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Advanced Microsoft Excel Training Course

On this Advanced Excel training course you will learn to master some of the more sophisticated features of Excel such as working with What-If analysis, PivotTables, PivotCharts, subtotals, protecting workbooks and worksheets as well as formula auditing.

Our one-day advanced Excel training courses offer a flexible range of topics based around your requirements and are available either 'face-to-face' ay your premises or as live and fully interactive virtual training events. Once we have a date arranged and a trainer allocated to you, your dedicated trainer will call you to discuss your requirements and ensure that we meet your Excel training needs across a wide range of subjects.

Email us or call 0844 493 3699 to find out more about booking MS Excel training for your team.


Our expert trainers come to you and can deliver this Microsoft Excel Advanced course at your premises across most regions of mainland UK, or virtually from anywhere.

Microsoft Excel versions available for training courses include: Excel 365, MS Excel 2021, MS Excel 2019, MS Excel 2016 and MS Excel 2013.


Microsoft Excel Advanced Training Course Prerequisites

In order to attend this course you should already have Excel skills and knowledge equivalent to our Excel Intermediate training course.



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On-site Microsoft Excel Advanced Courses in the United Kingdom

Our closed courses for Microsoft Excel are delivered as private courses for your learners offering more flexibility than off-the-shelf public courses and topics taught can often be tailored to match your particular learning needs.

Excel is one of the most powerful and useful of the traditional Microsoft Office applications, but also often the one with which people can struggle the most, and that they find the most frustrating to work with. In fact, having team members and colleagues that are confident and proficient with Microsoft's Excel software can not only increase productivity and efficiency in the workplace, it can even be good for morale.

Our mobile trainers understand that helping their students to work more effectively is not just a business-oriented goal, it is also empowering for the individual students themselves. As such, our trainers are not just educators, they also champions of the software who endeavour to promote enthusiastic adoption of Excel among those they teach. Before the start date they will discuss with you the goals and objectives of the training and those skill-sets that your team need the most whether they are starting as novice, intermediate or advanced users.

Our Regional Trainers Come to You

With our on-site courses our regional Microsoft Excel trainers come to your workplace throughout England, bringing the training to you regardless of whether you are in a major city such as London, Manchester, Birmingham or Leeds, or anywhere else. This offers a really cost-effective way to train small groups and entire departments in the comfort of familiar surroundings from the Capital City of London to The Cotswolds, from Hampshire to Northamptonshire, West Midlands to West Yorkshire, Sussex to South Yorkshire, Norfolk to Northumberland, Lancashire to Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire to Gloucestershire, Bristol to Berkshire, Essex to the East Riding and everywhere inbetween.




Live Virtual Classroom Training Advanced Excel Courses for the United Kingdom and Beyond

If you have a group of staff that you would prefer to be tutored remotely rather than having a trainer come out to you these small-group Microsoft Excel courses are also available Online as live virtual, interactive training sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These Online instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we are all becoming more used to Online learning and live virtual meetings it has become apparent that the virtual classroom method of delivery has many advantages over traditional face-to-face learning venues.

If you are looking for local training near you, then you can't get any closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

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Enjoyable. Professional. Great teacher.
Excel Training Stoke-on-Trent

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Our virtual learning Microsoft Excel courses cater for groups of up to ten people and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with your trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is further enhanced by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

Our realtime virtual classroom Microsoft Excel courses are charged out at £550.00 plus VAT per day inclusive up to 5 delegates. Further learners can be added up to a maximum of 10 charged out at £50.00 plus VAT per person per day. Courseware will be provided electronically.

You can find out how to set up Microsoft Teams for a live Online virtual course here (Virtual Learning with MS Teams).


Do you Record your Live Virtual Microsoft Excel Advanced Courses?

In our experience recording live Excel courses delivered via Microsoft Teams is not necessarily a good idea. The problems you might encounter include recordings failing due to Microsoft making updates to Teams and also bandwidth issues caused by streaming live courses and recording at the same time. As such, and in order to ensure the best possible learning experience for your students (and without any unnecessary disruptions) our instructors do not record our live virtual Microsoft Excel Advanced courses.



We come to you: Our regional, mobile Microsoft Excel trainers cover most locations of mainland UK for on-site visits including the English regions of the North West, North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, Greater London, the East of England, West Midlands, East Midlands, and also some parts of the South West of England (including Wiltshire, Bristol area and Gloucestershire) and South East of England (including Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Hampshire and Surrey). Virtual classroom courses are available from anywhere via live video conferencing.



Expert Trainers

Our Microsoft Excel Trainers are:

Specialist educators with a wealth of experience and expertise, proven track records and excellent feedback.

Tailored Courses

Our Closed Microsoft Excel Courses are:

Flexible instructor-led courses catering to YOUR specific learning needs and training requirements.

18,000 students trained

Education is Our Passion:

Over 18,000 students trained across almost every industry, sector and background.




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Confidence building and some quick wins
(Flash Fill - Love it!)
Macro session very useful.

