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Microsoft Excel 365 - Basic & Advanced: Getting To Know Excel

This document provides a summary of a 61-lesson online course for Microsoft Excel 365 taught by Ken Puls. The course covers both basic and advanced Excel skills, including formulas, functions, charts, pivot tables, macros, and dynamic arrays. It is designed for beginner and intermediate users and takes an estimated 26 hours to complete. Topics are organized into modules like essential formula knowledge, optimizing data, data analysis, and preparing to deploy.

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Microsoft Excel 365 - Basic & Advanced: Getting To Know Excel

This document provides a summary of a 61-lesson online course for Microsoft Excel 365 taught by Ken Puls. The course covers both basic and advanced Excel skills, including formulas, functions, charts, pivot tables, macros, and dynamic arrays. It is designed for beginner and intermediate users and takes an estimated 26 hours to complete. Topics are organized into modules like essential formula knowledge, optimizing data, data analysis, and preparing to deploy.

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Microsoft Excel 365 - Basic & Advanced

GoSkills online course syllabus


Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Skill level Lessons Accredited by


Beginner & Intermediate 61 CPD

Pre-requisites Versions supported Video duration


None 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, 365 5h 46m

Estimated study time Instructor


26h for all materials Ken Puls

Getting to Know Excel

1 The Ribbon
Identify the terminology and elements of the Ribbon.

2 The Work Surface


Recognize the main terms used to describe Excel’s work canvas.

3 Navigation
Utilize the keyboard or mouse to select cells and ranges in a spreadsheet.

4 Controlling Your Start Experience


Decide what happens when you start the Excel application.

5 Creating Your First File


Create your first Excel file, enter data, and create a table.

6 Formatting
Format cells by selecting fonts and color fills to make information more attractive.

7 Basic Math
Utilize basic mathematics including multiplication and division in Excel.

Essential Formula Knowledge


Formula Anatomy
8 Understanding Excel Formula Anatomy

9 Cell Referencing - Theory


Learn about working with absolute and relative cell referencing.

10 Cell Referencing - Example


See absolute and relative cell referencing in practice, and learn about ways to copy and paste formulas.

11 Function Anatomy
Use to understand the anatomy of Excel functions and what their components mean.

12 Math Functions
Learn basic math functions including SUM, ROUND, and SUBTOTAL.

13 Basic Statistics
Learn basic statistical functions including COUNT, COUNTA, AVERAGE, MAX, MIN, MEDIAN, and MODE.

14 Logic Functions
Learn to build standalone logical IF functions and make them more complex by nesting AND and OR
within them.

15 Text Functions
Learn to break apart text with the LEFT, RIGHT, MID, FIND and SEARCH functions, and to combine text
with the & character.

16 Understanding Dates
Understand how dates work in Excel using the TODAY, YEAR, MONTH, DAY, and DATE functions.

17 Understanding Time
Understand how time works in Excel and how to change from whole numbers into time increments and
back again.

Intermediate Formula Knowledge

18 Formula Auditing
Learn to work with formula auditing tools including tracing precedent and dependent cells and formula
evaluation.

19 Conditional Math
Learn to use SUMIF, COUNTIF, and SUMIFS to add cells only when certain conditions are met.
The LET Function
20 Learn to use LET to simplify complex formulas and make them easy to debug.

21 External Links
Learn about creating and updating external links, and about the potential dangers of external links in
Excel.

22 Temporal Functions
Learn to work with the EOMONTH and EDATE functions that easily shift dates from one month or year
to another.

23 VLOOKUP with Approximate Match


Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an approximate match and return it or the corresponding value from
another column.

24 VLOOKUP with Exact Match


Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an exact match and return it or the corresponding value from another
column.

25 Other Lookup Methods


Learn to work with INDEX, MATCH, and HLOOKUP as alternatives to the VLOOKUP function.

