may be found. In addition, using Excel's data validation tools you can restrict the types of data that can be input to your workbooks – preventing data entry errors that could otherwise occur. This course describes Excel 2010's auditing and formula correction features and shows you how to use data validation to avoid worksheet errors.Objectives
- Use Excel's formula auditing tools to evaluate and correct formulas
- Use the Watch Window to inspect, audit, or confirm formula calculations and results
- Use data tools to convert text to columns and remove duplicates
- Add data validation to worksheet cells
- List the different things you can use data validation for
- Use error checking to identify a formula error
- Separate text in one column into two columns
- Restrict data entry in specific cells
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
Automating Excel 2010 Tasks Using Macros
Overview
To automate repetitive tasks, Excel 2010 provides a time saving feature known as a macro. These small programs, created using either a simple macro recorder or by using the more complex VBA language, allow you to record the numerous steps involved in accomplishing a task so that they can be played back automatically when the macro is run. This results in time savings and increased efficiency in day-to-day tasks. This course will introduce you to macros in Excel and show you how to leverage their power to make you work with Excel easier.Objectives
- Identify the features of Excel 2010 macros
- Use the Macro Recorder to record and run a macro
- Identify the steps in recording a macro using the macro recorder
- Edit and delete macros
- Run a macro in different ways
- Prepare for recording a macro
- Record and run a macro
- Assign a macro to the developer tab on the Ribbon
- Add a macro the Quick Access Toolbar
Audience
End users seeking proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel 2010 at an advanced level
Offerings
There are no Offerings available for this course.
