This practical, 2 day MS Excel Advanced training course focuses on the Excel skills that the typical Advanced user would require.
If your groups Excel skill level is between 5 and 10 then this will be the best Excel course for you.
- Duration – 2 Days
- Skill Level >6.0
- All Live Courses
- Online Advanced Excel Course
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Some of the key outcomes will include:
- Ability to create an automated reporting pack that changes month on month with no effort
- Perform partial lookups where the words aren’t exactly the same
- Improve your data visualisation with charts and other tricks
- Get dates to work how you expect them to.
Delivery Methods- Advanced MS Excel
Live MS Excel Advanced Training

- Public courses in Johannesburg and Cape Town- Part of the 3 day Intermediate to Advanced Excel Course (see dates)
- Onsite- We can provide the training onsite to corporate groups- for more information click the request for information button below.
Online MS Excel Advanced Training
- If you are not in South Africa, or prefer to do the course online, have a look at the Online MS Excel Advanced Course
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Course Outline
Ultimate Excel Tool
- Flash Fill- You definitely need to know this

Tips and Tricks- Advanced
- View multiple cells/ sheets/ spreadsheets at the same time
- Adding cells by moving sheets around
- Useful for the aggregation trick
- Custom Format a word into a number cell e.g. 100 tons
- Custom Format numbers into thousands or millions
- Tables- Critical for Excel use going forward



Filtering and Sorting
- Filtering and Sorting- make sure you are comfortable with the lessons taught in the Intermediate MS Excel course as this is assumed knowledge.
- Create an Automatic Filter for reuse
Tools for text
- Find partial names or between characters (fuzzy logic)
- Change the $ signs on multiple cells with FIND/ REPLACE
- Import CSV but correct for ‘numbers’ that start with zero e.g. credit card numbers



Pivot Tables
- Make sure you are comfortable with the Pivot Table lessons taught in the Intermediate MS Excel course as this is assumed knowledge.
- Protect the source data of a pivot table
- Add a calculation INSIDE a Pivot Table
- Conditional Formatting within a Pivot
- Get information out of a Pivot into a cell
- Switching off the GETPIVOTDATA
- Add up ITEMs within a Pivot Table Field


Function and Formula Basics
- Function Wizard- why you should use it
- Trace where a formula comes from and goes to (even across sheets)
- Using Absolute and Relative Referencing ($ signs)
- Shortcut to add $ signs to cell references
- How to (safely) build a nested IF formula
- IF this AND this AND this is True

Formula Tips and Tricks
- See the numbers behind a formula
- Change formula across many sheets at the same time
- Update the calculations on only one sheet (for large spreadsheets)
- Trick Excel into Changing where Absolute references ($) look

Text Functions
- Text Functions- make sure you are comfortable with the lessons taught in the Intermediate MS Excel course as this is assumed knowledge.
- Create a find/ replace formula
- Find where a certain character is in a cell
- Force excel to treat number as text

Key Lookup Functions
- Key Lookup functions- make sure you are comfortable with the lessons taught in the Intermediate MS Excel course as this is assumed knowledge.
- Vlookup approximate match (True instead of False)
- Vlookup partial text from single cell- fuzzy lookup
- Automatic Sorting in Excel Exercise
- Handling Error Messages- Remove the impact of #NA, #DIV/0! and more
- OFFSET
- OFFSET- Simple Example
- OFFSET- Time Lag Example
- OFFSET- Allow Insert Rows Example
- OFFSET- Monthly Management Reporting Example
- MATCH and INDEX as an alternate VLOOKUP?
- Lookup across rows and columns (at the same time)
- Lookup to the left instead of right (like VLOOKUP)
- Get Excel to find the columns you want to bring back from a lookup
- MATCH, INDEX, HLOOKUP and OFFSET Combined
- Lookup on different sheets
- INDIRECT Example to summarise divisions across sheets
- Transpose rows to columns but keep them linked






SUM, COUNT, AVERAGE IFS
- Sum, count or average if certain cells match
- Sum, count or average cells e.g. bigger than
- Sum, count or average with many conditions
- Sum, count or average with partial matches

