18-Day Advanced Excel Syllabus

Fast-track your Excel skills from beginner to advanced level in just 18 days.

Who is this course for?

  • Students who want strong Excel skills for studies & jobs
  • Job seekers preparing for office, accounting, and data roles
  • Working professionals who want to upgrade Excel skills fast
  • Anyone looking for a compact, fast-paced Excel course

What you will achieve in 18 days

  • Cover core Excel tools & functions in a short time
  • Practice with real-world business examples
  • Build confidence to work with Excel in office environments
  • Learn reporting, analysis & dashboards (without heavy VBA)

Course Outline – Advanced Excel (18 Days)

Day 1: Getting Started with Microsoft Excel (Recorded – 1 Hour)

  • Excel interface & core features
  • Workbooks, worksheets & navigation
  • Ribbon & Quick Access Toolbar customization

Day 2: Auto Fill, Formatting & Invoice Designing (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Auto Fill & Flash Fill
  • Text & number formatting
  • Invoice template designing
  • Table formatting best practices

Day 3: Cell References & Ledger Accounts (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Relative, Absolute & Mixed references
  • Using references in formulas
  • Ledger account preparation in Excel

Day 4: Hands-on Practice Session (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Practice Days 1–3 concepts
  • Guided exercises & problem-solving

Day 5: Home Tab, Paste Special & Conditional Formatting (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Home tab deep dive
  • Paste Special techniques
  • Conditional formatting for analysis

Day 6: Practical Classwork Session (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Real-life examples using conditional formatting
  • Data cleaning & formatting practice

Day 7: Data Summarization Functions (Live – 1 Hour)

  • SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX
  • SUBTOTAL & AGGREGATE
  • SUMIF, COUNTIF, AVERAGEIF

Day 8: Hands-on Summarization Exercises (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Practical data analysis problems
  • Report-based exercises

Day 9: Preparing Reports for Printing (Recorded – 1 Hour)

  • Page setup & print area
  • Headers, footers & page number

Day 10: Logical Functions (IF, Nested IF, IFS, SWITCH) (Live – 1 Hour)

  • IF with AND / OR
  • Nested IF real-world logic

Day 11: Lookup & Reference Functions (Live – 1 Hour)

  • VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP
  • XLOOKUP
  • INDEX & MATCH

Day 12: Dynamic Excel Functions (Live – 1 Hour)

  • FILTER, UNIQUE, SORT
  • INDIRECT & HYPERLINK
  • Dynamic linking concepts

Day 13: Date & Time Functions (Live – 1 Hour)

  • DATEDIF, NETWORKDAYS, WORKDAY
  • YEAR, MONTH, DAY & more

Day 14: Text Functions & File Security (Live – 1 Hour)

  • LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN
  • TRIM, SEARCH, SUBSTITUTE
  • Workbook & worksheet protection

Day 15: PivotTables – Data Analysis (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Creating PivotTables
  • Sorting, filtering & grouping

Day 16: Pivot-based Reports (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Business reports using PivotTables
  • Summary & comparison reports

Day 17: Charts & Dashboards (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Charts, slicers & visuals
  • Interactive dashboard basics

Day 18: Practical Automation Session (No VBA Coding) (Live – 1 Hour)

  • Macro concepts (overview only)
  • Recording simple macros
  • Practical automation examples
  • Final revision & Q&A