Microsoft Excel 2007 - intermediate

Get the most out of Microsoft Excel 2007 – it has more power to help you than you realise

Microsoft Excel dominates modern business life, but most people use only a fraction of its power – maybe you’re one of them. Well, even if you regard computers as a necessary evil, this course will open your eyes to the many ways in which Excel can actually make your working life a whole lot easier.

Is it for me?

If you are a current Excel user who can create a workbook, enter simple formulas, and print and chart data, but need to extend your skills beyond basic workbooks, this is the course for you.

What’s it all about?

Our workshops are effective because they are based on your real life problems – we expect you to bring all your Excel baggage with you! Your learning from the day will stick with you because we use a range of activities, have lots of practice time, and encourage a large amount of questions.

Learning works best when learners can make their own discoveries, so you will have time to play with Excel and perhaps have your own Eureka moment!

Our supportive and experienced trainers believe that the most important thing is to meet our learners’ personal objectives. However, to give you an idea of the type of skills you will learn, by the end of the course you should be able to:

• use the new ‘ribbon’ and quick access toolbar

• use the fill operations available to fill a data series

• understand and use formula cell referencing to create more complex formulas

• create and work with headers and footers

• sort data in a list in a worksheet

• use a range of techniques to enhance charts

• use a range of logical functions

• use a range of formula techniques

• modify Excel options

• filter data in a table

Tell me more!

Excel 2007 has so much to offer, that we can’t fit all of it into the workshop as there are 90 different possible topics. However, you will receive an indispensable folder of materials to keep on your desk which will include all the following topics:

Excel 2007 Orientation

• Starting Excel

• The Excel Screen

• Using The Ribbon

• Using KeyTip Badges

• Minimising The Ribbon

• Shortcut Menus

• Using Shortcut Menus

• Understanding Dialog Boxes

• Launching Dialog Boxes

• The Quick Access Toolbar

• Customising The Quick Access Toolbar

• The Office Button

• Using The Office Button

• The Status Bar

• Customising The Status Bar

• Exiting Safely From Excel

Formula referencing

• Absolute Versus Relative Referencing

• Relative Formulas

• Problems With Relative Formulas

• Creating Absolute References

• Creating Mixed References

Headers and footers

• Understanding Headers And Footers

• Adding A Quick Header

• Adding A Quick Footer

• Switching Between Headers And Footers

• Typing Text Into Headers And Footers

• Modifying Headers And Footers

• Adding Page Numbering

• Adding Date Information

• Adding Workbook Information

• Adding A Picture

• Formatting Headers And Footers

• Dragging Margins For Headers And Footers

• Creating A Different First Page

• Different Odd And Even Pages

Charting techniques

• Understanding Chart Layout Elements

• Adding A Chart Title

• Adding Axes Titles

• Positioning The Legend

• Showing Data Labels

• Showing A Data Table

• Modifying The Axes

• Showing Gridlines

• Showing The Plot Area

• Adding A Trendline

• Adding Error Bars

• Adding A Text Box To A Chart

• Drawing Shapes In A Chart

Logical functions

• Understanding Logical Functions

• Using IF To Display Text

• Using IF To Calculate Values

• Nesting IF Functions

• Using IFERROR

• Using TRUE And FALSE

• Using AND

• Using OR

• Using NOT

Formula techniques

• Scoping A Formula

• Developing A Nested Function

• Creating Nested Functions

• Editing Nested Functions

• Copying Nested Functions

• Using Concatenation

• Switching To Manual Recalculation

• Forcing A Recalculation

• Pasting Values From Formulas

• Pasting Formulas As Pictures

Filtering data

• Understanding Filtering

• Applying And Using A Filter

• Clearing A Filter

• Creating Compound Filters

• Multiple Value Filters

• Creating Custom Filters

• Using Wildcards

Questions, questions

Before you start the course we will send you a questionnaire to find out what you know already and what your expectations are for the course.

Venues

You can either come along to our state of the art computer lab, or if you would prefer we can come to your location.

A choice of delivery methods

We can offer a variety of delivery methods:

• One day workshops – either at our venue or bespoke at your venue

• 2 hour ‘bionic bursts’ (bespoke, focused, cost effective) at your venue

• At your desk training – we can work individually with up to 5 people at their desks during one day at your venue (highly bespoke & cost effective)

Your facilitator

Emma Konopka, your principal facilitator, has over 10 years teaching and training experience and experience of supporting clients in their use of a variety of professional research databases. With an MA in Information Studies, Emma combines her experience and knowledge with an engaging facilitator style.

Emma passionately believes in the power of collaboration and discovery in learning. Both of these help learners to learn more efficiently and retain more of the learning in the long term. Learners will be encouraged to play, experiment and work in groups. This accelerated learning style includes such techniques as:

• Problem-solving activities (wherever possible based on your real life problems)

• Collaborative group work

• Activities that engage the body as well as the mind (movement & physical activity help learning)

• Active encouragement of questions

• Lots of practice

Taster session

If you would like to get a taste of our one day workshops we can offer a free 1 hour trial at your offices. You will get to discuss your needs with Emma, you can choose any part of the workshop to see in action and preview the learning materials.

Name dropping

When you sign up for Microsoft Excel 2007 (intermediate), you will be in good company:

“I just wanted to thank you for providing such a stimulating and thought-provoking course. I will certainly be implementing the tips and suggestions just as soon as I can. I returned to the office today with renewed vigour and cannot wait for the positive changes to start happening. You’re one smart cookie – keep doing what you’re doing, only good things can happen by taking the Today’s Pa training and I, for one, will spread the word!”

Hayley North – Microsoft

Below are just some of the other companies who have sent their staff to our workshops recently:

• 2012

• AXA Insurance

• Barclays

• The British Library

• Brunel University

• Carphone Warehouse

• DLA Piper

• Girlguiding UK

• The Home Office

• Investa Real Estate

• Npower

• Pepsico

• Rugby Football Union

• Shell

• Surrey Police

• UBS

• Virgin

Fee

This course is available at our computer suite for £199. For a bespoke course at your venue please call 020 7622 2400 for more details.

Our philosophy

Courses and workshops from Indiquo are designed to engage and entertain, as well as inform – that’s how we can promise to make what can seem to be the dullest of subjects interesting.

Our trainers have real-world experience at all levels of the organisation, so they speak your language and understand your issues and problems. And because they have ‘been there and done that’, they know how to get straight to the heart of every subject.