Microsoft Excel: Upgrading to Excel 2016
Microsoft Excel Training Series | Level 3
Course Details
Duration: 1 day
Microsoft® Excel® Version: 2016 | 365
Delivery Methods: Instructor-led classroom (ILC) | Virtual classroom (VC) on request
Course Dates: July 18, 2018 | View schedule
Course Fee: $295 CDN per person + HST or BYOD (bring your own device): $245 CDN person + HST*
Note: Public scheduled dates for this course are delivered as live instructor-led classroom training.
Course Overview
During this hands-on course, explore exciting new features available in Microsoft Excel 2016. Changes in the Ribbon, new commands and locations, apps and add-ins will be used and students will customize Excel in different ways. Excel's Flash Fill and new 2016 functions will also be utilized. Several new charts will be generated including treemap, waterfall and Pareto charts. Students will save Excel files as Portable Document Format (PDF) files and use cloud-based services for file sharing.
Prerequisite: Intermediate / Advanced Excel (earlier versions) or equivalent knowledge and skills.
Custom training: This course may be delivered at your site or ours as an instructor-led or virtual classroom solution. For more information including savings for custom group training, email us at info@avantixlearning.ca or contact us by phone.
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INCLUDED IN THIS COURSE
- Comprehensive course manual or published book
- Keyboard shortcuts quick reference
- Sample and exercise files
- Refreshments (for classes conducted in Avantix Learning classrooms)
- Certificate of completion
- Follow-up email support
Course Topics
Microsoft Excel Environment
- Changes in the 2016 Ribbon
- Adding new buttons to the Ribbon in 2016
- New themes in 2016
- Customizing the 2016 environment using apps
- Extract and clean data using Flash Fill
Templates
- Using new financial and calendar templates
Functions
- Using new 2016 forecast functions
Working with Charts and Maps
- Overview of charts in 2016
- Formatting charts in 2016
- Create treemap, sunburst, waterfall, histogram, Pareto and box and whisker charts in 2016
- Create 3D geospatial maps
Getting and Transforming Data
- Overview of the Get & Transform group on the Data tab on the Ribbon
- Getting started with advanced querying using Power Query
Working with Pivot Tables
- Changes in pivot tables in 2016
- Analysing tables of data
- Using Quick Analysis tools
- Displaying Table slicers
- Setting timelines
Data Models and Relationships
- Getting started PowerPivot tables based on multiple tables
- Overview of creating one-to-one and one-to many relationships between tables
- Using automatic time grouping (such as by year and month)
- Delayed updating
Working with Files
- Saving Excel files as Portable Document Format (PDF) documents
- Sharing workbooks
- Choosing sheets to share
- Using cloud-based services such as SkyDrive/OneDrive
- Inserting comments and markups in cloud-based services
Add-ins
- Availability depending on versions
- Overview of the Inquire add-in
- Overview of Compare add-in
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