The best Excel corporate training online and in-person for employees

While in-office Excel training can be a great boon to your team’s productivity, it comes at the cost of actually taking up time that could be spent working on other aspects of the project. To alleviate this, you can opt to provide your team members with discounted vouchers to enroll in any number of different Excel training programs online through Noble Desktop. This gives your employees or team members the chance to learn a wide range of different Excel skills (including those most relevant to their specific position) in their spare time outside of the regular working day. These vouchers can also be provided for specific courses or tracks, making it even easier for you to help your team members find the time and guidance they need to learn Excel outside of the corporate setting.

The most popular classes include:

• Excel for Business Fundamentals
• Intermediate Excel for Business
• Advanced Excel for Business
• Excel for Business Bootcamp

You can also choose your own Excel training curriculum to fit the precise needs of your team. This can include combining several classes together (for example, if you want to provide your team with a robust data science education, they can learn Excel for data science and Excel programming with VBA), or you can piece together lessons from different courses that specifically aim to provide your team with the training needed to accomplish specific Excel-related tasks at work. This level of customization is ideal for anyone looking to build a team training course that covers the exact kinds of Excel lessons to fit your team's long-term or short-term needs. The process of setting up a custom training schedule is straightforward and pain-free, so you’ll be able to quickly schedule the first lessons and get your team working on their Excel training immediately.

Noble Desktop offers a large range of options for private corporate training in Excel and Excel-related skills. These corporate events can be held at your corporate office or in private online classrooms, meaning that no matter how you want to provide your team members with Excel training, you’ll be able to offer them lessons that meet them where they are. It doesn’t matter whether you are looking to provide your team members with an afternoon of basic Excel training or several days of immersive Excel education; these private training programs are sure to offer you the options you need to best provide your team with Excel training. No matter what kind of course you choose, these programs are taught by professional instructors who are ready to provide your team members with guided, focused, and practical Excel instruction that will assuredly help them in all of their regular workday tasks.

If you are looking to introduce your team members to the basics of Excel, this course is a great way to start. Whether you think they will only need to learn the basics of utilizing the application or you want to spread out their training over multiple sessions (starting with the basics of Excel), this introductory course will provide your team members with the skills they need to understand and leverage the fundamental features of Excel. This training starts from the beginning and covers everything from how to work with basic cells and organization tools to how to write personalized functions and automatically calculate changes to the spreadsheet as more information is added or altered. This course will provide participants with all of the basic training they need to integrate Excel into their regular workload, and it is a great introductory course for any team that wants to learn the basics of Excel.

Building on the fundamentals course, you can provide your team members with intermediate Excel training, including data validation techniques, the use of Excel’s data visualization tools, and more advanced function writing, including how to write conditional functions and how to write functions that work across multiple sheets. This course is best suited for teams who are working with complex datasets stored in Excel, particularly large collections of data, but aren’t doing serious programming or data analytics work (the kind that would require a knowledge of programming or VBA, for instance). These corporate training courses are perfect for teams looking to make more effective use of Excel in their regular day-to-day tasks, as well as teams looking to prepare themselves for advanced Excel training.

Teams who need to work with the more complex and specialized features of Excel will want to continue with their training through an advanced Excel training program. In this advanced training program, team members will learn how to write complex functions and even write their own simple Excel code in VBA, and they will learn how Excel can be used in a wide range of data analytics, programming, and even development tasks. This training program is also a good introduction to the advanced Excel techniques that professionals working in other fields (like data science, FinTech, or cybersecurity) will need to make their lives easier. This training program serves as the culmination of prior Excel training programs, and it is an ideal class for anyone looking to ensure that their team is up-to-date with all of the major functionalities of Excel.

