One of the most widely used programs for data analysis is Microsoft Excel. Today, businesses are required to understand a growing amount of company, market and social data to drive effective business decisions and remain competitive. This trend of analytics everywhere is driving a shift in the roles of business consumers, as the need for direct data access, ad-hoc analyses and in-depth reporting is growing beyond the capacity of their IT departments. Look closely—Excel—the Office productivity tool,is the most powerful tool that you need to learn to empower you to drive the information analyses and data-driven decisions critical to your business.
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Module 1: Getting Started |
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Basic Understanding of Excel |
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Navigation in spreadsheet |
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Saving opening and closing workbooks |
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Module 2: Formatting a Spreadsheet |
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Adjusting column widths and row heights |
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Changing alignment of cells |
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Undoing and redoing actions |
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Formatting numbers |
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Applying Borders |
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Merging cells |
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Module 3: Basic Formulas and Functions |
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Enter formulas |
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Auto sum |
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Using simple summary functions (Sum, count. Average, min, max, Abs, Counta, CountBlank, Averagea,Rank, SumProduct) |
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Cell referencing -Absolute and Relative |
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Conditonal functions (Sumif, countif, averageif, sumifs, averageifs, countifs) |
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Rounding Functions- Round, Roundup, Rounddown |
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Date - Day, Date, Month, Year, Now, Today |
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Volatile Functions - Rand, Randbetween |
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Working with named ranges and table |
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Logical Functions,Applying conditions using IF and Nested IF, And, Or, IsNA, Iserror and many more |
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Lookup Functions - Vlookup, Hlookup, Automation using Match, Index |
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Text Functions - Trim, Concatenate, Lower, Proper, Upper, Left, Right, Len, Text to Columns |
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Module 4: Basic Selection/Editing Techniques |
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Using Cut, Copy and Paste Operations |
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Using Paste Special- Value, Format, Transpose, Operations, Skip Blanks etc |
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Selection Techniques |
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Navigation Techniques |
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Module 5: Working with Large Worksheets |
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Freeze/Unfreeze Panes |
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Splitting windows |
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