Excel Advanced
Analyzing Data

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Course

Excel Advanced - Analyzing Data

Length
Three hours
Audience

If you do any forecasting, budgeting or data analysis, this class is for you! Learn to create and work with Pivot Tables to look at your data in a variety of ways. Maintain different “what if” versions of your data with Scenarios. Discover the Goal Seek and Solver features which allow you to test for a variety of results. Learn to use Excel’s auditing tools.

Prerequisites

Participants should use Excel regularly on an intermediate level.

Topics

Module 1: Pivot Tables

  • Creating pivot tables
  • Changing pivot tables
  • Refreshing data
  • Displaying and hiding data

Module 2: Scenarios

  • Creating scenarios
  • Editing and deleting
  • Displaying scenarios
  • Protecting scenarios

Module 3: Using the Goal Seek Feature

  • What is goal seek?
  • Using goal seek to reach a desired result

Module 4: Using the Solver Feature

  • What is Solver?
  • Using Solver to determine resulting values with multiple variables and constraints

Module 5: Using the Auditing Tools

  • The Auditing toolbar
  • Tracing precedent and dependent cells
  • Tracing errors
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