Advanced MS Excel Course torrent

SPREADSHEET CLASS

Course Description

Spreadsheets have incredible power, but alas, for most of us much that power is unused, perhaps even unrecognized. If you only knew the magic keystrokes, your work would be easier, the results would be richer and more complete, and all your friends would be impressed. Besides, spreadsheet skills are eminently marketable. Interns and graduates regularly return and report that knowing spreadsheet magic truly sets them apart from the competition and opens the doors to bigger and better opportunities. MBAs are particularly aware of this indicating that their starting salaries are $4,000-12,000 more if they have these advanced spreadsheet skills.
This class is intended to help you gain those skills. While we can’t hope to cover everything that Excel offers, we can expand your bag of tools that you use regularly, and open the door to new ideas. Here are some of the skills you will learn:

• Tips and tricks for working with menus, formats, and navigation
• Using cell and range names effectively
• Excel functions for statistics, mathematics, or finance
• Interact with web servers to automatically retrieve current data off the Internet
• Retrieve data from corporate databases
• Connect optimization models and Pivot tables directly to large databases
• Financial decision analysis models and megaformulas
• Using arrays
• Build forms for user input and parameter specifications
• Change and control Excel’s ribbon buttons (or just add your own)
• Learn the basics of Visual Basic for Applications (no prior experience needed)

Course Outline

SYLLABUS - IS 515

Class Reading/Homework
1. Chapter 3: Working With Names
2. Chapter 22: Tools and Methods for Debugging Formulas
3. Chapter 6: Working with Dates and Times
4. Chapter 17: Charting Techniques
5. Chapter 19: Conditional Formatting & Data Validation
6. Chapter 9: Databases & Lists
7. Chapters 14-15: Arrays and Performing Magic with Array Formulas
8. Circular References and Decision-Making
9. Chapter 18: Pivot Tables
10. Chapter 11: Introducing Financial Formulas
11. Chapter 12: Advanced Financial Formulas

Midterm Exam

12. Chapter 7: Counting and Summing Techniques
13. Chapter 8: Lookups
14. Chapter 5: Manipulating Text
15. Chapter 21: Megaformulas
16. Chapter 16: Importing and Cleaning Data
17. Chapters 23-26: Day 1: Visual Basic Intro & Function Basics
18. Chapters 23-26: Day 2: Visual Basic Programming Functions
19. Chapters 23-26: Day 3: Visual Basic Declaring Functions
20. VBA Follow-Up and Help Session
21. Chapter 10: Misc. Calculations
22. Power Pivot: Today’s class will be an introduction to the new 2013 Microsoft Excel tools, PowerPivot and PowerView. PowerPivot enables you to (1) import millions of rows of data from multiple data sources into a single Excel workbook, (2) create relationships between heterogeneous data, (3) create calculated columns and measures using formulas, (4) build PivotTables and PivotCharts, and then further analyze the data so that you can make timely business decisions without requiring IT assistance.
23. Monte Carlo Simulations and more with PowerView

Final Project

Final Exam