Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007: Level 2 (Second Edition)

Course Specifications

Course Length:  1 Day, 8:30am – 4:30pm

Location: Entre Technology Services, LLC  1501 N. 14th St. West, Suite 1511

Registration: Call your Account Manager at 406.256.5700 or use our Registration Forms

Course Description

In Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007: Level 1, you created, edited, formatted, and printed basic spreadsheets. You now have a need to streamline repetitive tasks and display spreadsheet data in more visually effective ways. In this course, you will use Microsoft Office Excel 2007 to streamline and enhance your spreadsheets with templates, charts, graphics, and formulas.

Course Objective

You will apply visual elements and advanced formulas to a worksheet to display data in various formats.

Target Student

The target students for this course are students who desire to gain the skills necessary to create templates, sort and filter data, import and export data, analyze data, and work with Excel on the web. In addition, this course helps prepare students who desire to take the Microsoft Office Specialist exam in Excel and who already have knowledge of the basics of Excel, including how to create, edit, format, and print basic worksheets.

Prerequisites

Before starting this course, students are recommended to take the following Element K course or possess equivalent knowledge: Microsoft Office Excel 2007: Level 1.

Delivery Method

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Calculate with advanced formulas.

Organize worksheet and table data using various techniques.

Create and modify charts.

Analyze data using PivotTables and PivotCharts.

Insert graphic objects.

Customize and enhance workbooks and the Microsoft® Office Excel® environment.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Calculating Data with Advanced Formulas

Topic 1A: Manage Cell and Range Names

Topic 1B: Calculate Data Across Worksheets

Topic 1C: Use Specialized Functions

Topic 1D: Analyze Data with Logical and Lookup Functions

Lesson 2: Organizing Worksheet and Table Data

Topic 2A: Create and Modify Tables

Topic 2B: Format Tables

Topic 2C: Sort or Filter Worksheet or Table Data

Topic 2D: Calculate Data in a Table or Worksheet 

Lesson 3: Presenting Data Using Charts

Topic 3A: Create a Chart

Topic 3B: Modify Charts

Topic 3C: Format Charts 

Lesson 4: Analyzing Data Using PivotTables and PivotCharts

Topic 4A: Create a PivotTable Report

Topic 4B: Analyze Data Using PivotCharts 

Lesson 5: Inserting Graphic Objects

Topic 5A: Insert and Modify Pictures and ClipArt

Topic 5B: Draw and Modify Shapes

Topic 5C: Illustrate Workflow Using SmartArt Graphics

Topic 5D: Layer and Group Graphic Objects 

Lesson 6: Customizing and Enhancing Workbooks and the Excel Environment

Topic 6A: Customize the Excel Environment

Topic 6B: Customize Workbooks

Topic 6C: Manage Themes

Topic 6D: Create and Use Templates