The Complete Excel Course with AI Integration
Excel course for document controllers
This page is for document controllers maintaining registers, transmittal logs and RFI trackers in Excel. While The Complete Excel Course with AI Integration holds no document data of its own, this page isolates the lessons needed to build a register: Tables, sorting, filtering, data clean-up, text formulas for document numbers, drop-down codes, lookups, dynamic lists, counts by discipline and status, and the TaskFlow tracker for replies due.
Taught by Sagnik Bhattacharya and Virginia Thorn
What you will be able to do
At work, you will be able to:
- Structure the document register within an Excel Table, using sorting, filtering, freeze panes for headings, and Remove Duplicates to eliminate repeated numbers.
- Break document numbers into individual codes using Text to Columns, Flash Fill, LEFT, MID and RIGHT, then reassemble them using CONCAT or TEXTJOIN.
- Prevent incorrect coding during data entry by applying drop-down validation for status, document type and discipline.
- Populate transmittals with document titles and statuses via XLOOKUP, and sort a single drawing's revisions chronologically with FILTER and SORTBY.
- Summarise document counts across disciplines and statuses using COUNTIFS and PivotTables, and verify that titles or revisions are not missing using COUNTA.
- Record transmittals, RFIs and non-conformance reports with target reply dates, highlighting overdue responses in colour and calculating open working days with NETWORKDAYS.
Projects
What you will build.
The course has 14 projects. These three matter most here.
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Project 06
PeopleInsight HR workbook
Employee data joined across sheets with one formula.
Retrieve document details instead of staff records using lookups, and dismantle formatted codes like DAL-SAL-0001 into component sections with LEFT, MID and RIGHT.
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Project 07
TaskFlow
One sheet that shows what is done, what is late and what is urgent.
Monitor transmittal and RFI rows requiring a response, applying colour alerts to overdue items and tracking the working days each remains outstanding.
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Project 02
Dunder Michael Paper Company employee database
Practise cleaning techniques required for a document register on staff data: purge duplicated numbers, separate codes across columns, and lock header rows in place.
Lessons
The lessons that matter, in course order.
The Complete Excel Course with AI Integration has 186 lessons. This page picks out 53 of them, 4 h 27 min of video. Each lesson keeps its number in the course.
Where to start
Lesson 19 Excel tables
Start with Lesson 19 if you already know how to navigate worksheets and input data, as the register material commences at that point. If you are entirely new to Excel, start at Lesson 1. Document controllers whose register is already established as a clean Table can advance to Lesson 41 to handle drop-down validation and document numbers, or skip ahead to Lesson 79 for the transmittal log. Managing data in Excel, where this path opens, is free by email with its practice files: request it directly on the course page.
53 of 186 lessons · 4 h 27 min
03 Managing data in Excel: sort, filter and tables (Dunder Michael Paper employee database) Building the register: set up an Excel Table, filter and sort records by status or discipline, remove extra spaces and duplicate entries, divide codes using Text to Columns and Flash Fill, freeze header rows, and prepare clean printed layouts. Exercises utilise an employee list.
- 19 Start here Excel tables Create and format a table, structured references and total row 8 min
- 20 Sorting data in Excel Single and multi-level sort on an employee database 6 min
- 21 Filtering data in Excel AutoFilter, text and number filters on employee data 10 min
- 22 Cleaning data in Excel TRIM, Paste Special values and Find and Replace 13 min
- 23 Remove duplicates in Excel Find and delete duplicate rows in an employee list 6 min
- 24 Flash Fill in Excel Split first and last names automatically 3 min
- 25 Text to Columns in Excel Split data by delimiter into separate columns 6 min
- 26 Freeze panes in Excel Lock header rows and columns while scrolling 3 min
- 27 Printing in Excel Print area, page orientation, scaling and page layout 6 min
04 Essential formulas and functions (IF, SUMIF and more) Confirm data completeness with COUNTA, tally items by discipline and status using COUNTIF and COUNTIFS, explore the function library, and calculate reply dates with date arithmetic. Practice exercises are based on sales records.
