Use Excel for efficient data handling with formulas, functions, conditional formatting, and pivot tables.
Learning Mode: Learn at ALC or at Home
Detailed Course Curriculum
Hands-on module breakdown aligned with MKCL production standards and industry requirements.
Adjusting Row Heights and Column Widths
Making Columns and rows Fit Automatically
Adding and Removing Rows and Columns
Inserting, Deleting, and Copying Sheets
Renaming and Coloring Sheets
Sheet Secrets Hiding and Unhiding Sheets
Contents: Clearing Cell Contents
Hiding and Unhiding Rows and Columns
Protect Sheets with Passwords
Protect Sheets with Permissions
Lock and Unlock Cells in Excel
UnLock Columns and Rows in Excel
Hide Excel Functions and Formula
Alternate Methods of Protecting Sheets
Protect Excel Workbook
Password to Modify the Excel Workbook
Protect Workbook Structure
Protect cells with Password
Making Text Bold, Italic, and Underlined
Background and Font Color Options
Changing Font Size with Ease
Choosing Font Type
Styling Cell Borders
Advanced Font Formatting
Merging and Unmerging Cells
Aligning Text
Controlling Text Orientation
Managing Text Indents
Wrapping Text within Cells
Advanced Alignment Options
Shape Alignment
Creating Excel Tables
Styling and Customizing Tables
Using Total Rows in Tables
Removing Duplicate Data
Resizing and Renaming Tables
Sorting and Filtering Data in Tables
Advanced Filtering in Tables
Slicers in Tables
Converting Tables to Ranges
Working with Custom Lists
Cleaning Data
Find and Replace
Using the Go to Feature
Selection Pane
Select Objects
Flash Fill for Text
Flash Fill for Dates
Flash Fill for Numbers
Flash Fill for Splitting Text
Default Fill Series
Text Fill Series
Number Series
Date Series
Justify
Fill Options
Basic Data Sorting
Sorting with Multiple Criteria
Sorting by Color
Customized Data Sorting
Basic Data Filtering
Filtering by Color
Advanced Data Filtering
Finding Unique values using Filter
Advanced Filtering with AND & OR Conditions
Navigating the Ribbon and QAT
Excel’s Backend Settings
Formatting Multiple Sheets
Finding Your Exact Age in Excel
Excel Speaking Skills
Excel Shortcuts : Ctrl 1 to Ctrl 0
Excel Shortcuts : Ctrl A to Ctrl Z
Excel Shortcuts : CTRL F1 TO CTRL F12
Excel Shortcuts : CTRL Command keys
Excel Shortcuts : ALT A TO ALT Z
Excel Shortcuts for ALT Command keys
Excel Shortcuts : F1 to F12
Excel Shortcuts : SHIFT F1 to SHIFT F12
Excel Shortcuts : CTRL SHIFT keys
Hyperlinking to Existing File
Linking to Webpages
Navigating Within the Same File
Adding ScreenTips
Hyperlinks to Objects
Find Quarter and Year From Dates
Adding and Subtracting Days
Adding and Subtracting Years and Months
WEEKDAY and WEEKNUM Functions
NETWORKDAYS Function in Excel
NETWORKDAYS.INTL Function in Excel
Calculating Exact Age
Conditional Formatting using Dates
Creating Dropdown Lists
Creating Date ‘Data Validation’
Creating Number Data Validation
Creating Text Data Validation
Input Messages and Error Alerts
Dependent Dropdown Lists
Go to and Clear Data Validation
Using Named Ranges
Prevent Duplicate Entries
Introduction to Office 2019 and 365 online
Excel 2019 and Excel 365
CONCAT, MAXIFS, MINIFS
Enhanced visuals (Inserting SVG files to your Excel file)
New and improved connectors
Apply Custom Formats and Layouts
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
Creating custom number formats
Understanding underlying codes
Applying formats
Creating custom accounting formats
Custom number formats
Deleting a custom format
Excel date calculation
Creating custom date formats
Excel date format codes
Creating custom time formats
Excel Time-format Codes
Fill series options
Linear series
Growth series
Date series
Auto fill
Creating a custom fill sequence
