The tentative schedule for 3 days is as follows:

Day-1/3

Working with Formulas and Functions (Essentials,

preparing data for the analysis):
• A review of essential functions
• Referencing Functions (circular references)
• Logical functions
• IF & Nested IF, AND, OR, CHOOSE
• Error checking
• Date & Time functions
• TODAY, DATE, EDATE
• Statistical functions(aggregation)
• Average/IFs, Sum/Ifs, Count/IFs
• Standard deviation, correlation, mean,
median
• Text functions
• CLEAN, TRIM, LEFT, MID, RIGHT
• Functions for formatting text data
• Financial Functions
• Consolidation Functions:
• Consolidating Worksheets using
VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP, INDEX, MATCH, OFFSET
• VLOOKUP & HLOOKUP for approximate &
exact match, nesting lookup functions
• Importance of range names and Name Manager
• Referencing & Ranges

Analyzing Data with Excel:

• Creating Pivot table using single & multiple worksheets
• Summarizing & manipulating Pivot table data
• Sorting & filtering Pivot table data
• Applying conditional formatting
• Calculations in pivots & usage of slicers
• Data Tables
Day-2/3
Advanced Pivot Options:
• Creating, sorting and filtering data
• Formatting styles
• Numbers, and layouts
• Grouping data
• Value Comparisons
• Row and Column Comparisons
• Adding running totals and percentage totals
• Combining multiple data sources
• Conditional formatting
• Other classes covering Pivot Tables

Advanced Formulas:
• Statistical functions(aggregation)
• Average/IFs, Sum/Ifs, Count/IFs
• Rank, quartile, decile, percentile
• TREND, FORECAST
• Advanced Formulas
• Arrays
• 3D Formulas
• Data validation
• Data integrity issues
• Setting validation
• Cleaning invalid data
Dynamic formulae
• Dynamic named ranges
• Dynamic charts

Managing multiple worksheets & workbooks:

• Utility Tasks Associated with Multiple Worksheets
• Arranging and viewing large amounts of Data
• Data Consolidation Tools
• Working with Multiple Worksheets
• Creating 3D formulas to get data from multiple
worksheets
• Working with multiple workbooks
• Locating and managing links between multiple
workbooks
• Embedding and linking
• Editing and embedded object
• Editing a linked object
• Linking as an icon

Using Advanced Excel features:

• Worksheet protection and security
 • Data Validation
• Text to column, use of delimiter, etc

Overview of Dash boarding:

• What is dash board & Excel dash board.
• Principles of great dashboard design
• Common mistakes dashboard design
• Selecting the correct chart to display data
• Adding icons and images to dashboards
• Effective use of colour and logos
• Making dashboards dynamic

Day-3/3
MS VBA for Excel as mentioned in the syllabus shared.

Introducing VBA
• What is Logic?
• What Is VBA?
• Introduction to Macro Recordings, IDE

How VBA Works with Excel

• Working In the Visual Basic Editor
• Introducing the Excel Object Model
• Using the Excel Macro Recorder
• VBA Sub and Function Procedures

Key Components of Programming language

• Essential VBA Language Elements
• Keywords & Syntax
• Programming statements
• Variables & Data types
• Comments
• Operators
• Working with Range Objects

A look at some commonly used code snippets

Programming constructs in VBA

• Control Structures
• Looping Structures
• The With- End with Block

Functions & Procedures in VBA –Modularizing your programs

• Worksheet & workbook functions
• Automatic Procedures and Events
• Arrays
Objects & Memory Management in VBA
• The NEW and SET Key words
• Destroying Objects – The Nothing Keyword

Error Handling

Controlling accessibility of your code – Accessspecifiers

Code Reusability – Adding references andcomponents to your code

Communicating with Your Users

• Simple Dialog Boxes
• User Form Basics
• Using User Form Controls
• Add-ins
• Accessing Your Macros through the UserInterface
• Retrieve information through Excel fromAccess Database using VBA