Course Overview:
Clearly, you use Excel a lot in your role. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be taking this course. By now, you’re
already familiar with Microsoft Office Excel 2021, its functions and formulas, a lot of its features and
functionality, and its powerful data analysis tools. You are likely called upon to analyze and report on data
frequently, work in collaboration with others to deliver actionable organizational intelligence, and keep
and maintain workbooks for all manner of purposes. At this level of use and collaboration, you have also
likely encountered your fair share of issues and challenges. You’re too busy, though, to waste time
scouring over workbooks to resolve issues or to perform repetitive, monotonous tasks. You need to know
how to get Excel to do more for you so you can focus on what’s really important: staying ahead of the
competition. That’s exactly what this course aims to help you do.

This course builds upon the foundational and intermediate knowledge presented in the Microsoft Office
Excel 2021: Part 1 and Microsoft Office Excel 2021: Part 2 courses to help you get the most of your Excel experience. The ability to collaborate with colleagues, automate complex or repetitive tasks, and use conditional logic and dynamic arrays to construct and apply elaborate formulas and functions will put
the full power of Excel right at your fingertips. The more you learn about how to get Excel to do the hard
work for you, the more you’ll be able to focus on getting the answers you need from the vast amounts of
data your organization generates.

Course Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to perform advanced data analysis,
collaborate on workbooks with other users, and automate workbook functionality.

Work with multiple worksheets and workbooks.
Share and protect workbooks.
Automate workbook functionality.
Use Lookup functions, dynamic arrays, and formula auditing.
Forecast data.
Create sparklines and map data.

Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for students who are experienced Excel 2021 users and have a desire or need to
advance their skills in working with some of the more advanced Excel features. Students will likely need
to troubleshoot large, complex workbooks, automate repetitive tasks, engage in collaborative
partnerships involving workbook data, construct complex Excel functions, and use those functions to
perform rigorous analysis of extensive, complex datasets.

Course Prerequisites
To ensure success, students should have practical, real-world experience creating and analyzing datasets
using Excel 2021. Specific tasks students should be able to perform include: creating formulas and using
Excel functions; creating, sorting, and filtering datasets and tables; presenting data by using basic charts;
creating and working with PivotTables, slicers, and PivotCharts; and customizing the Excel environment.
To meet these prerequisites, students can take the following Logical Operations courses, or should
possess the equivalent skill level:

Microsoft Office Excel® 2021: Part 1
Microsoft Office Excel® 2021: Part 2

Course Content:

Module 1: Working with Multiple Worksheets and Workbooks

• Use Links and External References
• Use 3-D References
• Consolidate Data

Module 2: Sharing and Protecting Workbooks

• Collaborate on a Workbook
• Protect Worksheets and Workbooks

Module 3: Automating Workbook Functionality

• Apply Data Validation
• Search for Invalid Data and Formulas with Errors
• Work with Macros

Module 4: Using Lookup Functions, Dynamic Arrays, and Formula Auditing

• Use Lookup Functions
• Use Dynamic Arrays and Dynamic Array Functions
• Trace Cells
• Watch and Evaluate Formulas

Module 5: Forecasting Data

• Determine Potential Outcomes Using Data Tables
• Determine Potential Outcomes Using Scenarios
• Use the Goal Seek Feature
• Forecast Data Trends

Module 6: Creating Sparklines and Mapping Data

• Create Sparklines
• Map Data