Advanced Google Sheets Level 3 Live Online Learning Courses

Session Overview

Google Sheets Level 3: Using Range Names

If you regularly use complex formulas, especially ones that use absolute or partial absolute references or if you struggle to navigate large spreadsheets then this session will be useful to you.

Course requirements: You will need to be confident setting up a spreadsheet, performing basic calculations and using absolute cell references. If you are not confident with this, please see our session on basic formulas.

What you will learn:

• Single cell Range Names
• Partial Absolute Cell References
• Naming Columns
• Data Validation
• Navigation
• Using Named Ranges in Formulas

Google Sheets Level 3: Nesting Logical Functions

This session will take you from basic IFs into nesting them to get more refined results. This is useful if IF analysis is a large part of what you do. It will also teach you the principles of nesting formulas, which are useful across Sheets at this level.

Course requirements: You will need to be confident setting up a spreadsheet and performing calculations, including using absolute cell references. If you are not confident with this please see our session on basic formulas.

What you will learn:

• Nested IF functions
• Nesting IFs and the IFs function IFs with AND, OR.

Google Sheets Level 3: More Formulas

This session takes using formulas a step further.

Course requirements: You will need to be confident setting up a spreadsheet and performing calculations, including using absolute cell references. If you are not confident with this, please see our session on basic formulas.

What you will learn:

• IFS
• SWITCH
• CONCAT
• TEXTJOIN
• MINIFS
• MAXIFS

Google Sheets Level 3: Lookups

Lookups are a common tool in Google Sheets to cross reference data from other sheets. This session will take you through a basic VLOOKUP as well as looking at ways to make your lookups more flexible using the MATCH function.

Course requirements: You will need to be confident setting up a spreadsheet and performing calculations, including using absolute cell references. If you are not confident with this, please see our session on basic formulas.

What you will learn:

• VLookup (and if there’s time, HLOOKUP too)
• Nesting MATCH function to make your Lookup copyable with Autofill
• IFERROR
• IFNA
• If there’s time…INDEX and MATCH

Google Sheets Level 3: Data Visualisation

If you’re already familiar with basic conditional formatting, this session will take you on to using more complicated conditions. It will also recap on charts and show you how to use more of the chart types.

Course requirements: You will need to be confident setting up a spreadsheet and performing basic calculations.

What you will learn:

• Conditional formatting using a formula, including using IF and conditional formatting for RAG
• More charts: Combo, Waterfall, Radar
• Annotated timeline
• Forecast function

You can also mix and match with our other Live Online Learning courses: Google Sheets Level 1, Google Sheets Level 2: Pivot Tables and Data Tidying, Google Sheets Level 2 (though do check course requirements before booking), Google Docs Level 2, Gmail Level 2, Google Drive: Sharing and Collaboration and Working With Google Workspace For Business. We also offer a wide range of Microsoft Office 365 courses and have developed a range of Live Online Learning for our Leadership and Personal Development programmes that you may be interested in.

The Small Print

The course will run remotely for 90 minutes. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the training session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.

Your active participation is expected: everyone will be heard and seen throughout, just as they would be if we were in a room together. To be heard, hear and seen you will need a microphone, speakers and camera – if you have a modern laptop that’s all you will need. Remember, you’ll need a quiet place to call from and a decent internet connection is a must.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

The happy Guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, just get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.