- 34 SUM, COUNT and COUNTA in Excel SUM with FILTER and counting numbers with COUNT 7 min
- 35 SUM, COUNT and COUNTA in Excel COUNTA, unique counts and completeness checks 4 min
- 36 SUMIF and COUNTIF in Excel Conditional sum and count with one criterion 8 min
- 37 SUMIFS and COUNTIFS in Excel Sum and count with multiple criteria 7 min
- 38 The Excel function library Insert Function dialog and Formula AutoComplete 5 min
- 39 Date and time functions in Excel TODAY, NOW, MONTH and date arithmetic 6 min
05 Text functions and data validation (enhancing data quality) Formulas for text and data validation: combine code components with CONCAT and TEXTJOIN, tidy drawing titles with TRIM, UPPER and PROPER, amend coding strings with FIND, SEARCH and SUBSTITUTE, and enforce allowed values through drop-down lists.
- 41 CONCAT, the & operator and TEXTJOIN in Excel Combine text from multiple cells 6 min
- 42 TRIM, UPPER, LOWER and PROPER in Excel Clean messy text and fix capitalisation 6 min
- 43 FIND, SEARCH and SUBSTITUTE in Excel Locate and replace text with formulas 5 min
- 44 Text to Columns wizard in Excel Split a column by a comma delimiter 4 min
- 45 Data validation in Excel Create drop-down lists for consistent data entry 4 min
- 46 Ninja Challenge: problem Clean messy data with text functions and validation 4 min
- 47 Ninja Challenge: solution PROPER, Text to Columns and drop-down lists 7 min
07 PivotTables and PivotCharts: data analysis made easy Summarising register information with PivotTables: break down document totals by status and discipline, group entries by date of issue, filter with slicers, and display trends via PivotCharts. The exercises draw on sales order data.
- 57 PivotTables 101 in Excel What a PivotTable does and the sales dataset 5 min
- 58 Preparing data for PivotTables Clean data with TRIM, PROPER, find and replace 5 min
- 59 Create your first PivotTable in Excel Insert a PivotTable from a sales table 1 min
- 60 PivotTable fields in Excel Rows, values, columns and Value Field Settings 2 min
- 61 PivotTable summaries in Excel Sales by product category and grouping by date 4 min
- 62 Slicers in Excel Filter PivotTables with clickable buttons 3 min
- 63 PivotCharts in Excel Create interactive charts from a PivotTable 5 min
- 64 PivotTable design Tab Report layouts, PivotTable styles and number formats 5 min
- 65 Refresh a PivotTable in Excel Update pivots when source data changes 2 min
- 66 Excel Ninja Challenge PivotTable sales by region, category and monthly trend 1 min
08 Advanced Excel functions: lookups, text and arrays Advanced formulas applied to personnel data: query document numbers using XLOOKUP alongside INDEX and MATCH, isolate code segments with LEFT, MID and RIGHT, measure business days with NETWORKDAYS, and arrange a drawing's revision history chronologically with UNIQUE, FILTER and SORTBY.
- 67 Lookup functions in Excel The PeopleInsight HR dataset and why lookups matter 2 min
- 68 VLOOKUP in Excel Find employee data across sheets with exact match 4 min
- 69 XLOOKUP in Excel Exact match, if not found and two-way lookup 6 min
- 70 IFERROR in Excel Handle lookup errors in VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP formulas 3 min
- 71 INDEX and MATCH in Excel A flexible alternative to VLOOKUP 6 min
- 72 CONCAT and TEXTJOIN in Excel Combine employee names and text with a delimiter 3 min
- 73 LEFT, RIGHT and MID in Excel Extract parts of a text code like DAL-SAL-0001 7 min
- 74 TODAY, EOMONTH and NETWORKDAYS in Excel Date calculations for HR data 5 min
- 75 UNIQUE function in Excel Extract a distinct list with dynamic arrays 6 min
- 76 FILTER function in Excel Dynamic array filtering with AND and OR criteria 5 min
- 77 SORT and SORTBY in Excel Sort data dynamically with formulas 4 min
- 78 Excel Ninja Challenge XLOOKUP, totals and text concatenation lookup challenge 3 min
09 Project: task automation with data validation and forms Applying the TaskFlow framework to an RFI or transmittal register: implement status drop-down menus, format late replies with conditional highlights, monitor outstanding working days, insert data bars, and lock sheet permissions.
