Microsoft Excel Essentials: Level 2 - For Intermediate/Advanced Students - From User To Superuser

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German
Duration & workload

9 hours
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Finished
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Intermediate

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Overview

THIS course will take your Excel skills to the next level!

So, you have an understanding of the basics, but would you like to use Excel like the professionals? If so, read on…

For students who have already completed Level 1 in this series, or already have a good basic understanding of Excel, what you will learn in this course will supercharge your skills... and your career.

So, What’s inside?

Over 70 bite-sized lectures
6 hours of quality content
All the source files for each project
Access to me (in case you have any questions)!

You will learn powerful and little known techniques to enable you to build your own powerful spreadsheet solutions. We will do this by creating multiple projects together, step-by-step, and in depth to guarantee your understanding. Each projects builds on the last, so your skills develop cumulatively.

You will learn how to combine multiple functions in a simple way to create powerful solutions that most users believe can't be done in Excel!

Each project in the course is designed to introduce a range of concepts that showcase the true power of Excel, and show you what is really possible.

In project one:

The fastest way to create powerful dynamic templates (by cheating!)
Custom formatting
Manipulating calculations with time and dates
Conditional formatting
Simple and nested logical testing
Building complex and dynamic text strings
ActiveX controls (and how to customize them)

In project two:

Building a fully functional complex relational database
A Masterclass in Vlookups (WAY beyond the basics here!)
Importing data from multiple sources
Controlling user entry

In project three:

Creating named ranges (and why you would want to)
Building dynamic named ranges
Getting Excel to create them for you!
A powerful trick very few users know about!

In project four:

Hyperlinking (so it ALWAYS works!)
Creating Macros, and using them to automate your work!
Executing Macros from buttons
Dropdown lists
Building dynamic formulas using Excel’s Indirect function

Projects 5 and 6 coming soon!

This isn't just a course with a bunch of formulas, it's hands on guide through real life projects. You will learn how to build complex solutions using the very same methods I use.

Become the Excel guru I know you can be, with the help of this course!

Enrol now, and I’ll see you in the course!

