Excel Without Maths

Course Overview

This Excel course can be held either in the classroom or online as Live Online Learning. The outline for both formats is the same, however the classroom session offers more time with the trainer to work on exercises, ask questions and complete activities.

What you will learn

You will explore features in Excel that don't involve any maths but will help you produce reports in a more visually appealing way, such as:

• How to save time analysing your data with Charts, Pivot Tables and Subtotals, and feel in control
• Ways to tidy up spreadsheets using Data Validation
• Loads of exciting tips that will help you become more productive at work

And yes! All without any dreaded maths.

With increased confidence in using these Excel features it should encourage you to learn more features that include formulas. See our Beginner Excel Core Level 1 or Intermediate Excel Core Level 2 for Excel with formulas.

Course timetable

Tidy data to enable accuracy

• Copy, paste and move data from one worksheet or website
• Paste Options: Transpose data to appear vertically or horizontally
• Insert and delete rows or columns in your worksheet
• Use Freeze pane to keep a portion visible while you scroll
• Remove Duplicate data from a sheet
• Use Data Validation to limit type or size of data entered in a cell
• Use Flash Fill to automatically fill in values and combine or tidy a long list
• Use TEXTJOIN to concatenate a list
• Use Range Names for selecting and moving around
• Control the layout of your sheets when printing

Using multiple data without maths

• Work on more than one worksheet and group them to make changes simultaneously
• Use Consolidate feature to summarise multiple sheets of data
• Sort large data into order and filter to show only the data you need

Visualise your data

• Use Conditional Formatting to automatically change the look of cells based on its value
• Create the best chart type for your data to make them stand out and easy to understand
• Create sparklines to show trends and pattern

Make your data make an impact (if there's time)

• Quickly convert a range of cells to a table, with its own style
• Use Subtotal to create mini summaries
• Create a Pivot Table to summarise large sets of data easily

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Information for Mac users

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.

The Small Print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of four 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

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.

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

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

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

Mac Users

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.

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, please 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.

If you have any questions or concerns, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.