Microsoft Excel 2016/2019/O365 - Level 3 / Advanced

Enhancing Workbooks

Customize Workbooks

• Comments
• Hyperlinks
• Watermarks
• Background Pictures

Manage Themes

• About Themes
• Customizing Themes

Create and Use Templates

• Templates
• Template Types
• Creating a Template
• Modifying a Template 

Protect Files

• Recovering Lost Data
• The Changes Group
• Worksheet and Workbook Protection
• The Protect Worksheet Option
• The Protect Workbook Option

Preparing a Workbook for Multiple Audiences

• Displaying Data in Multiple International Formats
• Utilize International Symbols
• Modifying Worksheets Using the Accessibility Checker
• Managing Fonts

Auditing Worksheets

Trace Cells

• The Trace Cells Feature
• Tracer Arrows
• Troubleshoot Invalid Data and Formula Errors
• Invalid Data
• The Error Checking Command
• Error Types

Watch and Evaluate Formulas

• The Watch Window
• Formula Evaluation

Create a Data List Outline

• Outlines
• The Outline Group

VLOOKUP Review

Working with Multiple Worksheets and Workbooks 

Consolidate Data

• Data Consolidation
• The Consolidate Dialog Box
• Consolidation Functions

Link Cells in Different Workbooks

• External References

Merge Workbooks 

• The Compare and Merge Workbooks Feature

Exporting Excel Data

Export Excel Data

• The Export Process

Import a Delimited Text File

• The Import Process
• The Get External Data Group
• Delimited Text Files
• Methods of Importing Text Files

Integrate Excel Data with the Web

• The File Publishing Process
• Publish as Web Page Dialog Box

Create a Web Query

• Web Queries
• The New Web Query Dialog Box

Analyzing Data with PivotTables, Slicers, and PivotCharts

Create a PivotTable

• PivotTables
• Start with Questions, End with Structure
• The Create PivotTable Dialog Box
• The PivotTable Fields Pane
• Summarize Data in a PivotTable
• The “Show Values As” Functionality of a PivotTable
• External Data
• PowerPivot
• PowerPivot Functions

Filter Data by Using Slicers

• Slicers
• The Insert Slicers Dialog Box

Analyze Data with PivotCharts

• PivotCharts
• Creating PivotCharts
• Applying a Style to a PivotChart

Automating Worksheet Functionality

Update Workbook Properties

• Workbook Properties

Create and Edit a Macro

• Macros
• The Record Macro Dialog Box
• Naming Macros
• Visual Basic for Applications
• Copying Macros Between Workbooks
• Macro Security Settings

Apply Conditional Formatting

• Conditional Formatting
• Conditional Formats
• The Conditional Formatting Rules Manager Dialog Box
• The New Formatting Rule Dialog Box
• Clear Rules

Add Data Validation Criteria

• Data Validation
• The Data Validation Dialog Box

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to perform advanced data analysis, collaborate on workbooks with other users, and automate workbook functionality.

To ensure success, students should have practical, real-world experience creating and analyzing datasets using Excel 2016. Specific tasks students should be able to perform include: creating formulas and using Excel functions; creating, sorting, and filtering datasets and tables; presenting data by using basic charts; creating and working with PivotTables, slicers, and PivotCharts; and customizing the Excel environment.

To meet these prerequisites, students can take the following:

• Microsoft® Office Excel® 2016 Level 1 / Intro
• Excel Level 2 / Intermediate

This course is intended for students who are experienced Excel 2016 users and have a desire or need to advance their skills in working with some of the more advanced Excel features.