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Intermediate Microsoft Excel Training Course

This intermediate Excel training course is a closed event and offers a flexible range of subjects enabling you to focus upon the particular skill-sets you need the most for using Excel in the workplace. The duration of the course ranges from one to two days depending upon the learning needs of your staff.

On this Microsoft Excel course you can learn some of the more powerful features of Excel such as the IF function and the VLOOKUP function (or XLOOKUP for 365 users), and working with references, ranges and Excel workbook security.

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

For more recent versions of Excel you can even learn about AI enhancements to Excel spreadsheets, creating data from photos with image recognition and using Excel for intuitive insights and forecasting. You will be able to decide upon the exact topics taught in liaison with your trainer and even opt to incorporate a few subjects from the beginners or advanced level for a more blended learning solution.

Our expert trainers come to you and can deliver this Microsoft Excel Intermediate course at your premises across most regions of mainland UK (including East Midlands and West Midlands, Greater Manchester and the North West, Yorkshire, Greater London, East Anglia, Bristol area, South East and South West of England etc.), or virtually from anywhere.

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

Microsoft Excel Intermediate Training Course Prerequisites

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

On-site Microsoft Excel Intermediate 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 Microsoft Excel Intermediate courses our regional 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 Nottinghamshire 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 of Yorkshire and everywhere inbetween.

Virtual Classroom Training Excel Intermediate 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.

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 Intermediate 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 Intermediate courses.

We really ❤ love helping UK organisations to master Microsoft Excel. Our only question is: Will it be yours?

Commercial and Corporate Excel Courses for the Public and Private Sectors

How Many People Should Attend Our Private Microsoft Excel Intermediate 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 Intermediate 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 Intermediate 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.

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

• Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led Intermediate 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 Intermediate 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.

Intermediate Excel Training Course Outline

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.

Note: For Excel 365 Users VLOOKUP topics (Day 2, Module 1) can be replaced with XLOOKUP.

Day One

• Module 1: Creating Custom Number and Date Formats
  1. Applying Conditional Formatting
  2. Using Paste Special
  3. Naming Cells and Cell Ranges
  4. Defining Named Cell Ranges
  5. Editing and Deleting Named Ranges
  6. Using Named Ranges in your Formulas
     
     
• Module 2: Working with Excel Worksheets
  1. Inserting and Deleting Excel Worksheets
  2. Renaming Excel Worksheets
  3. Moving and Copying Excel Worksheets
  4. Using Grouped Excel Worksheets
     
     
• Module 3: Linking and Consolidating your Data
  1. Linking Cells and Formulas between Sheets and Workbooks
  2. Consolidating Multi-Worksheet Excel Data
     
     
• Module 4: Working with Formulas and Functions
  1. Absolute Cell Referencing
  2. Statistical Functions (Max, Min, Average, and Count Functions)
  3. Common Date and Time Functions (Time, Timevalue, Today and Weekday Functions)
  4. Introduction to Logical (IF) Functions (SumIF, CountIF and AverageIF Functions)
     
     
• Module 5: Introduction to Database Features
  1. Setting out a Database List
  2. Using the Data Form
  3. Sorting Data
  4. Filter Data Using AutoFilter
  5. Using Find and Replace
     
     
• Module 6: Introduction to Charting and Drawing
  1. Creating Charts using the Excel Chart Wizard
  2. Editing and Formatting Excel Charts
  3. Printing Excel Charts
  4. Using the Drawing Toolbar
     
     

Day Two

• Module 1: Working with IF() and VLOOKUP()¹
  1. What is the IF() Function in Excel?
  2. Multiple IFs - The Lookup Functions
  3. Working with multiple Column lookups in VLOOKUP()
  4. Using the Lookup Wizard
  5. Finishing the Lookup Wizard
  6. Rounding up or down for Calculations
     
     
• Module 2: Understanding Cell References
  1. Using Absolute Cell Referencing
  2. Using Mixed Cell References
     
     
• Module 3: Working with Ranges
  1. Applying names to Ranges of Cells
  2. Using Range Labels
  3. Creating Range Names
  4. Creating Multiple Names
  5. Using Range Names
  6. Movement and Selection
  7. Defining Names for your Formulas
  8. Applying Names
  9. Deleting Range Names
     
     
• Module 4: Working with Spreadsheet Security and Data Integrity
  1. Protecting your Excel Worksheets
  2. Validating data by applying input restrictions
  3. Creating Input Error Messages
  4. Specifying the Error Alert
  5. Protecting Cells
  6. Locking the Excel Worksheet
  7. Unprotecting the Excel Worksheet:
  8. Protecting the Excel Workbook
  9. Hiding Areas of the Worksheet
     
     
• Module 5: Advanced Spreadsheet Navigation
  1. Controlling the Screen
  2. Clearing Windows
  3. Working with Multiple Windows
  4. Freezing Row/Column Titles
  5. Using the Zooming feature
  6. Creating Custom Views
  7. Showing Views
  8. Deleting Views
  9. Full Screen View
     
     

1) Now that you've reached intermediate level, there's a good chance that VLOOKUP is the first Excel function you have encountered so far for which the purpose of the function isn't totally self explanatory.

Perhaps the best way of explaining VLOOKUP would be as a means of cross-referencing information in one column with that found in another column and then displaying the result.

So, for instance, if you had a column of unique product IDs you might want to be able to input one of those ID's into a cell and from that be able to retrieve a monthly sales figure for that product from a cell in a different column. That's where VLOOKUP comes in and it is an incredibly handy way of retrieving targetted data whether from within the same worksheet or from a centralised dashboard.

Because VLOOKUP cross-references (or looks up) information in columns we can say that it is a vertical lookup function, hence the name. And, if you happen to be using a newer version of Excel which has XLOOKUP available, then its worth knowing that this function can look up both columns and rows meaning it can search both horizontally and vertically.

MS Excel Course Levels

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

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MS Excel Course Levels

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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