In this second course of our Excel 2021 series, students will build on the skills learned in the beginners’ course and expand their essential Excel toolkit.

Students will learn how to create intermediate-level formulas, clean and analyze data using PivotTables and PivotCharts, control data input with validation rules, make decisions with WhatIf analysis tools, and learn the golden rules of spreadsheet design.

That’s just scratching the surface!

Students will also get to experience all the new functions and features available in Excel 2021, the latest standalone version of Excel from Microsoft.

Explore the exciting world of dynamic array functions and learn how to use XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, and so much more.

Excel 2021 Intermediate is designed for students who have a beginner-level knowledge of Excel and are looking to build on those skills. It’s also perfect for students who have beginner to intermediate skills in an older version of Excel and are looking to explore the newest features.

The only prerequisites for this course are a working copy of Excel 2021 and a beginner-level knowledge of Excel.

In this course, students will learn how to:

• Design better spreadsheets and control user input
• Use logical functions to make better business decisions
• Construct functional and flexible lookup formulas
• Use Excel tables to structure data and make it easy to update
• Extract unique values from a list
• Sort and filter data using advanced features and new Excel formulas
• Work with date and time functions
• Extract data using text functions
• Import data and clean it up for analysis
• Analyze data using PivotTables
• Represent data visually with PivotCharts
• Add interactions to PivotTables and PivotCharts
• Create an interactive dashboard to present high-level metrics
• Audit formulas and troubleshoot common Excel errors
• Control user input with data validation
• Use WhatIf analysis tools to see how changing inputs affect outcomes.

Course Format

• This is a video-led course. You can preview some videos below.
• This course includes practice exercises.
• This course is aimed at PC Excel users.

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• Looking Up Information using VLOOKUP (Exact Match) (10:41)
• Looking Up Information using VLOOKUP (Approx Match) (4:25)
• Looking Up Information Horizontally using HLOOKUP (5:38)
• Performing Flexible Lookups with INDEX and MATCH (10:28)
• Using XLOOKUP and XMATCH (10:09)
• The OFFSET Function (10:50)
• The INDIRECT Function (9:07)
• Exercise 02 (5:03)

• Performing Sorts on Multiple Columns (7:03)
• Sorting Using a Custom List (3:35)
• The SORT and SORTBY Functions (10:00)
• Using the Advanced Filter (6:52)
• Extracting Unique Values – The UNIQUE Function (5:16)
• The FILTER Function (9:29)
• Exercise 03 (5:41)

• Understanding How Dates are Stored in Excel (4:11)
• Applying Custom Date Formats (7:09)
• Using Date and Time Functions (8:44)
• Using the WORKDAY and WORKDAY.INT Functions (3:49)
• Using the NETWORKDAYS and NETWORKDAYS.INT Function (2:56)
• Tabulate Date Differences with the DATEDIF Function (6:14)
• Calculate Dates with EDATE and EOMONTH (7:22)
• Exercise 04 (4:51)

• Course Close (1:34)
• Course Quiz and Certificate of Completion