Advanced training Course
This course is designed for students that are already familiar with Excel, but wish to improve their skills and open the possibilities with this versatile spreadsheet program. Bring your basic knowledge of Excel 2016 and learn how to reach the next level of database tracking and reporting. Through 57 lectures and over 9-hours of content, this course will take you through learning how to use functions in everyday work environments. Professional financial functions are covered including payments, future value and depreciation. Students will learn statistical functions like averages, percentiles, and regression. In order to improve efficiency, students will also cover concepts for connecting to external data like other workbooks or web data; tables including style, selection and sizing. Pivot tables and data analysis will be key concepts helpful to the work environment. For help with reporting, students will learn surface charts, stock charts, radar charts and bubble charts and graphs. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create colorful charts and databases that communicate data and financial records efficiently and effectively. Students will be able to apply data to various reporting forms like tables, graphs and pivot tables in order to show important analysis like depreciation, percentiles and regression for use with planning. Students who finish this course will have an advanced knowledge of the versatility of Excel that is immediately applicable to their work with the database.
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