Excel Training Worcester, Worcestershire

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Commercial and Corporate Excel Courses for the Public and Private Sectors

How Many People Should Attend Our Private Microsoft Excel Advanced Courses?

Whilst the number of people who attend our private Microsoft Excel courses is essentially up to you and dependant upon the number of learners you have who need to receive the training (up to our ten delegate per course maximum), we encourage all of our clients to keep your class sizes small where possible. This provides a more personable and effective learning experience for you and allows the trainer to give more individual attention to each and every student.

What is the Teaching Method for Our Microsoft Excel Advanced Courses?

The teaching method for our private Excel courses is Instructor-led training (ILT), which means that our courses are engaging, immersive, hands-on and interactive, and thereby facilitate more effective learning and information retention. With this participatory, hands-on learning method your staff will retain information better, whether they are studying Excel in-person or via live virtual classroom. And, whilst we are happy to provide lectures, demonstrations and show-and-tells for larger groups (plus drop-in surgeries for ad hoc technical advice and explanation), the instructor-led training approach is by far the most reliable teaching methodology to bring your Excel know-how to life in a small class size setting.

How Long are Our Microsoft Excel Advanced Courses?

Usual teaching hours for this one-day course are 9.30AM to 4.30PM with an hour for lunch and two short breaks morning and afternoon. This timetable is fairly standard across UK training providers and gives six hours of hands-on Excel learning, which is an optimal day's training when it comes to comfortably absorbing knowledge, undertaking practice exercises and retaining information.

If you need an earlier or later start time for your course please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Courses are delivered week days, Monday to Friday during normal business hours.


How Long Does it Take to Learn Excel?

To get from a beginners through to an advanced level usually takes three to four days of formal training. However, in order to become proficient you will need to put into practice what you learn, and there is still an awful lot more to learn in Excel if you want to become an expert or a specialist. You can find out more here: How Long Does it Take to Learn Excel?.

What is the Best Excel Course?

The best Excel course is often the one that takes into account your particular learning needs rather than 'one size fits all' off-the-peg courses. That's why your dedicated trainer will speak to you before your course date to confirm which subjects are best-fitted to your group's learning and development objectives.




More About Our Microsoft Excel Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses for Businesses

  • Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led Advanced Excel training provided with step-by-step demonstrations, lessons and hands-on exercises.

  • Q&A courses: Dynamic and interactive Excel courses with plenty of time for questions and answers.

  • Flexible Courses: Professional tuition that's tailored to match your team's present knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Excel functions, features and techniques that your trainee staff, co-workers or employees need the most.

  • Small Class Sizes: Private, corporate Advanced Excel training for small group sizes with a maximum of 10 learners on any course.

  • Scalable Courses: Can be run as a single course, tutorial or workshop; Or as a training rollout bringing whole teams, departments and organisations up to the benchmark level of Excel knowledge and confidence that you require.


Advanced Excel Training Course Topics

You can combine Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced Excel topics for a blended training programme of up to four days in duration.

We specialise in delivering flexible training programmes and the actual course content, topics and syllabus taught will often vary depending upon your learning requirements and upon the version of the software taught.


  • Module 1: Working with What-If
    1. What-If Analysis: One-Input Table
    2. What-If Analysis: Two-Input Table

  • Module 2: Working with Goal Seek
    1. What-If Analysis: Goal Seek Formulas
    2. What-If Analysis: Goal Seek Functions

  • Module 3: Pivot Tables
    1. Introduction to Field Lists, Report Filters, Row and Column Labels)
    2. Creating and Designing a PivotTable Report
    3. Manipulating PivotTables and Pivoting your Data
    4. Working with Dynamic Ranges
    5. PivotTable Slicers

  • Module 4: Excel Pivot Charts
    1. Creating a PivotChart from your PivotTable
    2. Filtering a PivotChart

  • Module 5: Sparklines
    1. What Are Sparklines?
    2. Create Sparklines

  • Module 6: The Subtotal Tab
    1. Create Subtotals
    2. Create Multiple Subtotals
    3. Subtotal Outline Levels

  • Module 7: Protecting Worksheets
    1. Protecting part of a Worksheet
    2. Unprotecting a Worksheet
    3. Setting Worksheet Permissions

  • Module 8: Protecting Workbooks
    1. When to Protect a Workbook
    2. Protecting workbook structure
    3. Protecting the Window Size

  • Module 9: Formula Auditing
    1. Trace Precedents
    2. Trace Dependants
    3. Trace Errors


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Really useful course.
Thanks very much indeed.

Excel Training Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire

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Excel Course Levels

Our Excel training courses are available for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users of Microsoft Excel

Beginners Excel
- introductory topics for working with Excel spreadsheets
Intermediate Excel
- conditional formatting, VLOOKUP, IF, apply formulas across worksheets, database features, security and conditional formatting etc.
Advanced Excel
- What-If Analysis, PivotTables, PivotCharts, Goal Seek, Sparklines, protecting workbooks, formula auditing etc.
Masterclass Excel
- 'zero to hero' three-day intensive Excel course
Excel for VBA beginners
- one or two day introduction to programming with VBA
Excel Power Query course
- Introduction to using Excel Power Query in conjunction with Pivot Tables, Power Pivot and Power Pivot Measures
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Microsoft Excel Training Reviews

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Five Star Review

I had such good feedback from your course
that I have got another team member wishing to go on it.

