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Microsoft Excel for Mac - Advanced

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Microsoft Excel for Mac - Advanced

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Estimated study time: 12h 30m
Total video time: 2h 11m
Award-winning instructor: Ken Puls
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Have some experience with Excel and want to improve your skills, or taken our Basic Excel for Mac course? This online course will help you learn intermediate and advanced Excel techniques. Supports Excel for Mac 2016. Also available: Excel Advanced (PC).

In 25 engaging lessons you will learn how to find a value with VLOOKUP, create and format Pivot Tables, record basic Macros and more.

Whether you use Excel for work or study, these tutorials will help you on your journey to becoming an Excel Ninja! Learn more about how a GoSkills Excel certification can boost your career.

Video tutorials are recorded in Microsoft Excel for Mac 2016.

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Once enrolled, our friendly support team and tutors are here to help with any course related inquiries.

  • 1
    Understanding Dates Understand how dates work in Excel using the TODAY, YEAR, MONTH, DAY and DATE functions. 4m
  • 2
    Understanding Time Understand how time works in Excel, and how to change from whole numbers into time increments and back again. 4m
  • 1
    Formula Auditing Learn to work with formula auditing tools including tracing precedent and dependent cells and formula evaluation. 4m
  • 2
    Temporal Functions Learn to work with the EOMONTH and EDATE functions that easily shift dates from one month or year to another. 4m
  • 3
    VLOOKUP with Approximate Match Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an approximate match and return it or the corresponding value from another column. 5m
  • 4
    VLOOKUP with Exact Match Learn to use VLOOKUP to find an exact match and return it or the corresponding value from another column. 5m
  • 5
    Other Lookup Methods Learn to work with INDEX, MATCH and HLOOKUP, as alternatives to the VLOOKUP function. 5m
  • 1
    Naming Ranges Learn about creating named ranges, and the benefits of doing so. 5m
  • 2
    Excel Tables Learn about creating Excel tables, and their advantages. 5m
  • 3
    Recording Macros Learn to record basic Excel macros to automate your actions (instead of doing them manually). 6m
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    Creating PivotTables Learn to create and modify basic PivotTables (for quickly summarizing and highlighting data). 5m
  • 2
    Formatting PivotTables Learn to control formatting and other options in PivotTables. 6m
  • 3
    Calculated Fields in PivotTables Learn to create and modify basic calculated fields for PivotTables. 4m
  • 4
    What-If Analysis Learn to perform what-if analysis in Excel using the Scenario Manager and Goal-Seek. 4m
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    Outlining Learn about adding and working with Excel’s outlining tools to quickly hide irrelevant sections of your worksheet. 4m
  • 2
    Custom Number Formats Learn to build your own custom number formats to display dates, values and variances how you want to see them. 5m
  • 3
    Conditional Formats with Built-In Rules Learn to create top/bottom and highlight cell rules, as well as to apply icon sets and data bars. 5m
  • 4
    Conditional Formats with Custom Rules Learn to create custom conditional formatting rules based on formulas. 5m
  • 5
    Building Combination Line and Area Charts When you want to graph 3 line series, but only want 2 in focus most of the time. 5m
  • 1
    Data Validation Learn how to use Data Validation to ensure that users enter valid data in input cells. 5m
  • 2
    Data Validation Lists Use to restrict users ability to enter invalid data in cells by providing them with a drop down list of valid options. 5m
  • 3
    Styles Learn how to apply built-in number styles and create your own custom styles packages. 5m
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    Custom Views Learn how to create and manage Custom Views in a worksheet. 4m
  • 2
    Page Setup Options Learn about page setup options, fitting print jobs on a page, headers and footers, and other ways to customize print jobs. 5m
  • 3
    Security Considerations Learn about the setup and weaknesses of Excel’s security systems. 5m

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Instructor

Ken Puls

Ken is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA) in Canada, who never remembers life without spreadsheets and computers! Since the late 1990s, he has spent his career in the hospitality and tourism industry, in the finance and IT fields. Ken is currently the Director of IT at a resort on Vancouver Island.

To this day, he dedicates a significant portion of his time to developing automated solutions and internal controls, as well as focusing time and energy on improving Business Intelligence systems. Through his work, he designs and develops new systems, using such technology as Excel spreadsheets and VBA (Excel's programming language), automating as many tasks as possible, and thereby saving significant costs and maximizing efficiencies. Ken says, “I love the power that Excel puts at my finger tips and I’m still amazed by the things it can do.”

Excel MVP Ken Puls

Ken Puls

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How GoSkills helped Chris

I got the promotion largely because of the skills I could develop, thanks to the GoSkills courses I took. I set aside at least 30 minutes daily to invest in myself and my professional growth. Seeing how much this has helped me become a more efficient employee is a big motivation.

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