Learn key Excel skills including data entry, formulas, formatting, and chart creation.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
Apply Custom Styles and Templates
Using Custom Views and Outlines
Introduction
Top & Bottom Categories
Greater Than
Highlight Cells Rules - Less Than, Between, Equal To, Clear Rules
Highlight Cells Rules - A Date Occurring
Highlighting cells rules
Data Bars, Colors Scales, Icon Sets
New Rule
Apply Custom Data Formats
Using Advanced Fill Option
Apply Excel Functions for Data Analysis: Employ a wide array of Excel functions to analyse and interpret complex datasets, facilitating informed decision-making and insightful data analysis.
Conduct What-If Data Analysis: Perform What-If Analysis using scenarios and data tables to predict outcomes and make data-driven decisions in various business and research contexts.
Design and Customize Excel Charts: Create visually compelling and informative charts using advanced Excel features, customizing them to suit specific data presentation needs.
Analyse and Present Data with Pivot Tables and Charts: Construct and customize pivot tables and charts to summarize, analyse, and present large datasets in an accessible and actionable format, including the creation of comprehensive dashboards.
Eligibility Criteria
• Basic knowledge of computers and keen desire to build skills in this field.
• Open to students, job seekers, and working professionals.
Official Certification
• Official MKCL KLiC Certificate upon successful completion of the course and evaluations.
Work-Centric Learning Approach
• Step 1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work
• Step 2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
• Step 3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
• Step 4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
• Step 5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
• Step 6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
• Step 7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
• Step 8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
• Step 9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
• Step 10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
• Step 11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
• Step 12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!
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Course Overview
Duration:60 hours
Track:Data Science
Skill Level:Advanced
Language:English
Mode:Learn at ALC or at Home
Certificate:Official MKCL
Key Course Highlights:
Demonstrate the ability to use Excel 365 as part of the Microsoft 365 suite to collaborate on projects, access documents from anywhere, and utilize cloud-based features for enhanced productivity.
Navigate and Utilize Excel Effectively: Exhibit proficiency in navigating the Excel user interface, performing basic operations, and applying formulas and functions for data manipulation.
Customize Excel Spreadsheets: Apply custom formats, styles, and layouts to Excel documents, making data more accessible and presentations more professional.
Analyse Data with Conditional Formatting: Use conditional formatting to automatically highlight important data points, trends, or outliers, facilitating quicker analysis and insights.
Collaborate and Manage Workbooks: Manage Excel workbooks effectively, including sharing and securing data within the Microsoft 365 environment, and leverage Excel’s unique features to enhance collaboration and data analysis.
Apply Excel Functions for Data Analysis: Employ a wide array of Excel functions to analyse and interpret complex datasets, facilitating informed decision-making and insightful data analysis.
Conduct What-If Data Analysis: Perform What-If Analysis using scenarios and data tables to predict outcomes and make data-driven decisions in various business and research contexts.
Design and Customize Excel Charts: Create visually compelling and informative charts using advanced Excel features, customizing them to suit specific data presentation needs.
Analyse and Present Data with Pivot Tables and Charts: Construct and customize pivot tables and charts to summarize, analyse, and present large datasets in an accessible and actionable format, including the creation of comprehensive dashboards.