Excel Essentials

Dive into Excel Essentials and transform your data analysis skills. Starting with Conditional Formatting, you will learn how to highlight key data points, manage rules, and visualize data with color scales and icon sets. The course then explores advanced filtering techniques, including text, number, and date filters, ensuring you can quickly sift through large datasets. Learn to remove duplicates, outline data, and find unique values, enhancing your data accuracy and presentation.

Progressing to sorting techniques, you'll discover how to organize data by various criteria, use custom sort orders, and even randomize lists. The course also covers essential cell formatting, including merging cells, wrapping text, and adjusting decimal places for precise data presentation. Printing essentials such as setting page breaks and formatting print areas are also detailed, ensuring your spreadsheets are print-ready.

In workbook management, you'll master the ribbon, protect your files with passwords, and safeguard specific sheets and cells from unauthorized changes. Learn to use the Quick Access Toolbar, understand workbook themes, and recover unsaved work. The final sections focus on worksheets, covering viewing multiple sheets, spell checking, freezing panes, and consolidating data across sheets for comprehensive data management.

What you will learn

• Apply conditional formatting to enhance data visualization
• Use advanced filters to refine data selection
• Sort and organize data using various criteria
• Format cells for better data presentation
• Protect and manage workbooks and worksheets
• Consolidate data from multiple sheets effectively

Audience

This course is designed for professionals and students who have a basic understanding of Excel and want to advance their skills. Prerequisites include familiarity with basic Excel operations such as entering data, using simple formulas, and basic navigation of the Excel interface.

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