Advanced Excel COURSE OUTLINE

INSTRUCTOR: Eng. Sahar S Nasrallah

Office: ChE Labs, FET Building
Office Hours:, 10:00-11:00 Sun., and Tue. or by appointment
Tel.: 5355000 Ext. 22910
E-mail: sahar_nasrallah@yahoo.com or s.nasrallah@ju.edu.jo

Course Description:
This Excel 2010 advanced training course, follows up from the Beginners Excel 2010 course by
delving even deeper into the features and functions of this powerful spreadsheet software.
Microsoft Excel 2010 is much more than a quick way to add up numbers. In this course, you will
learn advanced features such as nesting IF statements, how to calculate the Mean of a group of
numbers using AVERAGEIF, SUMIF and more. You will learn about performing lookups with
HLOOKUP and VLOOKUP. This course also covers Sparklines, and goes in-depth with Pivot
Tables and Charts, also you will be ready to solve your numerical Models. Finally, you will learn
how to create and record your own Macros.

Duration:
21 Hours

Outline:
SECTION 1: Getting Started
1. What is the Excel?
2. What is a spreadsheet?
3. Basics of a spreadsheet
a. columns
b. rows
c. cells
4. Entering Text and Numbers
5. Types of Data
6. Entering Excel Formulas and Formatting Data

SECTION 2: The IF Function

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The Syntax of IF
Nesting The IF Statement
Use The AND Operator To Reduce Quantity Of Nested IFs
Use The OR Operator To Reduce Quantity Of Nested IFs
The NOT Operator Within AND And OR Statements
SUMIF For Selective Adding Up
AVERAGEIF For The Mean Of Cells That Meet Our Criteria

SECTION 3: Performing Lookup

1. VLOOKUP
2. HLOOKUP
SECTION 4: Data Functions
1. The MATCH Function Explained
2. The INDEX Function Syntax
3. The CHOOSE Lookup Function
SECTION 5: Date & Time Functions
1.1 Working With DATES and TIME In Excel
1.1 Creating Dates & Times
a. Excel DATE Function
b. Excel TIME Function
c. Excel Datevalue Function
d. Excel Timevalue Function
1.2 Current Date & Time
a. The Excel NOW Function
b. The Excel TODAY Function
1.2 Extracting The Components of a Time
a. The Excel HOUR Function
b. The Excel MINUTE Function
c. The Excel SECOND Function
1.3 Extracting The Components of a Date
a. The Excel DAY Function
b. The Excel MONTH Function
c. Excel YEAR Function
d. Excel WEEKNUM Function
e. Excel WEEKDAY Function
1.4 Performing Calculations with Dates
a. Excel EDATE Function
b. The Excel EOMONTH Function
c. The Excel WORKDAY Function
d. The Excel WORKDAY.INTL Function ( new in 2010)
e. The Excel DAYS360 Function
f. The Excel NETWORKDAYS Function
g. Excel NETWORKDAYS.INTL Function (new in 2010)

h. Excel YEARFRAC Function

1.5 Working With Overtime Hours In Excel
1.6 Insert the current date and time in a cell
a. Insert a static date or time
b. Insert a date or time whose value is updated
SECTION 6: Math Functions
1. Change the number of decimal places displayed, without changing the number On a worksheet
2. Rounding To Fractional Values
2.2 ROUND FUNCTION
2.1 ROUNDUP FUNCTION
2.3 ROUNDDOWN FUNCTION
2.4 EVEN FUNCTION
2.5 ODD FUNCTION
2.6 MROUND FUNCTION
3. MOD For Working Out Remainders
2.2 MOD FUNCTION
2.1 INT FUNCTION
4. Generating A Random Number
2.2 RAND FUNCTION
2.1 RANDBETWEEN FUNCTION
5. Pick A List Item At Random
SECTION 7: Arrays
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What Is An Array And An Array Formula

Why use array formulas?
A quick introduction to arrays and array formulas
A look at array formula syntax
Rules for entering and changing array formulas
Expanding an array formula
Disadvantages of using array formulas
A brief introduction to array constants
Create one-dimensional and two-dimensional constants
9.1 Create a horizontal constant
9.2 Create a vertical constant
9.3 Create a two-dimensional constant
Use constants in formulas
Elements that you can use in constants
Naming array constants
Troubleshooting array constants
Array constants in action
14.1 Multiply each item in an array
14.2 Square the items in an array
14.3 Transpose Function

SECTION 8: Functions For Working With Text

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LEN And TRIM Two Very Useful Text Functions

Using LEFT And RIGHT For String Extraction
FIND And MID Working Together To Extract Parts Of Strings
Build Strings From Multiple Cells/ CONCATENATE function
Changing The Case Of Text In Cells/ (NEW in 2010)
5.1 PROPER
5.2 UPPER
5.3 LOWER
6. REPLACE And SUBSTITUTE In Action
SECTION 9: Use sparklines to show data trends
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Sparkline New in Microsoft Excel 2010

What are sparklines?
Why Use Sparkline ?
Creating A Sparkline
Change The Design Of Sparklines
Customize Sparklines
6.1 Control which value points are shown
6.2 Change the style of or format sparklines
6.3 Show or hide data markers
6.4 Show and customize axis settings
6.5 Handle empty cells or zero values

7. Removing Sparklines From A Sheet

SECTION 10: Outline (group) data in a worksheet
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Outlining Explained
Create an outline of rows
Creating An Outline Automatically
Show or hide outlined data
Customize an outline with styles
Copy outlined data
Hide or remove an outline
Create a summary report with a chart
Creating An Outline Automatically
Creating An Outline Manually
10.1 Outline the outer group.
10.2 Optionally, outline an inner, nested group.

SECTION 11: Custom Views

1. Creating A Custom View Of A Worksheet
2. Apply a custom view
3. How To Delete A Custom View

SECTION 12: Scenarios /What-If Analysis

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Scenarios Manager in Excel

Creating a Default Scenario.
Setting Up A Scenario And Entering Values
Display The Scenario Values
Goal Seek/What if?
Managing your Scenarios
Merge Scenarios From Different Sheets
Creating scenario reports

SECTION 13: Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts

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Create a pivot table in Microsoft Excel 2010

Refine the Pivot Table style
Create a pivot chart in Microsoft Excel 2010
Filtering and Sorting an Excel 2010 Pivot Table
Using Slicers to Filter Pivot Tables in Excel 2010
How to Modify and Pivot Fields in an Excel 2010 Pivot Table
How to Create and Format a Pivot Chart in Excel 2010
Move a pivot chart to its own sheet
How to Filter an Excel 2010 Pivot Chart

SECTION 14: optimization with the Excel Solver tool

1. What is optimization?
2. Defining an optimization model
2.1 Target cell
2.2 Changing cells
2.3 Constrains
3. Installing and running Solver
SECTION 15: Macros
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What are Macros?

Create/Record Macros In Excel 2010
What is Relative References
How to run a Macro in Excel 2010
For clauses
Creating message using Macros
The If sentence
The sentence case