Course Description
Your training in and use of Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 has provided you with a solid foundation in the basic and intermediate skills for working in Excel. You have used Excel to perform tasks such as running calculations on data and sorting and filtering numeric data. In this course, you will extend your knowledge into some of the more specialized and advanced capabilities of Excel by automating some common tasks, applying advanced analysis techniques to more complex data sets, collaborating on worksheets with others, and sharing Excel data with other applications.
Duration: 6 Hours
Training times can be arranged according to your date and times requirements, delivered on-site at your premises. Training times can be arranged in more manageable sessions of 3 hours over 2 days.
Target Student: This course was designed for students desiring to gain the skills necessary to create macros, collaborate with others, audit and analyze worksheet data, incorporate multiple data sources, and import and export data. In addition, the course is also for students desiring to prepare for the Microsoft Certified Application Specialist exam in Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007, and who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print worksheets that include charts and sorted and filtered data.
Prerequisites: To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following On-Site Training courses or have equivalent knowledge: Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Beginners, Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007 Intermediate.
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
• increase productivity and improve efficiency by streamlining your workflow.
• collaborate with others using workbooks.
• audit worksheets.
• analyze data.
• work with multiple workbooks.
• import and export data.
• use Excel with the web.
• structure workbooks with XML.
Course Content
Lesson 1: Formatting a Worksheet - Part 1
Topic 1: Apply Cell Styles
Topic 2: Apply Themes
Lesson 2: Formatting a Worksheet - Part 2
Topic 1: Enhance Worksheets Using Themes
Lesson 3: Creating Workbooks Using Templates
Topic 1: Create a Workbook from a Template
Topic 2: Create a Custom Template
Lesson 4: Streamlining Workflow - Part 1
Topic 1: Create a Macro
Topic 2: Edit a Macro
Topic 3: Apply Conditional Formatting
Topic 4: Add Data Validation Criteria
Topic 5: Update a Workbook's Properties
Topic 6: Modify Excel's Default Settings
Lesson 5: Streamlining Workflow - Part 2
Topic 1: Calculate Data Across Worksheets
Topic 2: Perform Date and Time Calculations
Lesson 6: Auditing Worksheets
Topic 1: Trace Cells
Topic 2: Troubleshoot Errors in Formulas
Topic 3: Troubleshoot Invalid Data and Formulas
Topic 4: Watch and Evaluate Formulas
Topic 5: Create a Data List Outline
Lesson 7: Analyzing Data Using PivotTables and PivotCharts
Topic 1: Create a PivotTable
Topic 2: Perform Calculations Using PivotTables
Topic 3: Analyze Data Using PivotCharts
Lesson 8: Working with Multiple Workbooks
Topic 1: Create a Workspace
Topic 2: Consolidate Data
Topic 3: Link Cells in Different Workbooks
Topic 4: Edit Links
Lesson 9: Collaborating with Others
Topic 1: Protect Files
Topic 2: Share a Workbook
Topic 3: Set Revision Tracking
Topic 4: Review Tracked Revisions
Topic 5: Merge Workbooks
Topic 6: Administer Digital Signatures
Topic 7: Restrict Document Access
Lesson 10: Analyzing Data
Topic 2: Create Scenarios
Topic 3: Perform What-If Analysis
Topic 4: Perform Statistical Analysis with the Analysis ToolPak
Lesson 11: Structuring Workbooks with XML
Topic 1: Develop XML Maps
Topic 2: Import and Export XML Data
Other Microsoft Excel 2007 Courses:
Office 2007 - New Features
Excel 2007 - Beginners
Excel 2007 - Intermediate
Data Analysis and Business Modelling
