Excel Training Course Level 3 UK Wide - On-site and Online

Advanced Microsoft Excel Training Course

On our Advanced Excel course you will master some of Excel's more sophisticated analytic features such as working with What-If analysis, PivotTables, PivotCharts, Sparklines and formula auditing.

This one-day advanced Excel training course offers a flexible range of topics based around your requirements and is available either 'face-to-face' at your premises or as a live virtual classroom event. Once we have a date arranged, your dedicated trainer will call to discuss your requirements and ensure that we meet your training needs.

Our private Excel courses cost £450.00 plus VAT p/d inclusive up to 3 learners. Add more people at £50.00 plus VAT p/d up to a limit of 10. Trainer mileage costs apply for on-site courses.

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.

Our courses can be taught on the following versions: Excel 365, 2024, 2021 and 2019.

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 course and be confident using functions such as IFs and VLOOKUP.

On-site Microsoft Excel Advanced Courses in the United Kingdom

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

Excel is one of the most powerful and useful traditional Microsoft Office apps, but also often one with which people can struggle most, and that they find the most frustrating to work with. In fact, having staff who are confident and proficient with MS Excel doesn't only increase productivity and efficiency, it can even be good for morale.

Our trainers know that helping students to work more effectively isn't just a business goal, it's also empowering. They aren't just educators, they're also software champions who promote enthusiastic adoption of Excel amongst their trainees. Before the start date they'll discuss your team's training goals with you, whether they're setting off 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 whether you're in a major city such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, or anywhere else.

This offers a 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 - UK & Beyond

If you'd rather that your team learns remotely, these small-group Microsoft Excel courses are also available as live virtual, interactive sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we've all become used to Online learning (and live virtual meetings) it is clear that virtual classroom delivery has some advantages over traditional face-to-face learning.

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

Our virtual learning Microsoft Excel courses cater for classes of up to 10 and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with the trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is enriched by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

Our virtual classroom Microsoft Excel courses cost £550.00 plus VAT p/day inclusive up to 5 delegates. More learners can be added up to a limit of 10 charged at £50.00 plus VAT per person p/day. Courseware will be provided electronically.

Do you Record your Live Virtual Microsoft Excel Advanced Courses?

In our experience recording live Excel courses delivered via MS Teams isn't necessarily a great idea. Problems include recordings failing due to live Teams updates and also client bandwidth issues caused by streaming meetings and recording simultaneously. In order to avoid disruptions, our instructors do not record our live virtual Microsoft Excel Advanced courses.

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 depends on the number of learners you have (up to our ten per course limit), we encourage clients to keep class sizes small. This provides a more personable and effective learning experience and allows the trainer to give individual attention to every student.

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

The teaching methodology for our Excel courses is Instructor-led training (ILT), meaning that our courses are engaging, immersive, hands-on and interactive. With this participatory learning method your staff will retain information better, whether they're studying Excel in-person or via live virtual classroom.

And, whilst we're happy to provide lectures, show-and-tells and drop-in surgeries, the ILT approach is by far the most reliable way 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 are 9.30AM to 4.30PM with a lunch hour and short breaks morning and afternoon. This timetable is fairly standard across the industry and gives six hours of hands-on Excel learning, which is an optimal day's training for comfortably absorbing and retaining information and completing practice exercises.

If you want a different start time for your course please let us know.

Courses are run week days, during normal business hours.

How Long Does it Take to Learn Excel?

To get from beginners to 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 trainer will speak to you before your course to confirm which subjects are best-fitted to your group's L&D objectives.

Why Choose Our Excel Courses?

• Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led Advanced Excel training provided in-person with engaging step-by-step demos, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Q&A Courses: Dynamic and interactive Excel courses with ample time for questions and answers.
  
  
• Flexible Courses: Expert tuition, tailored to your team's knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Excel skills that your trainees need most.
  
  
• Small Class Sizes: Private, corporate Advanced Excel training with a limit of 10 participants to ensure personalised attention.
  
  
• Scalable Courses: Can be run as one or more courses, or as a training rollout bringing entire departments and organisations up to the benchmark of Excel knowledge and confidence needed.

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.

Actual course content may vary, depending upon your learning requirements.

• Module 1: Create Variable-Driven Scenarios with What-If Analytics
  1. What-If Analysis: One-Input Table
  2. What-If Analysis: Two-Input Table
     
     
• Module 2: Back-Calculate with Goal Seek to Achieve Desired Output Values
  1. What-If Analysis: Goal Seek Formulas
  2. What-If Analysis: Goal Seek Functions
     
     
• Module 3: Aggregate and Analyse Large Sets of Data with PivotTables
  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
  6. Generate PivotTables with Copilot
     
     
• Module 4: Excel Pivot Charts
  1. Creating a PivotChart from your PivotTable
  2. Filtering a PivotChart
     
     
• Module 5: Concisely Visualise Data Trends with 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: Bulletproof Your Calculations With Formula Auditing
  1. Trace Precedents
  2. Trace Dependants
  3. Trace Errors
     
     

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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 along with Pivot Tables, Power Pivot and Power Pivot Measures

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