Advanced Excel Training In South Africa

Advanced Excel Training In South Africa Course Material

Advanced Excel training in South Africa is more about gaining knowledge on how to use the data analysis functions in the program than teaching you about the other functions that are available in Excel. Most people think that these advanced courses actually focus on the use of formulas but these is taught at an intermediary level and a good understanding of Excel formulas is necessary to begin using the data analysis tools.

There are 6 different categories that are covered by advanced Excel training courses that form part of a series that can be learnt in one process:

1. Filtering and Sorting Data in a Spreadsheet

This category covers the ways in which you can sort and filter all different kinds of data in Excel using the toolbars, short cut keys as well as automated features in Excel. Custom sorting and instant data sorting are also taught in this category.

2. Pivot Tables

Included in this category is everything to do with pivot tables from the basic viewing and creation of pivot tables to the more complex formatting, grouping and filtering of data within pivot tables. Pivot tables form a very important part of data analysis and any type of advanced Excel training series in South Africa.

3. Functions

There are many different functions that are available in Excel. The most commonly used of these are the math and date/time functions that are quickly learnt in the advanced course. Other functions that you will learn include adjust text, logical functions, information functions, lookup functions and financial functions. Over and above learning how to use these functions you will also be taught the relationships between the different functions in advanced Excel training in South Africa. This part of the course is the longest and most involved.

4. Data Analysis Tools

Although this category forms the shortest section of the course, the topics covered are very important in Excel. First the ‘What-if’ data analysis tool is covered. This is a great tool in designing spreadsheets that need to predict solutions according to data that is entered into a worksheet. The scenario manager can also be used as a predictive tool and forms part of this section of the course material.

Goal Seek works opposite to the above two tools where a solution is entered and the method to reach that goal then analysed. And last but not least the solver is covered in this category which is used to solve problems using specific data that is entered and then analysed in a spreadsheet.

5. Automating Spreadsheets with VBA Macros

This part of the advanced Excel training course in South Africa is not really as complicated as it sounds. VBA stands for Visual Basic for Application which is just a programming language that is used by Microsoft the producer of the Excel software program. A Macro is simply one instruction that contains multiple instructions within. Automating spreadsheets by using these two tools can save you time and frustration in creating complex spreadsheets.

6. Connections and Data Imports

There is nothing more frustrating than having to re-enter large amounts of data into a spreadsheet when this information already exists in another format. In this section you will learn how to connect to different programs that are compatible with Excel to import data and how to import data between different Excel spreadsheets.

If you have as of yet not used the statistical and data analysis functions in Excel and think that learning these can benefit you as an individual or your business organisation then now is the time to enrol on an advanced Excel training series course in South Africa.