Summary

Microsoft Excel for Office 365 (Desktop or Online): Part 2

Whether you need to crunch numbers for sales, inventory, information technology, human resources, or other organizational purposes and departments, the ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time can create a powerful competitive advantage. After all, the world runs on data more than ever before and that’s a trend not likely to change, or even slow down, any time soon. But with so much data available and being created on a nearly constant basis, the ability to make sense of that data becomes more critical and challenging with every passing day. You already know how to get Microsoft® Excel® to perform simple calculations and how to modify your workbooks and worksheets to make them easier to read, interpret, and present to others. But, Excel is capable of doing so much more. To gain a truly competitive edge, you need to be able to extract actionable organizational intelligence from your raw data. In other words, when you have questions about your data, you need to know how to get Excel to provide the answers for you. And that’s exactly what this course aims to help you do.

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.

Note: Most Office 365™ users perform the majority of their daily tasks using the desktop version of the Office software, so that is the focus of this training. The course material will also enable you to access and effectively utilize many web-based resources provided with your Office 365 subscription. This includes brief coverage of key skills for using Excel for the Web and OneDrive. Helpful notes throughout the material alert you to cases where the online version of the application may function differently from the primary, desktop version.

This course is the second part of a three-course series that covers the skills needed to gain a foundational understanding of Excel.
– Microsoft Excel for Office 365 (Desktop or Online): Part 1
– Microsoft Excel for Office 365 (Desktop or Online): Part 2 (this course)
– Microsoft Excel for Office 365 (Desktop or Online): Part 3

This course may be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Excel (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-200 and Microsoft Excel Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps and Office 2019): Exam MO-201 certification exams.

Completion of this course will earn 7.5 CPEs.

Introduction

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to leverage the power of data analysis and presentation in order to make informed, intelligent organizational decisions.
You will:
– Work with functions
– Work with lists
– Analyze data
– Visualize data with charts
– Use PivotTables and PivotCharts

Target Student:
This course is designed for students who already have foundational knowledge and skills in Excel and who wish to begin taking advantage of some of the higher-level functionality in Excel to analyze and present data.

Prerequisites:
To ensure success, students should have completed Logical Operations’ Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 1 or have the equivalent knowledge and experience.

Outline

  • Lesson 1: Working with Functions

    • Topic A: Work with Ranges
    • Topic B: Use Specialized Functions
    • Topic C: Work with Logical Functions
    • Topic D: Work with Date and Time Functions
    • Topic E: Work with Text Functions
  • Lesson 2: Working with Lists

    • Topic A: Sort Data
    • Topic B: Filter Data
    • Topic C: Query Data with Database Functions
    • Topic D: Outline and Subtotal Data
  • Lesson 3: Analyzing Data

    • Topic A: Create and Modify Tables
    • Topic B: Apply Intermediate Conditional Formatting
    • Topic C: Apply Advanced Conditional Formatting
  • Lesson 4: Visualizing Data with Charts

    • Topic A: Create Charts
    • Topic B: Modify and Format Charts
    • Topic C: Use Advanced Chart Features
  • Lesson 5: Using PivotTables and PivotCharts

    • Topic A: Create a PivotTable
    • Topic B: Analyze PivotTable Data
    • Topic C: Present Data with PivotCharts
    • Topic D: Filter Data by Using Timelines and Slicers
  • Appendix A: Mapping Course Content to Excel Associate (Office 365 and Office 2019): Exam MO-200

  • Appendix B: Mapping Course Content to Excel Expert (Office 365 and Office 2019): Exam MO-201

  • Appendix C: Microsoft® Excel® Common Keyboard Shortcuts

  • Appendix D: Financial Functions

  • Appendix E: Working with Graphical Objects

  • Appendix F: Using Array Formulas

Course Schedule

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11/12/24 November 12, 2024
Lexington
9:00 am
4:30 pm
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11/21/24 November 21, 2024
Virtual
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4:30 pm
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12/09/24 December 9, 2024
Lexington
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4:30 pm
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12/16/24 December 16, 2024
Virtual
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4:30 pm
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01/21/25 January 21, 2025
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4:30 pm
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01/23/25 January 23, 2025
Lexington
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4:30 pm
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02/14/25 February 14, 2025
Lexington
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4:30 pm
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02/18/25 February 18, 2025
Virtual
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4:30 pm
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03/13/25 March 13, 2025
Lexington
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4:30 pm
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03/18/25 March 18, 2025
Virtual
9:00 am
4:30 pm
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