MS Excel Level 2:
Distilling Information from Data

Duration: 2 Days

Course Overview

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Target Audience

Professionals who work with data regularly, such as:
Business analysts, Project managers, Sales and marketing professionals, Finance and operations staff,
HR professionals managing reports or dashboards.

Anyone who:
Can confidently navigate Excel and use basic formulas (e.g., SUMAVERAGEIF)
Wants to learn how to analyze, summarize, and visualize data more effectively
Needs to clean and prepare data for reporting or decision-making
Is looking to automate repetitive tasks using formulas or PivotTables

Course Content

Excel Level 2:

Module 5: Implementing Functions to Extract Data
• Identify a piece of data with MATCH, VLOOKUP, INDEX, XLOOKUP
• Extract subsets of data with FILTER, UNIQUE, TRANSPOSE, SORT

Module 6: Importing and cleansing data with Power Query
• Navigate the Power Query interface
• Import and transform data using Power Query
• Identify data errors
• Relate and combine datasets

Module 7: Analysing Data with PivotTables
• Gain an insight into data
• Quickly restructure data
• Group and aggregate the data
• Design a data model
• Introduction to PowerPivot

Module 8: Visualising Data with Charts
In this module, you will learn how design charts. You will:
• Quickly identify key points from data
• Create charts from Tables and PivotTables
• Manipulate the look and feel of a chart
• Implement SPILL ranges into a chart

EXAMPLES COVERED IN THE COURSE

• Identify differences in lists
• Develop dynamic tables of data
• Extract and replace text from an item in a list
• Design cascading data validation lists
• Calculate the number of distinct values
• Report on data from a list
• Combine data from another table
• Correct a poorly designed dataset
• Cleanse a dataset
• Audit the changes made to a dataset
• Automate applying changes to a dataset and multiple files
• Design reports
• Automate reports updating from a dataset
• Design adaptable charts that automatically update and are easy to manage

COURSE PREREQUISITES

It Is Important you have the knowledge of Level 1 that is:

• Working with mixed references
• Know how to Implement and read functions
• Nest a function within a function
• Apply error handling functions
• Create a data set correctly
• Define and use Names
• Design easily to manage and adaptable calculations
• Automate calculation references being updated
• Implement a Data Validation list with formulas
• Define Conditional Formatting with formulas

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You will receive a full set of course notes and all supporting materials for your course.
Hard Copy Delivered to your premises or Downloaded to a chosen device.

To book this course please call 
+44 (0) 1444 410296 or email: Info@kplknowledge.co.uk