Course Objectives
- Apply key Excel functions to prepare data for analysis using pivot tables
- Create and customize pivot tables to reconcile and analyze accounts efficiently
- Utilize Power Query to clean up and prepare data for reporting
- Utilize pivot tables functions and calculations to generate a set of management and business analysis reports
- Run macros to speed up work and utilize other advanced techniques in data analysis and reporting
- Report and analyse big data using PowerPivot
Course Outline
- Key functions to prepare data for pivot table reporting
- Table format
- Lookup functions
- Text functions
- Naming cells
- Advanced techniques in creating and customizing pivot tables
- Number and cell format
- Report layout
- Calculation in value field
- Grouping and un-grouping fields
- Default and customized sorting and filtering
- Sorting using custom list
- Creating calculated field
- Filtering using slicers and timelines
- Connecting multiple pivot tables to one set of slicers
- Customizing reports using the Get Pivot Data option
- Power Query: A must-have skill
- Introduction to this new feature
- Where does Power Query fit in the Power family!
- Get and transform: Link your Excel to external other data sources
- Excel files
- Text files
- Web
- SQL
- Creating and editing the Query
- Get data from: Tables, files and folders
- Power Query to clean up data
- Practical examples:
- UnPivotting data
- Working with nested column headers and merged cells
- Naming, merging, splitting and removing columns
- Filtering rows in different ways
- Transforming and formatting data
- Combining queries: Merge and Append
- The different types of joining data
- Analyzing disparate data sources with pivot tables
- Utilizing pivot table wizard
- Using internal data model
- Building pivot tables using external data sources
- The new world of PowerPivot
- Benefits and drawbacks of PowerPivot
- Merging data from multiple tables without using Vlookup
- Creating better calculations using the DAX Formulas
- Using DAX to create calculated fields
- Calculate and Related functions
- Introduction to Macros: Let Excel do the work for you
- Where you cannot use Power Query, use macros
- Planning your macro
- Creating and recording macros
- Editing macros
- Introduction to Visual Basic for Application (VBA)