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Office Scripts Introduction 2-day training course

Two days (09:30 to 16:30 UK time each day)

This course is available in the following formats (all prices exclude VAT):

Classroom (London)
£1,350

Classroom (Manchester)
£995

Onsite (your office)
Please ask

Online (your home)
£825

You can book a place on this course either online through this website, by phone, by email or by filling in our enquiry form.

If you've already written VBA macros in Excel or written programs in languages like JavaScript you'll find this course easier, but neither is a pre-requisite for attendance.

Course schedule

Here are our next few Introduction to Office Scripts course dates:

Dates	Times	Venue	Price (excl. VAT)
29-30 May	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
01-02 Jul	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
30-31 Jul	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
29-30 Aug	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
26-27 Sep	09:30-16:30	Online	£825	Book
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Got a handful of like-minded people in your organisation? You could consider booking your own customised onsite course, whereby you get to pick the dates and venue!

Course Contents - PDF

Introduction to Office Scripts training course contents

This two-day course explains how you can write programs in Office Scripts to run in Excel 365 online (analogous to writing macros in VBA to run in Excel on your desktop). Office Scripts use TypeScript (itself built upon JavaScript) to give you an easy way to automate working with Excel workbooks in the cloud.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Getting started

Creating a new script
The script editor
Writing basic instructions
Running scripts

Basic TypeScript code

The concept of functions
Adding comments
Referencing objects
Applying methods
Writing to the console

Getting help

The Action Recorder
Using sample scripts
Online documentation

Saving scripts

Saving to OneDrive
Sharing scripts in a workbook
Creating buttons

Referring to ranges

Referring to specific cells
Finding the edge of a list
Offsetting a range
Referencing rows and columns

Worksheets

Creating worksheets
Referencing sheets
Deleting sheets

Variables

Var, Let and Const statements
Explicit and inferred types
Referencing variables
Variable scope
Casting values

Functions

Declaring functions
Calling functions
Function parameters
Returning values

Conditional statements

If statements
Testing conditions
Switch statements

Loops

For loops
Do and While loops
For Each loops
Break and Continue statements
Labelled statements

Arrays

Declaring arrays
Populating arrays
For Of loops
Collections and arrays

Error-handling

Exceptions
Try Catch clauses
The Finally block

Please see further up this page for what you should know beforehand (if anything) in order to attend this course.

Why Choose Us?

Here are some reasons to choose Wise Owl courses:

No more than 6 people per class
581 references viewable online
Free USB stick containing course files
Genuine Wise Owl trainers only
Unbelievably good courseware

In addition, here are some benefits unique to classroom training:

Proper restaurant lunch included

And some benefits specific to online training:

Courseware manual posted to you in advance
Free half-hour pre-course check-up included
Our clever system means you can use our laptops (and we can see them)

What other people have said

Our thanks to everyone who agreed to share their thoughts. All of the following reviews are from the last 3 calendar years:

"I was impressed by our trainer's thoroughness - any questions that he could not answer on the spot, he took away and answered the next day, having found workarounds to even the most obscure of questions we had for him! His pace of teaching and clarity was perfect, taking the stress out of learning new things."

Lisa Anastassiu (The Phoenix Group)

"Really loved the whole experience. I'm a lot more confident and eager to use my skills going forward. The course was a great pace and ensured that you had a great foundation knowledge before moving on to more difficult areas of work. I think we used it because other people in my department have been on it before-I can see why they recommended it!!"

Hannah Bateman (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC))

"Brilliant from start to end. I am missing it already! Oddly, I think the online format works a bit better than in class, apart from the fact we couldn't all go for a beer at the end of it. I liked how our trainer could monitor all of our work at once and offer guidance without needing to name anyone. The whole thing was thoroughly enjoyable and ran smoothly and I would recommend you as a company with pleasure."

Marketa Koskova (Legal Aid Agency)

"Trainer was really engaging, knew his stuff and was helpful in guiding us to utilising SSRS effectively. He seemed to really enjoy teaching us and we could tell. Well delivered course and great content, example database to use. The trainer slightly adapted his delivery based on what he believed we would need and he was right."

Nathan Vickery (TVS Supply Chain Solutions)

"Really great delivery and learned so much! Great training thank you - felt able to ask questions."

Siobhan Humphreys (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC))

There are lots more where these came from (or just refresh this page to change the quotes shown).

How our training courses work

Below are some notes on how Wise Owl courses work, to help you decide whether they're for you or not.

What you'll need

If you book on a classroom course, the only thing you need to bring to the course is ... yourself! We even provide a notepad and a suprisingly nice pen for you to take notes with.

For online training you'll need two things:

A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
A second screen (a requirement, not a nice-to-have!)

You can see full details of our online course requirements here.

When you book a place

If you book a place on one of our courses:

For classroom courses we will send out a joining email. That's it!
For online courses we will get in touch to organise a half-hour pre-course check to iron out any connection problems before the course (rather than during it).

Whatever type of course you book, we will also send you out a reminder a few days before the course is due to take place - not that (we hope) you'll have forgotten!

What you won't need

For classroom training, you won't need a computer - we (obviously) will provide that. However, you're welcome to use your own laptop if you prefer, providing that you have the correct software installed.

For online training you will need a computer, but you won't need to have any software installed. This is because you'll use Windows Remote Desktop to connect to our computers, and these will have all of the necessary files and software installed.

The start of the course

For online courses you will be able to join up to half an hour before the course begins. This will give you time to:

familiarise yourself with the set-up;
meet your trainer; and
get to know the other delegates!

For classroom training it's always nice if people arrive a bit early too, to give people time to meet each other (and drink coffee).

You'll be given a full colour courseware manual, an exercise booklet to go with the course and a USB stick for taking course files away (we'll post all this to you for online courses).

After the course

After the course finishes you'll receive a digital certificate proving your attendance (we will gladly send a paper copy on request also).

We don't have any formal arrangement for answering questions after the course, but if you get stuck on something and email your trainer they should (and nearly always do!) respond as quickly as their training schedule allows.

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