One of the reasons that Excel is such a useful skill to know is that it is incredibly versatile and has uses in a wide range of different fields. For example, this corporate training program offers teams the opportunity to learn how Excel is utilized in data analytics contexts and how it can make the process of collecting, organizing, and interpreting data easier for all involved. This training course will provide all of your team members with focused training in how Excel can be used alongside other applications (that are also offered as part of various corporate training courses) like Python or SQL. This course will teach your team members not only how to create databases with Excel but also how to create variable functions to look at data in new lights, utilize VLOOKUP and similar features to query large databases, and how to use Excel’s native data visualization features to create maps, charts and graphs.

Excel is also an important tool for marketing departments to learn how to use, both for the purpose of collecting data on various marketing efforts and for tracking costs and returns on marketing investments. This training will help marketing departments make better long-term decisions as they will be able to track data and information in more complex ways and with a higher level of accuracy. If it feels like your marketing department could use a bit more organizational or data analytics training, signing them up for an in-person or online corporate training session is a great way to provide them with the skills they need to market your products more effectively.

Pivot Tables are a simple and easy-to-use data comparison and analysis tool that even relatively Excel novices can learn to utilize in order to significantly speed up and improve their data analytics tasks. Pivot Tables allow users to create tables of data that automatically update and apply various functions to ranges of other data within a spreadsheet, allowing users to create dynamically updating Excel spreadsheets that ease the process of keeping track of data and make comparing and contrasting data points against one another as simple as writing a few quick functions.

Formulas and functions are some of the first tools that new Excel users learn but they are a massive time and productivity saver, helping users automate simple and complex mathematical functions. This can be as simple as adding up all of the numbers in a column or as complex as providing weighted averages for a series of variables across several different rows and columns. They can also be written to automatically update when new information is added to relevant cells, allowing users to write dynamic spreadsheets that allow for even greater control and efficiency. Learning how to write these formulas and functions can also help users learn the fundamental skills they will need to learn how to work with PivotTables and VBA.

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming a tool that is seeing use in almost every professional context, and Excel and data-related tasks are no exception. This corporate training event will teach your team members how they can utilize machine learning, artificial intelligence, and large language model algorithms in their regular Excel work. This includes everything from using AI tools to read and organize data to prompting LLMs to offer methods of pursuing trends in the data to having an LLM write basic VBA code to improve your Excel experience. This course will help your team leverage AI to reach the height of their potential with Excel. As an added bonus, this course requires no programming skills, so even non-programmers can learn how AI can be leveraged to their advantage.

Like any data-related field, finance and financial modeling also frequently require Excel knowledge to complete basic tasks and handle rudimentary data collection practices. This training session will provide your team members with an understanding of how Excel can be used to track company and department finances, spending and income and how it can be used to write programs and functions that model plausible future financial situations. This kind of training is perfect for departments that are beginning to handle more complicated budgets or team members who are in charge of making predictive models for future financial plans.

While Excel has a lot of different analytic and data-related functions, it is also a tool that is well suited for project management tasks (or really any tasks that require you to keep track of a lot of moving parts). Whether you are attempting to track productivity, keep work assignments organized and ordered, or simply create easy-to-share and update agenda items for a meeting or staff call, Excel can greatly improve the efficacy and accuracy of these tasks. Giving your team the opportunity to undertake Excel training for project management can help smooth out a host of different roadblocks preventing your team from completing projects in an accurate and timely manner. This project management training course is great for groups of managers who need to regularly oversee projects and teams that are working on collaborative projects.

Visual Basic for Applications (more commonly referred to as VBA) is a rudimentary programming language that allows users to quickly write new functions and formulas for applications like Excel. Providing your team with Excel VBA training is a great way to help them become more adept Excel users and write unique functions and code that will assist specific projects in new and personalized ways. This training will help all of your team members become more proficient Excel users as well as novice programmers, meaning that additional training will be even easier if your team is to branch out into more complex coding classes (particularly those related to data science tasks).

Basic Excel functions

Almost everyone can benefit from learning the basics of Excel, simply because it is a useful tool for organizing and collecting data, regardless of the kind of amount. This can range from simple tasks like organizing contact information and personal data to creating simple spreadsheets charting things like spending on a business trip (which can also be applied in other contexts). Learning how to publish and share spreadsheets (and how to limit how much of a sheet is shared) or how to create multiple different views and filters of a spreadsheet can also benefit almost any professional or team.

