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Office Scripts in Excel Advanced 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):

 

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

You should only attend this course if you have previously attended our two-day introduction to Office Scripts course, or if you already know how to write scripts in Excel online.

Course schedule

We don't have any dates scheduled for this course. We may consider adding dates - it's always worth asking.

Alternatively, if you have 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

Advanced Office Scripts training course contents

If you've attended our two-day Introduction to Office Scripts training course, this follow-on two-day advanced course will show you what else you can do to automate Excel online.  Topics covered including manipulating data returned from APIs, understanding specific parts of the Excel object model and linking scripts to Power Automate to analyse form responses.

The contents of this course are as follows:

Working with tables

  • The table object model
  • Sorting and filtering
  • Other table operations

Working with pivot tables

  • Understanding the object model
  • Pivot table hierarchies
  • Layouts and fields
  • Filters and slicers

Working with charts

  • The charts object model
  • Formatting charts
  • Data series
  • Other chart operations

External API calls

  • Async functions
  • Understanding JSON responses
  • Parsing JSON arrays
  • Converting JSON to tables

Script storage

  • Managing .osts files
  • Ways to share scripts

Visual Studio Code

  • Editing scripts in VS Code
  • Configuring VS Code settings

Power Automate

  • Introduction to Power Automate
  • Creating instant flows
  • Looping over files
  • Running the same script on workbooks

Processing form responses

  • A quick overview of Forms
  • Getting responses
  • Analysing form responses

Scheduling scripts

  • Scheduling scripts
  • Editing flows

Working with emails

  • Working with Outlook
  • Sending emails
  • Analysing emails

Case studies

  • Combining worksheets
  • Removing hyperlinks
  • Other case studies
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:

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

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:

"Totally brilliant course, the tutor was fabulous. Would certainly recommend :-)"

Wendy Wood (Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA))

"I enjoyed the course and I thought that our trainer was fantastic. He delivered the training in a very structured manner and took the time to explain the use cases and context behind the different functions and formatting techniques. It was also great to bounce some personal excel issues off of him and get solutions."

Kieran Walton (Two Circles)

"Excellent trainer and pace of days. He made you feel relaxed and explained the course content in a easy to understand manner."

Becky Hayes (APSE Manchester)

"Training content and in particular the delivery from the trainer, was first class."

Mark Galpin (Renault Trucks UK & Ireland)

"A great trainer, really engaging and made even the complex topics simple to understand."

Rob Mason (Richer Sounds)

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:

  1. A good internet connection (otherwise you'll have a frustrating time); and
  2. 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.

Related Courses

You might like to consider these related courses:

Introduction to Office Scripts

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2 day course

Introduction to Power Automate RECOMMENDED

Introduction

2 day course

Excel VBA macros

Introduction

2 day course

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