The Excel productivity training takes you from regular user level to efficient user, capable of producing in an hour what would take a beginner a full day. In one intensive half day, you discover essential keyboard shortcuts, lesser-known productivity functions and best practices that radically change the daily work on Excel. A highly valued skill for analytical and administrative profiles in French speaking Switzerland.
Regain control of Excel and save literally several hours a week
In daily life in French speaking Swiss organizations, intensive Excel users lose considerable time on manipulations that a keyboard shortcut or a clever function would handle in a second. This Excel training focuses on hands on cases: fast navigation, smart selection, efficient copy, advanced search-replace. You wrap up the session with reflexes that immediately change your relationship with Excel.
Module 1: Managing the environment
Module 2: Graphic objects
Module 3: Layout of an Excel spreadsheet
Most intensive Excel users learned Excel on the job, without structured productivity training. The Excel productivity training fills exactly this gap in one intensive half day.
The gain is quickly measurable: once essential keyboard shortcuts are integrated and lesser-known productivity functions are discovered, you literally save tens of minutes a day on common manipulations.
The training places significant focus on Excel keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+arrows to navigate, Ctrl+Shift+arrows to select, F2 to edit, F4 to repeat, Alt+= for automatic sum, Ctrl+T to create a structured table.
Beyond shortcuts, the training details advanced selection techniques: block selection, multiple non-contiguous selection, conditional selection (empty cells, cells with formulas).
Auto-fill with custom lists, chronological series, detected patterns turns repetitive entry into a few seconds operation. You also discover Flash Fill, a recent Excel function that guesses entry patterns and completes them automatically.
Excel search-replace is more powerful than most users think. The training details advanced options: search by format, search in formulas, search by wildcards.
The Excel productivity training is designed for management controllers, analysts, assistants, sales staff, HR and any profile using Excel intensively. Regular Excel use is required.
At ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this Excel productivity training runs as an intensive half day with an expert instructor and a limited group, a guarantee of personalized support. You test each shortcut on your own files and conclude with a reference handbook.
Which Excel keyboard shortcuts to learn first?
Ctrl+arrows to navigate, Ctrl+Shift+arrows to select, F2 to edit, F4 to repeat, Alt+= for sum.
Do I need to know Excel before this productivity training?
Yes, regular Excel use is required.
What is Flash Fill in Excel?
It is an Excel function that guesses entry patterns and completes them automatically.
How long before being comfortable with these techniques?
The essential techniques are acquired in a structured half day and anchor in a few weeks of regular practice.
Is this training available in person?
Yes, the training is held at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
Which course should follow this Excel productivity training?
The Excel Advanced Formulas course to deepen calculations, or the Excel Dashboards course for restitution.
Does the training cover Excel macros?
Macros are briefly mentioned as next productivity step. The Excel Macro Recorder course is dedicated to this topic.
Intermediate Excel users wanting to gain daily productivity through advanced functions, shortcuts and best practices. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
A controller moving from 3 hours to 30 minutes on monthly consolidation. A manager mastering search and dynamic filter functions. An assistant automating repetitive manipulations via modern tools. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with Excel Fundamentals for the base, Excel Advanced formulas for complex calculations, and PowerQuery for data analysis. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
Becoming efficient in Excel is not an expertise question but a thoughtful practice question: well-chosen shortcuts, modern functions (XLOOKUP, FILTER, UNIQUE), data structuring. This training accelerates the trajectory for users wanting to surpass tinkering and enter structured practice.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Does it cover modern Excel 365 functions?
Yes, these modern functions are introduced with typical use cases.
Suitable for technical or business profiles?
The course addresses business profiles wanting to gain efficiency.
Are Power tools addressed?
Power Query is briefly introduced. For more, ITTA proposes dedicated courses.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
