Overview of Excel School Program

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What is in this ?
About Excel School Topics Covered Methodology of Teaching

What to expect at end?

Who is going to Teach? Cost & Duration of the Program Contact Details
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About Excel School

Excel School is an online excel training program* that can make a a beginner an efficient user~ of MS Excel

It can also help you design world-class Excel Dashboards

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About Excel School

Excel School is an online excel training program that can make a a beginner an efficient user of MS Excel.

Delivered online Each student gets a secure log-in

No-need to be online at a
specific time Lessons can be taken repeatedly

It can also help you design world-class Excel Dashboards

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About Excel School

Excel School is an online excel training program that can make a a beginner an efficient user of MS Excel.

Not a total new-bie Knows how to use excel

Knows basics like

What is a formula What is a chart

It can also help you design world-class Excel Dashboards

Comfortable with spreadsheet layout

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About Excel School

Can get things done in excel

Excel School is an online excel training program

Knows handful of workarounds

Excel School is
that can make a

an online excel training program a beginner that can make an efficient user of MS a Excel.

a beginner
It can also help youuser design world-class Excel an efficient of ms excel Dashboards

Uses right charts for data Comfortable with formulas Productive with Excel Makes intuitive workbooks & charts

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About Excel School

Understand the purpose of

Excel School is an online excel training program

dashboards Know dashboard design

Excel School is
that can make a

an online excel training program a beginner that can make an efficient user of MS a Excel.

a beginner
It can also help youuser design world-class an efficient of ms excelExcel Dashboards

Learn from examples Construct 4 different dashboards Know dashboard best practices & pit-falls

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Topics Covered

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Following 13 topics are covered

1. 2. 3.

Formulas Formatting Conditional Formatting

8. 9.

Data Filters, Validations Importing External Data

10. Advanced Formulas

4.
5. 6. 7.

Charting
Advanced Charting Tables Pivot Tables

11. Form Controls & Macros

12. Shortcuts, Productivity 13. Excel Dashboards - Optional

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Formulas

1. 2. 3.

References, Using $ COUNTIF SUMIF

9.

SUMPRODUCT

10. ROWS, COLUMNS 11. SUMIFS, COUNTIFS

4.
5. 6.

IF, Nested IF, CHOOSE

VLOOKUP, Adv. VLOOKUP MATCH

12. IFERROR, ISERROR

13. SMALL, LARGE 14. Text Formulas

7.
8.

INDEX
OFFSET

15. Formula Debugging

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Formatting

1. 2. 3. 4.

Paste Special Format Painter Custom Cell Formats Date / Time Formatting

5. 6. 7. 8.

Table Formats Formatting Best Practices Freezing Rows, Splits Formatting for Print

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Conditional Formatting

1.
2. 3.

Intro to CF
Formulas in CF Using Traffic Lights, Icons

4.
5.

Adv. CF thru Examples

Removing CFs, Cleaning

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Charting

1. 2. 3. 4.

Choosing correct chart Various charts in Excel Chart formatting Options Chart templates

5. 6. 7. 8.

Best practices Combo charts Dynamic charts Excel charting limitations

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Tables

1.
2. 3.

Excel 2007 Tables Intro

Benefits of using tables Table formatting

4.
5.

Table formulas
Table named ranges

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Pivot Tables

1.

What is a Pivot and why use one?

5. 6. 7.

Grouping Data Pivot Table Tips Pivot Charts Intro

2. 3. 4.

Creating Pivots Summarizing data Calculated Fields, Calculated Items

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Data Filters

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Data Filters Sorting Data Validation Error Messages, Invalid Data Advanced Filters Filters in Tables, Pivots

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Importing Data

1. 2. 3.

Text to Columns Importing CSV Files Importing Text Files

4.
5.

Importing Web Data

Importing MS Access Data

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Advanced Formulas
1. Named Ranges, What are they and why use them?

2.
3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Dynamic Ranges using OFFSET

Formula Audit 3D References Array Formulas Intro Circular References Intro Calculation Modes and uses Formula Errors and What to do?

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Form Controls, Macros

1.

Developer Toolbar / Ribbon

6. 7.

Using Macro Recorder Getting used to Visual Basic Editor

2. 3. 4. 5.

What are Form Controls Using Scroll-bar Control Using Checkboxes What is a Macro? 8. 9.

Introduction to Macros Where to find help?

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Shortcuts & Productivity

1.

20 Most useful Excel Shortcuts

4. 5. 6.

Setting Defaults Using Templates Where to find help & best practices

2. 3.

Understanding Ribbon Customizing Quick Access Toolbar

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Excel Dashboards

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

What is a Dashboard Dashboard Examples Dashboard Tutorial #1 Tutorial # 2 Tutorial # 3 Tutorial # 4

7.

Dashboard Design Principles

8.

Interviews with Dashboard Experts

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How it works?
1 2 3 4 5

You sign-up for the program by making online payment

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1 2 3 4 5

Excel School User ID & Password will be emailed to you

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How it works?
1 2 3 4 5

Access Lessons, Videos and Download Examples As you Like

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1 2 3 4 5

Ask Questions or Comment on Lessons to Get Answers

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How it works?
1 2 3 4 5

Take up Home work & Class project assignments to Sharpen your Skills

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Methodology

Each topic will be explained thru Videos, Screencasts & Text Posts

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About Class Projects

We have 2 short class projects

We build something fun, complicated enough to test excel skills Projects after you finish first 5 and first 10 topics in the school

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What to expect at the end?

Towards the end of Excel school*

You will be proficient in Excel
You will know how to use (and mix) formulas You will make better charts You will be productive with excel You will be able to construct world-class Excel Dashboards
*assuming you follow the program and practice

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Who is going to teach?

Purna Duggirala MBA, MS Excel MVP, author of chandoo.org

Over 6 years of Excel Experience | Well respected for my Excel knowledge | Run a popular excel community and blog

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Duration of the Program

8 Weeks of Active Learning 6 Months Online Membership

Excel School Starts as soon as you signup and your membership remains active for 180 days.

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Cost of the Program

$67
Excel School
Online Viewing Only

$97
Excel School
With Downloads

$197
Excel School + Dashboard Lessons
With Downloads

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Payments & Registration

opens on 12th of January, 2011

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How to pay?

Visit http://chandoo.org/wp/excel-school/
On January 12th, 2011 and follow instructions

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Contact Details

Questions & Doubts?

Please e-mail me at chandoo.d@gmail.com or visit http://chandoo.org/wp/

or call +1 206 792 9480 or +91 814 262 1090

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See you in Excel School,

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