26 Introduction to XLOOKUP
An introduction to the new XLOOKUP function. Bye, bye other lookups!

Optimizing Data

27 Sorting
Learn to sort data in Excel by a single column or by multiple columns.

28 Filtering
Learn to filter Excel data for specific words, dates, and apply multiple filters to a single data table.

29 Naming Ranges
Learn about creating named ranges and the benefits of doing so.

30 Excel Tables
Learn about creating Excel tables and their advantages.

31 Recording Macros
Learn to record basic Excel macros to automate your actions instead of doing them manually.
Data Analysis

32 Creating PivotTables
Learn to create and modify basic PivotTables for quickly summarizing and highlighting data.

33 Formatting PivotTables
Learn to control formatting and other options in PivotTables.

34 Calculated Fields in PivotTables


Learn to create and modify basic calculated fields for PivotTables.

35 What-If Analysis
Learn to perform what-if analysis in Excel using the Scenario Manager and Goal-Seek.

Get and Transform Data

36 Unpivoting Data
If you work with PivotTables a lot, you know that they put information out the way users want to read it,
but you can't use it to drive another PivotTable. So what if there was an easy way to unpivot the data?
There is, and it's called Power Query!

37 Contiguous Data
Learn tricks for consolidating your data so it's vertically contiguous (without blank rows) – for Tables,
PivotTables, and Charts.

38 Importing from Text Files


Importing data from a text file into an Excel table.

39 Appending Tables
Appending tables is the process of stacking them vertically to create long tables that can be used to feed
business intelligence solutions and PivotTables.

Presenting and Reporting

40 Cell Formatting
Learn to work with the Format Cells dialog to apply text rotation and borders, and to center data across
multiple cells.

41 Outlining
Learn about adding and working with Excel’s outlining tools to quickly hide irrelevant sections of your
worksheet.
Custom Number Formats
42 Learn to build your own custom number formats to display dates, values, and variances how you want
to see them.

43 Conditional Formats with Built-In Rules


Learn to create top/bottom and highlight cell rules, as well as apply icon sets and data bars.

44 Conditional Formats with Custom Rules


Learn to create custom conditional formatting rules based on formulas.

45 Building Column Charts


Learn how to create an effective column chart by reducing ink and 'noise' that distract from the main
messages.

46 Building Bar Charts


How to create an effective bar chart by reducing ink and noise that distract from the story.

47 Building Pie Charts


Learn how to build an effective pie chart, and when you should and shouldn’t use them.

48 Building Line Charts


How to create an effective line chart through careful manipulation of chart elements to enhance its
storytelling ability.

49 Building Combination Line and Area Charts


When you want to graph 3 line series, but only want 2 in focus most of the time.

Validating and Updating

50 Data Validation
Learn how to use Data Validation to ensure that users enter valid data in input cells.

51 Data Validation Lists


Use to restrict users' ability to enter invalid data in cells by providing them with a drop-down list of valid
options.

52 Comments and Notes


Learn about creating, reviewing, and printing Excel comments.

53 Styles
Learn how to apply built-in number styles and create your own custom styles packages.
Dynamic Arrays

54 Introduction to Dynamic Arrays


An introduction to the new Dynamic Arrays capability added to Microsoft 365.

55 Introduction to FILTER
Learn how to filter a range of data based on criteria you define with the FILTER function.

56 FILTER and 'IFS' Functions


Using FILTER to restrict the results of a Dynamic Array based on one or more conditions.

57 FILTER with AND-OR Conditions


Combining multiple conditions in a single FILTER to restrict the results of a Dynamic Array.

58 XLOOKUP and Dynamic Arrays


Advanced options for XLOOKUP including using wildcard matches and returning Dynamic Arrays as an
output.

Preparing to Deploy

59 Custom Views
Learn how to create and manage Custom Views in a worksheet.

60 Page Setup Options


Learn about page setup options, fitting print jobs on a page, headers and footers, and other ways to
customize print jobs.

61 Security Considerations
Learn about the setup and weaknesses of Excel’s security systems.

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