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Microsoft Excel Beginner to Advanced Course

No. Topic Date Status
1. Introduction to Microsoft Excel
1.0 What is Excel & What Does it Do? 16th Oct 2023
1.1 How to get and Install Microsoft Office Apps on your PC. 8:30 PM EAT
1.2 Introduction to Microsoft Excel User Interface.
1.3 How to Create an Excel File (Workbook) and Store Data.
1.4 How to Customize the User Interface & QAT. 17th Oct 2023
1.5 Understanding the Different CURSOR Types in Excel & Windows. 8:30 PM EAT
Exercise and Test.
2. Understanding the Excel Data Types
2.0 What are Excel Data Types?
1.1 Understanding the Different NUMBER Data Types. 18th Oct 2023
2.2 Understanding the Different TEXT Data Types. 8:30 PM EAT
2.3 Understanding the Different LOGICAL Data Types.
2.4 Understanding the Different ERROR Data Types.
2.5 Understanding the 11 Excel Number or Data Formats. 19th Oct 2023
Exercise and Test. 8:30 PM EAT
3. Basic Formulas, Auto Fill & Custom Lists
3.0 Addition, Subtraction, multiplication, and division. 23rd Oct 2023
3.1 Auto Filling Items in Excel. 8:30 PM EAT
3.2 Using the existing Custom Lists.
3.3 Creating Unique Customized Custom Lists. 24th Oct 2023
3.4 Sorting using Custom Lists. 8:30 PM EAT
Exercise and Test.
4. Finding and Replacing Values in Excel
4.0 How does the Find and Replace Excel feature Work? 25th Oct 2023
4.1 Find within the Workbook or Worksheet Options. 8:30 PM EAT
4.2 Searching by Rows or Columns & look within Values or Formulas.
4.3 Match Case or Entire Cell Contents. 26th Oct 2023
4.4 Find and Replace Custom Formatting. 8:30 PM EAT
Exercise and Test.
5. Introduction to Data Validation
5.0 What is Data Validation in Excel?
5.1 How to Add Data Validation in your Excel Worksheets. 30th Oct 2023
5.2 Whole Numbers and Decimals Validation Rules. 8:30 PM EAT
5.3 Date and Time Validations.
5.4 Text Length Validation Criteria.
5.5 Drop Down Lists (Static and Dynamic).
5.6 Custom Data Validation Rules with Formulas.
5.7 How to Edit, Copy, Find, and Remove Data Validation Rules. 31st Oct 2023
5.8 Excel Data Validation Based on another Cell Value. 8:30 PM EAT
5.9 Why and How to Fix Data Validation Not Working.
Exercise and Test.
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6. Cell Referencing Styles

6.0 What is Cell Referencing?
6.1 What does a Range Reference look like & how to create one? 1st Nov 2023
6.2 Understand Excel Reference Styles (A1 and R1C1) 8:30 PM EAT
6.3 How to Create References in Excel Formulas
6.4 What is & how to do Cross-Referencing?
6.5 Circular References. 2nd Nov 2023
6.6 How to Write 3D References in 3D Formulas. 8:30 PM EAT
6.7 Structured Table Referencing and named Ranges.
6.8 Relative, Absolute, and Mixed Cell Referencing. 6th Nov 2023
Exercise and Test 8:30 PM EAT
7. Formula Auditing Tools
7.0 Tracing Precedents
7.1 Tracing Dependents
7.2 Show the Formulas Tab in the Audit 7th Nov 2023
7.3 Tracing for Errors and Error Checking Techniques 8:30 PM EAT
7.4 Evaluating Formulas
Exercise/Test
8. Sorting and Filtering Data
8.0 What does Sorting Do?
8.1 Sorting by One Column
8.2 Multiple-Level (columns) Sorting
8.3 Sort by Conditional Formats
8.4 Understanding the Sort Orders 8th Nov 2023
8.5 Sort Errors and Empty Cells 8:30 PM EAT
8.6 Filtering Static & Dynamic Datasets
8.7 Dynamic Array Filter Functionality
8.8 AND and OR Logical Test Filters
Exercise/Test
9. Workbook Structure & File Protection
9.0 Excel Worksheet Protection (the Basics) 9th Nov 2023
9.1 How to Password Protect an Excel Workbook. 8:30 PM EAT
9.2 How to Password Protect an Excel Worksheet.
9.3 How to Password Protect Excel Cells 13th Nov 2023
9.4 Protection without a Password 8:30 PM EAT
9.5 How to Unlock a Protected Workbook if you forget password
Exercise/Test
10. Text Functions for Text Data Manipulation in Excel
10.0 How to clean up & organize text data using the below functions 14th Nov 2023
10.1 CLEAN, CONCAT, FIND, SEARCH, LEFT, LEN, LOWER, UPPER 8:30 PM EAT
10.2 TRIM, RIGHT, CHAR, MID, PROPER, SUBSTITUTE, TEXT JOIN
10.3 TEXT BEFORE, TEXT AFTER, TEXTSPLIT, UNICODE, UNICHAR 15th Nov 2023
10.4 REPLACE, NUMBER VALUE 8:30 PM EAT
10.5 How to Remove Non-Printing Characters
Exercise/Test
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11. Logical Functions (IF, XOR, AND, OR)

