Overview:
This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2010: Part 1 (Second Edition) course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that you can use to create dashboards. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable intelligence from it, and present that information to decision makers is the cornerstone of driving a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.
Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to create dashboards in Microsoft Office Excel 2010.
You will:
- Create advanced formulas.
- Automate workbook functionality.
- Apply conditional logic.
- Visualize data by using basic charts
- Implement advanced charting techniques.
- Analyze data by using PivotTables, slicers, and PivotCharts.
Target Student:
This course is designed for students who already have foundational knowledge and skills in Excel 2010 and who wish to begin taking advantage of some of the higher-level functionality in Excel to summarize table data in Excel by using functions, charts, and pivot tables and display those elements in a dashboard format.This course is a combination of selected topics from the Logical Operations courses Microsoft® Office Excel® 2010: Part 2 and Microsoft® Office Excel® 2010: Part 3 and is specifically designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge to create effective dashboards. If students have already taken these two courses, they are unlikely to garner much new information from this course.