Lesson 1: Creating Advanced Formulas
Topic A: Use Range Names in Formulas
Topic B: Use Specialized Functions

Lesson 2: Automating Workbook Functionality
Topic A: Apply Data Validation
Topic B: Work with Forms and Controls

Lesson 3: Applying Conditional Logic
Topic A: Use Lookup Functions
Topic B: Combine Functions

Lesson 4: Visualizing Data with Basic Charts
Topic A: Create Charts
Topic B: Modify and Format Charts

Lesson 5: Advanced Charting Techniques
Topic A: Use Advanced Chart Features
Topic B: Create Sparklines

Lesson 6: Analyzing Data with PivotTables, Slicers, and PivotCharts
Topic A: Create a PivotTable
Topic B: Analyze PivotTable Data
Topic C: Present Data with PivotCharts
Topic D: Filter Data by Using Slicers

Target Student:
This course is designed for students who already have foundational knowledge and skills in Excel 2013 and who wish to begin taking advantage of some of the higher-level functionality in Excel to summarize table data in Excel by using functions, charts, and pivot tables and display those elements in a dashboard format.

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2013: Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that you can use to create dashboards. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable intelligence from it, and present that information to decision makers is the cornerstone of driving a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.

This course is a combination of selected topics from the Logical Operations courses Microsoft® Office Excel® 2013: Part 2 and Microsoft® Office Excel® 2013: Part 3 and is specifically designed to provide students with the skills and knowledge to create effective dashboards. If students have already taken these two courses, they are unlikely to garner much new information from this course.