Alan

Syllabus

0 - Introduction, And Welcome To The Course
1 - Proof Of Concept
1 - Planning Ahead
1 - Creating Our Data Entry Screen
1 - (Custom) Formatting Dates & Time
1 - Simple Calculations With Time
1 - More (Useful) Calculations With Time
1 - It's About Time (And Dates)
1 - Adding Time
1 - Creating A Template From An Image
1 - Importing A Template From An Existing Excel File
1 - Converting Time To A Decimal
1 - A Little Bit Of Simple Data Entry
1 - Simple Conditional Formatting For A Cleaner View
1 - Calculating Time Out Of House Using Travel Time
1 - Simple Logical Testing And Nested Logical Testing
1 - Building Text Strings With A Formula
1 - Before We Move On
1 - A Tick Box Exercise (Of Sorts)
1 - Auto-populating Check Boxes
1 - Radio Buttons as an Alternative to Check Boxes
1 - PRACTICE EXERCISE 1 - Time To Add A New Entry
1 - Defining A Working Area And Protecting Your Work
1 - PRACTICE EXERCISE 2 - Set Up A Working Area And Limit User Entry
2 - Simple VLOOKUPs
2 - Step1: Get Some Data In And Split It!
2 - Using Data Validation To Get The Right Input
2 - Let's Build Our Database!
2 - Importing Data From A Text File
2 - Importing Data From A Word File
2 - Pulling Data From Multiple Sources
2 - Using OTHER Look-Ups To Look Up!
2 - LOOKUP From A LOOKUP With No Intermediary Step
2 - Data Arrays Don't Have To Start At A1!
2 - Some Common Reasons VLOOKUPs Fail
2 - One Inherent Flaw In VLOOKUP
2 - POWER USER - A Breakdown Of Looking Up Backwards
2 - POWER USER - The Other Way Of Looking Up Backwards
2 - Backwards Look-Ups In Action
2 - POWER USER - Dealing With Inconsistencies In User Entry
2 - POWER USER - Fuzzy VLOOKUPs
2 - POWER USER - VLOOKUPs With Multiple Inputs
2 - POWER USER - Looking Up From Multiple Inputs Using An Array Formula
2 - VLOOKUPs Brother...HLOOKUP
2 - POWER USER - The Holy Grail - How To Return Multiple Values From A Single LookUp
2 - What To Look For When THAT Formula Didn't Work
2 - The Fastest Way To Modify Your Column Numbers
2 - POWER USER - VLOOKUPS With Moving Columns
2 - Putting It All Together
2 - The Finishing Touch: How Many Records Did I Find?
3 - A Simple Static Named Range Using A Single Cell
3 - Creating A Named Range Using A Range Of Cells
3 - Using Row Labels To Name Multiple Ranges
3 - POWER USER - A Magic Trick Using Row And Column Labels
3 - POWER USER - Dynamic Named Ranges
3 - POWER USER - What To Do With Dynamic Names Ranges With Titles
3 - Horizontal Dynamic Named Ranges
4 - Welcome to "What Can I Have For Dinner?" or...What Would I Use THAT for?
4 - Hyperlinking To A Different Sheet In The Same Workbook
4 - Creating Our First Macro
4 - Assigning A Macro To A Button
4 - Creating A List For Our Dropdown Using A Dynamic Named Range
4 - Using A Conditional Format To Know When A Value Is Missing
4 - Copying Conditional Formats And Creating Our Drop Downs
4 - Building Our Formula...INDIRECT Function
4 - Building Strings For Indirect Sheet And Cell References
4 - It's A One Or A Zero
4 - Working The Percentages And Adding Traffic Lights
4 - POWER USER - The HYPERLINK Function (And Problem)
4 - Exercise 1 - Fill In The Blanks
4 - Exercise 2 - Pretty It Up With A Macro
4 - Exercise 3 - Create A VLOOKUP Using A Built String With INDIRECT
5 - Creating A Gantt Chart Using A Worksheet
5 - Building The First Part Of Our Logical Test
5 - Multiple Logical Tests At Once Using AND
5 - Conditional Formatting
5 - Gantt Charts Using The Built In Charting Tools
5 - Gantt Charts With Different Colors For Different Criteria
Bonus - How I Created Randomly Generated License Plate Numbers!
Level 2 SQA 01 Calls Text Data Or How To Return a Column Title If Value is 1
Level 2 SQA 02 Calls Text Data 2 This Time Using Text!
Level 2 SQA 03 Extracting Phone Numbers From A Cell
Level 2 SQA 04 What Is The CHOOSE Function Really Used For
Level 2 SQA 05 Casing And Text Functions
Level 2 SQA 06 Dynamic Charting From A Drop Down
Level 2 SQA 07 Extracting a Unique List, And Summing The Money!
Level 2 SQA 08 SUMIF With Dynamic Sum Range
Level 2 SQA 09 VLOOKUPs With Pictures!
Level 2 SQA 10 Data Validation With Dependent Dropdowns
Level 2 SQA 11 Data Validation With Dependent Dropdowns (Dynamic Named Range Workaround)
Level 2 SQA 12 Kinda A Vlookup From 2 Drop down Lists
Level 2 SQA 13 Tiered Pricing
Level 2 SQA 14 Worksheet Protection
Level 2 SQA 15 The Middle Name Problem
Level 2 SQA 16 Findng Matches, And Counting Entries
Level 2 SQA 17 Fee Calculator, or LOOKUPs That Are True, Not False
Level 2 SQA 18 The IF(s) Functions
Level 2 SQA 19 Drop Down List, Shifting Ranges
Level 2 SQA20 Dynamic Calculations From Another Sheet (1080)