Microsoft Excel 2021/365: Intermediate Level Training (Udemy.com)
Get more out of Microsoft Excel 2021/365 with our intermediate training course!
Created by: Simon Sez IT
Last updated March 2024
What you will learn
- Designing better spreadsheets and controlling user input
- How to use logical functions to make better business decisions
- Constructing functional and flexible lookup formulas
- How to use Excel tables to structure data and make it easy to update
- Extracting unique values from a list
- Sorting and filtering data using advanced features and new Excel formulas
- Working with date and time functions
- Extracting data using text functions
- Importing data and cleaning it up before analysis
- Analyzing data using PivotTables
- Representing data visually with PivotCharts
- Adding interactions to PivotTables and PivotCharts
- Creating an interactive dashboard to present high-level metrics
- Auditing formulas and troubleshooting common Excel errors
- How to control user input with data validation
- Using WhatIf analysis tools to see how changing inputs affect outcomes.
How it compares
Against the other 355 rated Udemy courses in Excel on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 39% of them
- Reviews177#308 of 356 by number of reviews
- Length11.4 hourslonger than 76% of them
- Last updatedMarch 2024more recently than 51% of them
Course Description
***Exercise and demo files included***
In this second installment of our Excel 2021 course series, you can expand your Excel foundation beyond what you’ve learned in the beginners’ course and take your skills up another notch.
During this course, you will create intermediate-level formulas, prepare data for analysis using PivotTables and PivotCharts, make use of WhatIf analysis tools, learn how to use validation rules to control data input, and explore the fundamentals of spreadsheet design.
And we are just getting started!
You will also get to discover all the new features and functions available in Excel 2021, the latest standalone version of Microsoft Excel.
Explore the exciting world of dynamic array functions and learn how to use XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, and so much more.
This Excel 2021 Intermediate course is designed for those with beginner-level knowledge of Excel who are looking to take advantage of the application’s more advanced features. It’s also suitable for individuals who have beginner to intermediate skills using an older version of Excel.
The only prerequisites for this course are beginner-level knowledge of Excel and a working copy of Excel 2021.
This course covers:
Designing better spreadsheets and controlling user input
How to use logical functions to make better business decisions
Constructing functional and flexible lookup formulas
How to use Excel tables to structure data and make it easy to update
Extracting unique values from a list
Sorting and filtering data using advanced features and new Excel formulas
Working with date and time functions
Extracting data using text functions
Importing data and cleaning it up before analysis
Analyzing data using PivotTables
Representing data visually with PivotCharts
Adding interactions to PivotTables and PivotCharts
Creating an interactive dashboard to present high-level metrics
Auditing formulas and troubleshooting common Excel errors
How to control user input with data validation
Using WhatIf analysis tools to see how changing inputs affect outcomes.
This course includes:
9+ hours of video tutorials
84 individual video lectures
Course and exercise files to follow along
Certificate of completion
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
177 Reviews
Simon Sez IT
Since 2008, individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies with thousands of employees have benefited from the easy and hands-on software training offered by Simon Sez IT. With over 12,000 video tutorials on a range of software programs, Simon Sez IT ensures stress-free eLearning and enhanced employee productivity - no matter whether you are implementing new software or a technological upgrade for your workplace. With over 1 million Udemy students in over 190 countries, Simon Sez IT is the preferred online learning choice for individuals and businesses everywhere.
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Reviews
By Kaushik Biswas on 10/28/2025
Please have the option of zooming in/out on the video..Otherwise the course and the teaching is perfect.
By Glen A Tulloch on 9/11/2023
Very good match. This will allow me to spend my time doing other things using these short cuts to create and modify my Excel documents.
By Ofure on 8/29/2023
The course was very helpful and very detailed. However, there was no lecture to follow along with for 1 or 2 of the excel files
By Jason Flynn on 7/26/2023
I finally got the kind of tutorials I needed to become proficient at Excel!
By Rhys on 7/17/2023
This is a really good, in depth and content rich course. The instructor is very knowledgeable and a good teacher. The only drawback is that the exercises need to be more challenging and marked in a style similar to the quiz
By Suyog Katti on 6/27/2023
YES, it's a good course to learn more.
By Vickie Davis on 5/23/2023
Just talked about different thing and did help understanding what will happen.
By William Biermann on 4/25/2023
Extreamly helpfull for future use of excel to make tables and reports.
By Sidney Moshou on 4/25/2023
I really enjoyed the course; it was a real eye opener as I thought I understood Exel...
By George Peffer on 4/22/2023
Great match for me, it allows me to be better informed my audience on the data I want them to share with them.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100












