Excel
Advanced Excel Keyboarding
Build practical, job-ready Excel skills with hands-on, instructor-led training focused on real business tasks.
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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
Course outline
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