Using a custom fill sequence
Flash fill
The flash fill icon
Manage and Share Workbooks-Connect to external data
Functions
Introduction to Functions, Common Types of Arguments, Parts of Functions
Advanced Aspects of Functions, Searching for a Function
Using the Functions
Introduction to Excel Formulas and Functions
Formula Intro & Fundamentals
Types of Arguments
Relative Reference
Absolute Reference
Formula Reference Styles - Mixed Reference
Introduction
Different Text Functions
Text Extraction Functions
Text Cleaning Functions
Text Replacing Functions
Char and Code Functions
Type Conversion Functions
Text Position Finding Functions
Splitting first and last name
Extracting Numbers from Description
Getting word count from cells
Concatenate Formula
Changing the case of the text
Extracting Text
Extracting parts of a text string
Introduction to TWOROWS and Their Use
Introduction to TWOCOLUMN and Its Use
Introduction to WRAPROWS and Its Use
Introduction to WRAPCOLUMN
Explanation of Function
HSTACK and VSTACK Functions
Introduction of TEXTAFTER Function & Its Use
Introduction of TEXTBEFORE Function & Its Use
Introduction of TEXTSPLIT Function & its Use
Introduction Basic Mathmatical function & Its Uses SUM, MIN, MAX, AVERAGE
Uses of LARGE, and SMALL Functions
Uses of COUNT, COUNTA, and COUNTBLANK Functions
Introduction and Various Uses of the SUMIF Function
Uses of the AVERAGEIF and COUNTIF Functions
Uses of the AVERAGEIF and COUNTIF Functions and Overview
Create advanced formulas
Functions
Getting Workbook and System Informations
Identifying Types of Errors
Checking for Empty Cells
Identifying Error Types
Handling All Errors
Detecting Formulas in Cells
Checking for Logical Values
Handling ‘Not Available’ Errors
Filtering Out Non-Text Cells
Identifying Numeric Cells
Filtering Odd Numbers
Validating Cell References
Checking for Text Data
Fetching Cell Information
Filtering Even Numbers
Handling Omitted Arguments
Converting Non-Numbers to Zero
Getting Active Sheet Information
Counting Sheets in Workbook
Working with TYPE for Data Analysis
Combining Conditions with AND
Using “OR” for Multiple Criteria
Inverting Logic with “NOT”
Working with TRUE Values
Handling FALSE Conditions
Conditional Logic with IF
Switching Between Cases
Exclusive OR Logic
Getting Characters by ASCII Code
Fetching Unicode Characters
Formatting Numbers as Text
Converting Text to Numbers
Converting Values to Text Strings
Joining Array Elements into Text
Extracting Text from Cells
Comparing Text for Exact Match
Replacing Substrings in Text
Substituting Text Characters
Repeating Text Strings_New
Removing Extra Spaces
Joining Text with Delimiters
Converting Text to Number Formats
Formatting Numbers as Currency
Converting Numbers to Thai Text
Creating Dates from Components
Converting Text to Dates
Calculating Days Between Dates
Calculating Days in 360-Day Year
Finding End of Month Dates
Getting ISO Week Numbers
Creating Time from Components
Converting Text to Time
Calculating Workdays
Calculating International Workdays
Calculating Fractional Years
Calculating Fiscal Year
Applying Functions Column-Wise
Applying Functions Row-Wise
Handling Errors Gracefully
Substituting ‘Not Available’ Errors
Multiple Conditions with IFS
Creating Custom Functions
Assigning Names to Expressions
Generating Arrays on the Fly
Mapping Functions onto Lists
Reducing Data Sets
Scanning Data Arrays
Getting Characters by ASCII Code
Fetching Unicode Characters
Formatting Numbers as Text
Converting Text to Numbers
Converting Values to Text Strings
Joining Array Elements into Text
Extracting Text from Cells
Comparing Text for Exact Match
Replacing Substrings in Text
Substituting Text Characters