11.0 What are Logical Functions?
11.1 The 3 Common Logical Functions (AND, OR and IF) 16th Nov 2023
11.2 How to Write Excel IF statements 8:30 PM EAT
11.3 Understanding the Boolean Data Types of TRUE and FALSE
11.4 What are Comparison Operators & how do you use them?
11.5 The Logical Test Golden Rules
11.6 Making Real-World Business Decisions using the IF statements 20th Nov 2023
11.7 Advanced Conditional Logical Tests 8:30 PM EAT
11.8 How to use Logical tests in Excel Charts for Visualization
Exercise/Test
12. Lookup and Referencing Functions in Excel
12.0 What are Lookup and Referencing Functions? 21st Nov 2023
12.1 How to use VLOOKUP Approximate and Exact Range Lookups. 8:30 PM EAT
12.2 Full Record Retrieval using VLOOKUP with ROWS & COLUMNS.
12.3 Partial Text Lookup (LEFT, MID, RIGHT & SEARCH) functions. 22nd Nov 2023
12.4 2-Way VLOOKUP with the MATCH function. 8:30 PM EAT
12.5 How to use the MATCH and the INDEX functions together.
12.6 How does the XLOOKUP function work? 23rd Nov 2023
12.7 The Difference between XLOOKUP and VLOOKUP with examples 8:30 PM EAT
Exercise/Test
13. Conditional Formatting in Excel
13.0 Conditional Formatting in Excel with Built-in features.
13.1 Highlighting Cell Rules with Built-in Commands.
13.2 Top/Bottom Rules using Built-in Commands.
13.3 Data Bars with Gradient and Solid Bars for Visualization. 27th Nov 2023
13.4 How to use Color Scales for Conditional Formatting. 8:30 PM EAT
13.5 Icon Sets for Data Visualization in Excel.
13.6 How to Manage Existing Conditional Formatting Rules.
13.7 Advanced Conditional Formatting using Formulas. 28th Nov 2023
Exercise/Test 8:30 PM EAT
14. Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts
14.0 Understanding Excel Tables (normal range vs. Excel tables) 29th Nov 2023
14.1 What are Pivot Tables? 8:30 PM EAT
14.2 Customizing Pivot Tables with Different Pivot Table Layouts.
14.3 Understand the Value Field Settings
14.4 Grouping Pivot Table Data 30th Nov 2023
14.5 Sorting and Filtering Pivot Table Data 8:30 PM EAT
14.6 Pivot Table Slicers or Visual Filters
14.7 Pivot Table Calculated Fields and Items
14.8 Creating Pivot Charts for Dashboards 4th Dec 2023
14.9 Conditional Formatting of Pivot Tables 8:30 PM EAT
14.10 Get Pivot Data Formula
14.11 Dashboard Designing using Pivot Tables
Exercise/Test
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15. Power Query (Get and Transform Data in Excel)

What is Power Query?
What challenges does Power Query solve in Excel? 7th Dec 2023
Key features of Power Query like, 8:30 PM EAT
Clean and Transform Data
Automation of Repetitive Tasks
Connect to Different Sources of Data, combine, and analyze. 11th Dec 2023
Data Preparation and Shaping for Analysis. 8:30 PM EAT
Create Intuitive and Informative Reports
Exercise/test
16. Final Course Projects
Financial Reporting and analysis using learned functions & features. 12th Dec 2023
Dashboard Report Design Project using Pivot Tables & Pivot Charts. 13th Dec 2023
Designing a Project Timeline & Gantt Chart 14th Dec 2023
Data Cleaning & Transformation using Power Query 15th Dec 2023
Submission of Project Files to Qualify for Certificate. 20th Dec 2023