- 79 TaskFlow project tracker in Excel Overview of the task tracker dashboard 4 min
- 80 Designing a task tracker in Excel TaskFlow layout, columns and headers 5 min
- 81 Data validation in Excel Status and priority drop-down lists in TaskFlow 8 min
- 82 Conditional formatting in Excel Highlight overdue and completed tasks 8 min
- 83 Gantt chart in Excel Build a project timeline with conditional formatting 6 min
- 84 Data bars and icon sets in Excel Visual priority and progress in TaskFlow 6 min
- 85 NETWORKDAYS and TODAY in Excel Days remaining and task deadlines in TaskFlow 5 min
- 86 Protect a sheet and lock cells in Excel Secure the TaskFlow tracker workbook 4 min
- 87 Testing an Excel task tracker Stress test TaskFlow with sample data 3 min
Instructors
Who teaches it.
Instructor, Excel with AI
Virginia Thorn
Emmy Award winner. Teaches Excel with AI at Coding Liquids.
Questions
Asked before starting.
Which Excel course is recommended for a document controller?
The Complete Excel Course with AI Integration from Coding Liquids provides the specific spreadsheet skills required for a document register: Excel Tables, sorting, filtering, deleting repeated numbers with Remove Duplicates, dividing document codes with Text to Columns alongside LEFT, MID and RIGHT, restricting status and discipline inputs via drop-down menus, pulling drawing titles onto transmittals with XLOOKUP, calculating status breakdowns with COUNTIFS and PivotTables, and managing pending responses in a tracker. Going through the 53 lessons covered on this page requires 4 hours 27 minutes.
Can a document controller split and validate document numbers in Excel?
Yes, both procedures are covered in The Complete Excel Course with AI Integration. You can separate a composite number containing project, discipline, document type and serial elements using Flash Fill and Text to Columns, extract individual components with formulas using LEFT, MID and RIGHT, and stitch codes back together via CONCAT or TEXTJOIN. In addition, data validation drop-down lists reject any entry not included on the approved list. A code formatted like DAL-SAL-0001 is analysed directly in Lesson 73.
How can a document controller identify the latest revision of each drawing?
You can find it using dynamic array functions taught in The Complete Excel Course with AI Integration: FILTER extracts all records matching a single document number, SORTBY arranges those rows by issue date so that the latest revision appears first, and UNIQUE generates the list of distinct document numbers. When the register is sorted with the newest records first, XLOOKUP retrieves the current revision on its first match. While the lessons demonstrate these methods on HR records, the same formulas operate on a drawing register.
Does the training instruct document controllers in Aconex, SharePoint or ISO 9001 procedures?
No. The focus of The Complete Excel Course with AI Integration is strictly Excel. It does not instruct on ISO 9001 document control standards, nor does it teach proprietary electronic document management platforms like SharePoint or Aconex. Instead, it concentrates on handling the spreadsheets kept alongside those tools or generated from exports: tidying data, splitting numbering strings, writing lookups, counting records and tracking deadlines.
Can a document controller monitor transmittals and overdue replies in the same workbook?
Yes. You can structure your transmittal log following the TaskFlow model presented in The Complete Excel Course with AI Integration: assign each transmittal its own row showing issue date alongside the expected reply date, add drop-down validation for status codes, use conditional formatting to highlight late responses in colour, and apply NETWORKDAYS to tally working days elapsed while awaiting reply. Secure the worksheet by locking formula cells before passing the workbook to colleagues.
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