Repeating Text Strings_New
Removing Extra Spaces
Joining Text with Delimiters
Converting Text to Number Formats
Formatting Numbers as Currency
Converting Numbers to Thai Text
Creating Dates from Components
Converting Text to Dates
Calculating Days Between Dates
Calculating Days in 360-Day Year
Finding End of Month Dates
Getting ISO Week Numbers
Creating Time from Components
Converting Text to Time
Calculating Workdays
Calculating International Workdays
Calculating Fractional Years
Calculating Fiscal Year
Generating Cell Addresses
Retrieving Column Numbers
Counting Columns in a Range
Horizontal Data Lookup
Creating Clickable Links
Inserting Images via Formula
Retrieving Row Numbers
Counting Rows in a Range
Selecting from a List of Options
Choosing Columns Dynamically
Choosing Rows Dynamically
Dropping Data into Cells
Expanding Cell Ranges
Fetching Field Values
Filtering Data Ranges
Displaying Formulas as Text
Extracting Data from Pivot Tables
Locating Data by Index
Referencing Cells Indirectly
Performing General Lookups
Matching Data Across Ranges
Shifting Cell References
Comparison of various lookup functions
Counting Number of Areas in a Range
Sorting Data Efficiently
Sorting by Custom Criteria
Extracting Data Subsets
Transforming Rows into Columns_Extra sound at 30
Transforming Columns into Rows
Switching Rows and Columns
Extracting Unique Values
Advanced Vertical Lookups
Advanced Data Matching
Mastering Data Extraction from Pivot Tables
Visualizing Data Through Column chart
Visualizing Data Through Line chart
Visualizing Data Through Pie chart
Visualizing Data Through Bar chart
Visualizing Data Through Area chart
Visualizing Data Through XY (Scatter) chart
Visualizing Data Through Map chart
Visualizing Data Through Stock chart
Visualizing Data Through Surface chart
Visualizing Data Through Radar chart
Visualizing Data Through Treemap chart
Visualizing Data Through Sunburst chart
Visualizing Data Through Histogram chart
Visualizing Data Through Box & Whisker chart
Visualizing Data Through Waterfall chart
Visualizing Data Through Funnel chart
Visualizing Data Through Combo chart
Conversion Between Units
Decimal to Binary
Decimal to Hexadecimal
Decimal to Octal
Hexadecimal to Binary
Hexadecimal to Decimal
Hexadecimal to Octal
Octal to Binary
Octal to Decimal
Octal to Hexadecimal
Binary to Octal
Binary to Decimal
Binary to Hexadecimal
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:30 hours
Track:Financial Accounting
Skill Level:Advanced
Language:English
Mode:Learn at ALC or at Home
Certificate:Official MKCL
Key Course Highlights:
At the end of this course, learners will be able to:
Navigate and customize Excel workbooks, manage sheets, protect data, and use cell styling and alignment features.
Enter, clean, and transform data using tools like Flash Fill, custom lists, and advanced editing techniques.
Create and format tables, use slicers, apply filters, and remove duplicates for clean data structures.
Apply a wide range of formulas and functions including SUMIF, VLOOKUP, IF, TEXTSPLIT, HSTACK, and advanced logic/lookup functions.
Perform data validation using dropdowns, error alerts, and named ranges to control data input.
Use conditional formatting to highlight trends and anomalies, and apply custom number/date/time formats.
Generate pivot tables and pivot charts for dynamic data summarization and insights.
Use Excel charts (bar, pie, area, sunburst, funnel, etc.) for effective data visualization.
Perform unit and data type conversions (binary, decimal, hexadecimal, etc.) and utilize built-in functions for accurate calculations.
Manage and share Excel workbooks securely, including collaboration features available in Office 365 and Excel 2019.