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Certificate in Mastering Excel (Online at your own pace)


Adult Enrichment / Computers & Technology -
Online Certificates and Courses 2025

A must-have skill to succeed in business, whether an entrepreneur or a valued employee, is the ability to create, edit and manage spreadsheets. Microsoft Excel is the most used spreadsheet tool in the world.Begin with learning how an Excel worksheet is constructed, populated with content, and edited for delivery. Discover how various menu items, commands, settings and processes affects the look of your Excel worksheets and workbooks. Then, increase your efficiency by learning how to organize, display and calculate your data into useful information. Identify different types of data and how data can be best visually represented or formatted, by using different data tool techniques. Finally, you’ll learn a variety of Excel’s most powerful features to analyze data quickly and easily. This Certificate will help you discover how to attractively visualize your data into meaningful information with confidence.

Students must have Microsoft Excel installed to complete this certificate.

Courses must be taken in order:

  1. Mastering Microsoft Excel
  2. Intermediate Excel
  3. Advanced Excel   

Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ


Class Details:

Mastering Microsoft Excel
Unit 1: Excel From The Ground Up
    Why businesses use Excel for spreadsheet management
    Technical requirements to use Excel (and all Office modules)
    Launch Excel and create your first Excel worksheet
    Discover how to protect and save your document
    Set your document’s Properties and Attributes including Subject, Title and Author
Unit 2: Excel Document Creation
    Explore the different parts of the Excel worksheet and document navigation
    Understand cells and their makeup
    Learn how to populate, format and merge cells
    Create multiple worksheet “workbooks”
    Learn how to insert comments and check spelling
Unit 3: Advanced Features and Functionality
    Create and manage formulas and functions
    Filter and sort tables and data
    Create “live” connections between multiple worksheets
    Create effective and informative table and charts
Unit 4: Excel Management and Sharing
    Create meaningful file names and understand filing systems to manage Excel documents
    Organize your documents on your hard drive and learn how to copy and move documents
    Manage track changes when co-authoring documents
    Printing and PDF file creation including setting print areas
    Learn how to export Excel tables and charts to PowerPoint presentations and Word documents
    Use Outlook to send Excel worksheets and workbooks to other users
Intermediate Excel
Unit 1: Organizing Worksheet and Table Data
    Introduction to tables
    Formatting tables using table styles
    Using formulas in tables
    Sorting and Filtering table data
Unit 2: Understanding Popular Excel Functions
    Understanding Named Ranges
    Applying business functions
    Creating functions that handle text
    Performing basic lookup functions
    Creating functions that work with dates and times
Unit 3: Improving Worksheet Appearance
    Formatting cells in worksheets
    Correcting common function errors
    Creating and using templates
    Customizing Excel toolbar
Unit 4: Analyzing Data Using Data Validation and Pivot Tables
    Understanding how to convert text to columns
    Understanding how to analyze spreadsheet data
    Understanding the basic pivot table layout and key terms
    Creating and formatting simple pivot tables

Advanced Excel
Unit 1: Advanced Functions Used To Make Business Decisions
    Applying multiple criteria to functions
    Using And criteria
    Using Or criteria
    Using And and Or and Not criteria
    Advanced Logical functions
    Using If -Then control statements
    Implementing If functions with Aggregate functions
Unit 2: Functions Used to Make Financial Decisions
    Learning basic financial functions
    Applying functions to perform loan calculations
    Computing loan payments
    Computing interest rate
    Computing number of payment periods
    Computing present value of a loan
    Working with additional functions
Unit 3: Applying Different Scenarios Using Excel Data Tools
    Understanding Different What-If Analysis Tools
    Performing What-If Analysis to see how data changes outcomes in formulas
    Using Scenario Manager
    Using Data Tables
    Using Goal Seek
    Applying rules to manage cell data
    Implement validation rules to avoid invalid entries
    Entering validation rules
    Avoiding duplicate data entries
Unit 4: Powerful Tools Used to Complete Data Implementation and Analysis
    Exporting and Importing Data into Workbook
    Protecting a workbook
    Making improved business decisions using pivot tables
    Creating an Excel Dashboard to visually display relevant data

Instructor

Elizabeth Flanagan


Elizabeth Flanagan co-founded WorkStrengths.com because she is passionate about helping individuals and companies leverage their talent to achieve their leadership potential, develop professional capabilities, and maximize effectiveness. She is results-oriented and pragmatic, drawing on 20+ years experience in executive positions within large Fortune 500 corporations and top-tier venture-funded startups – all of which gives her a broad perspective on the unique challenges workers and leaders face today.

Elizabeth holds an AB from Harvard University, cum laude, and an MBA from University of Virginia. In addition, she is a frequent speaker on the topic of Leadership Development and Gallup's CliftonStrengths (StrengthsFinder).

Amy Klous


Amy Klous completed a BA in Entrepreneurship and an MBA. She has nearly 20 years experience in marketing and the majority of that time was spent working for corporations using Excel to analyze sales and industry data. Her Excel students appreciate the hands-on learning and Amy’s patient teaching style. Amy runs a marketing advising + training business where she helps overwhelmed small businesses feel comfortable and understand how to market their business effectively.

John Rutledge


With over 25 years’ experience in the IT field, John Rutledge has a BA in Psychology and a Diploma in Computer Programming as well as having received numerous certifications and awards. He holds a Microsoft Office Master Certification and has a globally-recognized ICDL (International Computer Driver’s License) certification as well. John was the Manager of a Technical Support Desk for a multinational for several years. Prior to that, he held roles as Project Lead on a national software implementation project, Systems Analyst and Programmer Analyst. Currently the owner of an IT Consultancy firm, John works regularly with businesses of all sizes to assist them in understanding and managing their data.

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