Excel Apprenticeship Series: From Beginner to Formula Master
Leveraging a Decade of Professional Experience to Transform Students into Excel Wizards by Solving Real World Problems
About This Course
Published 5/2016
English
Course Description
The Excel Apprenticeship Series is focused on transforming students into Excel Wizards to give them a distinct competitive advantage over their peers. This installment of the series is about mastering the art and science of problem solving with formulas in Excel.
The course takes a unique approach that is rooted in solving real world problems. This gives students an apprenticeship experience as opposed to a traditional lecture approach. By the end of the course, students will have worked nearly 170 examples and will have learned how to leverage Excel to solve just about any problem they might face in practice. Students will cover just under 100 functions in the course and will be proficient in reading and writing even the most complex formulas in Excel.
The course is broken down into two modules. The first module provides an introduction to Excel. This module is intended to get everyone on the same page, so even those who have never used Excel can feel comfortable starting with this course.
The second module teaches students how to become formula masters and expert problem solvers with Excel. This module is broken down into seven sections that are mapped to functional areas, once again putting an emphasis on how Excel is used in the real world.
This course offers students:
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The course takes a unique approach that is rooted in solving real world problems. This gives students an apprenticeship experience as opposed to a traditional lecture approach. By the end of the course, students will have worked nearly 170 examples and will have learned how to leverage Excel to solve just about any problem they might face in practice. Students will cover just under 100 functions in the course and will be proficient in reading and writing even the most complex formulas in Excel.
The course is broken down into two modules. The first module provides an introduction to Excel. This module is intended to get everyone on the same page, so even those who have never used Excel can feel comfortable starting with this course.
The second module teaches students how to become formula masters and expert problem solvers with Excel. This module is broken down into seven sections that are mapped to functional areas, once again putting an emphasis on how Excel is used in the real world.
This course offers students:
- Over 16 hours of valuable video instruction that is uniquely structured to share the lessons learned from over a decade of professional experience
- Over 125 quiz questions strategically placed throughout the course to help test your understanding and reinforce what you’ve learned
- A Practical Application Workbook and solution manual for each section
- An Excel Wizard’s Guide to Critical Skills
- A Comprehensive Data Aggregation Reference Sheet
- Recent or soon to be college graduates
- Individuals who work in analyst, consulting, management, or supervisory roles
- Individuals looking to gain a tangible skill on their resume
- Individuals looking to gain a competitive advantage over their peers
Recent studies show it pays to know Excel. Get started today!
What are the requirements?
- Students will need to have access to Microsoft Excel. The course is taught in Excel 2010. For the best experience students should have Excel 2010 or later. However, many of the concepts taught in this course are related to the core functions in Excel, which have not changed much since Excel 2003. Therefore, if you only have access to Excel 2003, you will still be able to follow along and will get quite a bit of value from the course.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Become a formula master who is proficient in reading and writing even the most complex formulas in Excel.
- Understand the majority of Excel’s built in functions and how to use them to efficiently solve a wide range of problems.
- Creatively write formulas to address complex practical problems by combining functions together.
- Save time by learning tips, tricks, and traps to look out for as I share advice that I’ve acquired over the years.
What is the target audience?
- This course is for individuals who have a desire to be phenomenal at writing formulas and problem solving in Excel. The people that will benefit from this course the most are recent or soon to be college grads, individuals working in analyst, consulting, management, or supervisory roles, individuals looking to gain a tangible skill on their resume, or individuals who currently use Excel in their daily job and would like to better understand how they can leverage Excel to help them with their work.
- This course is not for casual students who are looking to learn just the basics of Excel. Also, because this course focuses on how to process and transform data using Excel’s built-in functions in depth, it does not cover pivot tables or the visualization of data (charting). These topics are covered separately in their own course. If you already know how to use Excel’s reference functions, can write your own array formulas to aggregate data conditionally, and have plenty of experience working with strings, dates, and times, this course is probably not for you.
- As a bonus, this course has an entire module that is dedicated to covering the basics needed to get newbies up to speed so that they can benefit from this course as well.
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