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MS Excel Consulting Assignment
Take this time to improve how your business uses data. We are still consulting remotely. So far we have helped build a budgeting pack, created a fish farm financial model, and helped an American company with an ‘Uber’ for vets!
See some of the work we have done
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Released this week- follow all to keep yourself informed
- Facebook– Excel refuses to align a number left or centre
- Twitter– Turn off automatic date grouping in Excel Pivot tables
- Instagram– Pause Switch off conditional formatting in MS Excel
- LinkedIn– Chart Data Table formats not working
- YouTube– Value error when adding blank cells
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Online Intermediate Course- Week 7 lessons
The lessons will only be available for the next 7 days. The week after, new lessons will be opened and these lessons will be closed so you need to keep up. If you want your friends to also be able to access this, forward this email (see above)
Once you have learnt these tricks, make sure you use them for the rest of the week. It is the best way to cement your knowledge before you learn more.
Reminder if you need to keep the kids busy (while you are learning), we have the tools to create your own treasure hunts for them. Look at the Treasure Hunt Page
How to use
- Download the Excel file via the link below (note this is the only place you can get the Excel file)
- Click on each lesson below and read/ watch while you look at the matching sheet in the spreadsheet (recommend using 2 screens or watch on your phone while you work on your computer)
- Do the exercises where relevant. Make sure you check the solution to make sure you got it right or to understand where you got it wrong.
- NOTE: in the full course each lesson has an MCQ at the end, but this is not available in this series.
- You can get full access to the course the normal way.
Download the Excel file (see below) and if you go to the Intermediate course page, you will see the lessons that are open (they say preview) or else use the links below.
MS Excel Intermediate Online Course- Week 7
- Grouping Text in Pivot Tables
- Grouping numbers in Pivot tables
- Attaching charts to Pivot Tables
- Problems with grouping in Pivot Tables
- Pivot Exercises- all features used so far
- Business Intelligence Exercises with Pivot Tables 1
- Business Intelligence Exercises with Pivot Tables 2
Next week we continue with other MS Excel tools available especially
- Conditional formatting (change cell colours based on contents e.g. turn red if actual is below budget)
- Add icons to your spreadsheets e.g. the famous robots (traffic lights for non South Africans) to indicate risks.