Microsoft Excel (Introduction)

This instructor-led Excel course, designed for beginners, is the best course to learn core skills to work effectively with this popular spreadsheet program. Students will learn to enter and edit different types of data and to enter formulas using operators and functions.

Various strategies will be used to edit, format, and manage worksheets and workbooks. Students will learn best practices to print worksheets and workbooks, set up and filter data, and create simple charts quickly and easily.

During this popular hands-on course, students will practice their skills and have the opportunity to ask questions and interact with the instructor. Each student will also receive a full course manual with tips, tricks, and shortcuts, as well as sample and exercise files.

• Comprehensive course manual

• Keyboard shortcuts quick reference

• Sample and exercise files

• Refreshments (for classes conducted in Avantix Learning classrooms)

• Certificate of completion

• Follow-up email support

Course Topics

Working in the Microsoft Excel Environment

• Overview of the Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar

• Navigating quickly in a worksheet

• Selecting cells and cell ranges using different strategies and shortcuts

• Entering different types of data—text, numbers and dates

• Resizing columns and rows quickly and easily

Managing Workbooks and Worksheets

• Creating a new Excel workbook

• Naming worksheets

• Moving or copying worksheets

• Inserting and deleting rows and columns

• Inserting and deleting worksheets in a workbook

• Using various strategies and shortcuts to cut, copy and paste data

• Saving a workbook

Formatting Cells, Rows and Columns

• Applying number formatting

• Applying date formatting

• Changing font and size

• Changing alignment

• Applying borders and shading

Creating Basic Formulas

• Creating simple formulas using basic operators to add, subtract, multiply, divide and combine cells

• Changing data and viewing updated results

• Showing and hiding formulas

• Entering formulas using the common Excel functions sum, average, min, max and count

Understanding Errors and Error Checking

• Types of errors

• Choosing error-checking options

• Ignoring errors

Previewing and Printing

• Setting a print area

• Changing margins

• Adding headers and/or footers

• Previewing your final result

Getting Started with Filtering

• Setting up lists or data sets

• Understanding field names and records

• Turning Filtering (auto-filtering) on

• Filtering text, number and date fields

• Removing filtering