Microsoft Excel Tables and PivotTables
Manage and summarise your data - course outline

Microsoft Excel Tables can be used to store and organise your data, any way you wish. You can use its powerful tools to quickly retrieve information and view and summarise it in numerous ways.

The primary objective of this half day course is to understand how to prepare your data, so that you can benefit from the powerful Table Tools to present data and communicate results with ease. This practical course allows you to appreciate the full potential of tables and will save countless hours in calculating and recalculating information.

What's included

• Handout containing exercises and files to practise what you've learned at your own pace in your own time after the course.
• A month support on the topics covered.

By the end of the course you will be competent with the following skills:

Understanding tables

• what is a table?
• plan before you build
• dos and don'ts when working with tables

Working with a table

• set up a new table
• format a table
• ensure accurate data entry using data validation
• create a dashboard using the DSUM and DAVERAGE functions
• add new data to an existing table
• sort and filter the records of a table
• specify a range of values as criteria for a filter
• add totals to a table
• preview and print tables

Summarising data in a table using PivotTables

• what is a PivotTable?
• produce summary reports using a PivotTable
• reset the summary function
• show totals as a percentage
• insert a slicer to filter data interactively
• present your information as a chart
• preview and print reports and charts

Additional features

• visually explore and analyse data using conditional formatting
• manage large workbooks using the navigation pane

This course outline is a guide. All our courses can be tailored to customer requirements.

Target audience
This course is aimed at anyone who has some experience of Excel and wishes to manage and analyse data in a worksheet.

Assumed knowledge
Delegates should be familiar with the basics of Excel, either from attending our Introduction or Getting Started Course or knowledge gained from their own experience.