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Microsoft Excel Advanced – Pivot Tables

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Learn to utilise Pivot Tables to summarise data and streamline the process of formatting and displaying the results. Who should enrol: the experienced Excel user who wants to go beyond the basics with a special focus on analysing large tables of data or databases using Excel's Pivot Tables. You will already be confidently preparing charts and tables and using a range of formulae and functions. More details below course dates.

Sat 26 Jun

Saturday 9am - 1pm Selwyn College, Auckland. Presenters: Jose Entrican
- $70.00 incl. GST
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Sessions

Saturday workshop

Sat 26 Jun 09:00 - Sat 26 Jun 13:00
Selwyn College, Auckland.

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Sat 11 Sep

Saturday workshop 9am - 1pm Selwyn College, Auckland. Presenters: Jose Entrican
- $70.00 incl. GST
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Sessions

Saturday workshop

Sat 11 Sep 09:00 - Sat 11 Sep 13:00
Selwyn College, Auckland.

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Description

PivotTable is the single most powerful tool in Excel for financial reporting, budgeting and data analysis. This can save you hours and deliver impressive results. IBM are projecting that demand for Data Visualisation alone is projected to grow by 44% and PivotTable skills specifically by 34% by 2020. So this is an Excel skill that will be very useful to know.

Course content includes:

Create Pivot Tables and understand how they refresh
Use functions other than SUM to analyse your data
Group numbers, dates and even text labels to streamline the table
Use filtering effectively to display only the data you want
Add custom calculations to your PivotTable summary and understand the GETPIVOTDATA function
Use pivot tables to gather data for your 'Dashboard' likes displays that include slicers and charts
Modify the presentation of your pivot tables with conditional formats and varied layouts
Become aware of the Pivot Table Data Model for analysing data in more than one table

Who should attend this course?

This class is designed for the experienced intermediate level Excel user who wants to go beyond the basics with a special focus on analysing large tables of data or databases using Excel's Pivot Tables. You will already be confidently preparing charts and tables and using a range of formulae and functions.

This course is taught in a PC suite using the school's computers.

Prerequisites

You should already be an experienced Excel user with skills in preparing charts and tables and using a range of formulae and functions.