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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):

Classroom (London)
£1,450 Classroom (Manchester)
£1,095 Onsite (your office)
Please ask Online (your home)
£950
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 online course. We may consider adding more 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:

"I really enjoyed the course. The pace was great, moving at a consistent speed whilst making sure everyone was keeping up and understanding everything. I was also glad we jumped straight in at the start of each session and didn't spend forever doing pointless 'ice breakers' at the start (this was once 50 mins on another course I did!!). The breaks were perfectly timed and very much appreciated to keep my concentration levels up and give us a chance to digest each section. Our trainer was friendly and made me feel comfortable to ask questions and didn't make anyone feel silly for doing anything wrong. The content was great and covered a good range of things that I will be using. I liked the set up with the trainer being able to see our screens as well as us being able to see his. It all worked very smoothly! I had no knowledge of Power BI so needed an introductory course. I would very much be interested in the advanced course later in the year once I've practiced. Thank you for the great session and helping me resolve my IT/connection issues before the course!"

Donna Sahni (Look Ahead Care and Support)

"The course was really engaging and the tutor was knowledgeable and delivered the content at the right pace. The paper workbooks were great as I could make notes for each section. "

Jess Lewis (Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA))

"Our trainer was very knowledgeable and engaging. The course was run at a suitable pace for the group. It was clear that despite big updates to the power automate application in recent weeks, great effort had been made to update content and ensure it was up to speed on how the updated power automate worked, including being prepared for bugs that are present in the new version."

Adam Tranter (The Phoenix Group)

"I really enjoyed the course and found it to be very informative."

Lucy Shephard (Great Western Railway (GWR))

"It was highly interactive: having to type out and run the code alongside the trainer ensured that I learned how to do it (vs trying to absorb lots of theory from powerpoints!) Our trainer was very personable, and ensured that we stayed engaged throughout - not easy to do over a three day course delivered remotely!"

Myriam Telford (UK Research & Innovation (UKRI))

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

Introduction

2 day course

Introduction to Power Automate RECOMMENDED

Introduction

2 day course

Excel VBA macros

Introduction

2 day course
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