Advanced Microsoft Excel XP/2003™

Expert guidance through MS Excel's most powerful features

New for 2012

This is a two day course which gives detailed coverage of the advanced features of MS Excel providing you with the knowledge and confidence to manage complex and large data sets.

This course is suitable for people who have attended the intermediate course or have good knowledge and understanding of Excel and would like to explore the more complex functionality it can offer.

• Learn how to use advanced 'if' statements and macros to automate repetitive tasks.
• Be able to use analysis tools to forecast figures based on a range of scenarios.
• An advanced understanding of the applications of MS Excel and the ability to put them into practice.

This course is run by Reed Learning.

• goal seek to reverse calculate a formula
• creating single input data tables
• setting up and manipulating scenarios for what-if? analysis
• consolidating data by position
• consolidate by label
• group and outline features
• reports from new
• analysing data with pivot tables
• manipulate the pivot table
• formatting pivot tables
• creating pivot charts
• grouping data in pivot tables
• importing text files
• setting up database queries
• connecting Excel to the web to import data
• recording macros
• edit a macro
• creating buttons to run the macros
• customize access to excel commands
• adding icons to the toolbars
• creating your own menu
• editing menus
• adding options to menus to run macros.

This course, which is run by Reed Learning, is endorsed by CIMA as suitable for members and their colleagues.

12 CPD hours for non CIMA members.

A working knowledge of Microsoft intermediate topics.