Microsoft® Office Excel 2003: Advanced
(One-day workshop)

Description
You have used Microsoft® Office Excel 2003 to perform tasks such as running calculations on data and sorting and filtering numeric data. You would now like to automate some common tasks, apply advanced analysis techniques to more complex data sets, collaborate on worksheets with others, and share Excel data with other applications. In this course, you will do all of these things. You will automate some common Excel tasks, apply advanced analysis techniques to more complex data sets, collaborate on worksheets with others, and share Excel data with other applications.

Intended Audience
This course was designed for students desiring to gain the skills necessary to create macros, collaborate with others, audit and analyze worksheet data, create PivotTables© and PivotCharts©, incorporate multiple data sources, and import and export data. In addition, the course is also for students desiring to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Excel 2003 or Module 2-Key Applications of the Internet and Computing Core Certification (IC3) exam, and who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print worksheets that include charts and sorted and filtered data.

Prerequisites
To ensure your success, we recommend you first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
      Microsoft® Office Excel 2003: Basic
      Microsoft® Office Excel 2003: Intermediate

Topics Include:

• Lesson 1: Streamlining Workflow
  • Create a Macro
  • Edit a Macro
  • Customize Access to Excel Commands
  • Apply Conditional Formatting
  • Add Data Validation Criteria
  • Update a Workbook's Properties
  • Modify Excel's Default Settings
  
  
  
• Lesson 2: Collaborating with Others
  • Protect Files
  • Share a Workbook
  • Set Revision Tracking
  • Review Tracked Revisions
  • Merge Workbooks
  • Adjust Macro Settings
  • Administer Digital Signatures
  
  
  
• Lesson 3: Auditing Worksheets
  • Trace Cell Precedents
  • Trace Cell Dependents
  • Locate Errors in Formulas
  • Locate Invalid Data and Formulas
  • Watch and Evaluate Formulas
  • Group and Outline Data
  
  
  
• Lesson 4: Analyzing Data
  • Create a Trendline
  • Create Scenarios
  • Perform What-If Analysis
  • Develop a PivotTable© Report
  • Develop a PivotChart© Report
  • Perform Statistical Analysis with the Analysis ToolPak
  
  
  
• Lesson 5: Working with Multiple Workbooks
  • Create a Workspace
  • Consolidate Data
  • Link Cells in Different Workbooks
  • Edit Links
  
  
  
• Lesson 6: Importing and Exporting Data
  • Export to Microsoft Word
  • Import a Word Table
  • Import Text Files
  
  
  
• Lesson 7: Structuring XML Workbooks
  • Develop XML Maps
  • Import, Add, and Export XML Data
  • Manage XML Workbooks
  • Apply XML View Options

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nSight is a Certified Provider member of the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET)—a nonprofit association dedicated to quality continuing education and training programs. nSight is certified to offer continuing education credits (CEUs) to students who successfully complete its training workshops. One (1) CEU is equal to ten (10) contact hours. Learn more at www.IACET.org.

Each 1-day course offers .8 CEU. Each 2-day course offers 1.6 CEUs.