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MICROSOFT EXCEL INTERMEDIATE

To increase your profi ciency, you need to know how to perform advanced calculations, analyze data, and display spreadsheet data in a visually eff ective manner. In this course, you will use advanced formulas and tools to streamline and analyze spreadsheet data. You will also enhance the look and appeal of your workbooks by adding charts and other graphical objects.

This course is for anyone who has used Excel before to create and alter spreadsheets and perform basic calculations. Learners must have used Excel before and be familiar with using formulae for calculations.

SHORT COURSE MODULES

Customise the Excel Environment

Creating Advanced Formulas

Analyzing Data with Functions

Organising Datasets and Tables

Visualising Data with Charts

PivotTables and PivotCharts

Inserting Graphic Objects

Changing Workbook Appearance

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COURSE DURATION

HOUR MODULES

MODULES

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188

The phrase ‘soft skills’ is often used to describe the skills which characterise relationships and other people, or how you approach interactions.

For many people, the so-called soft skills are often some of the most diffi cult skills to develop. Job-re-lated expertise (hard skills) are essential in any profession. However, over the last 10 years, under-standing has grown that perhaps soft skills may ul-timately be more important in determining levels of success.

Hard skills are a basic minimum necessity in order to operate in a particular workplace. Whether or not you are successful in your career may depend on how developed your soft skills are.

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Please take note that these hours are only estimated times.

Our online courses and workshop training for continuing professional development, written by professionals for professionals and involving thoughtful online interaction with your peers, go a long way towards resolving issues.

The most significant advantage of self-study is the independence it offers. Studying alone allows delegates to concentrate and focus on their studies at their highest level.

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MICROSOFT EXCEL INTERMEDIATE

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Customize the Excel Environment.

• Confi gure Excel Options.

• Working with more Advanced Formulas in Excel.

• Working with Cell Range Names in Formulas.

• Identify the purpose of Data Analysis with Excel.

• Analyze Data by using Text Functions.

• Evaluate Lookup Functions.

• Apply Advanced Conditional Formatting.

• Organize and Analyze Datasets and Tables.

• Create and Modify Tables.

• Visualizing Data with Basic Charts.

• The purpose of Graphic Objects.

• Identify and apply Pictures.

• Formatting Cells.

• Formatting Workbooks.

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WHO SHOULD DO THISCOURSE?

• Persons who have knowledge regarding the basics of Excel.

• Staff who want to know how to organise datasets and tables, and how to visualise data by means of charts.

This short course is designed for the following audience:

For this short course, it is advisable that you have the following experience/knowledge:

• Learners with limited knowledge on the subject.

• Learners with 1-2 years’ workplace experience.

• Learners with fundamental skills.

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARNM I C R O S O F T E X C E L I N T E R M E D I A T E

01CUSTOMISE THE EXCEL ENVIRONMENT

As you are already familiar with Microsoft® Excel®, you are, no doubt, able to navigate your way around the Excel environment and locate the basic commands you frequently use. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could confi gure the Excel environment to better suit your regular daily workfl ow?

02CREATING ADVANCED FORMULAS

You already know how to get Microsoft® Excel® to perform simple calculations to make your job easier. However, manually entering formulas will take you only so far. The commonly used functions in Excel may not be enough to handle complex data analysis needs.

03ANALYZING DATA WITH TEXT AND LOGICAL FUNCTIONS

Excel can be used for much more than simple calculations and is a powerful data analysis tool. Data analysis is about asking questions of your data and getting the answers you need to ensure your organization’s decision makers are taking action based on sound organizational intelligence.

04LOOKUP FUNCTIONS AND CONDITIONAL FORMATTING

Excel remains largely a free-form tool for the analysis of data. Since the data in Excel is not inherently structured, as would be the case in a desktop database tool such as Access, there is often a need to fi nd a value in a table or array from another cell in Excel.

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05ORGANIZING AND ANALYZING DATASETS AND TABLES

When you need to review a massive amount of data, you want to be able to isolate pertinent data as quickly and as easily as possible. An advantage would be the ability to treat all data as a single chunk of entries paired with the ability to hone in on only the data you need to analyze.

07 08INSERTING GRAPHIC OBJECTS CHANGING WORKBOOK

APPEARANCE

Most Excel fans concentrate on numbers, formulas, and charts when they create worksheets. But Excel has another dimension—graphics. Excel includes a slew of drawing tools that may seem like they belong more in an artsy illustration program than in the rigid confi nes of a spreadsheet.

This course is designed for learners who desire to gain the necessary skills to create, edit, format, and print basic Microsoft Offi ce Excel worksheets. However basic these skills might sound, keep in mind that in order to perform more complex tasks in Excel.

06VISUALIZING DATA WITH BASIC CHARTS

You may fi nd yourself presenting information to large audiences. You don’t want people scanning lines of data on a worksheet when you’re trying to present. You want to give them a simple, easy-to-digest view of important data so they can quickly understand what’s really important.

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THE BENEFITS OF

ONLINE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Forget about attending classes for hours, sitting in an uncomfortable chair, and suffering from back pain by the end of the day. You will not be bound to physical class sessions when you opt for online education. All learning materials are provided online, so you’ll easily access them from the comfort of your office or home.

COMFORT

A self-paced system enables learners to make progress with a rhythm that suits them. This does not require attending live sessions; you can access the materials at any time that works for you. If you have to work or take care of your home and children during the day, you can study at night. That’s an advantage the traditional educational system cannot beat.

SELF-PACED LEARNING

The fact that online programs are cheaper when compared to the ones held in a traditional campus setting is enough to convince you to consider them. The average tuition for online courses depends on multiple factors, so it varies from one program to another. Note, free courses don’t usually come with a certificate of completion.

LOWER COSTS

It doesn’t matter where your career stands at this moment; completed programs will always look good on your résumé. It will show potential employers that you’re committed to learning and that you’re eager to obtain more knowledge and new skills. You will certainly become a better candidate for a job promotion.

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Course level: 02 Study fi eld: Computer SkillsCourse cost: R1750.00 incl. VAT

Course level: 04Study fi eld: Computer SkillsCourse cost: R1750.00 incl. VAT

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