Formulas and functions 

When learning Excel, one of the first things you’ll want your team to master is the process of writing simple automated functions and calculations. These can range in complexity from automatically adding up all of the numbers in a row or column, or they can be more complex, such as weighting certain values higher than others and creating averages (or weighted averages) across multiple sheets. Learning how these formulas and functions operate can help greatly increase workflow and reduce the chances of calculation errors when working with large sums of data.

Data Visualization

Excel training can also provide team members with an understanding of the application’s native data visualization functionalities. While not as robust as dedicated data visualization applications, Excel can be used to create charts and graphs using the data entered in spreadsheets, and if your team needs to learn how to quickly produce visual aids for their data analytics task, Excel is up to the job. This training can also help users better understand their own data, by, for example, creating charts and graphs that show whether or not the data follows a bell curve or if there are certain correlations that you wouldn’t have seen in the raw data.

Pivot Tables

Pivot Tables are automated Excel functions used to summarize and organize large amounts of data, particularly data that is stored in multiple places or across multiple databases. Pivot Tables can easily draw different data points from different spreadsheets (for example, sales figures, inventory, and advertising expenses) to create a live updating table that helps you better contextualize large amounts of data. For instance, you can use it to track workplace productivity among hundreds of employees with simple data validation processes, or you can track incredibly long-term data points by constantly updating the information that is being processed by a Pivot table.

VBA

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is a programming language designed specifically for Microsoft Office applications, and it allows trained users to create their own supplemental functions and programs to run alongside those native to Excel. Learning VBA can help experienced Excel users create custom functions and scripts intended to help ensure that their projects are moving along smoothly and they are getting as much as they can out of their use of Excel.

Data Analytics

Another skill commonly taught alongside Excel in corporate training programs is data analytics, which is the process of making interpretive, quantitative, and qualitative claims about what the data says. Having all of the data in an Excel sheet isn’t all that useful to your team if they don’t know what to do with that data. In these training courses, your team members will learn how to use data analytics tools that complement Excel, like Tableau or Power BI, and they will learn the basics of statistical analysis, such as how to make inferences about future events based on past data. Learning these practical and technical skills will help any team that works with data become better equipped to make smart, long-term decisions based on their analyses of that data.

Data Science

On the other side of the data coin, you may want to include data science training in your corporate Excel training courses. Data science is more concerned with the ‘how’ of data collection rather than the ‘why,’ meaning that your teams who learn data science will focus on questions like how can we use Excel to collect more data and get a more nuanced understanding of the data they are collecting. Learning data science will involve learning programming languages like Python and SQL, and the training sessions will spend significantly more time on coding tasks than other data-related training sessions. Learning data science can be productive for teams who are trying to improve your organization's data collection methods or teams looking to expand on the different kinds of data they are collecting.

Python

Python is the most commonly used programming language in data-related fields. Teaching your team Python will help experienced Excel users become more adept at working with large databases and programming functions and algorithms that automatically collect, organize, and interpret data. Providing your team members with Python coding skills can help them expand the data-related aspects of their work in a wide variety of different ways, including introducing them to machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks that handle the data interpretation aspects of the job for them. 

SQL

Structured Querying Language (SQL) is the other major data-related programming language that your employees are likely to encounter in a corporate Excel training context. It is used to write algorithms and requests that query large datasets in complex ways (often with multiple conditional statements to parse through data on multiple different wavelengths). SQL can help Excel users take spreadsheets containing hundreds of thousands of cells of data and pinpoint the exact information that they are looking for while simultaneously cross-referencing the entirety of the data set. Providing SQL training alongside Excel training is ideal for anyone on your team who is going to need to frequently query large amounts of data in fairly narrow ways (i.e., something you couldn’t do with a simple ctrl+f or even a pivot table).