Microsoft Excel Training Basildon, Essex

An excellent session, indeed. Gail certainly knows her beans, and communicates them very well (apologies for the mixed metaphor). Highly recommended.
J Digby-Rogers (Specialist Excel 365 training (virtual classroom))

An excellent, clear and patient tutor who guided me through the course seamlessly.
M Menzies (Online Excel training 365 (virtual classroom))

Can I just pass on my thanks to your team for the training you provided in York. I've had lots of positive feedback from the staff involved.
J Whiley, NHS York and Selby (Excel training York, North Yorkshire)

Really useful. Really knowledgeable trainer.
A Ward, Aeromet (Advanced Excel Training Worcester, Worcestershire)

The trainer explained everything really well. I found the course easy to follow.
V Broxham, Baywa-re Operational Services (Intermediate Excel training Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire)

Happy with everything.
M Aston, Bierce Surveying Ltd (Advanced Excel Training Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire)

We have had a few people over the years but the way the trainer picked up our business and requirements so quickly – all I can is you have a diamond there.
S Jenkins, Concorde Glass (Intermediate Excel Training Grimsby, Lincolnshire)

We all thoroughly enjoyed the course, we learned a great deal and thought Sara was a brilliant trainer, very patient with a fantastic way of teaching us, so thank you for that.
C Waldock, Darlington Borough Council (Intermediate Excel training Darlington, County Durham)

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We had some really great feedback from the last two training sessions,
on the quality of the content as well as the delivery from the trainer.

Excel Training London

The content covered the exact content required after the beginners course. The information will allow me to improve the spreadsheets currently in use.
L Powell, Dudley Building Society (Intermediate Excel Training Dudley, West Midlands)

Great course!
V Franklin, E-Leather (Excel Beginners Training Peterborough, Cambridgeshire)

The training approach and style was great. Incredibly informative and supportive.
L Shier, One YMCA (Introduction to Excel Training Watford, Hertfordshire)

Great teacher!
J Smith, Fisher German (Intermediate Excel Training Canterbury, Kent)

Its an excellent course. I was impressed by the discovery of so many tools that will facilitate our working life. The trainer is excellent, everything was perfect.
S Green, HW Martin (Beginners Excel Training Cambridgeshire)

Very happy to learn so much.
O Chawishly, LM Information Delivery (Intermediate Excel Training Oxfordshire)

Covered all objectives. Wish We'd had two days.
B Hough, Homebase (VBA for Excel Training Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire)

The course was excellent, covering more in a single day of training than I anticipated would be possible with a high degree of clarity.
Unsigned, New Economy, (VBA for Excel training Manchester, North West)

First class training
B Cook, Plumbworld (Excel training Evesham, Worcestershire)

Extremely useful.
G Reece, Faiveley Transport (Intermediate Microsoft Excel training Tamworth, Staffordshire)

Very well presented, very easy to understand, day was made interesting by doing exercises as well as listening.
C Burke, CheckPrint Ltd (Excel training Hinckley, Leicestershire)

Very easy to follow and well explained
A Cresswell, Nottingham Rehab Supplies (Excel intermediate/advanced training Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire)

Tied up perfectly with previous training to produce documents and data that were previously unknown
H Metcalfe, Vecoplan Ltd (Excel training Birmingham, West Midlands)

Very informative and interesting
D Badzilay, Apollo Group (Excel intermediate training Nuneaton (Nuneaton and Bedworth), Warwickshire)

Course exceeded expectations.
K. Richards, Ashfield Homes (Microsoft Excel Training Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire)

The day was very well constructed and presented.
D. Coulthand, Crossgates Shopping Centre, Leeds (Intermediate Microsoft Excel Training Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Training very clear. Never felt rushed or pressured to comlete tasks. Each item explained and demonstrated very well. Easy to follow
S. Hope, Lear Corporation (Advanced Microsoft Excel Training Coventry, West Midlands)

Good course, good information, good trainer and at a nice tempo
A. Webster, BE Aerospace (Advanced Microsoft Excel Training Hinckley, Leicestershire)

Excellent, the best Excel course I have ever been on. Trainer gave time and patience to us all.
D. Gill, Persimmon Homes (Beginners Microsoft Excel Training Malmesbury, Wiltshire)

A very robust day's training.
T. Camp, Ideal Shopping (Beginners Microsoft Excel Training Peterborough, Cambridgeshire)



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Advanced Excel Price Guide

Group day rates for private virtual courses & workplace courses

1-3 delegates: £450 plus VAT
4 delegates: £500 plus VAT
5 delegates: £550 plus VAT
6 delegates: £600 plus VAT
7 delegates: £650 plus VAT
8 delegates: £700 plus VAT
9 delegates: £750 plus VAT
10 delegates: £800 plus VAT

- trainer travel costs apply for on-site visits-
- prices based on one-day's training -
- Laptop hire charged separately -



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