Excel

Excel from Essentials to Advanced

From structuring spreadsheets to mastering formulas, pivot tables and Power Query.

A hands-on programme that takes participants from the basics to an advanced level of Excel, with real exercises and a final project applied to each company's working context.

In person or live online16 hoursOpen enrolment and in companyUp to 25 participants per classApriori certificate
Duration
16 hours
Modality
Hybrid
Format
Individual and Corporate
Level
Introductory
Who this training is for

For people who work in Excel every day.

This programme was created for people who use Excel daily without getting real value from the tool. It covers everything from organising data correctly to advanced functions and a first approach to Power Query.

Applicable to
  • Administrative and back office professionals
  • Finance, accounting and billing teams
  • Sales and customer service teams working with reports and listings
  • Operations, logistics, stock and production
  • Human resources and management support
  • Any employee who produces or maintains Excel reports
The problem it solves

In most companies Excel is used superficially: disorganised sheets, duplicated data, fragile formulas and reports rebuilt by hand every month.

The cost is invisible but high: lost hours, calculation errors, information reaching management late, and dependency on the one or two people who understand the files.

The programme fixes the foundations and moves on to conditional functions, lookup functions, pivot tables and Power Query, so every participant works faster and with fewer errors.

Prerequisites

Basic computer skills.

Skills developed
Structuring professional spreadsheets
Organising and cleaning data
Formulas and conditional functions
Lookup functions
Text, date and time functions
Tables and pivot tables
Charts and presenting results
Introduction to Power Query
Good practice to reduce errors
Simple automation of recurring reports
Programme

Training programme

01

Structuring and formatting

How to organise data correctly from the start, so everything else works.

02

Essential formulas

References, operators and the calculation functions used in daily company work.

03

Conditional and lookup functions

Deciding with formulas and cross-referencing information between different reports and sources.

04

Pivot tables

Summarising large volumes of data and answering management questions in seconds.

05

Introduction to Power Query

Importing, cleaning and refreshing data without repeating manual work every month.

Practical, hands-on methodology

The programme runs at a practical pace: every concept is applied immediately in exercises using data similar to the company's own.

At the end, each participant builds a project applied to their own working context, which ensures the content leaves the room already in use.

Tools and resources
Microsoft Excel 365
What happens in the room
  • Step by step guided exercises
  • Working files provided
  • Cases applied to the company's reality
  • Questions answered in context
  • Individual final project
  • Good practice checklists
Certification

Apriori certificate of attendance

Trainer

Carlos Araújo

Expected outcomes

What the company gains.

Reports that are faster to build and to refresh
Fewer calculation and data matching errors
Autonomy to respond to management requests
Standardised files across the team
Less dependency on third parties
A solid base to move on to Power Query and Power BI
Deliverables

What is included in the programme.

  • Delivery of the programme, in person or live online
  • Support material and exercise files
  • Reusable spreadsheet templates
  • Applied final project
  • Apriori certificate of attendance
  • Post-training executive report when contracted as a corporate programme

Master the Excel your work demands.

Enrol in an open class or request an in company proposal with exercises built on your own company's data.