Microsoft Excel 2010 Module 2 – Expert Skills

1. Microsoft Excel 2010 Module 2 – Expert Skills

2. Course Outline This course consists of eight sessions:- • Tables, Ranges and Databases • Data Integrity, Subtotals and Validations • Advanced Functions • Using Names and the Formula Auditing Tools • Pivot Tables • What If Analysis and Security • Working with the Internet, Other Applications and Workgroups • Forms and Macros

3. Overview • Essential Skills course contains seven sessions designed to give you a solid grounding in Excel 2010 • Expert course adds another eight sessions to bring you to expert level Essential Skills Expert

4. Session One: Tables, Ranges and Databases • As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. • Benjamin Disraeli, British Politician (1804-1881)

5. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Check your program and operating system version • Apply a simple filter to a range • Apply a top 10 and custom filter to a range • Apply an advanced filter with multiple OR criteria • Apply an advanced filter with complex criteria • Apply an advanced filter with function-driven criteria • Extract unique records using an advanced filter • Convert a range into a table and add a total row • Format a table using table styles and convert a table into a range • Create a custom table style • Sort a range or table by rows • Sort a range by columns • Sort a range or table by custom list • Name a table and create an automatic structured table reference • Create a manual structured table reference • Use special items in structured table references • Understand unqualified structured table references

6. Session Two: Data Integrity, Subtotals and Validations • The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. • George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

7. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Split fixed width data using Text to Columns • Split delimited data using Text to Columns • Automatically subtotal a range • Create nested subtotals • Consolidate data from multiple data ranges • Use data consolidation to generate quick subtotals from tables • Validate numerical data • Create user-friendly messages for validation errors • Create data entry input messages • Add a formula-driven date validation and a text length validation • Add a table-based dynamic list validation • Use a function-driven custom validation to enforce complex business rules • Remove duplicate values from a range or table • Use a custom validation to add a unique constraint to a column

8. Session Three: Advanced Functions • All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. • George Orwell, "Animal Farm" • English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)

9. Objectives: Page 1 By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Understand precedence rules and use the Evaluate feature • Use common functions with Formula AutoComplete • Use the formula palette and the PMT function • Use the PV and FV functions to value investments • Use the IF logic function • Use the SUMIF and COUNTIF logic functions to create conditional totals • Understand date serial numbers • Understand common date functions • Use the DATEDIF function • Use date offsets to manage projects using the scheduling equation • Use the DATE function to offset days, months and years • Enter time values and perform basic time calculations • Perform time calculations that span midnight Pause the video to review Page 1objectives. The second page of the objectives will be shown in a moment.

10. Objectives: Page 2 By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Understand common time functions and convert date serial numbers to decimal values • Use the TIME function to offset hours, minutes and seconds • Use the AND and OR functions to construct complex Boolean criteria • Understand calculation options (manual and automatic) • Concatenate strings using the concatenation operator (&) • Use the TEXT function to format numerical values as strings • Extract text from fixed width strings using the LEFT, RIGHT and MID functions • Extract text from delimited strings using the FIND and LEN functions • Use a VLOOKUP function for an exact lookup • Use an IFERROR function to suppress error messages • Use a VLOOKUP function for an inexact lookup

11. Session Four: Using Names and the Formula Auditing Tools • To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes, the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. • Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)

12. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Automatically create single-cell range names • Manually create single cell range names and named constants • Use range names to make formulas more readable • Automatically create range names in two dimensions • Use intersection range names and the INDIRECT function • Create dynamic formula-based range names using the OFFSET function • Create table based dynamic range names • Create two linked drop-down lists using range names • Understand the #NUM!, #DIV/0! and #NAME? Error Values • Understand the #VALUE!, #REF! and #NULL! Error Values • Understand background error checking and error checking rules • Manually check a worksheet for errors • Audit a formula by tracing precedents • Audit a formula by tracing dependents • Use the watch window to monitor cell values • Use Speak Cells to eliminate data entry errors

13. Session Five: Pivot Tables • If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. • Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)

14. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Create a one dimensional pivot table report from a table • Create a grouped pivot table report • Understand pivot table rows and columns • Use an external data source • Apply a simple filter and sort to a pivot table • Use report filter fields • Filter a pivot table visually using slicers • Use slicers to create a data-driven interface • Use report filter fields to automatically create multiple pages • Format a pivot table using PivotTable styles • Create a custom PivotTable style • Understand pivot table report layouts • Add/remove subtotals and apply formatting to pivot table fields • Display multiple summations within a single pivot table • Add a calculated field to a pivot table • Add a calculated item to a pivot table • Group by Text • Group by Date • Group by numeric value ranges • Show row data by percentage of total rather than value • Create a pivot chart from a pivot table • Embed multiple pivot tables onto a worksheet • Use slicers to filter multiple pivot tables

15. Session Six: What If Analysis and Security • The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security, he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. • Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)

16. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Create a single-input data table • Create a two-input data table • Define Scenarios • Create a scenario summary report • Use Goal Seek • Use Solver • Hide and unhide worksheets, columns and rows • Create custom views • Prevent unauthorized users from opening or modifying workbooks • Control the changes users can make to workbooks • Restrict the cells users are allowed to change • Allow different levels of access to a worksheet with multiple passwords • Create a digital certificate • Add an invisible digital signature to a workbook • Add a visible digital signature to a workbook

17. Session Seven: Working with the Internet, Other Applications and Workgroups • Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. • Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) • Industrialist, businessman and entrepreneur.

18. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Publish a worksheet as a single web page • Publish multiple worksheets as a web site • Hyperlink to worksheets and ranges • Hyperlink to other workbooks and the Internet • Hyperlink to an e-mail address and enhance the browsing experience • Execute a web query • Embed an Excel worksheet object into a Word document • Embed an Excel chart object into a Word document • Link an Excel worksheet to a Word document • Understand the three different ways to share a document • Share a workbook using the lock method • Share a workbook using the merge method • Share a workbook on a network • Accept and reject changes to shared workbooks

19. Session Eight: Forms and Macros • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. • Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) • British science fiction author, inventor and futurist.

20. Objectives By the end of this session you will be able to:- • Add group box and option button controls to a worksheet form • Add a combo box control to a worksheet form • Set form control cell links • Connect result cells to a form • Add a check box control to a worksheet form • Use check box data in result cells • Add a temperature gauge chart to a form • Add a single input data table to a form • Improve form appearance and usability • Understand macros and VBA • Record a macro with absolute references • Understand macro security • Implement macro security • Understand Trusted Documents • Record a macro with relative references • Use shapes to run macros • Run a macro from a button control • Show and hide Ribbon tabs • Add custom groups to standard Ribbon tabs • Create a custom Ribbon tab