Become a Microsoft Excel expert with this easy to follow course featuring 9-hours of professionally produced videos. Exercise and demo files included.

  • Practice what you learned with included exercise files
  • Detailed easy instruction to master Microsoft Excel 2016
  • A full 9 hours of professional video instruction
  • 60+ easy to follow how-to videos
  • Everything explained step-by-step for quick comprehension
  • The next step after completing Microsoft Excel 2016 for Beginners
  • Learn how to import and export data to and from Excel
  • Learn how to create various charts and graphs
  • Effectively create and use functions and formulas
  • Import and export data 
  • Create and effectively use Pivot Tables
  • How to use Excel for data analysis
  • Discover practical methods for financial & statistical functions 

This course includes:

  1. 9-hours of video tutorials
  2. Over 50 individual video lectures
  3. Exercise files to practice what you learned
  4. Demo files used by the trainer


This course is designed for students that are already familiar with Excel, but wish to improve their skills and open the possibilities with this versatile spreadsheet program. Bring your basic knowledge of Excel 2016 and learn how to reach the next level of database tracking and reporting.

Contents and Overview

Through 57 lectures and over 9-hours of content, this course will take you through learning how to use functions in everyday work environments. Professional financial functions are covered including payments, future value and depreciation. Students will learn statistical functions like averages, percentiles, and regression.

In order to improve efficiency, students will also cover concepts for connecting to external data like other workbooks or web data; tables including style, selection and sizing. Pivot tables and data analysis will be key concepts helpful to the work environment.

For help with reporting, students will learn surface charts, stock charts, radar charts and bubble charts and graphs.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to create colorful charts and databases that communicate data and financial records efficiently and effectively. Students will be able to apply data to various reporting forms like tables, graphs and pivot tables in order to show important analysis like depreciation, percentiles and regression for use with planning. Students who finish this course will have an advanced knowledge of the versatility of Excel that is immediately applicable to their work with the database.

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★★★★★ “Greatly explained and great zoom in of the working area.” -Jorge Tech

★★★★★ “This is an excellently pieced together information. Beautifully explained with lots of examples and external resource areas for the nerds. I highly recommend this course for anyone whose intention is to learn Excel.” -Frank Uchegbu

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction to Excel 2016 Advanced Course

    • Prerequisites of the Course and Version of Excel

    • Course Structure

  • 2

    Functions

    • Functions - Part 1

    • Functions - Part 2

    • Autosum

  • 3

    Date and Time Functions

    • How Date and Time Works

    • Basic Date and Time Functions

    • Complex Date and Time Functions

  • 4

    Text Functions

    • Using Text Functions - Part 1

    • Using Text Functions - Part 2

  • 5

    Logical Functions

    • Using Logical Functions

    • Exercise 01

  • 6

    Lookup Functions

    • HLOOKUP Function

    • VLOOKUP Function

    • Exercise 02

  • 7

    Financial Functions

    • Financial Functions and Terminology

    • Personal Financial Functions

    • Professional Financial Functions

    • Depreciation

    • Exercise 03

  • 8

    Statistical Functions

    • Statistical Functions for Description - Part 1

    • Statistical Functions for Description - Part 2

    • Statistical Functions for Forecasting - Part 1

    • Statistical Functions for Forecasting - Part 2

    • Exercise 04

    • One Click Forecasting

    • Statistical Functions for Inference

  • 9

    Connecting to External Data

    • Connecting to Other Workbooks

    • Connecting to Access Databases

    • Connecting to Web Data Sources

    • Get and Transform

    • Exercise 05

  • 10

    Tables

    • Introduction to Tables

    • Working with Tables

    • Table References

    • Table Styles

    • Exercise 06

  • 11

    Pivot Tables

    • Introduction to Pivot Tables

    • Working with Pivot Tables

    • Filters and Slicers

    • Pivot Charts

    • Exercise 07

  • 12

    Data Analysis

    • What If Analysis

    • Scenario Manager

    • Goal Seek

    • Solver

    • Exercise 08

  • 13

    Graphs and Charts

    • Area Charts

    • Surface Charts

    • Radar Charts

    • Bubble Charts

    • Sparklines

    • Stock Charts

    • Exercise 09

  • 14

    Excel Web App

    • Introduction to Excel Web App

    • Using the Excel Web App

  • 15

    Closing Message

    • Closing Message

  • 16

    Demo & Exercise Files

    • Demo Files

    • Exercise Files