Microsoft Excel Introductory

Understanding Excel from the basics. Our Microsoft Excel Introductory course is designed to give the new spreadsheet user the skills to start using Excel in the workplace. From using simple formulas such as the SUM function to formatting data and the basics of spreadsheets.

The course covers topics such as creating a workbook, functions, filtering data, charting and more.

Learning Outcomes:

This is a beginner’s course and aims to give the new spreadsheet user a thorough grounding in the basics of creating and working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel. Particular emphasis is placed on developing accurate and well-designed spreadsheets employing sound design and documentation principles.

At the completion of this course you should be able to:

• navigate your way around Microsoft Excel 365

• create and work with a new workbook

• open and navigate within workbooks and worksheets

• make changes to data in a workbook

• understand and work with ranges in a worksheet

• copy and paste data in Excel

• use the fill operations available to fill a data series

• move the contents of cells and ranges within and between workbooks

• understand, create and work with formulas and functions

• understand and use formula cell referencing

• use font formatting techniques

• align the contents of cells in a number of ways

• understand and use the number formatting features in Excel

• format rows and columns in a worksheet

• work with elements that make up the structure of a worksheet

• sort data in a list in a worksheet

• filter data in a table

• print your workbook data

• create effective charts in Microsoft Excel

• obtain help for Excel whenever you need it

This course assumes little or no knowledge of spreadsheets or Microsoft Excel. However, it would be beneficial to have a general understanding of personal computers and the operating system environment, especially in regard to working with files and folders.