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Workplace Digital Literacy: Excel Training

Free Excel Training Modules – Limited Seats Available

Build your Excel skills with our series of free, instructor-led training modules, designed to help professionals strengthen their data-handling and productivity skills.

We are offering specialised modules, each delivered live on separate dates.

Each module is limited to few seats, and we encourage participants to register only if they are committed to attending. A confirmation email will be issued only to selected participants.

Upcoming Modules

EXCEL 4: MORE ON FUNCTIONS

Date: January 16th 2026
Time: 11.30 – 1.00pm

Topics Covered: 
→ Creating and working with named ranges.
→ VLOOKUP Function
→ IF Error function revisited
→ Index and Match
→ XLOOKUP – Excel 2019 / 365 only
 Basic XLOOKUP
 XLOOKUP – [if_not_found] argument
 Search Mode argument
→ Goal Seek and Scenario Manager

Date: January 23rd 2026
Time: 11.30 – 1.00pm

Topics Covered: 
→ Creating and understanding a basic Pivot Table
→ Filtering Data
→ Refreshing a Pivot Table / Refresh
automatically on opening
→ Using the Pivot Table Design Ribbon
→ Resizing columns and preserving column
widths
→ Grouping Dates / Grouping Fields
→ Using Slicers with Pivot Tables
→ Creating / Modifying Calculated Fields
→ Creating and Modifying Pivot Charts

Date:  January 2026
Time: TBC

Topics Covered:

  • Writing and understanding basic formulas

  • Writing and understanding basic functions

    • SUM / MIN / MAX / AVERAGE / COUNT / COUNTA / COUNTBLANK

  • Copying formulas: Relative vs. Absolute cell addressing

  • Conditional formatting revisited (using formulas)

Date:  Jan 2026
Time: TBC

Topics Covered:

Working with Lists

  • Freezing Panes / Print Titles

  • Sorting and filtering a list

  • The Filter Function (Excel 2019 / Microsoft 365 only)

  • Creating and working with Excel Tables

    • Changing formatting

    • Changing display options (Total Row, etc.)

    • Working with functions

    • Using slicers in tables

    • Creating calculated fields

Manipulating Text

  • Changing the case of text – UPPER / PROPER / LOWER

  • Text to Columns

  • Joining text using & and TEXTJOIN

  • Flash Fill

  • Removing duplicates

Date:  Jan 2026
Time: TBC

Topics Covered:

→ Creating and editing various chart types
 Column / Bar / Line / Pie
→ Moving / Resizing the chart
→ Adding / Editing chart elements
 Chart title / Legend / Chart Style / Data Table /
Data Labels
 Switch Row / Column
 Manually Formatting a chart
 Change overlap and Gap width
→ Creating a combined chart
→ Displaying data on a secondary axis
→ Adding an additional range to a chart once
created
→ Creating and working with Sparklines

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