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Microsoft Excel Basic to Advanced: Ultimate Excel Mastery
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Microsoft Excel Basic to Advanced: Ultimate Excel Mastery

Become an Excel expert: learn essential skills and advanced techniques in one course.
Created byBright Path
Last updated 7/2025
English
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What you'll learn

  • Working with Date and Time Functions
  • Lookup Functions (VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP)
  • Introduction to Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts
  • Using Excel for Basic Data Analysis
  • Advanced Lookup and Reference Functions (INDEX, MATCH)
  • Array Formulas and Dynamic Arrays
  • Advanced Conditional Formatting and Data Highlighting
  • Working with Complex Text Functions
  • Creating and Customizing Charts and Graphs
  • Building Interactive Dashboards
  • Advanced Data Visualization Techniques
  • Recording and Running Basic Macros
  • Using Solver for Optimization Problems

Course content

1 section16 lectures2h 11m total length
  • Working with Date and Time Functions8:35

    Explore date and time functions in Excel to compute differences between dates, extract parts of dates and times, format values, and use today, now, and network days for data analysis.

  • Introduction to Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts6:10

    Explore pivot tables and pivot charts to dynamically summarize data, visualize totals, and interact with slicers, filters, and grand totals in pivot charts.

  • Using Excel for Basic Data Analysis6:35

    Explore how Excel enables basic data analysis through sorting, filtering, and calculating metrics on a sales dataset. Create a table, then generate charts to reveal insights and support decision making.

  • Lookup Functions (VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP)12:43

    Explore VLOOKUP, LOOKUP, and XLOOKUP to quickly retrieve data from large spreadsheets by IDs, names, or salary amounts, using vertical and horizontal lookups and exact matches.

  • Advanced Lookup and Reference Functions (INDEX, MATCH)8:00

    Learn advanced lookup and reference functions in Excel using INDEX and MATCH as flexible alternatives to VLOOKUP. Apply them to an employee salary dataset to retrieve salaries and identify positions.

  • Array Formulas and Dynamic Arrays6:33

    Explore array formulas and dynamic arrays in Excel to perform multi value calculations, compute totals and averages, and use unique to extract names.

  • Working with Complex Text Functions7:56

    Discover how to clean, format, and extract insights from text data in Excel using text functions like left, right, mid, length, and concat on a sample employee dataset.

  • Advanced Conditional Formatting and Data Highlighting6:11

    Explore advanced conditional formatting in Excel using color scales, data bars, and icon sets to visualize sales data, highlight trends and top performers in a simple dataset.

  • Creating and Customizing Charts and Graphs8:55

    Create and customize charts in Excel using column, line, and pie charts. Improve readability and insight by applying chart elements like data labels, axis titles, legends, and styles.

  • Using Sparklines for Data Trends7:18

    Demonstrate how to create sparklines in Excel to visualize data trends within cells, using line, column, and win-loss sparklines, with customization and quick trend analysis.

  • Building Interactive Dashboards8:25

    Build interactive dashboards in Microsoft Excel to dynamically visualize sales and profit by month, with charts and slicers for region and month.

  • Advanced Data Visualization Techniques8:21

    Explore advanced data visualization techniques in Excel, creating waterfall charts, combo charts, map charts, and sparklines to tell a data-driven sales story across months and regions.

  • Introduction to VBA Programming in Excel5:51

    Learn how to automate Excel tasks with VBA by creating macros, writing simple code, and using the Visual Basic editor, including enabling the developer tab and summing data ranges.

  • Recording and Running Basic Macros6:29

    Record and run basic macros in Excel to automate repetitive tasks, using the developer tab, macro names, and shortcut keys to apply formatting to new data sets.

  • Using Solver for Optimization Problems9:49

    Learn to use Excel's solver to minimize total cost under constraints, like at least 40 units produced and nonnegative production, with steps to enable and run the solver.

  • What-If Analysis Tools (Goal Seek, Scenario Manager)13:21

    Explore how what-if analysis in Excel uses Goal Seek and Scenario Manager to forecast, budget, and make data-driven decisions by testing different inputs and outcomes.

Requirements

  • No prior Excel experience needed
  • A computer with Microsoft Excel installed (preferably Excel 2016 or later)

Description

Unlock the full potential of Microsoft Excel and become a spreadsheet power user with "Microsoft Excel Basic to Advanced: Ultimate Excel Mastery." Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced user looking to sharpen your skills, this comprehensive course is your one-stop guide to mastering Excel from the ground up.


Designed for learners of all levels, this course takes you on a structured journey through the most essential and advanced features of Excel, including data entry, formatting, formulas, functions, data analysis, pivot tables, charts, and automation using macros.


What You’ll Learn:

  • Excel Fundamentals: Interface overview, workbook navigation, data types, and best practices

  • Data Entry & Formatting: Efficient data input, formatting tips, and workbook organization

  • Formulas & Functions: From basic arithmetic to advanced functions like VLOOKUP, INDEX & MATCH, IF statements, and nested functions

  • Data Management: Sorting, filtering, data validation, and conditional formatting

  • Data Analysis Tools: PivotTables, PivotCharts, What-If Analysis, and Goal Seek

  • Charts & Graphs: Visualizing data using column, line, pie, combo charts, and more

  • Excel Automation: Introduction to macros and basic VBA scripting


By the end of this course, you'll confidently handle any Excel task—whether it's organizing data, performing complex analysis, creating dynamic reports, or automating workflows.


Enroll now and become an Excel expert with Ultimate Excel Mastery!


Who this course is for:

  • Beginners with no prior Excel knowledge
  • Intermediate users who want to expand their skill set
  • Students, professionals, accountants, data analysts, or business managers
  • Anyone preparing for jobs that require Excel proficiency or certification