Date functions and issues
- How Excel Handles Times and Dates
- Create a VALID Excel date with a day, month and year number
- Calculate the proper end of month
- When is the next workday e.g. 30 days from invoice date
- How many working days between 2 dates
- How many months/years between two dates
- Force Excel to format a date to your version
Conditional Formatting
- Conditional Formatting- make sure you are comfortable with the lessons taught in the Intermediate MS Excel course as this is assumed knowledge.
- Conditional Formatting- Linking to different cells
- Control what is entered in an Excel cell- Data Validation
- Control the inputs in a cell based on another cell



Charting In Excel
- MS Excel Charting- make sure you are comfortable with the lessons taught in the Intermediate MS Excel course as this is assumed knowledge.
- Paste a linked picture of data onto a chart (or anywhere)
- Sparklines for trend analysis
- Copy the format of one chart to another chart
- Remove Zeros from chart labels
- Combine a column with a line chart (or other combinations)
- Stop charts stretching when the column width changes
- Customise the series marker to your own image
- Add linked commentary directly to the chart
- Add commentary to the axis
- Add commentary to labels and call outs
- Add commentary to labels for older versions of Excel
- Hiding a series with NA()
- Create a waterfall chart (pre Excel 2016)
- Create a waterfall chart (Excel 2016 and higher)
- Understand and use XY charts e.g. Risk Register
- Change the default colour scheme in charts
- Create a chart template for re-use
- Add a trendline to a chart
- Benefit of using a table for chart data
- Link Excel chart to PowerPoint or Word






Protecting spreadsheet information and formulas
- How to protect an Excel Spreadsheet from opening
- Allow Spreadsheet to be viewed but not changed (read only)
- Protect only certain cells/ formula from everything except input changes
- Lock cells but allow colour formatting or comments
- Lock Cells but allow insert or delete of columns/ rows
- Lock Cells but allow column/ row size change
- Protect cells but allow filter/ pivot table/ sort
- Hide formulas in Excel
- Hide and protect a sheet in a spreadsheet
- Allow only certain values into a cell
- Protect cells with different passwords to allow levels of authority
- Trick: Allow user to only see their information in Excel
- Trick: Protect rows and columns without protecting sheet
- Some Useful Tools when protecting spreadsheets

Feedback & Who Should Attend
- I’m glad I invested my money and time on this course, it was worth it.I also like the fact that i will be assisted even after completing the course. I walked out a different lady, just confirming what De Wet said.- Kefiloe M.
- It dealt with my daily challenges at work- IS Management Accountant.
- There was nothing I did not like about the workshop. Adrian was fantastic- Accountant.
- This course really add significant value to my life as a data analyst- Lonmin
- … first the assessment is a good tool to determine that the trainee is allocated to the correct training, secondly, although the training is intense the content is brilliant and very well presented. Being able to express real live occurrences during the training makes for understanding of applications. All Krones personnel that have attended this training has had their skillset enhanced. Being proficient in excel has allowed the flow of work from department to department to become more and more efficient and not to mention, look more professional. Audit Excel is my only choice for Excel Training.- Debbie L- Krones
Typical Attendees
- All persons using Excel spreadsheets. Professions that have attended include accountants, actuaries, auditors, business analysts, chartered accountants, civil engineers, construction, consulting, corporate finance, engineers, farming, finance, hr function, landlords, lawyers, quantity surveyors, research analysts, retail, scientists and engineers
Pre Requisite (s)
In order to do this course, we recommend that all delegates have an Intermediate understanding of MS Excel, in that they are using MS Excel in their daily activities and want to work quicker, smarter and safer.
We recommend that all delegates should, using our free MS Excel Skills Assessment, have a skill score of >4.5 with a level of Intermediate or Intermediate-to-Advanced (get your delegates to do the free MS Excel Skills Assessment to make sure this is the correct level of training).
This is a very hands-on, non-intimidating, course – delegates work through various exercises under the supervision, and with the help, of the facilitator to get to grips with the nuances of Excel’s functions.
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