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Microsoft Excel 365 - Advanced - GoSkills Course Syllabus PDF

This document provides a syllabus for the Microsoft Excel 365 - Advanced online course from GoSkills. The 36-lesson course covers intermediate to advanced Excel skills including formulas, pivot tables, data analysis, visualization, and dynamic arrays. Key topics include temporal functions, VLOOKUP, conditional formatting, importing/exporting data, and preparing worksheets for deployment. The course is estimated to take 14 hours to complete and is accredited for continuing professional development credits.

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Microsoft Excel 365 - Advanced - GoSkills Course Syllabus PDF

This document provides a syllabus for the Microsoft Excel 365 - Advanced online course from GoSkills. The 36-lesson course covers intermediate to advanced Excel skills including formulas, pivot tables, data analysis, visualization, and dynamic arrays. Key topics include temporal functions, VLOOKUP, conditional formatting, importing/exporting data, and preparing worksheets for deployment. The course is estimated to take 14 hours to complete and is accredited for continuing professional development credits.

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Microsoft Excel 365 - Advanced

GoSkills online course syllabus


Thursday, May 4, 2023

Skill level Lessons Accredited by


Intermediate 36 CPD

Pre-requisites Versions supported Video duration


Excel - Basic 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, 365 3h 18m

Estimated study time


14h for all materials

Essential Formula Knowledge

1 Understanding Dates
Understand how dates work in Excel using the TODAY, YEAR, MONTH, DAY, and DATE functions.

2 Understanding Time
Understand how time works in Excel and how to change from whole numbers into time increments and
back again.

Intermediate Formula Knowledge

3 Formula Auditing
Learn to work with formula auditing tools including tracing precedent and dependent cells and formula
evaluation.

4 The LET Function


Learn to use LET to simplify complex formulas and make them easy to debug.

5 Temporal Functions
Learn to work with the EOMONTH and EDATE functions that easily shift dates from one month or year
to another.

6 VLOOKUP with Approximate Match


Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an approximate match and return it or the corresponding value from
another column.

7 VLOOKUP with Exact Match


Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an exact match and return it or the corresponding value from another
column.
Other Lookup Methods
8 Learn to work with INDEX, MATCH, and HLOOKUP as alternatives to the VLOOKUP function.

9 Introduction to XLOOKUP
An introduction to the new XLOOKUP function. Bye, bye other lookups!

Optimizing Data

10 Naming Ranges
Learn about creating named ranges and the benefits of doing so.

11 Excel Tables
Learn about creating Excel tables and their advantages.

12 Recording Macros
Learn to record basic Excel macros to automate your actions instead of doing them manually.

Data Analysis

13 Creating PivotTables
Learn to create and modify basic PivotTables for quickly summarizing and highlighting data.

14 Formatting PivotTables
Learn to control formatting and other options in PivotTables.

15 Calculated Fields in PivotTables


Learn to create and modify basic calculated fields for PivotTables.

16 What-If Analysis
Learn to perform what-if analysis in Excel using the Scenario Manager and Goal-Seek.

Getting and Transforming Data

17 Unpivoting Data
If you work with PivotTables a lot, you know that they put information out the way users want to read it,
but you can't use it to drive another PivotTable. So what if there was an easy way to unpivot the data?
There is, and it's called Power Query!
Contiguous Data
18 Learn tricks for consolidating your data so it's vertically contiguous (without blank rows) – for Tables,
PivotTables, and Charts.

19 Importing from Text Files


Importing data from a text file into an Excel table.

20 Appending Tables
Appending tables is the process of stacking them vertically to create long tables that can be used to feed
business intelligence solutions and PivotTables.

Presenting and Reporting

21 Outlining
Learn about adding and working with Excel’s outlining tools to quickly hide irrelevant sections of your
worksheet.

22 Custom Number Formats


Learn to build your own custom number formats to display dates, values, and variances how you want
to see them.

23 Conditional Formats with Built-In Rules


Learn to create top/bottom and highlight cell rules, as well as apply icon sets and data bars.

24 Conditional Formats with Custom Rules


Learn to create custom conditional formatting rules based on formulas.

25 Building Combination Line and Area Charts


When you want to graph 3 line series, but only want 2 in focus most of the time.

Validating and Updating

26 Data Validation
Learn how to use Data Validation to ensure that users enter valid data in input cells.

27 Data Validation Lists


Use to restrict users' ability to enter invalid data in cells by providing them with a drop-down list of valid
options.

28 Styles
Learn how to apply built-in number styles and create your own custom styles packages.
Dynamic Arrays

29 Introduction to Dynamic Arrays


An introduction to the new Dynamic Arrays capability added to Microsoft 365.

30 Introduction to FILTER
Learn how to filter a range of data based on criteria you define with the FILTER function.

31 FILTER and 'IFS' Functions


Using FILTER to restrict the results of a Dynamic Array based on one or more conditions.

32 FILTER with AND-OR Conditions


Combining multiple conditions in a single FILTER to restrict the results of a Dynamic Array.

33 XLOOKUP and Dynamic Arrays


Advanced options for XLOOKUP including using wildcard matches and returning Dynamic Arrays as an
output.

Preparing to Deploy

34 Custom Views
Learn how to create and manage Custom Views in a worksheet.

35 Page Setup Options


Learn about page setup options, fitting print jobs on a page, headers and footers, and other ways to
customize print jobs.

36 Security Considerations
Learn about the setup and weaknesses of Excel’s security systems.

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