Advanced Excel: Functions, Power Query and Power Pivots Training Course
5 DaysAdvanced Excel: Functions, Power Query and Power Pivots Training Course
The British Academy for Training and Development offers a comprehensive Advanced Excel: Functions, Power Query and Power Pivots Training Course. Many professionals are using excel on a daily basis. It, however, has even more functions which most of the users have never found out. This course on Excel will look into one such tool, a rather new addition into Excel for helping professionals in cleaning and preparing data for further analysis and reporting Power Query. PowerPivots are the other powerful tool in excel that will put your pivot tables on turbo. Though with much limitation, pivot tables are sometimes failing when it is really big data. This advanced excel training has two specific advanced excel features, Power Pivot and Power Query. This entire suite of excel functions gives you the access to manipulate, analyze, and evaluate millions of rows of data from excel or other databases.
Overview
Course Objectives
Objectives:
At the end of the Advanced Excel: Power Query and Power Pivots Training Course, attendees will be able to:
Apply key Excel functions to prepare data for analysis using pivot tablesCreate and customise pivot tables to reconcile and analyze accounts efficientlyUtilise Power Query to clean up and prepare data for reportingUtilise pivot tables functions and calculations to generate a set of management and business analysis reports Report and analyze big data using PowerPivots
Target Audience
This course is ideal for:
Accountants, senior and junior accountants, business analysts, accounting and finance professionals,Business analysts, research professionals and staff from any function who need to master and upgrade their skills in Excel pivot tables,Power Query and Power Pivots and work with big data analysis.Advanced Excel Users
Course Outline
Key functions to prepare data for pivot table reporting
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Table format
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Lookup functions
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Text functions
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Naming cells
Advanced techniques in creating and customizing pivot tables
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Number and cell format
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Report layout
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Calculation in value field
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Grouping and ungrouping fields
Default and customized sorting and filtering
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Sorting using custom list
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Creating calculated field
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Filtering using slicers and timelines
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Connecting multiple pivot tables to one set of slicers
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Customizing reports using the GetPivotData option
Power Query: A must-have skill
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Introduction to this new feature
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Where does Power Query fit in the Power family!
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Get and transform: Link your Excel to external other data sources
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Excel files
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Text files
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Web
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SQL
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Creating and editing the Query
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Get data from: Tables, files and folders
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Power Query to clean up data
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Practical examples:
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UnPivotting data
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Working with nested column headers and merged cells
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Naming, merging, splitting and removing columns
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Filtering rows in different ways
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Transforming and formatting data
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Combining queries: Merge and Append
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The different types of joining data
Analyzing disparate data sources with pivot tables
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Utilizing pivot table wizard
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Using internal data model
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Building pivot tables using external data sources
The new world of PowerPivot
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Benefits and drawbacks of PowerPivot
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Merging data from multiple tables without using Vlookup
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Creating better calculations using the DAX Formulas
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Using DAX to create calculated fields
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Calculate and Related functions
Schedule & Fees
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