Computer Skills

Excel - Advanced Functions


Advanced Excel functions can help you analyse, clean and manipulate business data with greater efficiency and accuracy.

This practical one-day course develops your ability to build well-structured, complex formulas. You will work with advanced logical, lookup, reference, statistical, date and text functions, along with defined names, nested functions, Flash Fill, spill formulas and dynamic arrays.

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What to expect

You will work through practical examples using business data to understand how advanced formulas are structured, combined and applied. You will explore functions such as IF, AND, OR, XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, PIVOTBY and GROUPBY.

The course also examines how defined names can improve formula structure, how functions can be nested to address more complex requirements and how spill formulas work within dynamic arrays. You will use date, text and Flash Fill tools to organise, transform and clean data

Is this course for you


This course is for anyone who already uses Excel formulas and wants to expand into advanced functions. It is suited to people who work with business data and want to improve the productivity, structure and accuracy of their Excel work.

This course is suited to individuals who want to

  • build more complex and reliable Excel formulas

  • use advanced functions across different categories

  • combine functions to address more complex data requirements

  • retrieve, analyse and summarise information more efficiently

  • clean and transform data imported from other sources

  • work with dynamic arrays and spill formulas

What you will explore

During this training course, you will develop skills in building complex Excel formulas to work more efficiently with data. The course focuses on structured formula design, nested functions and data transformation, helping participants improve the accuracy and productivity of their Excel work.

This course offers the opportunity to:

  • Build well-structured, complex formulas to work more efficiently with data

  • Use functions and nested functions

  • Use Flash Fill to transform and clean data

Where this course can take you


During this training course, you will explore defined name ranges and how they can improve formula structure, along with advanced functions and the structure of nested formulas. You will work with logical functions including IF, AND and OR, building formulas that handle more complex conditions.

The course also covers lookup and reference functions including XLOOKUP, XMATCH, FILTER, PIVOTBY and GROUPBY, statistical functions for analysing business data, and date functions including DAY, MONTH, YEAR, DATE, EDATE and EOMONTH.

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