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Advanced Microsoft Excel Certification Training

Q: How much does the Advanced Microsoft Excel course cost?

The Advanced Microsoft Excel training costs $149, down from the regular $179 (you save 17%). It is a one-time payment in US dollars, and you can pay securely by card or PayPal.

Q: How long is the Advanced Microsoft Excel course, and when does it start?

The course runs for 30 hours of live, instructor-led online training across 16 sessions. Weekend and weekday batches are available, and the next batch starts on Saturday, October 31, 2026.

CertOcean's Advanced Microsoft Excel training is a live, instructor-led online course. You learn in 16 live sessions (30 hours in total) with an expert instructor, work through 8 curriculum modules with hands-on assignments and keep lifetime access to the class recordings.

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Course overview

About the Advanced Microsoft Excel training

Advanced Excel training takes you beyond basic spreadsheets to the functions, data tools and automation that analysts rely on. You learn to clean and validate data, analyze it with PivotTables, charts and statistics, automate routine work with macros, and protect your workbooks.

Each module includes hands-on case studies, and you finish with a project that applies everything you learned.

This course includes

Course formatSelf-paced learning that gives you in-depth knowledge of every advanced Excel topic in the course.
Real-life case studiesAt the end of the course, you work on a project that applies the techniques you learned.
AssignmentsEach module includes a case study to complete before you move to the next module.
Lifetime accessKeep lifetime access to all videos, discussion forums and other learning content in the LMS.
24/7 expert supportOur support team is available 24x7 to answer technical questions quickly through a ticket-based system, for life.
CertificationComplete the final project, reviewed by our expert panel, to receive CertOcean's Advanced Excel certificate.

What you'll learn in this course

Apply custom and conditional formatting to make data easy to read
Use advanced Excel functions and formulas
Work with advanced data tools to clean, validate and organize data
Analyze data with PivotTables and pivot charts
Automate repetitive tasks by recording macros
Protect workbooks and restrict access to sensitive data

What is advanced Excel training?

Advanced Excel training teaches the Excel skills beyond the basics that analysts and finance teams use daily. This course covers lookup and logical functions, data validation, PivotTables and pivot charts, advanced filters, what-if analysis, macros and data security.

What will you learn in this advanced Excel course?

After this advanced Excel training, you will be able to:

Use the newer features of Microsoft Excel
Customize the Quick Access Toolbar and apply conditional formatting
Apply advanced functions and formulas to work faster
Run what-if analysis to test scenarios
Use data validation to control what users can enter
Build PivotTables and pivot charts, and add slicers and timelines for interactivity
Automate routine tasks with macros
Protect Excel files with passwords
Work faster with Excel keyboard shortcuts

Why learn advanced Excel?

Advanced Excel skills let you do in minutes what takes hours with basic spreadsheets. With this course you can:

Use advanced functions and formulas for complex calculations
Clean and organize data with Excel's data tools
Analyze data with advanced charts, PivotTables and statistics
Automate repetitive work with macros

Who should take advanced Excel training?

This advanced Excel course is a good fit for:

Data analysts
Financial analysts
Excel users who want to go further
Graduates looking for jobs in analytics or consulting

What are the prerequisites for the advanced Excel course?

There are no prerequisites for this advanced Excel course. A basic understanding of Microsoft Excel helps.

Curriculum

Advanced Microsoft Excel course syllabus

8 modules · 47 topics · 30 hours of live training

Overview of Advanced Excel 4 topics

Learning goal: Get to know the newer features of Microsoft Excel and the advanced concepts this course covers.
What is new in Microsoft Excel
Advanced Excel concepts covered in the course
Useful Excel keyboard shortcuts

Custom and Conditional Formatting in Excel 6 topics

Learning goal: Customize the Quick Access Toolbar and use custom and conditional formatting to make data easy to read.
Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
Custom number formatting
Conditional formatting
Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
Apply conditional formatting

Advanced Excel Functions and Formulas 8 topics

Learning goal: Apply advanced functions and formulas, and find and fix formula errors.
Logical functions
Text functions
Lookup and reference functions, such as VLOOKUP, INDEX and MATCH
Formula auditing: tracing errors and evaluating formulas
RANDBETWEEN
Named ranges
Use logical and lookup functions

Advanced Data Tools in Excel 7 topics

Learning goal: Clean, validate and organize data, and test scenarios with what-if analysis.
Text to Columns
Data validation
What-if analysis
Removing duplicates
Cleaning data with sorting and filtering
Apply data validation to a sample dataset

Data Analysis with PivotTables, Charts and Statistics 7 topics

Learning goal: Analyze data with charts, PivotTables and basic statistics in Excel.
Charts, chart formatting, secondary axes and scatter plots
PivotTables, pivot charts and sparklines
Advanced filters
Basic statistics such as average and correlation
Regression and ANOVA in Excel
Analyze data with PivotTables, charts and regression

Introduction to Excel Macros 6 topics

Learning goal: Record, run and edit macros to automate routine tasks.
What macros are
Recording macros
Running macros
Editing macros
Record, edit and run macros

Data Security in Excel 6 topics

Learning goal: Restrict and protect your data at the cell, sheet and workbook level.
Protecting cells
Protecting sheets
Protecting workbooks
Allowing specific users to edit ranges
Protect cells, sheets, a workbook and ranges in a sample workbook

Working with Advanced Excel: Project Preparation 3 topics

Learning goal: Bring all the advanced techniques together to prepare for the certification project.
Applying advanced Excel tools and techniques together
Preparing for the final project

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Advanced Microsoft Excel

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How much does the Advanced Microsoft Excel course cost?

The Advanced Microsoft Excel training costs $149, down from the regular $179 (you save 17%). It is a one-time payment in US dollars, and you can pay securely by card or PayPal.

How long is the Advanced Microsoft Excel course, and when does it start?

The course runs for 30 hours of live, instructor-led online training across 16 sessions. Weekend and weekday batches are available, and the next batch starts on Saturday, October 31, 2026.

Why take an advanced Excel certification course?

An advanced Excel certification course proves you can use Excel at the level employers expect for analyst roles.

Companies in every industry hire analysts with strong Excel skills.
Advanced Excel skills help you work faster and produce better reports.
Excel is one of the most requested software skills in job postings.

Will I get a certificate after the Advanced Microsoft Excel training?

Yes. You receive a CertOcean certificate of completion when you finish the training.

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