Excel In-depth: Advanced Excel Keyboarding
Work Better, Faster, Smarter

Course Objective: Work like a Pro in Excel by keeping your hands closer to the keyboard, and eliminating the use of the mouse. This class will increase your productivity, help you become more efficient by fully using Excel, and reduce the strain on your muscles from unnecessary, time-consuming wrist movements. Build formulas, work with charts, navigate workbooks and tabs, and even build a pivot table ALL without the use of your mouse.

Prerequisites: Be familiar with formulas (VLOOKUP, MIN, MAX, SUMIFS, and AVERAGEIFS), pivot tables, and charts.

Keyboarding Highlights:

• Get to know the most commonly used power shortcuts
• Learn the fast ways to select large amounts of data
• Create and work with formulas, across tabs and workbooks
• Work with data tools such as filters, sorting, and subtotals

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Keyboard Shortcuts

• Navigate Windows/Desktop
• General Microsoft Office Shortcut Keys
• Common Accelerator Keys and Key Tip Badges

Lesson 2: Working with an Excel Workbook

• Ribbon and Quick Access Options
• Navigate within Excel
• Data Selection
• Dialog Boxes
• Use submenus

Lesson 3: Modifying/Formatting Data and Worksheets

• Format Worksheet
• Format Data
• Copy and Fill Down Formulas and Values in Large Data Sets

Lesson 4: Managing Multiple Workbooks

• View options
• Work across workbooks

Lesson 5: Data Tools

• Sort, Filter
• Import Data
• Tables/Named Ranges

Lesson 6: Formulas

• Create and Modify Simple and Complex Formulas
• Link Formulas across Workbooks
• Use Function Keys within Formulas

Lesson 7: Pivot Tables

• Create and Use Pivot Tables
• Create Pivot Chart