Master the PivotTable function in Excel with this advanced course
Master Data Analysis in Excel through the PivotTable Function
Simon Sez IT – Advanced PivotTables in Excel
In this Advanced PivotTables in Excel course, we teach you how to make the most of this powerful data analysis function. PivotTables are ideal if you are looking to perform data analysis tasks quickly and efficiently in Excel.
In this course, we give a PivotTable refresher before moving onto some of the advanced features of this tool including Advanced Sorting, Slicers, Timelines, Calculated Fields, Pivot Charts, and Conditional Formatting.
This course is aimed at intermediate users of Excel who are comfortable using the PivotTable function. We don’t recommend this course for people brand new to Excel. If you are new to Excel, try out one of the Simon Sez IT Beginner Excel courses also available on Udemy.
In this course, you will learn:
How to do a PivotTable (a quick refresher)
How to combine data from multiple worksheets for a PivotTable
Grouping, ungrouping and dealing with errors
How to format a PivotTable, including adjusting styles
How to use the Value Field Settings
Advanced Sorting and Filtering in PivotTables
How to use Slicers, Timelines on multiple tables
How to create a Calculated Field
All about GETPIVOTDATA
How to create a Pivot Chart and add sparklines and slicers
How to use 3D Maps from a PivotTable
How to update your data in a PivotTable and Pivot Chart
All about Conditional Formatting in a PivotTable
How to create a basic macro to refresh PivotTable data
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.
Why Trust Us?
Stream Skill is part of the Simon Sez IT family and has been in business 10+ years and taught over 500,000 students in that time. We’ve created over 100 software training courses, 5,000+ video tutorials, and we’ve helped thousands of people across the world learn how to use Microsoft Office. We’ve now created Microsoft Excel courses for the last five versions and continue to help people get to grips with this essential tool.
Course Curriculum
Section 1: Introduction
Introduction to Advanced PivotTables (3:49)
Course Exercise Files
Course Support Files
PivotTables Recap (12:43)
Section 2: Importing Data
Importing data from a text file (9:57)
Importing data from Access (8:20)
Exercise 01 (4:46)
Section 3: Preparing Data for Analysis
Cleaning Data (17:40)
Tabular Data (16:05)
Exercise 02 (3:18)
Section 4: Creating and Manipulating PivotTables
Creating and Manipulating a PivotTable (12:27)
Combining Data from Multiple Worksheets (12:02)
Grouping and Ungrouping (11:01)
Report Layouts (10:53)
Formatting Error Values and Empty Cells (8:26)
Exercise 03 (1:35)
Section 5: Formatting PivotTables
PivotTable Styles (11:39)
Custom Number Formatting (16:25)
Exercise 04 (1:44)
Section 6: Value Field Settings
Summarizing Values (11:25)
Show Values As (9:12)
Exercise 05 (1:46)
Section 7: Sorting and Filtering
Advanced Sorting (8:40)
Advanced Filtering (14:04)
Exercise 06 (2:16)
Section 8: Interacting with PivotTables
Inserting and formatting Slicers (13:51)
Inserting and formatting Timelines (7:06)
Connecting Slicers to multiple PivotTables (8:10)
Using Slicers in Protected Workbooks (5:36)
Exercise 07 (2:20)
Calculations
Creating a Calculated Field (8:25)
Creating a Calculated Item (8:09)
Solve Order and List Formulas (10:38)
GETPIVOTDATA (9:25)
Exercise 08 (6:41)
Section 10: Pivot Charts
Creating a Pivot Chart (11:30)
Formatting a Pivot Chart – Part 1 (15:43)
Formatting a Pivot Chart – Part 2 (15:28)
Creating a Map Chart using Pivot Data (12:01)
Dynamic Chart Titles (13:50)
Include a Sparkline with your PivotTable (10:40)
Exercise 09 (7:45)
Conditional Formatting
Highlighting Cell Rules (9:32)
Graphical Conditional Formats (10:06)
Conditional Formatting and Slicers (6:28)
Exercise 10 (2:26)
Section 12: Dashboards
Creating an Interactive Dashboard – Part 1 (23:12)
Creating an Interactive Dashboard – Part 1 (13:54)
Updating Pivot Charts and PivotTables (4:24)
Exercise 11 (3:26)
Section 13: Course Close
Course Close (0:37)
Course Quiz and Certificate of Completion
Course Quiz
