Last week I delivered a day’s Excel training in Cardiff for a medium-sized charity.
I designed this bespoke course for a group of finance and data folk who had already done my half day Introduction to power query course and had good Excel knowledge to begin with.
I always love training people who work together, because I know that there’s an increased chance that the learning will continue after the course.
What we covered
I’ve posted before that I don’t have a standard “intermediate” or “advanced” Excel course. This is because clients have different needs, and different starting points. I don’t want to waste time showing you stuff you already know, or are never going to need.
But as an example of what could be included in a day’s bespoke Excel training, let’s look at last week’s Cardiff session. I had previously circulated a questionnaire to the delegates to understand what they already knew and what they wanted to find out more about.
We revised key building blocks like Tables, and concepts such as number vs text. We then went onto some upgrades. For example, we went through XLOOKUP and the many ways it’s better than VLOOKUP.
And we also covered lots and lots of new Excel content.
Some of this we did via brief examples – such as REGEX, Checkboxes and TRANSLATE. (It was interesting to see how it copes with Welsh!)
Dynamic arrays were completely new to everyone, so we spent a bit of time looking at FILTER, UNIQUE and GROUPBY, and also discussing what made dynamic arrays different.
We then finished with a session on dynamic charts, including some data visualisation tips.
Throughout the day I shared examples of useful shortcuts and navigation tools to make everyday work in Excel a little bit more efficient.
Book me for Excel training in Cardiff (or Newport)
I can design and deliver a day of bespoke Excel training in Cardiff (or Newport) for £875 (£825 for not for profits). I’m based in Bristol so Cardiff is a really easy trip for me and I always enjoy spending time in Wales.
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